Pie Digital a VC-funded, SF-based start-up with a product/service that will revolutionize the digital home. Excellent compensation and benefits. An atmosphere of innovation with a dynamic team of talented industry veterans.
POSITION DESCRIPTION: We're looking for a passionate, quick-witted interaction designer with demonstrable professional experience in interaction, industrial/Internet/software application design to work on a wide variety of projects from consumer electronics (think iPhone, tablet PCs) to complex enterprise software (think Salesforce SaaS). RESPONSIBILITIES: - Developing UI vision delivers on our brand promise: We make home networking easy as Pie! - Comprehensive understanding of product requirements and users' goals and objectives. - Ongoing persona development - Deadline-driven multi-vendor project management - Developing system-wide information architecture and user flows across all UI touchpoints, and for all user constituencies (i.e. customer, partner, consumer) - Conceptualizing and creating UI specifications, guidelines & libraries (e.g. imagery, iconography, etc.) - Conceptualizing/managing UI look&feel to visual & nomenclature branding - Managing multiple UI vendors of various UI touchpoints/elements to a seamless UX - Rapidly, iteratively, and flexibly creating: --- Flow charts of task flows or information architecture --- Design schematics --- Comprehensive unambiguous annotated wireframes specs --- Paper and interactive prototypes - Usability test protocols and moderation. - Driving usability evaluation efforts with the goal of analyzing and translating usability evaluation outcomes into design improvements. - Working closely with UI engineering teams on the translation of wireframe specs SKILLS: - Understanding complex systems and processes-both software-based and in the real world of people and atoms. - Designing holistically to achieve a seamless system UX between various UI touch points. - Communicating with pictures, words, whiteboard markers, napkins and ballpoint pens, sticks and patches of dirt. - Working collaboratively on a strong-willed/opinioned team of experienced GUI contractors, demanding engineers and marketers, and time-challenged executives. - Empathizing and designing for the wide-ranging needs of our various end users from the "give me the latest feature" technically astute to the "clean form above complex function" aesthetes to our most important of our target audiences: "I just want it to be intuitive and easy." EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION: * BS in HCI, Human Factors, UX Design or similar discipline. BS/MS in CS or equivalent a plus. * Minimum of 5 years experience. * Product development experience in consumer-facing technologies. * Thorough understanding of technology and how to implement UI design to address technical and functional requirements of technology-challenged mass-market consumers. * Visual/graphic design a plus * Demonstrable ability in one or more of the following a plus: HTML/XHMTL, XML/XSLT, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, Flex ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
