**Posting Title**
Senior Interaction Designer
**Job Description**
The User Experience platform design team is seeking a Senior Interaction Designer with broad product design experience to join our team. As a Senior Interaction Designer, you will be responsible for designing and delivering a stellar experience for VMware’s products that manage the Software Defined Datacenter.
In this role you will collaborate with a cross-functional product team to create experiences and interactions for complex problems around virtualization and cloud management at large scale. You will work in an exciting and engaging agile startup environment where you will be encouraged to expand your skills, test your creative boundaries, and share new ideas. You must be comfortable engaging with customers, partners, and internal teams in both small and large group settings.
You will be responsible for the following:
* Defining the user experience design and process for VMware products that manage Software Defined Datacenter, from requirements, design, research and implementation.
* Engaging and collaborating with cross-functional product stakeholders on design direction and deliverables throughout the development cycle
* Working closely with user experience researchers to talk directly with customers to understand the user’s needs and goals, and to improve our products
* Collaborating with other design team members and engineering to architect solutions to complex design problems
* Become a subject matter expert with the ability to understand the latest architecture, technology, solution, market trends, as well as competitive offerings related to virtualization, cloud computing, and other related technologies
Requirements:
* 4+years of UX experience in user experience and interaction design for enterprise applications, services, or a web properties
* Strong background in user-centered design principles across desktop, mobile, and web platforms
* Proven track record for designing large-scale web-based software and/or services
* Strong technical grounding with hands-on experience in some/all of the following areas/products: datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, datacenter operations management, et. al.
* Strong leader, self-starter, and proven team player in a high achievement-oriented environment
* Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills
* Agile, adaptable, and capable of delivering new products and features
* Possess a very high level of comfort in working with developers in the presentation layer (for example, HTML, CSS)
* Experience in working with tools such as OmniGraffle and Adobe Creative Suite
* BS degree in Design, HCI/CS or related field
* Strong prototyping skills desired
* Online portfolio
Location: Palo Alto, CA, US
**Why work for our Division**
VMware’s world-class, award-winning R&D team is comprised of thousands of top-notch computer scientists and software engineers that are transforming computing through virtualization. Members of the R&D team voice their creative ideas and watch them become initiatives, participate in exciting short-term and long-term products on the VMware roadmap, initiate advanced research projects, and/or write and test code that ships. At VMware, our engineers continue to learn and grow by working with top professionals from around the world and recent graduates of top universities and by taking advantage of our extensive internal training opportunities and generous external education assistance program. R&D team members work on the latest computing equipment and have access to the ACM and IEEE libraries. VMware has R&D offices in: Silicon Valley; Burlington, MA; Cambridge, MA; Broomfield, CO; Sofia, Bulgaria; Aarhus, Denmark; London, UK; Herzliya, Israel; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, China.
**Why work with our Group**
Engineers interested in interaction designers, visual designers/ graphic artists, and usability research craft easy-to-use products for a varied use population on the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. They are experts in human-computer interaction (HCI) who are both detail-oriented and technical in nature. UE engineers strive to provide the best possible experience for all VMware customers by applying the latest techniques and methods including think-aloud sessions, storyboarding, interviews, personas, conceptual modeling, high/low fidelity mockups, usability studies, and contextual inquires. The UE engineers work side-by-side with engineering to deliver enterprise applications using the latest technologies.
**Advertised Location**
Palo Alto, CA, US
**About Us**
VMware is the leader in cloud infrastructure, business mobility and virtualization software. A pioneer in the use of virtualization and policy-driven automation technologies, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center to the virtual workplace, empowering customers with solutions in the software-defined data center to hybrid cloud computing and the mobile workspace.
With 2014 revenues of $6.04 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers, 75,000 partners, and 18,000+ employees in 120+ locations around the world. At the core of what we do are our employees who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Want to be part of a compassionate community that thrives on architecting what's next in IT? Learn more at vmware.com/careers.
**EEO Statement**
VMware is an equal opportunity employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Equal opportunity and consideration are afforded to all qualified applicants and employees in personnel actions, which include: recruiting and hiring, selection for training, promotion, rates of pay or other compensation, transfer, discipline, demotion, layoff or termination. VMware does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, family medical history or genetic information, citizenship, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, military status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. VMware also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law. Further, it is the policy of VMware to maintain a working environment free of all forms of harassment.
**Requisition Number**
62075BR
**Is this a remote or multiple location position?**
No
**LinkedIn Recruiter Account Email**
cmartin@vmware.com
**Level of Job**
Mid-Senior Level
**Advertised Group**
Engineering