The Lathe, Inc. (www.thelathe.com) is seeking a Director of User Experience Principals only, please reply to care...@thelathe.com
Position Director of User Experience Location NYC Job Overview The Director of User Experience is responsible for the oversight of user experience and interaction design, from usability testing to assessments to information architecture, for interactive projects such as websites, online advertising, and mobile application development. The Director works closely with clients to define needs, requirements and goals for success, translating these into excellent user experiences. The Director is also an advocate for a user-centered design approach that may be unfamiliar to clients in heavily-regulated industries such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Our clients are primarily in the pharmaceuticals industry and produce treatments for chronic illnesses. This requires a sensitivity to the long-term needs of users, particularly related to ongoing management of conditions and the role of caregivers in the treatment lifecycle, as well as an understanding of the ways in which both patients and healthcare professionals consume information through digital channels. The position includes: * Provide leadership and management to a small UX team that includes external, off-site contract resources as well as internal employees * Ensure that the UX team produces consistent deliverables regardless of personnel * Identify strengths and weaknesses among the UX team members and provide coaching and support as needed * Assign tasks to team members commensurate with their strengths or based on growth plans * Collaborate with visual designers and copywriters to ensure UX best practices are implemented correctly * Lead efforts to define business, functional, and end-user UI requirements for new projects * Ensure the design and build of products and sites is of the highest quality and supports strategic goals * Participate in client meetings and conference calls as necessary and be able to effectively present UX deliverables and respond to client feedback * Work with other agencies (advertising, PR, media, medical education, etc.) that may be assigned by our clients to provide assets or other contributions to our projects * Work closely with the President to support new business development * Educate clients and prospects on UX, usability, and user-centered design principles * Recommend deliverables, timelines, and resources for project proposals * Stay abreast of research, technology, and advances in the UX field, and keep the team and clients up to speed * Understand the legal and regulatory constraints of pharmaceutical clients, how those constraints relate to the UX field, and how they affect our business in particular * Lead the standardization of UX deliverables across the organization We moved into a brand new office space on June 1 and enjoy a small-company culture while taking our work very seriously. We frequently compete against - and best - other interactive firms many times our size. Salary and benefits are competitive, including generous vacation time, 401(k) with matching contributions, medical insurance, and more. ________________________________________________________________ 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
