UX Product Designer

About the job

As a UX Designer at Ecolab, you will play a crucial role in uncovering, designing, and testing new innovative digital tools for the Institutional & Specialty Sector Commercial Digital Solutions (IS&S CDS) team. You will be responsible for driving business performance and improving outcomes by creating user-centered designs that balance business goals and data insights. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and have exposure to various aspects of the design process, including user research, ideation, concept development, prototyping, and design stewardship.

What’s In It For You

• The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best
  
  

What You Will Do

• Act as technical lead for projects, interacting with business partners to collaboratively define solutions to address key opportunities
• Maintain project information and provide accurate project status updates to stakeholders
• Translate business objectives into requirements to facilitate key deliverables
• Identify and escalate issues and risks early to minimize impact to business
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve current solutions and processes
• Formulate and define project scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.
• Responsible for understanding the technology, business processes and opportunities in the context of the technical and business requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• Work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, document and validate requirements for changes to business processes, revising existing system logic difficulties as necessary
• Ensure testing requirements are met and document business requirements.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design/Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of three (3) years of related experience in UX design, with a focus on software design or a Master'sdegree and 1-2 years of hands-on experience.
• Transform requirements from various stakeholders into clear and actionable design solutions.
• Collaborate with UX researchers, designers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to fill knowledge gaps.
• Drive the design process, ensuring that solutions align with user needs, business goals, and data insights.
• Define the overall UX strategy and create a roadmap for delivering a cohesive user experience.
• Collaborate with and mentor junior UX designers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to help develop their skills and expertise.
• Contribute to the development, documentation, and evolution of Ecolab’s Design System.
• Utilize appropriate design methods such as sketches, wireframes, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to articulate your solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers during the implementation phase to ensure the product meets design intent and quality standards.
• Conduct user research activities, including customer interviews to validate assumptions and gather feedback on designs.
• Advocate for the user throughout the development process.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in UX design.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with global cross-functional teams and demonstrated ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical expertise.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Project management training or experience
• Proven ability to resolve problems independently and take appropriate action in a timely and professional manner
• Experience working with IoT, AI and ChatBot experiences
  
  

A trusted partner at nearly three million commercial customer locations, Ecolab is a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life. Building on a century of innovation, our 47,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.

When you come to work at Ecolab, you get to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges and have the opportunity to learn and grow, shape your career, make an impact and quickly see the importance of your work.

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Benefits

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Covid-19 Vaccine Notice

Due to local mandates and customer requirements, applicants for certain customer-facing positions must be fully vaccinated (which in some situations requires a booster if eligible), unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered veteran individuals at all levels of the workforce. Ecolab is a place where you can grow your career, own your future and impact what matters.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.