UPA Job Bank: April 2012 UPA Job Bank: April 2012The Job Bank is a service of the Usability Professionals' Association, listing jobs for usablity and user experience professionals.
Posted on: 30 April 2012
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Company Overview
ConocoPhillips is an integrated energy company with interests around the world. Headquartered in Houston, the company had approximately 29,800 employees, $153 billion of assets, and $245 billion of revenues as of Dec. 31, 2011.
The company has announced plans to reposition its upstream and downstream businesses into two stand-alone, publicly traded corporations during the second quarter of 2012. Once the repositioning is complete;
ConocoPhillips’ repositioning is subject to market conditions, customary regulatory approvals, the receipt of an affirmative ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the execution of separation and intercompany agreements and final board approval.
This position will reside within the Information Technology organization of the future ConocoPhillips, the upstream company.
Description:
The Usability Analyst works closely with web application developers and other teams to develop user-centric software applications and websites, and to improve the usability of existing applications and sites. Working with users to understand their roles, goals and challenges as it pertains to the application, the Usability Analyst devises solutions while engaging with the developers to minimize the technical challenges of implementation. They would also work to improve the usability, usefulness, and desirability of internal and customer facing web sites.
Responsibilities may include:
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic/Required:
Preferred:
In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of April 25, 2012.
Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
ConocoPhillips is an equal opportunity employer
Posted on: 30 April 2012
Summary:
The Video Information Architecture and Design Manager will participate on the Video Information Architecture & Design Development team that is formulating the direction and advancing the design of the Cox video/television user experience based on research, business analysis, best practices, and scientific principles. The Cox video user experience includes interactions with on-screen program guides to access programming of interest, learn about programs, set viewing preferences, and schedule recordings in an enjoyable way that takes advantage of available technology while also looking ahead to new technologies that can improve our video capabilities.
Position Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Cox Communications, Inc. and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers. We have a tradition of encouraging a wide diversity of talents through a broad range of hiring practices. Please note those individuals submitting resumes online or by mailing a resume are not considered an applicant for employment until a signed employment application form is completed, usually at the time of interview.
For more information about Cox Communications and its subsidiaries, please visit
www.cox.com, www.coxmedia.com, www.coxbusiness.com.
Statement to ALL Third Party Agencies and Similar Organizations:
Cox Communications accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox Communications employees, or send to any Cox Communications facility. Cox Communications is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
How to Apply:
Please visit www.cox.com and conduct an advanced search for job opening 40018 in the Careers section.
Posted on: 30 April 2012
Job Type: Full Time – Regular
Job Description:
In this position, you will apply your knowledge of human performance and human factors techniques to the design and development of products offered by Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM). You will need a solid understanding of the theories, principles, and data associated with human performance capabilities and limitations (perceptual, cognitive, motor, bio-mechanical, and anthropometric) and the ability to apply this knowledge to the design, definition, evaluation, launch, and use of products across the range of CRDM products.
Specific activities include:
CRDM seeks candidates who will meet our customers’ expectations by striving without reserve for the greatest possible reliability and quality in our products, processes, and systems by being accountable, having a voice, and taking action.
Position Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
Desired/Preferred Qualifications:
PhD in one of the above disciplines
Physical Job Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, walk, talk, hear and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or components. Specific vision abilities required by this job include normal vision.
How to Apply: Visit website and apply to requisition 82147 http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_medtronic/EXTERNAL/en-us/gateway.do?functionName=viewFromLink&jobPostId=155345&localeCode=en-us
Posted on: 30 April 2012
How to apply: http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/director-user-experience-waltham-ma.jsp
Job Description:
Are you a UX leader looking to make a difference in the lives of your customers and your team? Do you believe that fun and supportive company culture is the foundation on which great things are built? We can’t claim there’s no work to be done here, but the folks on board are top drawer, with a healthy dose of playful enthusiasm. Our growing team of world-class visual designers, researchers, interaction designers and front end developers is seeking a UX Director to cajole, inspire and guide us to the next phase in our evolution.
Who we are looking for:
UX Strategy is your bread and butter. You know how to make a great first impression and put people at ease. You are an unflagging champion of intuitive, delightful user experience; a visionary thinker with a persuasive bent. Outstanding people skills allow you to align departments, teams, and teammates, encouraging collaboration and fostering tighter working relationships. This leader will have a proven track record in setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind the vision, and ultimately delivering products and services that are known for their delightful experience and ease of use.
You believe that when our customers succeed, UX succeeds. You are passionate about understanding the customer, delivering the best solution for them, and helping the 500,000 small businesses Constant Contact supports prosper and grow.
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Posted on: 20 April 2012
How to apply: http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/interaction-design-manager-waltham-ma.jsp
Job Description:
Are you a UX leader looking to make a difference in the lives of your customers and your team? Do you believe that fun and supportive company culture is the foundation on which great things are built? We can't claim there's no work to be done here, but the folks on board are top drawer, with a healthy dose of playful enthusiasm. Our growing team of world-class researchers and designers is seeking a UX manager to cajole, inspire and guide us to the next phase in our evolution.
