User Experience Designer

Do you have both big-picture vision and the drive to make that vision a reality? DO YOU ENJOY WORKING ON CUTTING-EDGE MOBILE, TABLET, AND WEB BASED TECHNOLOGIES? Do you love fast-paced teams shaping creative, high quality, and engaging experiences? Then we want to hear from you!

Our high-visibility client's app store team is seeking a gifted Senior UX Designer to drive user experiences for their best-selling mobile devices, not to mention new initiatives too sensitive to include here. Our ideal Senior UX Designer candidate will exhibit a strong passion for building top-notch mobile and tablet experiences based on a well-rounded set of design skills.

SPECIFICALLY, YOU WILL:

- Contribute to, develop, and iterate on concepts for web, mobile, and tablet design experiences in a fast-paced team environment
- Participate in the planning process for new features and projects
- Own the production of world-class deliverables and documents for presentation to engineers, managers, peer design teams, and senior executives
- Refine your designs, considering live customer data, market research, and usability studies
- Assist in the development and evaluation of personas, user stories, and usability studies
- Develop and contribute to wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes
- Work with a top-notch engineering team to understand and respond to their design needs

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
- At least 5 years of experience as a User Experience Designer, Interaction Designer, or similar role
- Experience with web commerce and/or mobile experiences
- Online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered mobile design solutions required for application (personal projects okay)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Skilled in visual, user-centric, and web-based design with expertise in user-centric design process and execution
- Strong customer advocate and use that to design scalable, effective UI
- Demonstrated visual design expertise; capacity for creating fun, highly usable designs and layouts, and a propensity towards simplification
- Fluency in best practices for mobile information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
- Demonstrated knowledge of Android user interface design principles
- Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for the mobile devices
- Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign, and Omnigraffle
- Ability to create world-class mockups and style guides
- Ability to quickly turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups quickly in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills