UX Visual Designer for Global Design

Ref-Code: DE-60433820-EN-15-001
Work area: Software - Design and Development
Expected travel: 0% - 30%
Career status:
Employment type: Regular Full Time
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
SAP is the global market leader for business software and thus contributes a considerable part of the world's economic power grid. At SAP you get your chance to put your ideas into action with maximum impact.User Experience is one of the top priorities for SAP and our customers.

We are looking for an experienced leader to build a new team that drives User Experience (UX) excellence into all the products SAP makes for its customers. Global Design team's designers will engage deeply with various product groups to understand their product intent and customer needs it is addressing to provide guidance and leadership back to the product groups. You will engage in UX reviews, which includes interaction design + visual design + branding, and help identify key problem areas and discover opportunities for improvements.

The team will track design trends, technologies and best practices and bring them into the organization as meaningfully as possible. The team will also help maintain product brand continuity across all SAP LOBs. The team will also have a third party resources available to teams when design resource support is required. In order to make sure that we are solving the right problems, Design Thinking approaches will be applied in close collaboration during all engagements.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- Your primary responsibilities will be user experience design defining the product vision
- Your work will span across devices, bringing the user experience to life; your innovative ideas and designs will be invaluable here.

As a contributing member of our design team, you will be in a position to influence the user experience for SAP's products.
- Refine the visual identity of all SAP products
- Identify reusable visual design patterns
- Create variety of application themes
- Create of information graphics + icons
- Though you will spend the most of your time designing product under review and its related apps, there will also be opportunities to apply your design proficiencies into branding work.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- 1-5 years visual design experience with large-scale rich internet applications and web site projects, as well as consumer mobile applications
- Experience producing final art in Adobe Photoshop/ Illustrator /After effects/
- Extensive experience delivering fully-specified final art for development implementation
- Experience with coding(HTML, CSS, Java Script) is a huge plus
- Illustration experience is also a plus
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- An exceptional portfolio that demonstrates a varied range of work & vibrant creativity with a strong consumer orientation
- Able to turn concepts into concrete visuals quickly, then rapidly iterate those sketches into polished final designs
- Actively contribute to product brainstorming and interaction design sessions
- Create and manage a rich and deep library of UI screen assets to enable swift creation of mockups and prototypes as well as finished products
- Proven success working on concept, interface and visual designs for innovative large-scale projects, actively collaborating within a cross-functional team.
- Deep understanding of user interface and interaction design
- Up-to-the-minute knowledge of graphic trends in mobile, web, and motion design
- Passionate about visual design
- Able to think and work beyond the appearance
- Love of continuous learning and growth