BuyerZone is expanding its UX team. Please email j...@buyerzone.com or ping me directly if you are interested.
Interaction Designer - BuyerZone, Inc. Responsibilities Lead efforts to better understand how to make our customers happy. You should know how to run an effective usability test, interview customers about their pain points and design a survey that helps a company better understand its customers. A big part of your job will be supporting business goals by identifying opportunities that come out of user research. Work with business owners and software developers to define new features and functionalities for our web-based products. The product development/user experience team at BuyerZone works at the intersection of business strategy, technical capabilities and user needs. You should have experience pulling product requirements out of these various groups and turning those ideas and rules into written specifications for our online products. Design simple, effective user interfaces and product workflows. You will need to have the skills, experience and talent to design new interfaces for our products, from conceptualization to implementation, using wireframes, interaction diagrams, sketches, story boards and/or simple to fancy mockups. Encourage productive communication across a range of teams, colleagues and skill sets. Do you like to wear many hats? Can you talk strategy with a product manager, then go back and forth with an engineer over how to best execute on that idea? Youll need to be a superlative communicator who can synthesize feedback from a variety of sources and turn complex concepts into simple explanations for mixed company. Stay on top of new technologies, interaction design trends, and best practices in usability. This is a team that believes theres gold in keeping up with the user experience/usability community and learning from the various outlets that provide insight into where the best approaches are going next. You should know whos leading the conversation and how to plug into it. Skills and Experience 3+ years of interaction/interface design experience on web or desktop applications. Passionate about customer focused research and applying it to create effective interaction designs. Experience gathering product requirements and creating documentation/defining requirements in support of development efforts will be a key part of this role. Strong foundation and skills in user interface methods and a strong visual and interaction design sense. In-depth knowledge of online products and web development processes. Working knowledge of design and wireframe tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq, Axure, etc. Well-organized with strong communication skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks/projects simultaneously across multiple teams. Motivated self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills. Sample of Web site work and/or portfolio will be requested. B.A. or B.S. required, ideally in a design-related field And Finally 10 words that would describe an ideal candidate: Talented, intelligent, fun, detail-oriented, web savvy, organized, collaborative, outgoing, inquisitive and empathetic.
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