Senior User Experience Designer
New York
The Position
The Senior User Experience Designer will be responsible for developing and documenting the structure of a product, based on UCD research and organization methods. They will define and describe the information relationships and navigation models at the product, screen, and module levels and develop approaches to the categorization and hierarchical structure of content or content types. Senior User Experience Designers will be called upon to collaborate to provide thought leadership and unifying vision for the user experience team and for the company.
Supervision and Leadership
- Determine a direction and appropriate UCD methods to be used on a project-by-project basis
- Lead a team of usability, interface, and design professionals to create elegance and clarity for the web
- Manage individual project allocation and deliverables
- Estimate hours and timelines across multiple projects
- Mentor and share experiences throughout the UX team
- Collaborate to provide thought leadership and unifying vision for the user experience discipline
Core Responsibilities
- Distill space150 and third party research findings into well-written and concise company best practices for user centered design
- Develop and conduct usability analyses on client web sites and web applications‚ as well as directing ongoing internal usability research
- Advocate for the users by bringing your depth of experience and knowledge to bear on all work
- Develop/write personas and scenarios that positively influence the development process
- Understand and utilize information architecture best practices and evaluation techniques
- Utilize with the wider spectrum of standard usability evaluation: interviews, card-sorting, expert review, task analysis, focus groups, prototyping, etc.
- Support usability testing activities, understand user testing approaches and how to use this information to inform the interaction design
New Business Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Director of User Experience, Strategy Team, Account Services (and other teams) to determine project scope, direction, and UX role in proposals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills that communicate with clients the value of usability analysis and how user experience design can be put to good use
Notes
- 5+ years experience developing interactive products as an Information Architect, Interaction Designer, or User Experience Designer
- A degree in a related field, such as technical communications, human-computer interaction, library science graphic design, or industrial design
- Web design experience including: HTML, the capabilities of Web browsers across multiple platforms, and new technologies
- Stay abreast of advances on the web (both technical and experiential) and look for ways to appropriately integrate these advances into new products
- Experience with the following: Omnigraffle, Word, Illustrator, Photoshop or other information architectural related software programs
- 5+ years experience developing digital products, such as websites, mobile applications, or software
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
- Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions
- Experience observing user research and translating user research into design decisions
- Terrific teamwork and collaboration skills
- 5+ years of experience
- 4 year degree
Apply: careers@space150.com