Location: Cambridge, MA
URL: http://www.bitgroup.com
Bit Group is seeking a broadly skilled designer to fill the role of Senior User Experience Consultant. Your natural talent will primarily be in the realm of graphic and interactive design, but you should also have significant experience in user research, information architecture, usability testing, HTML/CSS, and Flash. You are applying to work with a tightly-knit group of extremely sharp individuals at one of Boston’s longest-running interactive agencies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior Consultant in User Experience Design, you will:
- Present our UX capabilities to potential clients, estimate consulting work, and participate in RFP processes
- Self-manage on small-to-medium projects or manage a team of UX individuals on larger ones
- Work closely with your engineering and project management teammates to ensure constraints are balanced nicely with a project’s scope and vision
- Critique the products of our clients and their competitors to create comprehensive heuristic evaluations and competitive/market reviews
- Concoct and lead information-gathering sessions with clients, users, or potential users
- Distill information from those sessions into understandable and useable findings that lay a path for design direction
- Complete your understanding of a product’s users by leading focus groups, contextual inquiries, and field studies
- Draft site maps, process flows, wireframes, prototypes, and anything else necessary to help clients and users understand how the site or application might work before it’s been built
- Plan and conduct iterative usability testing on everything from paper prototypes to functional prototypes and interpret the results
- Design detailed composites based on all the work that’s been completed to date — your bread and butter
- Build HTML, CSS, and JavaScript representations of your designs that serve as templates engineers will use for the development phase
- Wield Flash like a pro, with mastery of animation techniques and ActionScript
- Hop in and out of the development phase to address lingering design tasks and perform more usability testing
- Mind meld with engineering as you work more and more on agile development projects
- Play a vital role in deciding the future direction of UX at Bit Group
REQUIREMENTS
We are looking for someone who has:
- 7+ years of UX design experience
- 3+ years of consulting or freelance experience
- Strong HTML and CSS skills, and a passing understanding of JavaScript
- Excellent constructive communication skills
- Some form of design-related education; a bachelor’s degree or higher is preferred
- Years of experience with the usual suspects: Office, Adobe products, Visio, etc.
- Participated in at least one agile development project
ABOUT BIT GROUP
Bit Group is a full-service technology consulting firm that helps clients make lasting and substantial improvements in their business performance. Now celebrating over 12 years in business, Bit Group has a distinguished client list of market-leading Fortune 500 and emerging businesses across North America. We have developed over 275 solutions for more than 115 companies, some of which have been working with us since our first year in business.
Working at Bit Group is much more than a job – it is an opportunity to join an entrepreneurial team with a proven track record of success. It is an opportunity to work hard, take initiative, and achieve. We are highly selective in our hiring process; we seek individuals with track records of demonstrated excellence either in their academic qualifications, professional experience, or both.
To apply: Send a PDF resume, link(s) to portfolio examples, and writing samples to bgcareers@bitgroup.com