Another important component of understanding what I need to learn to get a job in UX is figuring out what employers looking for. Below I’ve broken down a few job listings for UX/UI jobs to get a better understanding of the hard, soft, and technical skills banks, studios, and big tech companies are looking for.
Junior UI Designer – NAB
Melbourne, VIC
Your responsibilities will include
- Create designs in alignment with NAB’s GEL and accessibility standards
- Produce high fidelity, finished design artefacts to support the delivery of customer experience and development of designs
- Work closely and collaboratively with development teams to ensure highest quality delivery
- Collaborating with other designers
- Advocate for digital Accessibility guidelines
- Work closely with UX designers, Product Owners, BA’s and development teams
- Facilitate walk-throughs with developers and provide support all the way through delivery
You will bring
- Experience and understanding of the design process including UI and interaction design
- Good presentations skills with the ability to articulate and present solutions, ideas and recommendations
- An understanding of design principles, accessibility standards, UI components and grid systems
- Skills in Sketch and Invision
- Good general computer skills and knowledge
- A passion for design and learning to further your skills and experience
Graduate UX Designer – Honeywell
Macquarie Park, New South Wales
As a Graduate User Experience Designer, you will work with other designers in an interdisciplinary studio to create the framework and best practices for world-class design. You will join our team that is responsible for the design of the user experience for Honeywell’s flagship automation solutions. Your role is to apply user experience design to help continually improve the end-to-end user experience for our customers.
Together, we will create design strategies, develop advanced design concepts and deliver outstanding products to market that delight our end users.
Key Responsibilities
- Design user experiences exploring to build an ideal product experience that exceeds the expectations of our business and customers while partnering with cross-functional teams
- Participate in the entire iterative design process from discovery through launch
- Account for each stage of the user journey using user flow diagrams, sketches, etc.
- Design, implement and verify user interfaces for massively scalable programs and applications desktop and mobile
- Document functional user requirements to communicate design, process, rationale and decisions that direct and support UX/UI and functional design
Key Experience & Capabilities
- Degree completed in the 2 years preceding the start date for the Graduate role, February 2022 or equivalent experience in HCI, UX design other user centered design program
- Fluent with design sketching and prototyping tools (e.g. Sketch, InVision, Figma, Adobe XD, Abstract, etc.)
- This role will require you to communicate with variety of project stakeholders and thus you must be able to clearly communicate your thoughts. We are also looking for self-motivated individuals who love to challenge themselves and continuously learn. Join a dynamic team and get the opportunity to add value by solving real world problems and be a true #futureshaper
UX Designer – Commonwealth Bank
Melbourne, VIC
On any given week you will:
- Work on several projects with overview from Senior Designers and the UX Lead, and manage diverse groups of stakeholders including Product Owners, scrum teams, marketing, and operations
- Produce key UX artefacts, including journey maps, task flows, service blueprints, wireframes and interactive prototypes
- Build and implement forward thinking user experiences, for the whole customer experience, not just the platform experience
- Review customer insights and analytics for our platform to better understand our users and create measurable outcomes
- Work closely with delivery teams to ensure UX is a core part of our delivery
- Work with senior team members to form UX strategy collaboratively with our Product & Architecture teams
- Champion CCD & UX design best practices in the broader organisation
- Drive improvements that lead to better outcomes for our customers and our organisation
We would love to hear from people who have experience:
- Crafting responsive solutions for platforms using industry standard tools and the best UX practices
- Working within an Agile development & LEAN framework
- Utilising customer research, behaviour analytics and digital analytics to inform design decisions and optimisation
- Using Adobe CC, Axure & Sketch
- Interaction design & information architecture skills
- Knowledge of CCD principles. Exposure to usability testing and customer research methods would be highly desired.
- Equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree in HCD, Web Development, Psychology, Design or relevant work experience
UX Designers (Digital and Emerging Technology) – EY
Melbourne, VIC
Our UX Designers are passionate about User-Centred Design/Human-Centred Design from developing detailed user journeys to wireframes and clickable prototypes. This role will both facilitate and participate in workshops, working directly with our clients and their customers to analyse pain points, understand end-user needs, and document user storyboards through both digital and physical environments. On your first day, we’d love for you to have
- An updated and polished portfolio that demonstrates strong user experience and interaction design with informed empathy for the user. This is key for us.
- Demonstrated passion for the iterative design process – constantly sketching, showing messy work in progress, validating with customers and data, iterating, learning, and growing.
- Strong facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills you can demonstrate the ability to work across multiple teams, solicit and synthesize helpful feedback, and facilitate design discussions.
- Experience with strategies for utilising data and user feedback to drive awesome digital experiences.
UX Designer, Google Maps
Sydney, New South Wales
In this role, you will design engaging first-time experiences as well as power tools for users to edit and update the Maps. You will design experiences that engage and inspire people to contribute.
Geo builds the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users. More than a billion people rely on Google Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives. That includes sailing down the Amazon river, choosing where to get a bite of pizza, and saving time in commuting.
Geo also helps merchants get their businesses on Google, and developers use the power of Google Maps to enhance their apps and websites. They are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving the accuracy of our geo data, all in order to plot a course for the future of mapping.
Responsibilities
- Design and collaborate with different teams to create UGC experience across Geo. Present and advocate work in design reviews and participate in team-wide design efforts.
- Develop innovative UGC experiences to inspire people to contribute and interact with Maps.
- Create storyboards, mockups, and prototypes that effectively communicate design ideas.
- Provide creative and holistic thinking across mobile, web and other devices.
- Contribute to UX patterns within an evolving design language.
- Creative approach and an ability to turn ideas into richly functional and visually slick prototypes
