UX Design Lead

As a User Experience Design Lead for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) located in Urbandale, Iowa, you will lead UX Design for Advanced Guidance products, which are foundational experiences enabling highly automated and autonomous John Deere equipment to navigate fields, steer, control speed, and perform work, with minimal user intervention. You will collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering team members to deliver a best in class user experience to John Deere customers.

What You Will Do

Plan, coordinate, and perform UX design activities for a variety of projects. Be responsible for feature definition, system-level experience design, and interaction design. Collaborate closely with Design Systems and UX Designers for other products.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Demonstrated ability to champion end user experience and to influence digital product designs across product areas. Demonstrated experience in product discovery, design research and concept validation to inform experience definition and design concepts.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience planning, executing and analyzing UX / UI design projects
• 5 or more years of visual interface design, as applied to web and mobile formats
• 5 or more years of experience applying User-Centered Design principles to complex interface problems
• 5 or more years of experience working with cross-functional teams, such as: engineering, software development, marketing, and business leaders
• 2 or more years of experience of communicating research methodology, design concepts, data analysis, and test results to a broad range of stakeholders
• 2 or more years of experience with technology and product development processes
• 2 or more years of experience working in agriculture
• 2 or more years of experience working on automation and/or autonomy products
• A portfolio of relevant UX design work that highlights your approach to UX problem solving, story telling and product design
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and an ability to lead conversations and direct work for others

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
• Vacation and Holiday Pay