UX Designer

Job Purpose

As part of Komatsu’s UX Design team, you will support the entire design process of creating “an exemplary user experience that meets the exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother.” You will dive deep into the user environment to understand, categorize, prioritize, and document user behavior and stakeholder requirements.

With that understanding, you’ll design useful, usable, and desirable solutions, lead design reviews, and test your concepts with end users. You will contribute to the design system and have regular opportunities to develop your skills as a designer. Along with more senior designers, you’ll collaborate with business partners at all levels to further establish a human-centered design culture.

If you are an empathetic, driven, and creative UX designer who wants to produce innovative solutions in a dynamic and team-oriented environment, this is a great opportunity to work side by side with some of the biggest innovators in the mining technology industry.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, conducting, and analysing of user research activities like competitive analysis, workshops, interviews, ethnography, contextual inquiry, and expert reviews.
• Lead design activities such as task analysis, journey maps, personas, workflows, wireframes, storyboards, mockups, prototypes, and design specifications.
• Use design tools and software to communicate design intent to other designers and project stakeholders.
• Evaluate design solutions with actual or representative users and then analyse and prioritise that feedback to drive new design iterations.
• Coordinate with product managers and development teams to translate design concepts into productised user interfaces while adapting to technical and scheduling constraints.
• Understand and apply UI best practices and principles in areas like psychology, usability, learnability, controllability, localisation, and internationalisation.
• Coordinate UX project timelines and priorities.

Required Skills

• Solid experience as a UX, Product or Interaction Designer
• Completed education in Design, Human Computer Interaction, Psychology, or similar
• Experience conducting user research to identify pain points and user requirements
• Proficient in design software like Figma or other similar tools
• Experience planning, executing, and analysing concept evaluations with users (user testing)
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Strong desire to learn new skills and open to receiving feedback

Desired Skills

• Excellent time and project management skills
• Take initiative and complete work without waiting for instructions
• Experience contributing to a design system
• Experience with motion design and animation
• Knowledge of Human Factors principles and application
• Understanding of Agile development methodologies
• Experience designing for high-risk environments