UX Designer, IAM

Location: Praha, Czechia

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Thales in the Czech Republic employs over 400 people from 45 different nationalities. A total of 15 teams work on projects for government agencies, banking, mobile services and the Internet Of Things (IoT) technology. At the core of our business is the development of software which we configure and embed in a multitude of different devices and form factors. These include many kinds of payment cards, SIM cards, travel passes, secure eBanking devices, authentication tokens, machine identification modules (MIM), and secure ID documents including ePassports, eID and eHealth cards, as well as eDriving licenses. Because of the international environment surrounding us every day, it comes as no surprise that English is our official corporate language.

Every digital interaction begins with identity. The Thales Identity and Access Management (IAM) products help build trusted identity and access management for companies, employees, and customers.

The Thales IAM User Experience team is a collaborative and passionate team of user-centered designers and researchers who are making a positive impact on our users’ experiences. We love our users and their problems. We are on a mission to make our users' lives simpler.

As a User Experience Designer your work will help companies build trusted identities and access for their employees and customers. You will contribute to the design of experiences that meet user needs and business objectives. You will collaborate with your design teammates, UX leaders, business, product, and engineering stakeholders.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Demonstrated experience as a UX Designer including methods such as Storytelling, Team Collaboration, software development lifecycle, user-centered design, design thinking, design principles, heuristics, design testing, user feedback and iterative design.
• Turns abstract ideas into the representations at the right level of fidelity (sketches, journey maps, wire frames, high fidelity visual comps, and prototypes) to get user feedback and align the product team.
• Present design concepts and deliverables to stakeholders, defending the data-based rationale behind design decisions.
• Mobile-first designer that creates adaptive and responsive product designs for workflows across mobile, tablet and desktop experiences.
• Plans and leads cross-functional product team collaborations that create forward thinking ideas, innovative user experiences and intellectual capital that has a positive market outcome.
• Uses storytelling to align a product team to a shared product vision.
• Coaches a product team to plan for and execute design discovery, design vision and design delivery processes including planning for evaluative and generative design research, iterative design, and usability testing.
• Mastered product design processes including product development lifecycle, user-centered design, design thinking, design principles, heuristics, design testing, user feedback and iterative design.
• Collaborates with user research, helps collect and synthesize data into actionable insights that are demonstrated in user outcomes.
• Enjoys great design debates and iterating designs based on feedback.

Requirements:

• You graduated with a Master’s in Design, Product Design, Interaction/Experience Design
• Naturally curious with demonstrated excellence in critical thinking and tackling complex problems.
• Excellence in written and verbal communication skills, including user, product team and stakeholder interactions and presentations.
• Experience working in a fast-paced software development environment.
• Experience with AI-powered design and development tools to drive efficiency and high velocity.
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating your user-centered design craft, visualizations of complex experiences, storytelling, sketches, mock-ups, prototypes, etc.

• Experience with Agile processes and tools including refinement, estimation, Jira, Confluence, etc or a willingness to learn.
• Experience in designing commercially available enterprise-grade software products.
• Experience with cybersecurity products is a plus.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!