Schneider Electric 's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On .
We are driving digital transformation by integrating the most advanced energy and automation technologies. We connect products, control platforms, software, and services throughout the lifecycle of our customers' activities to the cloud for integrated management of residential housing, commercial buildings, data centres, infrastructures, and industry.
Schneider Electric is seeking a design professional with expertise in user experience and service definition. This individual will report to the digital design director of North America within the global design organization. The team is fast growing and want to do so healthily. Our mission to oversee digital design across Schneider Electric, infuse design culture into the company, and scale these efforts through systems and collaboration. We create consistent, enjoyable, and memorable experiences with meaningful outcomes around sustainability, decarbonization, and optimizing the switch renewable energy. This is design work with a purpose.
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This role will be responsible for discovering and outlining the future of Schneider Electric's building energy and asset optimization software and services. The Principal Designer will collaborate with other user experience design professionals, product owners, developers, and data scientists, to discover unmet user needs and future product opportunities. This individual will define research with customers and product users to map customer journeys and situate opportunities for digital experiences and services. This role requires strategic design thinking and consistently keeping the user at the core of decision making within Schneider Electric's complex ecosystem. Successful candidates will have a robust tool set to coalesce stakeholders around a vision through collaboration, storytelling, and the creation of compelling design artifacts.
Your mission:
User-centered design. Apply different tools and methodologies required for the problem, timing, and context. Be transparent and mentor colleagues across stages of the design process.
Facilitation and co-design. Prepare and lead workshops to align teams and converge on a common product and service vision. Include others and motivate with curiosity, a constant interest to learn, and default to doing.
Culture and advocacy. Be a representative of design and user advocate within Schneider Electric. Promote our digital ecosystem, strengthen the brand, and form a unified experience.
Systems thinking. Expand and adjust perspectives to understand the problem space. Empathize with users and colleagues and appreciate a diversity of inputs.
Data driven. Know how to use and analyze qualitative and quantitative data in decision making. Design interactions that empower users with information and collect data as a natural part of the experience.
This job is for you:
- >5 years of experience as a designer
- Bachelor's degree in a design field, human-computer interaction, fine arts, or equivalent experience.
- Examples of regular collaboration across business functions.
- Strong portfolio that demonstrates user-centered design approach & process, systems thinking, emphatic storytelling, and delivered product with user & business insights.
- Experience creating design research plans, executing, synthesizing, and communicating findings.
- Exceptional abilities to communicate complex information in written, visual, and verbal forms.
- Customer-facing experience facilitating discovery workshops with subject matter experts and business leaders.
- Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity, ill-defined problem spaces, and highly complex domains & organizations.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
...and even better:
- Master's degree in human-computer interaction, psychology, design strategy.
- Experience working with enterprise or industrial software products.
- Familiarity with Figma & Figjam, Dovetail, Maze design tools.
- Experience working with and applying enterprise design systems.
- Documenting best practices, building design playbooks, and mentoring others.
- Engagement in design communities and building design culture.
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What to expect
- Full time position.
- 10-15% travel opportunity.
- Location: North America, ideally Boston, Nashville, Chicago or Raleigh
Let us learn about you! Apply today.
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Why us?
At Schneider Electric we're committed to creating a workplace that gives you not just a job but a meaningful purpose in joining our mission to bring energy and efficiency to enable life, progress and sustainability for all.
We believe in e mpowering our team members to reach their full potential, fostering a sense of ownership in their work.
We embrace inclusion as a fundamental value, ensuring that every voice is heard and valued. We value differences, and welcome people from all walks of life. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone, everywhere.
If you want to be part of a company where your contributions truly matter, where you are empowered to make a difference and where inclusivity is valued, we would love to hear from you.
Discover your M eaningful, Inclusive and Empowered career at Schneider Electric.
34.2bn global revenue
+12% organic growth
135 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World's most sustainable corporations
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best.
We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate and we 'embrace different' as one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do. This extends to our Candidates and is embedded in our Hiring Practices.
You can find out more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here and our DEI Policy here
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color , gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.