Job Description

Description:

UX Designer


PPG Industries, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 company and global supplier of paints, coatings, and specialty materials. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PPG operates in more than 70 countries around the globe. By revenue it is the largest coatings company in the world followed by AkzoNobel.


Our Digital User Experience CoE is looking for a talented, well-rounded user experience designer. The designer should be comfortable operating as a developer of a Scrum team, focusing on design/research, but being able to help the rest of team meet the sprint goal, whether that be QA, content writing, frontend development, etc.


As a designer on the Scrum team, you will be an advocate for our users, while balancing business requests and needs.


Until our design system reaches a level of maturity, the UX designer should also have a strong level of visual design skills to help guide the Scrum team.


This role is a long-term contract with the hope of converting to full time.


Required:
Minimum Bachelor's degree
Agile Scrum experience
Online portfolio
Expert-level UX research skills
Experience with Sketch, Axure, Photoshop and other Adobe products
Knowledge of Lean Startup
Comfort in the unknown as well as failing fast
Excellent time management
The desire to collaborate with a team
Comfortable drawing paper prototypes or hand drawing anywhere for that matter
Experience facilitating usability testing and human-centered design workshops
A strong desire to grow and teach others
Intermediate HTML/CSS experience, ideally considering HTML and CSS as a prototyping medium
A desire to be of a true Scrum team, having T-shaped skillsets and being willing and capable to step in and wear multiple hats necessary to meet a sprint goal
Willingness to learn new skills and technologies
A passion for accessibility and WCAG compliance

Job Tags

Long term contract, Full time

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