Our client, a Global Media Company is looking for UX Design Lead with 5-10 yrs experience. This is a full time, on-site, salaried position located in New York City paying to $125,000 per year + benefits. Locals only please.
DUTIES: * Mange the effort to research and analyze user characteristics and needs through such techniques as user profiling competitive analysis contextual inquiries, and task analysis. * Participate on a team to develop use case scenarios that support product requirements. * Lead the effort to design innovative, conceptual prototypes that translate product requirements into screen flows and user interactions that constitute the user experience. * Lead the effort to prepare for, facilitate, and analyze the results of usability tests of the conceptual and detailed designs. * Iterate, based on frequent user feedback, the conceptual designs into detailed designs. * Collaborate with several functional areas to ensure the integrity of the design and the translation of the design into a usable product. * Develop appropriate design documentation throughout the product lifecycle, including UX strategy documents, user interface prototypes, user interface specifications, site maps, flow diagrams, wireframes, and usability findings reports. * Communicate design to all levels of the organization through facilitating design sessions, conducting design walkthroughs, and presenting designs to senior management. * Mentor other designers. SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS: * Bachelors degree in related discipline preferred. * 5-8 years of experience in Interaction Design, Usability Engineering, Information Architecture, or UI Design of web based applications. * Strong understanding of the user-centered design process. * Strong organizational, listening, communication and interpersonal skills. * Solid ability to generate design concepts and expand them into a detailed design. * Solid ability to translate usability research findings into design improvements. * Solid ability to apply rapid iterative design and innovation team methodologies in a small team environment in order to rapidly iterate new product concepts based on user feedback sessions. * Experience with industry tools for generating UI prototypes, UI specifications, flow diagrams, and wireframes. * Experience with Section 508 and WAI guidelines. * Familiarity working with visual designers a plus. TO APPLY: The absolute best way to apply for this job would be to not only submit your resume and/or portfolio or samples, but to elaborate on how your experience relates to the job description along with your salary requirements to beau-AT-open-source-staffing.com - These applications will get noticed first and will get sent to our client first. Thank you and happy holidays, Beau J. Gould Open Source Staffing www.open-source-staffing.com beau-AT-open-source-staffing.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HCIJobs (680+ members) ________________________________________________________________ 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
