Senior UX Designer

 Requisition #: 16033 

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement  

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys. 

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.  

Summary / Role Purpose  

The Senior User Experience Designer 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 that convey the desired look and feel for the product. 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 advanced role, suited for individuals with a demonstrated experience in usability problem-solving and ideation in design, but also focused on content production and communication. It is intended to leverage the UX professional’s experience, presentation and communication skills and to feed into either a dedicated area of design in which the user will build expertise, or to start collaborating to support projects that improve functionality across the company. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Wholly plans, designs, and delivers entire functional range of required UX projects 

• Demonstrates ability to take projects from ideation to delivery, incrementally improving functions continuously, sometimes with little guidance. 

• May review 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 

• Plans and estimates own design and implementation workloads, utilizing process accelerations and optimizations 

• Communicates design rationale across product creation disciplines and personnel 

• Records usability/UX problems with clear explanations and recommendations for improvement 

• Brings own experience to other team members in UX techniques, development processes and all other tasks 

• Build expertise in knowledge and usage of Ansys software 

• Works closely with product managers, development teams, and other designers, sometimes across multiple business units. 

• May contribute to design and methods patents implemented in Ansys software 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience 

• BS or BA in Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, Industrial Design, or BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 5 years’ experience or MS with 3 years’ experience 

• Experience with Microsoft Office and CAD/CAE in any form 

• Experience with Figma, or similar design tools like Framer, Adobe XD, Sketch, or others

• Experience co-leading development cycles for a software product, from ideation to shipment 

• Is detail-oriented and utilizes highly developed organizational skills including the ability to meet deadlines 

• Ability to communicate well with software development teams 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

• Certificate in HCI 

• Particular Experience with: 

  • Figma
  • Modeling and simulation applications:  
  • UX design and collaboration tools:  
  • Tools & technologies for UI implementation:  
  • Screen-capture/editing/video-editing tools 
• Ability to: 

  • Smoothly iterate on designs, taking direction, adjusting, and re-focusing towards a converged design 

  • Organize deliverables for future reflection and current investigations, sometimes within cross-functional teams  

  • Communicate succinctly and professionally via email, chat, remote meetings, usability evaluations, etc. 

  • Prototype rapidly using any tools available 

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

VALUES IN ACTION

Ansys is committed to powering the people who power human advancement. We believe in creating and nurturing a workplace that supports and welcomes people of all backgrounds; encouraging them to bring their talents and experience to a workplace where they are valued and can thrive.  

Our culture is grounded in our four core values of adaptability, courage, generosity, and authenticity. Through our behaviors and actions, these values foster higher team performance and greater innovation for our customers.  

We’re proud to offer programs, available to all employees, to further impact innovation and business outcomes, such as employee networks and learning communities that inform solutions for our globally minded customer base. 

WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively, we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost. Ready to feel inspired? Check out some of our recent customer stories, here and here.

At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.
 

CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE 
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.).

 
For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com
 

Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
 
Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.