User Interface Designer
Zappos.com, powered by service, offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to do the best work of their lives in a dynamic and growing company. If you have a “can do” attitude, thrive in a fast-paced, team environment, and love shoes and the internet, then we want to hear from you! Zappos.com offers an extensive benefits package for all full time employees including medical, dental, vision, and 401k!
Position Summary:
The role of the User Interface/Usability Designer will be to develop UI design requirements, wireframes, and prototypes for website information architectures, user interfaces and user interactions.
Primary responsibilities of the UI/Usability Designer will include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Work as part of the User Experience team developing user interface specification documents, which typically include wireframes, conceptual models, interaction flow diagrams, navigation diagrams.
* Work as part of the User Experience team to develop an understanding of Zappos website users and create documents (i.e., personas) to communicate user behaviors, wants and needs.
* Gather and synthesize UI requirements and input from stakeholders and teams (including customers)
* Contribute to a UX standards guide for Zappos’ websites.
* Work with usability testing specialists to help define, plan and execute usability tests.
* Create prototypes (high and low fidelity) for use in usability testing.
The ideal candidate for this position will have:
* Experience in user interface design, user interaction design, product design or information architecture for web-based applications.
* Knowledge of UX industry standards, usability, trends in web development and ecommerce.
* Knowledge of visual/graphic design principles (note: this is not a web designer position, but an understanding of design principles as they relate to usability is important).
* High-level understanding of web site/web application functionality with a solid understanding of the relevant technologies (i.e. AJAX, CSS) and their inherent strengths and limitations relating to UX design.
* Knowledge of various research techniques to understand user requirements (i.e., card sorting, usability testing, and persona interviews).
* Minimum 2 years experience developing, delivering and documenting UI designs for web-based applications.
* Commitment to customer and to product quality - advocating for the users’ needs
* Good writing and communication skills.
* Experience with UI design tools such as PhotoShop, Illustrator, Visio, Omnigraffle, etc.
* Minimum Associates degree or equivalent work experience.
* Previous experience working with web analytics programs and using data to make informed UI design decisions is a very big plus.
* Experience developing semi-functional prototypes (i.e., HTML or Flash) is a plus.
Please be prepared to share examples of deliverables you created.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to grow their skills while contributing to an evolving UX team environment. Zappos.com is a multi-million dollar ecommerce company and its User Experience department will be growing markedly in the next year.
The right candidate will have a great opportunity for advancement and be encouraged to pursue paid learning opportunities that will directly benefit them as well as the team/company (such as UX industry conferences and seminars).
Zappos.com, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace.