UPA Job Bank: October 2011 UPA Job Bank: October 2011The Job Bank is a service of the Usability Professionals' Association, listing jobs for usablity and user experience professionals.
Posted on: 28 October 2011
Description:
Working as the Director of User Experience, in our Web Publishing group, you will report directly to the VP, Online Channel Development. The Director of User Experience is responsible for the interface design and usability of Wiley’s digital businesses and applications. We seek a highly respected authority in the area of information architecture and user research to work closely with project managers, business leaders and design resources to direct the growth and development of our digital products worldwide. This role entails a mix of both project-based hands-on involvement with a more strategic oversight function.
We offer a challenging environment and the opportunity to work on sites of varying sizes and scope targeting a range of primary audiences and business models such as ecommerce shopping sites, ad supported consumer content sites, and subscription-based education and research products. Responsibilities will include:
Requirements:
Compensation & Benefits
To Apply Online: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA4/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=WILEY&cws=1&rid=2798
Posted on: 28 October 2011
Please apply directly by visiting:
https://careers-sage.icims.com/jobs/6103/job or
https://careers-sage.icims.com/jobs/6082/job
SHD, Sage’s Healthcare Division (www.sagehealth.com), is a $300M division of Sage, a multi-billion dollar FTSE 100 corporation (www.sagenorthamerica.com). Sage Healthcare offers a wide range of fully integrated practice and clinical management systems for medical practices of all sizes and specialties. We are revolutionizing the way medical practices function by streamlining workflow through automation and integration, allowing providers to focus more on patient care while being more efficient as well as compliant with federal EHR/EMR mandates.
Sage is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer for the Sage Health Care Division. This is a full-time position that will report into the Development Director and can be located in either our Alachua or Tampa office.
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Posted on: 28 October 2011
Position Overview
Vitals is looking for a UX Designer/Information Architect to lead new user interface design initiatives and champion customer experience improvements within our existing products. This role will significantly impact the experience of millions of users by optimizing their ability to use our products and services. This includes managing the process from research and conceptual design and validation testing to planning and production for assigned site areas. This is an opportunity to utilize your experience with web, mobile web and mobile app platforms to revolutionize how patients search, choose, rate, review and book an appointment with physicians and other care providers.
Job Responsibilities
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Qualifications
How to apply: Please email resume to jobs@vitals.com
Posted on: 28 October 2011
We are seeking a candidate to fill the roles of Director, Human Sciences and Senior Practitioner. You will be equally adept and comfortable with design and research, you are able to plan, execute, and analyze user research at all stages of a project, and are capable of creating information architecture diagrams, navigation maps, wireframes, and prototypes for an exciting and broad range of products, services, environments, and devices. Duties include sourcing human science resources from interaction, information architecture, visualization, and communication designers and researchers; prioritizing and scheduling tasks and assignments; managing the human sciences budget; dealing with performance and personnel issues; contributing to business development including proposal writing. You will also lead project relationships and be a practitioner/team member on multidisciplinary projects. The role includes facilitating continuous improvement of our human science process. You will spend 1/3 of your time managing and growing the discipline of human science within MAYA and 2/3s of your time as a hands-on practitioner.
Candidates should posses a Bachelors degree in human-computer interaction or a related HCI field, advanced degree a plus. 10+ years experience in user-interface design, interaction design or related, experience with consumer product design a plus. 5+ years managing teams. Expert skills in heuristic evaluation, research methods, user-interface standards, advanced interaction techniques like multi-model tools and industry guidelines.
Check us out or apply at www.maya.com/careers/
Posted on: 16 October 2011
About Us
WhaleShark Media was founded in 2007 and is the world's leading marketplace for coupons and deals. The company's websites connect consumers seeking savings with discounts from more than 100,000 top merchants, stores and retailers.
If you have visited any of WhaleShark’s many web properties, such as www.RetailMeNot.com, http://www.VoucherCodes.co.uk, www.Deals.com, www.Deals2Buy.com, www.CheapStingyBargains.com, www.CouponSeven.com and www.CouponShare.com, you’ll be familiar with what we do. WhaleShark Media’s mission is to help consumers save money and enjoy a hassle-free discount shopping experience. Our motto is “Every Deal. Every Customer. Everywhere.”
You will be joining a fast-growing start-up with more than 100 million unique visitors who shop our deals sites every year.
Our culture is smart, collaborative and motivated. Our people are passionate about driving the business from vision to implementation to delivery, with measureable results. WhaleShark Media employees are energized by their ability to work in a highly flexible environment where their decisions can have a visible and immediate impact on the company’s bottom line!
