Mountain View, California, United States
Exploring and creating a future 3D mobile and Web home design experience for IKEA by transforming complex AR and AI-powered technologies into intuitive and entertaining design platforms on multiple devices.
• Collaborate with and support team leads in delivering the highest level of trust-building and strategic counsel through all project designs and interactions.
• Generate concepts for product development focused on usability, visual effects, user experience, human factors, and technology design.
• Define, research, design, prototype, and user testing end-to-end repeatable design processes that help the teams plan, manage and deliver parallel projects.
• Identify team needs with regards to process, tools, documentation, and asset management, driving required changes to make sure designers and developers are working efficiently.
• Define internal planning methodologies and approach guidelines; facilitate adoption across multiple project teams
• Act as a bridge between Design, Engineering, and Product Management teams, connecting all three groups and ensuring interdependencies are understood and planned for.
• Set and communicate the UI/UX design roadmap, defining top-level milestones and teams’ priorities. Working with Product Managers, and the development team to define priorities and scope for new projects.
• Drive design team deliverables by adjusting the design solutions depending on teams' timelines, assisting with tactical issues, triaging bugs, and communicating product/team status.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and articulate risks, trade-offs, and recommend prioritization based on a balance of business needs, technical constraints, and customer impact.