Job Description:
Our client, an award winning software company, has engaged us to conduct a search for a Senior Interaction Designer to help them bring beautiful, useful, and usable applications to life for a start-up within the larger software company.
Our client is seeking a highly-skilled application UI designer with amazing skills and a portfolio to back it up. You should have 10-15 years of experience designing user interfaces for the web or for desktop applications, preferably in technical/science/finance or other data-rich domains. Our client is a high-tech company so technical expertise is required and you should be able to converse and work comfortably with engineers on a daily basis.
You will:
* Sketch ideas, design pixel-perfect mockups, and design/build prototypes with engineers
* Work closely with engineers and product managers (many of whom are also engineers) to focus business requirements
* Coach and enable software engineers to empathize with the users of our software
* Help build a design process into our business, including customer research (engaging in usability testing, design validation/reviews with customers, etc)
* Work on our client's leading commercial applications and help them bridge the UXs across these applications. We're also looking to consolidate some "overlapping" products and need your help bridging our suite from a UX perspective
* Envision and design the "big picture" solutions while following through on the pixel-precise details as needed
* We welcome designers who can articulate ideas in coded prototypes
This role is not:
* A web development/engineering position (but we welcome designers who can articulate ideas in coded prototypes)
* Suitable for print/graphic designers looking to transition to UX/UI
* Suitable for "usability," HCI, HF, or user research professionals who do not design UIs themselves
* For "wireframers" only - sketching rocks, but we need people who can design pixel-level detail, too
Qualifications:
* Self-starter - we need you to help tell US where projects need design attention - you will help dictate the work you do, find problems to solve, determine what work needs the most design attention, etc
* Proven experience evangelizing UX design at a previous position; great communication skills, outgoing personality helpful!
* IT environment domain expertise is preferred, but it is not required
* While we don't expect you to code for this position, prototyping in Flex or HTML/JS/CSS is highly valuable here and you should be willing or able to work with front-end code
* Data visualization (designing infographics, charts, etc) skill is highly desired - we're all about tons of data and we need your help telling stories with the data in elegant ways
* Systems engineering knowledge and "big picture" design thinkers are encouraged to apply
* As this is a senior position, it is assumed you have a rich grasp of UI design principles, current UI technologies and practices, and basic engineering concepts
* You must have a portfolio of work, preferably of applications that have shipped
Education & Experience:
* A minimum of 10 years of experience is required
* A Bachelor Degree, a Master Degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required
* Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, complex projects
When applying please provide a link to or attach your portfolio to your resume
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