MINIMUM EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

• BS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, or Industrial Design with 2 years’ experience or MS
• Experience with Design tools such as Figma, Adobe tools such as Photoshop / Illustrator and Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) in any form

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Certificate in HCI
• Particular Experience with:
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• Adobe Creative Suite

• Modeling and simulation applications:
• UX design and collaboration tools:
• Tools & technologies for UI implementation:
• Screen-capture/editing/video-editing tools
• Ability to:
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• Smoothly iterate on designs, taking direction, adjusting, and re-focusing towards a converged design

• Organize deliverables for future reflection and current investigations
• Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc.
• Prototype rapidly using any tools available
  

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At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: our commitments to stakeholders, our values that guide how we work together, and our actions to deliver results. As ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement

Our Commitments:

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what’s next
• Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
• Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team
• We demonstrate mastery
• We deliver outstanding results

SUMMARY / ROLE PURPOSE

The User Experience Designer II creates easy and delightful experiences for users interacting with ANSYS products and services. The UX designer assesses the functional and content requirements of a product, develops storyboards, creates wireframes and task flows based on user needs, and produces visually detailed mockups. A passion for visual design and familiarity with UI trends and technologies are essential in this role, enabling the UX designer to bring fresh and innovative ideas to a project. This is an intermediate role, heavily focused on content production and communication. It is intended to expose the UX professional to the nuts-and-bolts aspects of their UX career; while building on presentation, communication, and usability aspects of the design role.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designs, develops, and evaluates cutting-edge user interfaces with increased independence
• Reviews UX artifacts created by other UX team members
• Utilizes prototyping tools and UX toolkits
• May create, review, and manage submissions to development code streams with high quality
• Creates and delivers usability studies
• Communicates design rationale across product creation disciplines and personnel
• Records usability/UX problems with clear explanations and recommendations for improvement
• Works closely with product managers, development teams, and other designers