About the Role:
WhaleShark Media is looking for a passionate designer, who will play a pivotal role in defining our online user experience.
The UX Designer will work with a cross-functional team including Product, Visual Design and Engineering to create and evolve significant online products and features for WhaleShark Media. The position requires a laser-like customer focus, a data-driven approach, and nuanced understanding of the online product development process.
The ideal candidate will possess:
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Requirements:
Posted on: 16 October 2011
About Us
WhaleShark Media was founded in 2007 and is the world's leading marketplace for coupons and deals. The company's websites connect consumers seeking savings with discounts from more than 100,000 top merchants, stores and retailers.
If you have visited any of WhaleShark’s many web properties, such as www.RetailMeNot.com, http://www.VoucherCodes.co.uk, www.Deals.com, www.Deals2Buy.com, www.CheapStingyBargains.com, www.CouponSeven.com and www.CouponShare.com, you’ll be familiar with what we do. WhaleShark Media’s mission is to help consumers save money and enjoy a hassle-free discount shopping experience. Our motto is “Every Deal. Every Customer. Everywhere.”
You will be joining a fast-growing start-up with more than 100 million unique visitors who shop our deals sites every year.
Our culture is smart, collaborative and motivated. Our people are passionate about driving the business from vision to implementation to delivery, with measureable results. WhaleShark Media employees are energized by their ability to work in a highly flexible environment where their decisions can have a visible and immediate impact on the company’s bottom line!
Role:
WhaleShark Media is looking for a passionate visual designer, who will play a pivotal role in defining our online user experience, look, feel, brand identity and style.
The Visual Designer will work with a cross-functional team including Product, UX and Engineering to create and evolve the suite of RetailMeNot products and marketing initiatives. The position requires a laser-like customer focus, a passion for simple, well executed design and a solid understanding of online and mobile user experience.
The ideal candidate will possess:
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Requirements:
We offer competitive salaries, employee stock options and benefits and an opportunity to be an integral part of a company that eagerly pursues disruption in its space to continue to drive innovation and lead the competition.
If you are interested in our Visual Designer role, please visit us at www.WhaleSharkMedia.com or apply online at http://WhaleSharkMedia.com/careers.html.
Posted on: 10 October 2011
Senior User Experience (UX) Designer
Edinburgh. Up to £60K + loads of holidays and benefits
You struggle to imagine life without UCD. You count data analysts, graphic designers – even developers – among your actual ‘friends’. You can’t pass a horrible user experience without thinking how you’d make it better. (Mobile applications, we’re looking at you.)
We get it. At The Usability Lab, brilliant UX design is what we’re all about. In fact, five years after the company was founded, it’s still the only thing we do. And with clients like Tesco, Standard Life and The Co-operative on our books, we must be doing it pretty damn well.
But enough of the self-congratulation. This is a job ad after all. And while we hardly need describe the job title, you’ll want to know what we’re looking for and why you should want to join us.
You’re technically brilliant because you:
You might be perfect for this gig if you have had any of these job roles:
You’ll be good for business because you:
Even better, you’ll be a bit of a guru in one or more of:
You’ll love it here because:
If all that doesn’t have you scrambling to apply, we’re not sure what will. OK, how about a generous relocation package and 5% pension? Oh, and an office playlist that goes something like this.
Just send your CV to ux.jobs@usabilitylab.co.uk. If you do digital design too, please email us your favourite work at the same time – we’d love to see.
From outside the UK? Please feel free to apply, but we can’t help you arrange a visa.
No agencies please – we’re flying solo on this one.
Last but never least, The Usability Lab is an equal opportunities employer. May the best CV win.
The Usability Lab, 28 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 7RN.
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Posted on: 16 October 2011
CONTRACT Position
Where.
The Visual Web Designer will be part of the User Experience Design team located in downtown Ann Arbor. However, travel to the east coast to be part of the Marketing & Communications team in downtown NYC will be necessary up to 20% of the time.
What we do.
ITHAKA User Experience is responsible for delivering an exceptional online research experience to librarians, publishers, and end-users. The team comprises individuals who are passionate about design, research, marketing, and technology, and who believe that collaboration, communication, and a healthy dose of fun are the tenets of success. We are experts on user studies, wireframes, and design, as well as sharers of snacks, lovers of product development, and players of Pictionary.
What you’ll do.
