User Experience Architects - multiple positions available -incredible opportunity to improve the online retail space. Chicago, IL
Sears Holdings is a $50 billion company and the nation's fourth largest broadline retailer - we're looking to grow our Online Experience Design practice and we need creative, passionate, and dedicated individuals to join our group! The ideal candidate should be able to creatively envision, evaluate, and design successful user experiences. Summary: You will work with a team of 4-6 UXA's that take on new design initiatives and platform enhancements across sears.com, kmart.com and the associated portfolio of brand properties. You will be responsible for conducting and analyzing research, gathering business requirements, identifying technology constraints in order to synthesizing intelligent and successful design solutions. As an integral part of the Experience Design practice you will collaborate closely with visual designers, front-end developers, and business stakeholders on concept generation through final implementation. This will include collaborating on new design concepts, working on win/win solutions with primary stakeholders, consulting with stakeholders on design enhancements, and working on small/mid-size maintenance projects. Your responsibilities will include making informed recommendations on design strategies, leveraging best practices, accurately estimating and tracking your time across multiple simultaneous projects, as well as working with the UX staff to develop and document methodologies, standards and best practices for the group. Currently, we are interested in candidates with 3+ years of demonstrable experience and who have had a background involving large scale web initiatives, or have recently graduated from a masters program in industrial design, interaction design or HCI. The ideal candidate will have exceptional analytical skills, be well versed in user-centered design practices, and can turn business and user requirements into elegant user interfaces and compelling interactive experiences. All candidates under consideration must be able to present a comprehensive portfolio. Core Competencies: Deep understanding and skilled practice of user-centered design, usability, information architecture, interaction design, and goal-oriented design Experience and familiarity in the capabilities of HTML, DHTML, CSS, Flash and AJAX-based applications. Excellent communication skills - in person, written and presentation. Ability to prioritize and track multiple tasks across multiple projects, under tight deadlines. Willingness to switch gears quickly and be flexible to work on concurrent projects. Ability to create clean, precise and detailed IA documentations. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver on new business initiatives and platform enhancements Desired Qualifications: Experience working as an information architect, interaction designer, or user experience designer. Experience in retail merchandising/marketing, advertising, product development, e-commerce or related field. Experience with usability testing including preparation, execution and analysis. Familiarity with current user experience and usability research, theories, best practices and methodologies. Degree in a related field, such as information design, human-computer interaction, library science, cognitive science, graphic design, or industrial design a plus. Experience with Localization Issues and Web Accessibility Standards a plus. Design Firm experience is a big plus. A portfolio of your best recent work will be reviewed. If this looks like an opportunity that suit you, email with cover letter and resume: Mark Schraad: Mark (dot) Schraad (at) searshc (dot) com and/or Tracy Hayes: Tracy (dot) Hayes (at) searshc (dot) com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
