User-centered Product-/Service Designer (m/f), Leinfelden-Echterdingen

At Bosch, we care. For you, our business, and our environment. Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other. Join in and feel the difference.

In 1886, Robert Bosch founded the “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering” in Stuttgart. This was the birth of today‘s globally operating company. Right from the start, it was characterized by innovative strength and social commitment.

For us, sustainability means securing the company’s long-term success while at the same time protecting the natural resources on which present and future generations depend. Ecology is thus a driver of innovation. At the same time, we demonstrate a particularly high level of corporate social responsibility — both within the company and beyond.

Compliance is an integral part of our company’s values. With rules of conduct that apply around the world, we aim to protect our associates and company as well as our customers and partners.

Missions

• Take responsibility: You will drive our business unit in the course of product designs and introducing a user-centered design process.
• Use your creativity and freedom: Your tasks will comprise the conception, development and conduction of consulting services with the focus on product design and service development in the field of user-centered design
• Observe, and think ahead: You will support Design Thinking project teams in development of user-centric product / service concepts based on holistic user experience / design thinking methodologies.
• Structured observation & evaluation: Focus tasks include identification of unsolved user needs based on research, transfer of user needs into design concepts (incl. rapid prototyping), testing of concepts with users
• Integrated implementation: You will be the internal interface to marketing and engineering functions: Support in transferring user needs and insights into concepts (for marketing) and technical requirements (engineering). In this context you will also be coaching cross-functional teams with regards to user experience and design thinking methodologies (enabled through Design Thinking coaching trainings)
• Experience cooperation: Drive exchange / cooperation with different business areas outside Power Tools on the subjects of Design Thinking (Ambassador for Design Thinking)

Profile

• Personality: Strong ability to work in a team (empathy, responsibility and persuasiveness)
  
• Experience and Knowledge: Operative product design and project experience from Innovation or Design Thinking consultancy/ agency/ or equivalent corporate department with proven track record of accomplished UX/ Design projects
  
• Qualifications: Strong visualization skills (Adobe Creative Suite, CAD Skills, Rhino preferred)
• Enthusiasm: Curiosity for new challenges (“self-starter mentality”
  
• Languages: Strong communication and presentation skills, very good German and English language skills
• Education: University, FH or equivalent education with industrial, product or interaction design focus and preferably also business expertise