Principally, the Visual Web Designer uses color, typography, and form to solve user experience challenges for the JSTOR platform. You will collaborate with partners in marketing, product management, and software development to deliver design styles, approaches, and visualizations that are innovative and user-friendly. You will consult metrics, testing, and market and user research to inform our unique design, and transition seamlessly between discussions about the role of visual design in our organization to spirited debates about the best M&M variety. (Peanut. Obviously.)
Your skills.
· You define design guidelines and see projects to their completion.
· You demonstrate in your portfolio the impeccable sensibility for color and composition of an expert-level design specialist.
· You understand the value of aesthetic restraint and simplicity, but can design in a range of styles, from modern to cartoon, button glass to flat retro.
· You manage the balance of form and function in your designs.
· You thrive in fast-paced environments, managing multiple projects and shifting priorities.
· You collaborate well with teams, but possess the initiative and professionalism to work independently.
· You welcome honest, candid feedback.
· You exhibit a user-centric design approach and think of data and testing as allies in creating the best possible member experience.
· You work with the Adobe Creative Suite, and have experience with Agile development processes.
· You work iteratively and thoughtfully in pursuit of the most user-friendly design solution.
· You recognize that true communication is equal parts listening and talking.
· You understand the intersection of commerce and design and believe that business objectives are met through meaningful user experiences.
Our organization.
ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technology to preserve the scholarly record and advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. ITHAKA provides innovative services that benefit higher education including JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R. ITHAKA is headquartered in New York, NY with offices in Ann Arbor, MI and Princeton, NJ.
Interested in joining the team?
Go to https://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=ITHAKA&cws=1&rid=110
ITHAKA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Posted on: 16 October 2011
Department: Product
Job Description:
Do you love user experience and long to work in an environment of creative and highly engaged people who understand your voodoo?
The Senior Interaction Designer will take the lead on defining solutions for new and existing product features. Working in multi-disciplinary agile development teams you will enjoy applying the right approach to realize excellent user experiences that speak to our business goals. To do this you will enjoy brainstorming, collaboration, research, sketching, wireframing, prototypes and testing design deliverables.
The Interaction Design expert will be a member of the Product Team and report to our Interaction Design Lead. The ideal candidate will have an interest in actively contributing to building the greater vision for user experience design principals and practices at Eventbrite. Applicants must be a dynamic design thinker and a passionate advocate for our customers.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Bonus Points:
Full/Part-Time: Full-time
Permanent or Contract position: Permanent
How to apply: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTVUVfwn&s=UPA_Job_Bank
Posted on: 16 October 2011
Fixmo is currently looking for a top tier UI/UX Designer (6-months contract, renewable) to advance our product user interface usability. The ideal candidate should have experience designing enterprise-grade web user interface from the ground-up, and must be passionate about pushing user experience.
About Fixmo
Founded in 2009, Fixmo Inc. is the mobile risk management (MRM) company that empowers organizations to mitigate risks around mobile deployments. Using Fixmo’s solutions including its flagship Sentinel product, enterprises and government agencies ensure the integrity, compliance and auditability of every device used by their mobile workforce. Through a technology transfer agreement, Fixmo has commercialized and further advanced powerful MRM technologies initially developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The company has offices in Washington D.C. and Toronto.
UI/UX Designer
Responsibilities:
- Develop conceptual UI models
- Create screen-level interaction design flow
- Write user interface specifications that capture proposed design in details
- Collaborate with front-and back-end developers to ensure UI best practices are in use
- Interface with Product Managers, QA, and possibly customers to ensure UI meets product requirements and experience expectation
Requirements:
- At least 3 years in designing web UI or equivalent for enterprise product
- Ability to create simple, elegant design from vague, complex design requirements
- Experience in interfacing with high-profile customers to capture usbility requirements
- Deep understanding of UI/UX design best practices
- Solid understanding of web and interactive design fundamentals
- Working knowledge of latest front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript)
- Experience in designing UI for smartphone (Android, iOS, BlackBerry) is a plus
To apply please send your resume and cover letter to greatjobs@fixmo.com with ‘UI/UX Designer’ in the subject line.
Posted on: 16 October 2011
Job Description
Shopbop is looking for an experienced professional who is interested in shaping the user experience for the global fashion customer. Our ideal candidate will possess a keen sense for creating elegant, customer-focused designs, while balancing high-level holistic reasoning with detail-oriented feature design. He or she will have the ability to interpret the needs and objectives of business iniatives and transform them into a quality user experience.
