Location: Providence, RI
URL: www.exnihilo.com
Job description
The primary objective of this role is to create the best possible user experience for websites, internet-based applications and interactive modules. The successful candidate will be able to consistently create well-balanced strategic visions and possess the tactical knowledge and skill required to assist and lead others in their team to implement their ideas.
Responsibilities:
- Devising solutions that balance user goals and business goals while fitting within the constraints of brand, time, budget, and technology
- Innovating ways to solve challenging business and user experience problems
- Developing user, functional and business specifications
- Conceptualize and designing robust, yet easy-to-use interfaces
- Creating optimal information architectures, scalable taxonomies and flexible metadata tagging systems
- Specifying UX blueprints that provide the foundation for proposed solutions
- Utilizing UCD best practices such as personas, use case scenarios, user models, web analytics, process and work flows, wireframes, design prototypes, interaction models, and functional design specifications
- Planning, coordinating and conducting user research, participatory design and usability testing sessions
- Effectively synthesize and communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed designs, and design rationales
- Staying abreast of emerging trends and technologies
- Participating in communities of practice, sharing knowledge and collaborating with peers
- Working with an interdisciplinary team that includes designers, project managers, software architects, client partners, marketing professionals, and technical leadership.
- Directing team members on all aspects of UX design implementation
Experience/Skill Requirements
- 5+ years in-depth experience with the following skills: information architecture and user-centered design processes, techniques, and tools; writing; interactive design; interface design; and usability
- Ability to clearly articulate the techniques and approaches you have used in the past
- Familiar with analyzing and modeling user workflows, and incorporating that information into application design
- Knowledge of the opportunities and limitations of web based application development, while staying abreast of shifts in industry standards and customer expectations
- Strong knowledge of XHTML, and the capabilities of Web browsers across multiple platforms and technologies
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to almost any situation
- Customer focused with strong communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of SEO and SEM
- Understanding of content management systems and their capabilities is also a plus
Job qualifications
- Five to seven years of user interface design experience.
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience
- Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to websites and web-based applications.
- Proficiency with Visio and Dreamweaver
- Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and Flash.
- Experience with web 2.0 and rich Internet concepts and delivery methodologies
Summary
- Expertise: User Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree
- Job Type: Permanent
- Locale: Providence, RI
- Job Level: 5-7 Years Experience
- Percent Travel: 15%
- Start Date: Immediately
Please note: You must work on premises in our Providence, RI office. No sponsorship available.
To apply: Along with your resume please send a cover letter and a link to your portfolio or a few samples of your work. to jobs@exnihilo.com