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Z O.O.Profession (Job Category):\nCreative & DesignJob Schedule:\nFull timeRemote:\nNoJob Description:\nThe opportunity\nThe User Experience (UX/UI) Designer is an integral member of the User Experience practice, working directly with product, engineering and delivery teams. The role partners with product managers, product owners and domain experts to establish an evidence-based product vision for a complex power-automation engineering ecosystem.\nThe environment for which we are seeking a specialist combines technical configuration workflows, multiple applications and interfaces of a different age, specialised user roles, safety- and reliability-sensitive operations, and dependencies among software, devices and engineering processes.\nWe are seeking an experienced UX professional to work independently on engineering applications UX/UI. The successful candidate will perform research work based on identified product needs, plan UX/UI work, map complex engineering workflows, conduct stakeholder and user interviews, evaluate usability of existing applications and produce high-quality, evidence-based UX deliverables.\nThis position requires effective communication, good problem framing skills, proactive ownership, attention to detail, timely delivery and the ability to build productive stakeholder relationships through evidence and design thinking.\nThe initial focus is to understand the engineering environment, workflows, target users, risks and product opportunities, and to establish a reliable foundation for future product and design decisions.\nHow You Will Make an Impact\nPlan and execute an end-to-end design thinking process.\nWork with product and engineering stakeholders to clarify business objectives, scope, assumptions and decision points.\nReview existing documentation, issue reports, backlog items, designs, training materials and technical artefacts.\nPrepare research activities, interview scripts, usability-testing scenarios and information synthesis approaches.\nConduct stakeholder interviews and contextual or workflow-focused user interviews.\nMap complex, multi-stage engineering and configuration workflows, including inputs, outputs, decisions, dependencies, error conditions, handovers and workarounds.\nIdentify where workflows are fragmented across applications, scripts, documents or manual processes.\nDistinguish validated evidence from assumptions, stakeholder opinions and technical constraints.\nConvert findings into role-based user archetypes, jobs-to-be-done, journey or workflow maps, service blueprints, use cases and clear problem statements.\nBuild a traceable relationship between research evidence, user needs, risks, application capabilities and UX recommendations.\nProduce a prioritized UX opportunity backlog and contribute UX evidence to product strategy and roadmap decisions.\nDefine UX and UI requirements to deliver a consistent experience across touchpoints.\nPresent complex findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nYour Background\n3+ years of professional UX experience, including experience in one of the following disciplines: Information Architecture, Product Design or Service Design, with a strong research component.\nDemonstrable work on at least one substantial UX/UI project for a complex enterprise, industrial, engineering, scientific, healthcare, financial, cybersecurity or other specialist system.\nExperience researching complex workflows or systems.\nAbility to model complex dependencies and alternative flows.\nEvidence of turning ambiguous and conflicting stakeholder input into actionable design delivery plan.\nStrong synthesis skills: affinity analysis, workflow mapping, service blueprinting, user archetypes, jobs-to-be-done and problem framing.\nExperience conducting UX audits or heuristic evaluations of mature applications.\nAbility to communicate research findings in a concise, decision-oriented form.\nAbility to work independently.\nProfessional English sufficient for interviews, workshops and documentation in an international environment.\nBachelor’s degree in design, computer science, information sciences and/or HCI is a plus.\nExperience facilitating workshops with senior, technical and cross-functional participants is a plus.\nExperience with industrial automation, energy, utilities, engineering software, products that combine software with physical devices or embedded systems, or configuration tools is a strong plus.\nMore About Us\nAt Hitachi Energy, we recognize that our people are at the heart of our success. We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive workplace, competitive rewards, and opportunities for professional and personal growth. Our benefits package is designed to help employees thrive both at work and in their personal lives.\nOur benefits offering for this role generally includes:\nPrivate medical care and life insurance\nAccess to fitness and wellness programs\nAccess to benefits platform with discounts and perks\nEmployee Capital Plans (PPK)\nEquipment for working from home or allowances for setting up a workplace at home\nSpectacles and contact lenses allowance\nCompany events and team-building activities\nPsychological support program\nFree parking available\nAdd if applicable: additional benefits may apply depending on the role, grade, and business requirements.\nYou will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.\nAccessibility and reasonable accommodation\nQualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing ageneral inquiry formon our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.\n\nThis is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response.\n\nUse of Al and automated tools in recruitment\nAs part of our recruitment process, Hitachi Energy uses digital and automated tools, including Al-supported solutions, to assist with activities such as application screening, job matching, and interview scheduling. These tools are designed to support our recruiters and do not replace human decision-making. Candidate data is processed in accordance with applicable data protection and employment laws as well asHitachi's Global Data Privacy Notice.\nBackground Screening and Security Checks\nAs part of the hiring process, Hitachi Energy conducts pre-employment background checks that may include verification of employment history, education, criminal records, and other relevant information, in accordance with applicable laws.\nFor certain roles-particularly those involving access to sensitive information, financial responsibilities, client data, regulated environments, or security-sensitive functions-additional or more comprehensive background or security screenings may be required. 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