Product Designer (AI)_

New Orleans

Product Designer (AI)

**Date:** Apr 20, 2024

**Location:** New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

**Company:** Entergy

**Posting End Date:**

**Work Place Flexibility:** Hybrid

**Legal Entity:** Entergy Services, LLC

This position can be filled in New Orleans, LA or The Woodlands, TX

This role will be filled as a Product Designer or Product Designer Sr depending on qualifications and experience of the candidate

**JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE**

Entergy's Artificial Intelligence team is searching for a highly skilled, passionate, thoughtful designer to join our team to help design AI products that have real business impact to the company, enabling Entergy to become the premier utility. The Product Designer role is a fantastic opportunity for you to design digital AI solutions by leveraging human-centered design principles. Weave iconography, typography, color, space and texture together in helping our customers use our products. Our team values, not only innovators, and system thinkers, but also team members that can communicate and influence our organization’s design maturity, while delivering better products and services to our customers.

You will rely on human-centric design principles to produce high-quality end-to-end designs across many platforms and customer bases. You will collaborate with fellow product team members including product managers, data engineers, data scientists, and product owners to define and refine our design language, while creating innovative products and services to our customers’ delight.

We are building a team that seeks to understand our customers by learning everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create.

The product designer will not only design the user experience and interfaces of AI products within the AI department’s portfolio, but also build a design playbook to be adopted/ applied by AI product teams. User experience is at the foundation of how we create inclusive, innovative, and thoughtful products that our customers will love. Serve as an experienced member of our analytics team, focusing on UX research, interaction, and visual design. You must understand the role of UX, visual design, prototyping, branding, communication, and team facilitation to create and execute a design strategy. You can clearly articulate the differences between information architecture, interaction design, usability, and user research. A clear design process is something you’ve crafted and relied on as a playbook to address the unique challenges and opportunities of every type of project.

**JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES**

**UX Craft & Visual Design**

• UX research & discovery

• Experience research, empathy mapping, ethnography, journey mapping

• Design strategy

• Information Architecture

• Wire-framing • Prototyping

• Story Telling

• User experience

• Interaction design and usability testing

• User interviews

• Design documentation and QA

• Strong understanding of material design library and best principles

• Setting up and managing design systems

• Creating industry leading UI for mobile fist web applications

• Staying on the top on all the latest design best practices and trends

**Product Thinking**

• Design experiences for successful product outcomes

• Engage and collaborate on product strategy

• Design an end-to-end solutions

**Communication**

• Clarify your design process and when it fits within your team’s roadmap and goals

• Communicate design decisions and strategies

• Consistent communication with team members and stakeholders on the progress of design and product

• Communicate design’s role and value for Entergy’s customers and stakeholders

**Facilitation**

• Facilitate design, brand, and product strategy sprint workshops

• Influence and collaborate with team members on executing successful outcomes

• Coordinate users inclusion through various methods e.g. rapid feedback, listening sessions, and usability testing

• Be able to deliver in a rapid, agile manner

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**

**Minimum education required of the position**

Bachelor's degree required; Masters degree a plus

**Minimum experience required of the position**

Product Designer: 5+ years’ experience with a proven record in Experience Design

Product Designer, Sr: 7+ years’ experience with a proven record in Experience Design

A background with product prototyping and testing, future visioning and strategy development required

Exposure/ experience designing analytics assets - advanced models and reporting visualization tools (Qlik, Power BI and Tableau)

**Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position**

Proficiency in industry design and prototyping tools (Sketch, Figma, XD, and Webflow)

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**Primary Location:** **Louisiana** **New Orleans Texas : The Woodlands || Louisiana : New Orleans**

**Job Function** **:** **Professional**

**FLSA Status** **:** **Exempt**

**Relocation Option:** **No Relocation Offered**

**Union description/code** **:**

**Number of Openings** **:** **1**

**Req ID:** **114316**

**Travel Percentage** **:** **Up to 25%**

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please clickhere (ntergy.com/content/EEO/?locale=en\_US) to view the EEO page, or see statements below.

**EEO Statement:** The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

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**Additional Responsibilities:** As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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**WORKING CONDITIONS:**

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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