Who we are looking for:
UX Strategy is your bread and butter. You know how to make a great first impression and put people at ease. You are an unflagging champion of intuitive, delightful user experience; a visionary thinker with a persuasive bent. Surefooted when juggling dates or navigating the product roadmap, you know how to liaise as a project manager, conducting and coordinating traffic for the team. Outstanding people skills allow you to align departments and teammates across product development, encouraging collaboration and fostering tighter working relationships.
You believe that when our customers succeed, UX succeeds. This is a "team" effort. You are passionate about understanding the customer, delivering the best solution for them, and helping the 500,000+ small businesses Constant Contact supports prosper and grow.
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Requirements:
Posted on: 20 April 2012
Canada Post is pleased to present UPA members with the opportunity to participate in an upcoming RFP for Marketing and Usability Research services. To meet our growing needs, we have opened the process to a range of research firms who can provide primary and / or secondary research, as well as specialized expertise in a number of research disciplines. In early April 2012, you can access the entire RFP through MERX at www.merx.com or by calling 1-800-964-6379.
Posted on: 20 April 2012
The Senior User Experience Analyst works both independently and in conjunction with project team members and business representatives to design and evaluate the user interface for software, web sites and web-based applications. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, flexible and self-motivated, with an ability to rapidly acquire new domain familiarity and work on a broad range of projects. S/he should be able to readily leverage the latest best practices and trends in interaction design and usability.
Main Accountabilities
Please apply to via email to pamela.keel@sunlife.com
Posted on: 20 April 2012
Human Computer Interaction Research & Usability Manager – ICDI
Marshfield Clinic is the largest private group medical practice in Wisconsin, and one of the largest in the United States. Its mission is to serve patients through high-quality, accessible healthcare, research and education. The Clinic also has an impressive track record in applied clinical informatics. Its internally-developed Electronic Health Record (EHR) is one of the oldest and most comprehensive in the country, containing coded diagnoses data back to 1960, with other coded data and digital documents back to the mid-1980s. Marshfield Clinic provides a unique environment for informatics research.
The Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation (MCRF) employs approximately 200 researchers and staff. It has research centers in clinical research, rural health and safety, epidemiology, human genetics, and biomedical informatics. The Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BIRC) was founded in 2005 and currently has over 40 scientists and staff. Research at the BIRC focuses on informatics applied to practical clinical and research problems. Current areas of focus include: Knowledge Management, Decision Support, Human Computer Interaction, Translational Informatics, Dental Informatics and Genome/Phenome studies.
Marshfield Clinic has an extensive collaborative relationship with University of Wisconsin Madison, which has designated Marshfield Clinic as an Academic Campus of UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH). Many Marshfield Clinic researchers and clinicians hold appointments at UW. The Marshfield Clinic is also a partner with UWSMPH and four other UW Madison schools in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, which is primarily funded by the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award program.
The Human Computer Interaction Research and Usability Testing Manager will be responsible for contributing to human computer interaction research and usability evaluations within the Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BIRC). The ICDI manager will work closely with researchers within Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation and cross-functionally with other Clinic staff from Information Systems and Corporate Communications to develop short and long-term usability research programs. The ICDI manager will be responsible for proposing projects, creating research plans, methods and conducting analyses of research studies and operations of the usability testing lab within BIRC. This will include collection and analysis of data from usability testing, eye tracking, interviews, focus groups, ethnographic studies, electronic surveys, time-motion studies and other data collection methods.
Requires a PhD in Psychology, Biomedical Informatics, Information Science, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Ergonomics or a related field required. At least two years of research experience in at least one domain of HCI research (including dissertation preparation) required. Experience in HCI research and usability testing, preferably in a clinical domain required. Demonstrated ability to plan and carry out research experiments and projects is required. Publication record of original research in peer-reviewed sources or proprietary research for a corporation is expected.
Apply online at www.marshfieldclinic.jobs, Reference# MC120379
Brian Nikolai
Marshfield Clinic
1000 N Oak Ave.
Marshfield WI 54449
Phone: 1-800-782-8581, ext. 93869
Marshfield Clinic is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer that values diversity. Minorities, females, individuals with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
Posted on: 20 April 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow--Biomedical Informatics
Marshfield Clinic is the largest private group medical practice in Wisconsin, and one of the largest in the United States. Its mission is to serve patients through high-quality, accessible healthcare, research and education. The Clinic also has an impressive track record in applied clinical informatics. Its internally-developed Electronic Health Record (EHR) is one of the oldest and most comprehensive in the country, containing coded diagnoses data back to 1960, with other coded data and digital documents back to the mid-1980s. Marshfield Clinic provides a unique environment for informatics research.
The Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation (MCRF) employs approximately 200 researchers and staff. It has research centers in clinical research, rural health and safety, epidemiology, human genetics, and biomedical informatics. The Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BIRC) was founded in 2005 and currently has over 40 scientists and staff. Research at the BIRC focuses on informatics applied to practical clinical and research problems. Current areas of focus include: Knowledge Management, Decision Support, Human Computer Interaction, Translational Informatics, Dental Informatics and Genome/Phenome studies.