Responsibilties
Basic Qualifications
To apply (PLEASE FOLLOW SPECIFICALLY)
Posted on: 10 October 2011
*Full Time/Permanent
*Please apply directly by visiting www.mckesson.com/careers and search for the reference # 53602
McKesson is seeking an experienced User Interface Designer with applied knowledge of user-centered design to work with a team of highly skilled human factors engineers creating and modifying existing EHR (electronic health record) applications used within a clinical hospital setting. You will work collaboratively with human factors engineers, business analysts, clinical analysts, and product managers to create new products and modify existing products to meet the expanding needs of the healthcare setting.
Responsibilities will include:
*Conduct user research and communicate research results to the product team.
*Create storyboards, wireframes, or navigation models for proposed solutions.
*Create detailed UI designs or prototypes, working iteratively based on feedback from the product team and information obtained through usability testing.
*Conduct usability tests throughout the product definition process.
*Create innovative designs that evolve the user experience for hospital clinical staff.
Minimum Requirements
*10+ years in user experience design or human factors engineering
*Ability to define the information architecture and user interface design for a complex system.
*Demonstrated application of user-centered design process
*Ability to communicate design goals and details to a broad audience
*Excellent facilitation skills and attention to detail
*Ability to work with multiple product teams and a growing team of user experience designers.
Experience with the following is also required:
*User research methodology
*User interface design principles and conventions for deskop/web/mobile applications
*Microsoft Visio
*Microsoft Office products
Additional Knowledge & Skills
*Expression Suite for prototyping (desired)
*Graphic design tools or icon creation tools (desired)
*Microsoft Office products
*Requirements management tool (desired)
*Agile or Scrum development process (desired)
Education
*BS or MS, with applied experience in user-centered design
Benefits & Company Statement
We believe you should be rewarded for the important work you do. For that reason, you'll receive a competitive compensation and benefits package when you join our team.
It starts with you. That's a simple sentence but it says a lot. It reminds each one of us that what we do matters. Every single McKesson employee contributes to our mission - whatever your title, whatever your role, you act as a catalyst in a chain of events that helps millions of people all over the globe. By connecting and improving the business of healthcare, we're helping to ensure that millions of patients get the treatment they need. And by choosing a career with McKesson Provider Technologies, you'll join a team of passionate people working together to improve lives and advance healthcare.
At McKesson, we believe we can empower healthcare. And it all starts with you.
As an equal opportunity employer, McKesson Corporation unites the talents and contributions of all to advance the power of healthcare. Learn more about our opportunities at mckesson.com/careers
Posted on: 10 October 2011
MathWorks, creator of MATLAB® and Simulink®, is experiencing significant company growth based on tremendous product sales. Our growth is hastening our need to hire high performing user experience professionals to our team.
Our user experience team members are embedded with their product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle. The team is regarded as strategic business partners by their product teams as they develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products.
User Experience Team Profile
Our team has over 35 passionate user experience professionals, with over 350 combined years of experience in user research, usability testing, and design. MathWorks user experience specialists have the flexibility to engage in the full spectrum of user-centered design activities, choosing the best methods to meet their teams' needs.
Each person on our team is the UX lead on their local projects and works independently with their development teams, yet we also have a strong support network and collaborative atmosphere within our group. We have fun working together in support of MathWorks products and in a corporate culture that values the contributions of user experience team members.
Each member of our team brings unique skills and experiences to their job, and we value professionals with a range of educational backgrounds. Our team is comprised of college majors in Psychology, Irish Studies, Anthropology, Communications, Fine Arts Computer Science, Applied Math and Physics, and all of them work successfully with their engineering teams. You don’t have to be an expert in math and engineering to work successfully with engineering teams to help them do their jobs better.
Key Responsibilities:
To review job descriptions and to apply go to http://matlab.my/qBmsHn
Posted on: 10 October 2011
At Covenant Eyes, our UX Practitioners work side-by-side with web and application developers on Agile teams and collaborate with marketing personnel on a variety of projects. UX Practitioners produce designs at a variety of levels, from sitemaps, process flows, and use cases to polished user interfaces for our software and websites. In addition, practitioners engage in design reviews, heuristic evaluations, and user research such as remote and in-person usability tests. UX Practitioners also may be called upon to write text for interfaces and even assist marketing with copywriting or editing when appropriate. As part of the Agile development process, UX Practitioners also play a role in clarifying and estimating features (user stories) that the team works on.
