VMware Hiring For Product Designer at San Francisco, CA, United States , United States Full Time

Job Description

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
As a Product Designer, you’ll be integral part of the effort to create a familiar and intuitive experience for our B-to-B SaaS solution called Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) customers who want to take advantage of networking, security, and compute services such as SD-WAN, AIOps, Cloud Web Security, Secure Access, and more to come. Enterprises, Partners, and Telcos around the world rely on SASE to deliver secure, optimal and automated access to applications and workloads in the cloud by extending software-defined networking and security to their end-users, devices, and networks.
Since our users interact with SASE through a variety of interfaces—including command line tools, APIs, and web browsers—you’ll have the opportunity to design “beyond the browser” and focus on meaningful outcomes that span users’ touch points and journeys. Every day, you’ll collaborate closely with peers from design, product, and engineering to discover problems and frame solutions using human-centered design methods. You’ll shape our customers’ experiences with SASE by contributing thoughtful design strategy, influence the product roadmap through insights gained from user research, bring clarity and alignment to partners and stakeholders through workshop facilitation, use visual and written artifacts to communicate proposed solutions, as well as guide and support other designers.
The mission of VMware Design is to transform our customers’ experience of virtual infrastructure by designing software that lays the groundwork where our customers can successfully run any application, on any device, on any cloud. To foster a strong collaborative design culture, VMware Design’s principles are:

• United Together by Our Differences
• Leading With Empathy Through Transparency
• Relentless Co-Creation
• Through Learning We Grow
• Live in The Customer’s Mind
• Inspire Action

When you join VMware, you will help grow a company that makes meaningful and significant technology solutions and is committed to being a “force for good” in technology. Our mission is to become the trusted foundation for accelerating innovation in an unpredictable world. VMware software is essential for making the applications and devices your family and friends use every day a reality. Which means your work is essential for transforming everywhere.
Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• Within the 30 days you will:
  • Meet your immediate team and cross-functional partners,
  • Get familiar with the tools and processes the design org and SASE UX team leverages in day-to-day operations
  • Learn about SASE, SD-WAN, and Security industry
  • Learn the VMW vision, strategy and high-level product family
  • Get familiar with our work-tracking tools
• Within 60 days you will
  • Dig deeper into the specific product your team focuses on and how it connects to the rest of the ecosystem
  • Learn about the competitor space for your product and understand the existing designs created by your team
  • Get familiar with our design and component systems
• Within 90 days you will
  • Get familiar with accessibility guidelines and review processes
  • Start contributing through designing smaller projects in collaboration with your design team
• Within 6 months you will
  • Lead design for a specific area in your product and drive collaboration with your cross-functional partners
• Within 12 months you will
  • Be a subject-matter expert in your area
  • Will be collaborating across products to make sure user experience is aligned and consistent within the features you are working on

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Closely collaborating with your design team as well as the product management and engineering teams to identify product vision and goals
• Partner with PMs and Design leads to talk directly with customers to understand their needs, goals, and motivations
• Help conceptualize and define an end to end design strategy that supports customer needs and business goals. Ideate detailed stories and user flows illustrating the solution
• Closely collaborate with a geographically diverse design team to co-design while ensuring consistency across the suite of products and services
• Advocate user needs throughout the development lifecycle in an agile, iterative environment to ensure problem : solution fit
• Verify and improve on designs through reviews, validations and usability testing with end users
• Become a subject matter expert with the ability to understand the latest architecture, technology, solution, and market trends as well as competitive offerings related to cloud computing
• Communicate simple user stories illustrating solutions
• Create realistic, accessible, and localization-friendly prototypes for your designs to be implemented by the Engineering teams
• Working in a growing agile environment, constantly iterating on work and working through slower and faster cycles of delivery for new products and features
• Take ownership of your work and initiative to execute on ideas. You are expected to be self-motivated and self-reliant.
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
This specific UX Design team is made up of 3 designers (growing to 7 this year) and has a close partnership with members of the SASE Product Management and Engineering teams. The team works flexible hours, arranging schedules to fit their needs and taking consideration for occasional phone calls with global colleagues, primarily in India and Europe. This role reports to, Laurel Beyers, the UX Manager for SASE. Laurel’s leadership style revolves around her values of individual growth, vulnerability, and light-hearted humor. She looks for people who are self-motivated, collaborative, communicative, reliable and who have a passion for design and a growth mindset.
This SASE UX team is part of the broader Service Provider and Edge Business Unit’s UX team which is made up of 14+ people. VMware Design teams are funded by and designated to specific VMware Business Units while reporting to the central design organization which resides in the Office of the CTO. The Design Org empowers 300+ designers globally to excel at enterprise-scale design with support from the Design Operations, Accessibility, UX Research, and Clarity Design System teams.
Where is this role located?
This role can be remote anywhere in the USA and will not be assigned to a fixed office location. This means it could be done anywhere with a strong internet connection and limited distractions. VMware has a policy to empower employees to work from wherever they feel most productive and healthy whether that be at home, a VMware office, or the coffee shop.
What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
• Generous Time Off Programs
• 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
• Rethink’s Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
• Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
• Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes

This job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.
VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.

This job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.
Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: User Experience
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-05-10
VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.