User Experience Designer

Aras is a leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital thread solutions. As one of the fastest growing PLM companies, our technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible solutions built on a powerful digital thread backbone and a low-code development platform.

Our platform and PLM applications connect users in all disciplines to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain. The world’s largest manufacturers are leveraging Aras Innovator to manage their complex product lifecycles to improve production timelines, meet and exceed revenue growth targets, and accelerate innovation. We collaborate with companies in some of the most innovative industries, including automotive, industrial/heavy equipment, aerospace and defense, and high-tech electronics.

Aras seeks a User Experience Designer with an entrepreneurial spirit and creative problem-solving skills. The successful candidate should feel comfortable working in a well-established product environment and desire to evolve and deliver new and innovative customer experiences.

A preferred candidate should be passionate about delivering products and services that work exceptionally well for people, with the desire and ability to be hands-on. The perfect candidate should be able to create wireframes and high-fidelity skins and build an interactive prototype.

Essential Responsibilities

• Be a core member of a dynamic, fast-paced Aras UX team focused on software to support key PLM / Digital Thread workflows and use cases
• Designing workflows, interactions, and interfaces with varying levels of fidelity to communicate with peers and stakeholders
• Facilitating and participating in customer interaction in many forms, from interviews to Sprint demos to usability testing
• Effectively collaborating with a remote team
• Using customer insights that come from analytics and customer interactions to help inform business and design decisions
• Working with and participating in Agile team processes, working iteratively to deliver customer value
• Rely on user-centered design principles and best practices to produce high-quality visuals such as: user interfaces, personas, illustrations, icons, data visualization, journey maps, storyboards and scenarios
  
  

Qualifications/Requirements

• Advanced degree (or equivalent) in design, customer experience, human factors, or related field
• B2B SaaS, PLM, Digital Thread, and 3D software background are a plus
• 5+ years of hands-on industry experience in customer/user experience and product/service design
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Proven track record managing the experience design of complex, multi-channel systems
• Independence & quick decision-making abilities, sound judgment for raising flags in time
• Ability to work under pressure and in a very dynamic environment
• Exemplary customer-value orientation
• Experience prototyping and designing new concepts, as well as refining and sustaining existing products/services
• Passion for design thinking and lean UX methodologies
• Ability to collaborate with technical resources to influence for improved customer experience
• Familiarity with Front-End platforms (e.g. AngularJS, ReactJS)
• Familiarity with PLM and Digital Thread concepts
• Familiarity with UI prototyping and documentation tools (e.g. Sketch, Adobe, etc)
• Familiarity with Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts
  
  

We were recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Product Lifecycle Management for Discrete Manufacturers, Q1 2023 and were also named a leader in the 2023 SPARK Matrix for PLM by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions. Feedback from our community has established Aras as the top ranked PLM vendor in online review services like G2 and Gartner Peer Insights.

With over 700 employees in 11 countries, we’re looking to add to our incredible team. If you’re passionate about helping develop next generation product innovation, we encourage you to apply!

Aras offers a competitive benefits package flexible vacation time, company-paid holidays, and short term & long term disability and life insurance. Aras also offers generous medical, dental, and vision insurance plans with a high-level of medical premium coverage and deductible reimbursement.

Aras cultivates an inclusive work environment by seeking out diverse perspectives, celebrating each other’s diversity, and demonstrating respect for all people of all backgrounds and experiences.

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