Product Design Senior Engineer, AC&T

Pitney Bowes is a well-established B2B corporation. Advanced Concepts & Technologies (AC&T) is an applied research organization that creates new products and services for Pitney Bowes to produce new business opportunities. AC&T has a well-established innovation process:

* The Concept Studio creates new product concepts and identify potential value proposition,

* The Systems Lab prototypes the product concepts, refines and validates the value proposition via customer trials and market/user research, partners with lines of business to create business cases and provide product concepts transition to the engineering department.



Systems Lab is looking for a project lead to lead interdisciplinary teams through design, prototyping and business analysis. A successful candidate will have a user center design background, project lead experience and business analysis skills. The candidate can work effectively in a dynamically changing environment. Business development experience is a plus.

REQUIREMENTS


* A Master's Degree in a technical domain (computer science/engineering/user center design/design experiment) is preferred, but equivalent experience will be strongly considered.

* 2+ years of experience as a project lead

* Experience in interacting with users, e.g. user research, interview, users and user work process observation

* Experience in interacting with business persons, e.g. capability of understanding business needs and value creation

* Business research/development experience is a plus

* Experience in designing user experience and synthesizing user, market and technology information

* Effective communication and people skills are required

* Brainstorm session facilitation skills are a plus