User Interface Designer Purpose Campaigns is an international team based in New York that builds cutting-edge social and political movements. Our principals David Madden and Jeremy Heimans co-founded GetUp.org – an Australian online political movement that is now larger than all Australia’s political parties put together and www.avaaz.org/en/, the world’s largest online political community with more than 3.3 million members (a partnership with MoveOn.org).
Purpose Campaigns is currently advising advocacy groups and progressive companies around the world and is also incubating new issue-based movements. We’re a new, unusual and evolving combination of an agency and a home for political and social entrepreneurship. Most recently we’ve launched http://livestrongaction.org, a movement platform designed to raise awareness around the fight against cancer. We’re looking to expand our team. We are looking to add a full time team member. User Interface Designer: The user interface designer is responsible for generating the technical documentation to sufficiently communicate the functionality and flow of a web platform to the development and design teams. This is inclusive of generating wireframes, functionality specs, coordinating with in house and external designers, client communication to clarify goals and objectives, and interfacing with the strategy team in order to define the required toolsets. The ideal candidate will have some experience in online advocacy and with a keen interest in new ways to use technology to build large-scale, sustainable movements. Candidates must be able to show examples of how they solved complicated problems without burdening users with complexity. Specific Responsibilities: - Drive user interface designs from the initial vision, to conceptualization, through prototyping, to implementation which may include developing high level, and/or detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate the functionality and flow of the product to designers and developers. - Lead the QA phase of testing post production to ensure conformity of the final product to the generated specifications. - Provide status updates to management. - Perform other related duties as assigned. Qualifications Required: - 2 years user experience design or related field. - Proven experience designing customer facing interfaces. - Strong understanding of UI/UX and QA principles and best practices. - Must have experience creating mockups and wireframes using one of the common software packages. - Knowledge or familiarity with user research, and usability testing. - Excellent visual and oral/written communication skills. - Passion for and demonstrated knowledge of user-centered design. - Experience with the Drupal CMS Preferred Qualifications: - Degree in design or related discipline. - Graphic Design experience. Please respond to technology (at) purposecampaigns * com with a resume, up to 3 websites with commentary of how you suggested a user interface improvement that was adopted, and salary requirements. Purpose Campaigns provides full health benefits and a competitive salary. We have an office in Union Square and soon we’ll have a puppy. ________________________________________________________________ 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
