The successful candidate will have a keen eye for detail, be highly creative, have expert diagramming and screen layout skills, be proficient with graphic and web applications, be action- and team-oriented, and possess strong oral and written communications skills.
We are looking for someone outstanding in interaction and web design as well as information architecture. Please note that this is NOT a graphic designer or application programmer position. This position reports to the VP of Product Development.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- PLAN & ANALYZE
- Analyze users’ goals and needs for our target audiences.
- Understand our business needs and requirements.
- Translate needs into design specifications that merge business and user goals with technical capabilities.
- DESIGN
- Develop effective interface components and assemble them into highly usable and coherent web designs.
- Create sketches, concept and navigation maps, page and task flows, wireframes, and design specifications for proposed designs.
- Create prototypes based on written requirements and/or meetings.
- Build user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and DHTML.
- Conceptualize and document the design of proposed interactions and interfaces.
- COLLABORATE
- Work with multiple project managers simultaneously as part of cross-functional project teams.
- Help shape vision and requirements for product experience; transform requirements into wireframes and functional specifications.
- Work with usability engineers to develop user profiles, analyze user tasks, create scenarios and use cases, test interface designs and translate usability study findings into improved designs.
- Work with application/systems programmers to ensure that web interfaces connect in real-time with underlying data sources.
- Work with development team to review and refine prototypes, and to ensure correct implementation of interaction functionality (including participating in executing unit test plans).
- PROCESS
- Utilize and promote user-centered design methodologies.
- Follow an iterative process along the complete product life cycle.
- Provide multiple viable solutions to complex user interface and information design problems.
- Help create and enforce standards and guidelines for user experience.
- Research best practices and propose improvements in designs and methods.
- Experiment with new interaction types that push the boundaries.
- LEAD
- Take creative direction to deliver a consistent high-quality user experience.
- Manage full lifecycle of design tasks, from concept and design to production.
- Articulate ideas and direction in writing and/or storyboards.
- LEARN
- Review competing products and recommend design solutions that differentiate our products from theirs.
- Keep up to date with industry standards and trends as well as advances in interaction design technologies.
Qualifications:
- EDUCATION:
- Bachelors degree required, preferably in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Visual Communications or related field.
- EXPERIENCE
- 3-5 years full-time experience designing interactive user interfaces for web or software applications
- Experience with online consumer software product interfaces.
- KNOWLEDGE
- Thorough knowledge of web and interactive design processes, best practices and tools.
- Working knowledge of HTML, DHTML, and CSS.
- Understands information architecture, usability testing, and how to leverage AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, XML, and XHTML.
- SOFTWARE
- Highly proficient in desktop UI/graphics applications (such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio, InDesign, QuarkXpress).
- Microsoft Office.
