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Primary Location: United States (US) - Illinois - Chicago
Function: User Experience (CA)
Title: UX Lead - Internal Operations - 90652
Onsite/Remote:Partial Remote Position
Visa Sponsorship Is Not Available!
Your Responsibilities
As a User Experience Lead for John Deere located in either Chicago, Des Moines, Champaign, or Moline, you will be an unbiased strategic partner to product and engineering leaders to drive customer-centric priorities and cohesive end-to-end digital experiences across product families. You will be responsible for translating user research insights into functional requirements and experience design concepts. As a UX Lead you will be multi-disciplined.

• Define and execute research plans, leveraging methodologies such as contextual interviews, journey mapping, usability testing, and personas
• Build strong strategic relationships with group product managers, group engineering managers, product managers & owners, and product UX practitioners to drive cohesive experiences across product families
• Translate research insights into functional needs and experience recommendations to accelerate discussions and decisions early in the product development process
• Conduct design thinking workshops with a wide range of stakeholders to creatively address complex processes, applications, impediments, and user journeys spanning multiple products
• Validate and design experience concepts that are aligned with standard user experience frameworks (such as John Deere UX Fuel Design System) to ensure quality and consistency
• Champion UX education, up-skilling, and customer-centric mindset transformation across the entire strategic business areas of responsibility

What Skills You Need

• 10+ years of UX Research experience within information technology with the following:
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to lead design discussions, workshops, and research
• A portfolio highlighting strong design experience in modern and intuitive digital interfaces
• Demonstrated qualitative and quantitative research expertise
• Proficient with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, Invisionapp, Mural, etc.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and working with a variety of leadership levels
• Experience incorporating branding and common design system components and guidelines into product experiences

What Makes You Stand Out

• Previous UX Leadership/Management experience
• Software development practitioner experience
• Business process acumen in one or more of the following: Retail Channel Management, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Order Fulfillment, Manufacturing, Product Development.
• Experience with Deere internal and external operations environment driving a cohesive end-to-end digital experience across Deere's core processes

Education

• BS/BA in Information Technology, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Usability, Graphic Arts, Digital Design, Industrial Design, Marketing, Human Factors, or equivalent

What You'll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Benefit Pension)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use

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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.
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