The Global R&D Software Organization is responsible for delivering software products to support a wide range of conveyor and sortation solutions, warehouse automation, and distribution operations.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our software team in Waterloo, and to establish a user-centered design approach for the Global Software organization. We are building an Analytics platform to help Dematic global customers optimize the performance and throughput of their warehouse and distribution systems. You will have hands-on responsibility for designing the user interface to provide rich data visualization, reporting, and data mining.
You must have a passion for championing the user through the development process, coming up with innovative ideas, and working collaboratively with other talented people to put those ideas into products.
Key Responsibilities:
Champion the user throughout software development process
Help customers visualize and understand complex data and make decisions
Work directly with customers and other stakeholders to understand user needs
Create consistently high quality user interface mockups/walk-throughs for stakeholder reviews
Perform usability testing and take a data-driven approach to optimizing user experience
Work within a Scrum environment to plan and deliver incremental software in defined sprints
Establish overall UI style guide for software, aligned with marketing and other stakeholders
Develop a library of icons and other UI assets for global software products
Build strong partnerships with software developers, business analysts and product managers
Travel to other Dematic sites with some frequency (particularly in the first six months)
Develop intuitive screens allowing the user to perform data discovery and analysis