Marshfield Clinic has an extensive collaborative relationship with University of Wisconsin Madison, which has designated Marshfield Clinic as an Academic Campus of UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH). Many Marshfield Clinic researchers and clinicians hold appointments at UW. The Marshfield Clinic is also a partner with UWSMPH and four other UW Madison schools in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, which is primarily funded by the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award program.
The Consumer Health Informatics Fellowship in Healthcare Innovation and User Experience Design is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Interactive Clinical Design Institute funded by a donation from Security Health Plan. The postdoctoral fellow will report to the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BIRC) and will be jointly mentored by the Chief User Experience Designer of Marshfield Clinic.
The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for contributing to the research activities at BIRC. The fellow will both contribute to ongoing research projects, as well as propose research projects that will be suitable for external funding.
This position is expected to: publish research results in leading peer-reviewed journals and books; collaborate and consult with other Foundation scientists and Marshfield clinician investigators; contribute expertise in the design, conduct, analysis of a wide range of research; participate in Center, Foundation, and national scientific duties, such as presentations at professional conferences, and peer review of research proposals and publications; help to maintain an effective work environment within the Center and Foundation; and promote positive relationships with the communities and patients served by Marshfield Clinic.
Possible research foci could include: Smart Phone and Mobile Healthcare Computing, Patient Portal, Consumer Informatics, Consumer Genomics, Health Literacy, Home Health Monitoring, or similar areas.
This position will have the resources of the Interactive Clinical Design Institute (ICDI) available to them including a state of the art usability and HCI testing laboratory, including: screen/audio/video recording equipment; Tobii T120 and glasses eye tracking equipment; and two observation spaces, with one space dedicated to one-on-one testing and the other as flexible and configurable space to support a variety of research studies. This is a high intensity live clinical setting where design thinking are used to understand the nature of complexity in healthcare, and to track, measure and innovate around the patient and caregiver experience. The postdoctoral fellow will be working along-side some of the brightest medical minds in the country to help them practice better, safer, more patient-centric medicine.
Apply online at www.marshfieldclinic.jobs, Reference# MC120273
Brian Nikolai
Marshfield Clinic
1000 N Oak Ave.
Marshfield WI 54449
Phone: 1-800-782-8581, ext. 93869
Marshfield Clinic is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer that values diversity. Minorities, females, individuals with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
Posted on: 11 April 2012
Description
Do you have a strong understanding of UX, UI and Human Factors practices? Do you enjoy working with a variety of projects and with business owners who are integrating UX into in-flight product development programs? Does shoulder-to-shoulder hands-on work and sharing a natural enthusiasm for UX come naturally to you? Intel's Corporate Platform Office (CPO) is seeking a qualified User Experience Integration Engineer to join the Business Solutions Services (BSS) team as an intern. The selected candidate will work closely with BSS teammates to assist business partners as they adopt UX best practices and to collaborate with business partners as the integrate UX best practices into product development.
Your experience will be essential in supporting our teams as they examine their current UX methods and practices in order to establish ones that are repeatable and scalable. Please provide examples of how your past experiences enabled key stakeholders in meeting their UX method and practices objectives.
Specific Skills
How to Apply
Apply on our website
Contract/Internship
Posted on: 08 April 2012
1201651 — Manager, Usability – Waterloo, ON
Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. Today, BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. RIM is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.
POSITION SUMMARY
The success of RIM is built on a foundation of imaginative, driven professionals working in a dynamic and rewarding environment. This environment, combined with a multi-discipline, user-centered approach towards Design has shaped our leading edge products and services.
The Manager, Usability will take the lead in further developing and managing a world class usability discipline, designed to ensure BlackBerry products and services exceed user expectations. This position will play a key role in refining design quality and the overall user experience for BlackBerry products and services by delivering product level insights early into the design process. Collaborating closely with other researchers, designers and product managers, the role will focus on delivering upon a user centered design strategy though a strong sense of design principles and exceptional user testing practices. As part of a larger, multi-discipline Design Insights team you will be expected to use insights from testing to initiate and then participate in various early concept/prototyping projects.
Full managerial responsibility over the employment relationship including recruitment, training, coaching/development/mentoring and performance feedback is an essential for this role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The successful candidate's responsibilities will include:
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
© 2012 Research In Motion Limited. All rights reserved. BlackBerry®, RIM®, Research In Motion®, SureType®, SurePress™ and related trademarks, names and logos are the property of Research In Motion Limited and are registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world.
Posted on: 08 April 2012
Job Type: Permanent Full Time
To apply, use this link:
http://www.symantec.com/about/careers/careers.jsp?areq=660BR
Job Description:
The Symantec Trust Services User Experience team is seeking a passionate, creative and analytical Interaction Design Manager to create the best user experience for our current and next generation products. In this role, you will lead a team of interaction designers to analyze, design, and user test our web-based and mobile enterprise applications. You will use your experience in user-centered design methodologies and leadership skills to deliver innovative, best-in-class solutions that will drive our next generation of products.
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Qualifications:
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