Vertafore is looking for a seasoned User Experience Designer to join our talented group. As part of the Vertafore UX team, you can expect to be involved in all aspects of the process from concept to final design, including scenarios, sketches, flows, wire frames, final production-quality mockups, creation of graphical assets, and support of usability testing. You'll bring your knowledge of best-in-class web application design to help set the standard for our next generation of industry-leading products. Interested? Please click on this link to apply: http://vertafore.hodesiq.com/job_detail.asp?JobID=1829067&user_id=
Vertafore, Inc. is a leading provider of software, services and information to the insurance industry including independent agents, brokers, MGAs, carriers and reinsurers. For more than 30 years, Vertafore has leveraged a unique industry presence to deliver meaningful solutions-powerful technology, critical information and robust insights to help organizations effectively respond to business challenges and capture new opportunities. Vertafore solutions have helped more than 15,000 customers and 200,000 end users gain a competitive advantage to accelerate their business performance. Currently, over 1,200 employees nationwide, with continued growth plans well into the future. Our corporate headquarters are in Bothell, Washington with easy access to and from the Eastside and Seattle. We offer competitive compensation and benefit packages along with 18 days PTO/10 paid holidays, free parking and company sport teams and much more. A big advocate of training, development and promoting from within, we have a vested interest in our employees. Responsibilities: * Establish and document guidelines for visual and interaction design standards * Contribute to the evolution and strategy of design policies and practices. Particularly as they apply to the implementation of standards for interaction, color, typography, artwork, brand alignment and all other visual/interactive expressions of the user experience * Help ensure consistency and best-practice design across multiple product lines * Provide design expertise in support of scrum team activities * Translate user and business requirements into viable design concepts that inspire team members and colleagues to develop the right product. * Interface with key internal client and project stakeholders to ensure the user experience reflects customer needs and consistency. * Present and sell design concepts and support design from a practical standpoint to ensure implementation of design standards. * Manage design projects effectively and efficiently while maintaining priorities, deadlines and deliverables as set by the UX Manager Required Skills: * Bachelor's degree in graphic arts, interaction design, or other design-related field with a focus on human-computer interaction * Minimum of 5 years experience designing interactive software products. * Experience designing data-centric, line-of-business productivity applications is a definite plus. Designing these for the web is even better. * Strong graphic design and typography skills with the ability to systematically define visual style guidelines for productivity applications while ensuring that the brand is communicated through the design. * Strong skills in standard user-centered design deliverables and processes such as storyboards, navigation models, site maps, wireframes, redlines, design guidelines, etc. with an excellent understanding of when to use each. * Expert level skills with standard design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Visio, PowerPoint, etc) * Experience working with user researchers developing research agendas to drive design * Working knowledge of HTML, XHTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, and AJAX. Knowledge of Silverlight is a plus. * Willingness to travel (up to 10%) is desired. * A portfolio review will be required as part of the interview process. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States to be eligible for consideration, visa sponsorship not available. Candidates with at least 18 months left on your EAD may be considered. We are only considering local candidates (Washington state) at this time. If you want to work for a company that is recognized as the industry leader in software and services to the insurance space, provides career opportunities at all levels, rewards success and provides work/life balance, come see what Vertafore has to offer! Vertafore is an equal opportunity employer. Vertafore Unleash your potential Mona Valdok Senior Recruiter 11831 North Creek Parkway N | Bothell, WA 98011 T 425 354 6234 | F 866 476 1584 vertafore.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
