About the Role
- At Critical TechWorks, UX Designers are the creative alchemists behind the visual allure of BMW's customer-facing ecosystems. As a UX Designer, you'll bring a unique blend of artistic flair and technical prowess to a range exciting projects, playing a crucial role in defining the aesthetic, emotional, and interaction experience of BMW's digital interfaces across vehicle and mobile touchpoints, helping shape the experiences users interact with before, during, and after every journey. Your role is a contribution to a leading narrative in the automotive design sector.
- If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of UX design and eager to be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of BMW's digital experience, we invite you to join us. Embrace this career-defining opportunity and help us create digital experiences that resonate globally. You will contribute to connected experiences across the mobility journey, with a strong emphasis on in-vehicle user interactions.
- Our environment is fast-paced and 100% Agile, and prioritizes autonomy, teamwork, interaction and resilience.
What You'll Be Doing
- User Research and Empathy: Conduct research activities at customer sites to deeply understand user needs and experiences.
- Design and Prototyping: Create high-fidelity mock-ups, journey maps, and workflow diagrams that translate customer needs into intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces.
- Collaborative Development: Partner with product owners and development teams to translate user interactions into user stories and front-end specifications, ensuring a smooth transition from design to development.
- Iterative Design Process: Engage in an Agile workflow, continually redesigning, testing, and refining user interaction solutions to maximize user satisfaction and product effectiveness.
- Cross-functional Teamwork: Work closely with a diverse group of roles, including developers and product visionaries, to ensure design alignment with both technical capabilities and product goals.
- Design Communication: Effectively communicate your design vision and its impact on user activities, utilizing your strong storytelling and presentation skills.
What You'll Bring
2+ years' worth of experience as a product designer.
Addicted to problem-solving with a gift for storytelling, and passionate about design.
Customer obsessed and able to clearly communicate how your designs will impact the user’s activities.
A good sense of end user knowledge and mental models, coupled with the ability to translate them into user interfaces that users can relate with easily.
A natural inclination to be very detailed, from research to mock-ups to specifications.
A keen focus on productivity balanced with the ability to experiment with multiple solutions from the earliest design stages.
Experience of creating and delivering captivating keynotes, high-fidelity mock-ups and functional prototypes, both to internal teams and customers.
Strong analytical skills complemented by a creative and experimental streak.
The ability to maintain pro-activeness when working with several different design and development teams.
Experience working with Figma, Adobe Suite, or Sketch for prototyping and UI specification.
Previous experience in designing desktop software.
Embrace Agile practices, especially Scrum, leveraging its events to foster a high-performing team.
Be cross-functional, developing new skills to enable a team that owns the entire product lifecycle.
Apply standard engineering practices using tools like version control, IDEs, and dashboards for organized development.
Travel abroad occasionally to support all phases of product development.
Have excellent English oral and written skills.
Candidates must already have the legal right to work in Portugal at the time of application.
Nice to Have
German communication skills.
About Critical TechWorks
- Growth and Innovation: Be a key player in shaping the future of mobility through innovative ideas.
- Engineering Excellence: Immerse yourself in an environment valuing engineering process, where we create, innovate, lead, and make a tangible impact.
- Autonomy and Collaboration: Thrive in a culture that blends autonomy with teamwork, contributing to groundbreaking developments.
- Continuous Learning: Embrace constant skill enhancement in a dynamic workplace, where your contributions impact cutting-edge technology projects.
- Join Critical TechWorks on our journey of innovation, excellence, and redefining the future of motion, one product at a time.