Tribal DDB are looking for a Mid-Level User Experience Architect (Permanent).
About Tribal DDB: Tribal DDB is the digital arm of DDB. You may know us from sites such as volkswagen.co.uk and guinness.com, or prominent recent campaigns such as thegtiproject.com for VW (still live) and monopolycitystreets.com for Hasbro (now ended). Over the next few months we're anticipating a series of substantial and very interesting products for our major clients across a range of channels. Job Description: User Experience Architect (Mid-Level) The UX Architect is responsible for designing, developing and documenting the structure of web sites and applications. Examples of required deliverables include site maps, user journeys, transaction flows, schematics, navigation models). In this role, you will be expected to work collaboratively with a project team and support other UX and in the execution of all user experience deliverables. An important consideration is that much of Tribal DDB’s work is on digital marketing sites, where the emphasis is as much on engaging and persuading the user as on the organization of information. This means that a creative design imagination is as important for this role as are traditional information architecture skills. Core Duties/Responsibilities: • Creating the information architecture for marketing, informational, and transactional websites and other channels • Understanding target audiences' needs, tasks, and goals and translating them into creative concepts and functional components. • Supporting the team in translating business requirements into involving interactive experiences. • Planning, facilitating and documenting immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing. • Developing user personas and scenarios to clarify results of user research and focus the team’s design efforts on the needs of key users. • Collaboratively developing prototypes for demonstration of concepts to clients. • Working alongside visual designers to develop user journeys that motivate users to engage fully with the interactive concept. • Conducting expert reviews, competitive benchmarking and market research. • Developing and documenting detailed user experience specifications for highly interactive interfaces. • Contributing to the further development of user experience design as an intellectual discipline both within Tribal DDB and in the wider professional context. Required Skills • Demonstrated ability to execute UX on complex transactional interfaces, taxonomies and metadata frameworks, and templates for content management systems. • Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative environment. • Experience with user-centred design methodologies. • Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills. • Client-facing experience within a digital agency. • Readiness on occasion to extend his/her role to encompass activities normally associated with other disciplines • Openness to contributions from other disciplines to the project’s experience design. Required Experience • Role typically requires 3+ years experience as an information architect, interaction designer, user experience architect or similar role. • Degree in a related field, such as Library Science, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Technical Communications, English, History, Anthropology, Economics. • Familiarity with Mac OS X and proficiency in a variety of diagram design tools such as OmniGraffle, Visio or equivalent. You’ll be an expert at managing relationships and you’ll need enthusiasm for and strong knowledge of all things digital. We’re after a confident communicator who is comfortable expressing their opinion but also knows how to maintain a professional attitude and do what it takes to keep our clients smiling. Tribal DDB shares a large friendly building with the rest of DDB on Bishop's Bridge Road, just north of Paddington Station. Being part of the creative industry, fun is not just part of our culture, it's also what we're paid to deliver to the user; so if you have a can-do attitude and are willing to demonstrate your initiative you can expect plenty of stimulation in a company that will really develop your career. Salary is negotiable. We're looking to fill the position as soon as possible, although we will of course wait on any notice you may have to give your current employer. If you're interested in this position, please contact Jason West <jason.w...@tribalddb.co.uk>, indicating where you saw this message. -- Tim Ostler Deputy Head of User Experience Tribal DDB London 12 Bishop's Bridge Road London W2 6AA T: 020 7258 4661 | F: 020 7258 4613 This information is given in the above email and / or attachment is provided without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied on the part of the writer or the Agency. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
