UI/UX Designer, (Research Development & Engineering area)

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You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on!

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About You

You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

The Digital Technology Solutions (DTS) R&D User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer Specialist is responsible for creating attractive digital experiences using inventiveness for solving technical challenges to create something innovative and unique. As a UI/UX Designer Specialist, you are conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes and prototypes of the product and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience for the K-C Research & Development (R&D) capability area and in some cases, cross capability areas.

The role collaborates with Business Analysts and Solution Architects to understand the personas, business problem to be solved, business process, delivery access and presentation requirements, then provides the designs to frontend software engineers to turn the design into reality.  This role is viewed as an expert in UI/UX software application and analytical reporting design, encompassing both business process understanding, technical expertise and advanced concepts in visualization and guided application and analytic design.

  Other important aspects of the position:

• Leads in developing innovative, front-end wire-frames, prototypes and final designs for important, highly complex strategic and operating problems.
• Has strong knowledge in business and technical functions that are touch points with their area of expertise. Provides front-end UI/UX consulting on complex projects.
• Acts as a source of direction, training and guidance for other team members. Is knowledgeable in industry best practices in their area of expertise and uses resources outside of K-C to deliver the front-end UI/UX designs.

Role will report to a Senior Manager in the DTS organization that supports the K-C R&D business function. Role will not have any direct reports. Key Interfaces: Product Owner, Business Analyst, Business Client, Solution Architects, Platform Architect, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and Scrum Master. External Interfaces: Consultants and software vendors. Travel may include approximately 0-10% of work time.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead and/or participate in the effort to define, prototype, and deliver the UI/UX design of R&D digital products and capabilities for applications and analytics.

• Translate and deliver concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences.

• Facilitate client’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.

• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions to solve them.

• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.

• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate designs.

• Provide the front-end application and analytical reporting final UI design, including the detailed based on requirements from the business, global and regional views.

• Deliver front-end solution designs including but not limited to user story, required measures, comparative analytics, visualization and guided analytical design. Provide detailed build estimates to the Solution Architect for front-end development.

• Translate non-functional and functional requirements into front-end application and analytical solution designs, ensuring solution aligns with business goals and processes, uses and provides enterprise information consistently, integrates effectively with other applications, supports a common application environment and user interaction model.

• Design user interfaces to be as simple as possible.

• Collaborate with other Solution Architects and other designers to ensure the solution fits within enterprise context.

• Work independently to understand business analytics requirements and translate them into UI prototypes and final UI solutions that provide optimal user experiences.

Key Qualifications and Experiences:

• Bachelor's degree.

• Fluent English for conversation in meetings and deal with English native-speakers

• 3-7 years of experience in software UI/UX design.

• Experience with screen graphical interface prototyping/mock-ups.

• Possess strong leadership skills and exhibit creative thinking to be able to come up with inventive solutions to solve business challenges.

• Self-motivated to keep up with industry UI/UX trends, UI/UX design techniques, UI design software, and disseminating information across the organization.

• Experience working with blended teams consisting of employees, vendors, and consultants with both onshore and offshore resources.

• Experience collaborating with Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and Software Engineers to identify, design, and implement UI/UX designs for application and analytics solutions.

• Understanding of SDLC processes and methodologies.

• Cultivates networking opportunities within the organization.

• Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the K-C organization including suppliers, partners and customers.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

To Be Considered

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For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact E-Mail schreiben for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact E-Mail schreiben for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

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