Requirements:
Preferred Skills:
Personal Characteristics:
If you are interested in a career with Covenant Eyes send your resume and letter of interest to employment@covenanteyes.com
Posted on: 10 October 2011
Team : Marketing
Summary
The website editor for Teach For America is responsible for overall content strategy and editorial direction of www.tfanet.org, a private, password-protected resource for corps members, alumni and staff. This position oversees multiple content areas site-wide, with an emphasis on establishing and maintaining editorial standards, identifying high-value content opportunities (3rd party, internal, self-generated), partnering with key stakeholders to ensure the site's information is accurate, clear, up-to-date, and compelling, and strategically optimizing content to impact user behavior. The Website Editor will also play a role in occasional marketing initiatives to ensure site is relevant to our target audiences. This position reports to the Director, Strategic Marketing on the TFANet marketing team.
Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for the position.
About Teach For America
Teach For America is the national corps of top recent college graduates who commit to teach for at least two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting the nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.
In the 2010-2011 school year, more than 8,200 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members will be teaching in 39 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 3 million students. More than 20,000 Teach For America alumni are working in education and many other fields, where they continue to advocate for students and families in low-income communities. While only one in six corps members say they were interested in the teaching profession before joining Teach For America, nearly two-thirds of our alumni remain in the field of education.
Teach For America's culture and work is grounded in and guided by a deep commitment to pursuing true transformational change for students growing up in low-income communities. It is a leadership development organization - committed to fostering staff members, corps members and alumni who establish a clear and bold vision for the future, set measurable and ambitious goals, work purposefully and strategically to achieve that vision, always operate with a deep sense of possibility and with perseverance, and define broadly what is within its control to solve. It is an organization committed to its people, to diversity and inclusion, and to operating with respect and humility toward the other important people and organizations working to advance the cause of educational excellence for all children.
We are a high-growth, outcomes-oriented organization, with a $220 million budget and over 1,500 staff. In 2011, we were named a Fortune 100 Best Company to Work For. We operate in an entrepreneurial environment, maintain focus on quantitative measures, and are committed to continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Content strategy and editorial oversight (project and content management) - 45 %
Writing and editing - 30 %
Process definition and refinement - 15%
Management - 10%
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Benefits and Salary
Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.
Anti-Discrimination Policy and Commitment to Diversity
Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort.
Application Requirements and Process
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please submit your resume and one-page cover letter with your application.
To link directly to this job listing, please use the following address http://teachforamerica.taleo.net/careersection/01/jobdetail.ftl?&job=11501
Posted on: 6 October 2011
We are looking for an exceptionally talented Mobile UX Designer with extensive mobile platform experience working with large consumer brands. Working closely with our Mobile Product team, you will be responsible for designing our next generation of mobile websites & apps across multiple platforms. Reporting to the VP of User Experience, you will be personally responsible for creating highly usable and intuitive interfaces and engaging mobile experiences.
- Conceptualize and create intuitive, engaging, and brand-consistent mobile experiences for meebo, optimizing features and functionality to take full advantage of the various platforms we support. This includes mobile and desktop platforms.
- Participate and collaborate in concept development and design ideation with business managers, product managers, and the design team to help define a mobile creative strategy.
- Communicate and "sell" your design solutions to senior management and teammates, including engineers, product managers, partners, etc.
- Provide design thought leadership to the company and work with Engineering to push the boundaries of what's possible on mobile devices.
- Good natured, flexible, leave-your-ego-at-the-door approach to design for the web and mobile devices.
- 5+ years experience in mobile web and app design, preferably on large, content-rich consumer websites.
- Knowledge of Mobile and Desktop Web Usability best practices and be able to call research as needed and communicate how findings need to be translated into actionable design tasks.
- Ability to move quickly, juggle multiple projects, good time management skills and a "go-get 'em" attitude.
- Rock solid skills in Visual Design, with an eye for typography, palette development, intuitive layout, and a pixel-level attention to detail. You must have a deep appreciation for clean, simple, usable interfaces.
- Working knowledge of Interaction Design principles and best practices.
- Experience with Native app design: experience with fully native apps on iPhone and ideally on multiple platforms, especially Android.
- Experience with Native app controls: how standard controls (like the tab bar on iPhone) work, and what the constraints are. (also related: familiarity with Apple UX guidelines)
- Experience with cross-platform interoperability & graceful degradation.
- Experience with international audiences a plus.
- Experience with holistic thinking around overall usability and design approach to member and community features.
- Bachelor's degree required in design-related discipline: HCI, Graphic Design or Industrial Design.
**Please submit your resume and online portfolio.**
How to Apply:http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/lmuxd/
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