| Description: | The Senior Product Designer is a HF generalist that creates next generation web based products by working with marketing, product management, and product development and ensures that a user-focused, high performance, high commitment environment is developed and maintained. Senior Product Designers drive the product design process through all phases of the product lifecycle from product/feature conceptualization through prototyping and detailed user interface/functionality design to implementation and are responsible for innovative information organization structures, interaction designs, page-level content organization, navigation, and prototypes of systems. The Senior Product Designer works as the chief user advocate on each project team. They are responsible for promoting user needs within an overall structure of deliverables that integrates the recommendations of the project team regarding user experience. They have demonstrated superior analytic skills and an ability to translate business and task requirements into workable, efficient solutions for the end-user.
Required Skills:
Must have a strong portfolio of past work assignments available.
5+ years experience in a commercial software product company.
BA/BS or advanced degree preferred in Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field or demonstrated comparable experience designing commercial software products.
Demonstrated experience with designing B2B and B2C web-based products or web sites.
In depth knowledge of User Interface Design principles, Human Factors, User-Centered Design Processes, Interaction Design guidelines, Usability Testing Methodologies, web-industry standards and trends, platform standards, software development process, and prototyping/design.
Ability to translate audience, technology and other key product requirements into effective UI design solutions.
Experience designing prototypes and writing design documents to effectively communicate functional behavior to stakeholders.
Experience influencing product development teams to implement customer-centric solutions.
Experience creating, running and analyzing user-centered test regiments and incorporating these activities and resulting data into overall UX design processes.
Proficient using graphic imaging and design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, MS Visio, MS Visual Design Studio, etc.
Knowledge of internationalization and accessibility design considerations.
Innovative, creative problem solver with an eye for detail and accuracy
Knowledge of web technologies such as application and web servers, .NET, etc.
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and initiatives
Experience performing UX within an Agile SDLC or variation thereof.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must.
Ability to work in a dynamic multidisciplinary team.
Proven team player.
Proven ability to lead by example.
Preferred working knowledge of HTML, XHTML and CSS coding |
