User Experience Designer

About the User Experience Team

The Thales IAM User Experience team is a collaborative and passionate team of user-centered designers and researchers who are making a positive impact on our users’ experiences. We love our users and their problems. We are on a mission to make our users' lives simpler.

About the Role

As a User Experience Designer, your work will help companies build trusted identities and access for their employees and customers. You will contribute to the design of experiences that meet user needs and business objectives. You will collaborate with your design teammates, UX leaders, business, product, and engineering stakeholders.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Demonstrated experience as a UX Designer including methods such as Storytelling, Team Collaboration, software development lifecycle, user-centered design, design thinking, design principles, heuristics, design testing, user feedback and iterative design.
• Turns abstract ideas into representations at the right level of fidelity (sketches, journey maps, wire frames, high fidelity visual comps, and prototypes) to get user feedback and align the product team.
• Present design concepts and deliverables to stakeholders, defending the data-based rationale behind design decisions.
• Mobile-first designer that creates adaptive and responsive product designs for workflows across mobile, tablet and desktop experiences.
• Plans and leads cross-functional product team collaborations that create forward thinking ideas, innovative user experiences and intellectual capital that has a positive market outcome.
• Uses storytelling to align a product team to a shared product vision.
• Coaches a product team to plan for and execute design discovery, design vision and design delivery processes including planning for evaluative and generative design research, iterative design, and usability testing.
• Mastered product design processes including product development lifecycle, user-centered design, design thinking, design principles, heuristics, design testing, user feedback and iterative design.
• Collaborates with user research, helps collect and synthesize data into actionable insights that are demonstrated in user outcomes.
• Enjoys great design debates and iterating designs based on feedback.

Requirements

• Master’s in Design, Product Design, Interaction/Experience Design.
• Naturally curious with demonstrated excellence in critical thinking and tackling complex problems.
• Excellence in written and verbal communication skills, including user, product team and stakeholder interactions and presentations.
• Experience working in a fast-paced software development environment.
• Experience with AI-powered design and development tools to drive efficiency and high velocity.
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating your user-centered design craft, visualizations of complex experiences, storytelling, sketches, mock-ups, prototypes, etc.
• Experience with Agile processes and tools including refinement, estimation, Jira, Confluence, etc or a willingness to learn.
• Experience in designing commercially available enterprise-grade software products.
• Experience with cybersecurity products is a plus.

What we can offer

• Friendly international environment, professional grow within Thales worldwide within friendly team always ready to support and provide assistance.

Compensation

• Competitive salary and Variable compensation part
• Lucrative employee referral program
• Stock Purchase program
• 100% Maternity leave cover of base salary during the first 15 weeks

How to stay connected

• Unlimited mobile data, unlimited calls and SMS in the Czech Republic

To support your well-being

• 5 weeks of vacation, 3 sick days
• Birthday Day Off
• Free parking underground in Thales garage even for bicycles
• Pluxee Card in the amount 14 000 czk
• Private pension plan: Thales DIS contributes 3% of basic monthly salary rate
• Multisport card (50% contribution)
• Healthcare service through membership in Private Clinic
• Online Yoga classes and 50% discount in local sport center
• Pluxee Meal Card (55% contribution)
• Newcomer package/ Employee appreciation gifts throughout the year
• Relaxed work environment and Game corner, offices in Brumlovka Park
• Great coffee and refreshments in the kitchen

Professional growth

• Personal & professional development (technical training and certification, language and soft skills courses, conference tickets, a well-stocked office library)
• Experienced team to support your professional growth
• Opportunity to grow and change position within Thales

Key skills/competency

• User Experience Design
• Design Thinking
• Prototyping
• Wireframing
• Usability Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Product Development
• Cybersecurity
• Interaction Design
• User Research