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Job Summary:
We are seeking a passionate and innovative Design Engineer / Usability Engineer to join our SonicWall product team. In this role, you will collaborate with customers and partners to conduct user research, gather insights, and recommend product and go-to-market (GTM) improvements. Your work will play a critical role in enhancing the user experience and ensuring our products meet the needs of our diverse clientele.
Key Responsibilities:
- User Research: Conduct interviews, surveys, and usability testing with customers and partners to gather feedback on SonicWall products.
- Data Analysis: Analyze user research data to identify pain points, user needs, and areas for improvement in product design and functionality.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing, to communicate user insights and advocate for user-centered design principles.
- Design Recommendations: Propose actionable design and usability enhancements based on research findings, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
- Prototyping: Develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to visualize design concepts and communicate ideas effectively to stakeholders.
- GTM Strategy: Collaborate with the marketing team to inform GTM strategies based on user feedback and market trends.
- Documentation: Create detailed design specifications, user journey maps, and usability reports to guide development and ensure consistency in user experience.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously refine and enhance our product offerings.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Design Engineer, Usability Engineer, or similar role, preferably in the tech or cybersecurity industry.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with customers, partners, and team members effectively.
- Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (e.g., Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD).
- Experience conducting user research and usability testing, with a solid grasp of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
- Ability to analyze and synthesize data into actionable insights.
- Familiarity with Agile development processes and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) is a plus.
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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.
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SonicWall has been fighting the cyber-criminal industry for over 25 years defending small, medium-size businesses and enterprises worldwide. Backed by research from the Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network, our award-winning real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, coupled with the formidable resources of over 10,000 loyal channel partners around the globe, are the backbone securing more than a million business and mobile networks and their emails, applications and data. This combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of the more than 500,000 global businesses in more than 215 countries and territories.
