Position Title: User Experience Specialist (Advanced)
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Duration: 4+ Months (Extendable)
Interview: Phone to Onsite
Start: ASAP
Max Pay Rate: DOE
User Experience (UX) Specialist to work under direction to provide in-depth understanding of user-centered design theory and practice. Able to thrive in both the big picture and fine-detail worlds, the UX Specialist will work under a lead for corporate-managed web properties and online experiences, including the intranet, external site, and related applications and tools. Candidate must be able to articulate ideas convincingly, be open to change, and be prepared to contribute to deliverables throughout aggressive timelines.
All candidates will be asked to provide a portfolio of past UX deliverables such as page schematics, site maps, user personas, page flow diagrams, usability test scripts and competitive audits.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Participate in client discovery sessions and assist in defining business requirements, discover user personas/archetype and interpret user goals/priorities
• Serve as a consultant during the detailed design phase by reviewing interaction design, copy and visual design for usability best practices
• Conduct both formal or guerilla user research
• Develop detailed site maps that will define the page hierarchy, navigation schema, taxonomy and nomenclature
• Develop wireframes, content outlines, mock ups/storyboards, interaction notes as well as paper and interactive prototypes
• Develop content and workflow maps indicating process and systems implications, navigation and content relationships
• Assist in the development of standards, methodologies and repeatable processes for delivery of UX services
• Partner with agency partners and in-house team members including Art Directors, Search Specialists, Technical Leads, Web Data Analysts, Copywriters and others on strategies for projects
Qualifications
• Minimum three years experience in a web-results-driven company (travel, e-tailer, social networking site, etc.); or at an advertising or design agency leading the creative execution of large scale web and software application user-interface design projects including e-commerce, content portals, kiosks, intranet/extranets, e-mail marketing, online advertising and web-based application design
• Process-oriented with ability to work with different user interface (UI) materials and rapid prototyping
• Thorough understanding of best practices in interaction design, web design, user interface/usability/information architecture and general web analytics
• Strong knowledge of fundamental digital marketing and search engine optimization best practices as it relates to UX design
• Extensive experience creating paper and interactive prototypes to demonstrate and evaluate designs
• Solid understanding of the latest Internet trends, business models and technologies
• Strong analytical, communications and organizational skills with an ability to thrive in a fast-paced production deadline-driven environment
• Has some experience in leading formal and informal presentations internally and externally.
• Proficient in most Microsoft Office applications as well as both Windows and Macintosh operating systems
• Mastery of Visio and contributing web technologies
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing/Advertising/Interactive Design/Graphic Design or equivalent experience.
Desired knowledge or expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• Graphical Interface Design
• Usability
• SEO – Search Engine Optimization
• Web Analytics
• HTML and CSS
• Flash a plus
• ActionScript
Software package expertise:
• Microsoft Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure RP, iRise or other similar tools
• Morae or other usability testing software
• Vignette, Interwoven, Day integration a plus
• Webtrends, Omniture, WebSideStory experience a plus
Testing - Advanced
CSS - Advanced
Drupal - Advanced
HTML - Advanced
JavaScript - Advanced
PHP - Intermediate
Graphic Design - Advanced
User Interface Design - Advanced
Additional Skills: Seeking a UX Developer to help us design and build innovative and user friendly websites. UX Developer will work with the product development team to prototype and develop the presentation tier. This role will be a hands-on role requiring expert level working with HTML, CSS and Javascript and knowledge of Drupal.
Please send in your updated resume(s) to gbhaskar@us-buxton.com. You can also reach me at (925)708-0224
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