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UX Designer (entry level), T3 - NY

Title:	UX Designer
Department:	Creative
Location:	New York, NY
Type:	Full_Time
Position #:	154391

Description:
Good design starts and ends with the user – from research and analysis through design and refinement. T3’s UX group is core to its process, connecting our clients’ business requirements to our users’ needs and desires; while leading, capturing, and translating design decisions both within the team and to the client. If all this sounds good to you, you may be who we’re looking for.

You should be passionate about paying attention – an obsessively detailed thinker with an equal aptitude for holistic concepts. You should be courageous enough to ask all the questions, and creative enough to see challenges from all angles at once; strong enough to throw crazy ideas in front of a group, and analytical enough to tear those ideas apart (if need be).


Required Experience:
We expect the UX Designer to be early in their career, but have enough experience with the tools of the trade – wireframes, user paths, site maps, and so on – that they can get to work right away. You’ll need a portfolio to illustrate what you know and how your brain works, and you’ll need to be ready to communicate how you reached your conclusions.


Compensation:
Commensurate with experience.


Additional Comments:
T3 is one of the fastest growing independent agencies in the country, with a proven record of producing smart, innovative work. Our collaborative environment inspires great work, and has attracted great minds from some of the country's leading agencies and corporations. Maybe you'll be another?

See: http://www.abso.com/jobboard/Default.aspx?JobDetail=154391&JOBBOARDID=81&SRCID=Indeed.com

 

UX Design Lead, S&P Capital IQ - NY

S&P Capital IQ, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, provides high-impact information solutions to more than 4,200 leading financial institutions, advisory firms and corporations.

User Experience Design Lead-26470

As part of the S&P Capital IQ Innovation Lab, the User Experience Lead guides a growing team of user experience professionals in a UX community of practice, helping the Innovation team create transformational experiences for the business.  The UX Lead supports the planning, developing and organizing, and testing of the overall experience of the web applications developed, and is a key interface between product development, interactive design and IT in delivering approaches that go beyond usable, to delight their target audience. The UX Lead manages on-going relationships with UX vendors supporting the team so that all deliverables provide the level of guidance and specification needed for delivery.

 

The ideal candidate can flexibly balance the information architecture requirements with testing and feedback needs in order to draft, create and then optimize and refine conceptual approaches. This position ensures user experience touch points inform the entire development lifecycle.

 

Accountabilities:

• Provide usability direction for initiatives and may lead the entire project lifecycle – leading high complexity projects and teams
• Gather/analyze business and user requirements and translates and maps into UX artifacts such as personas, site maps, wireframes, conceptual mockups, user flows
• Work with business users to determine scope and requirements for new projects or working with business users on issues/opportunities on existing applications/process.
• Identify and recommend alternative methods and technologies to meet business needs.
• Lead User Experience (UI) engagements and analyze findings, presenting detailed evaluations and metrics to project managers, teams and senior management.
• Negotiate adoption of critical usability recommendations.
• Plan, design and conduct usability evaluations of large-scale applications across multiple platforms, for business and IT teams.
• Responsible for recognizing and communicating the effects and impact a system change will have on other areas of the business, as well as customers and users of systems.
• Document usability principles, best practices, and usability-test results; review user interface design standards documentation and provide usability feedback.
• Assist in contextual inquiry, and developing market test plans, and incorporating findings in iterative cycles to enhance
• Sets direction, develops and monitors individual objectives, and leads the team or outside vendor relationship. Develops and maintains quality staff by hiring skilled personnel; developing succession plans; providing training opportunities, evaluating and managing performance, delegating responsibility; training and mentoring junior staff, and administering corporate policies.

Qualifications

 Must Have Technical Experience with Design:

• 5+ years of experience as a user experience engineer, specialist, information architect, or similar role
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or 5+ years equivalent professional experience
• Demonstrated experience creating user-centered interace solutions and the artifacts that drive them, including the following:
• User requirements, personas, task flows
• Sitemaps, wireframes, conceptual designs or mockups and other UX documentation
• Prototypes, testing plans and presentations communicating findings/strategy
• Contextual inquiry studies, usability studies and test plans
• Ability to manage detailed graphic design through UI specifications, style guides or other artifacts
• Experience leading early stage application conceptualization
• Solid track-record of setting best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as demonstrated leadership in usability principles and techniques
• Strong organizational planning and development, business judgment, design leadership, and communication/inter-personal skills

Additional Qualities:

• Experience with a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, and Dreamweaver, Balsamiq, Axure, Morae software, and other related toolsets
• Ability to prototype in HTML/CSS, JavaSccript a plus
• Experience working in a collaborative team, in Agile environment, and working directly with developers for implementation of designs

Account Management:

• Demonstrated ability to articulate usability strategy
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of usability best practices
• Demonstrates expert conceptual knowledge of systems alignments, processes, data structures - bridging this information with business workflows and requirements
• Demonstrates expert financial services knowledge of business drivers, processes and information needs

General Management:

• Excellent communication and collaborative skills, with business and technical staff
• Experience in translating and executing on a technology direction
• Superior knowledge of usability across business practices
• Superior skills in delegating tasks, building trust and support with ability to develop staff and coach others
• Comprehensive understanding of business processes and practices with superior knowledge of business systems
• Demonstrated ability to understand team skills/contribution and adopt appropriate leadership style
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of software engineering, quality assurance and implementation practices
• Ability to perform financial analysis to identify and quantify levels of risk and propose mitigating actions
• Demonstrates a creative, critical thinking approach to problem solving
• Experienced in financial forecasting and risk management

Technical Experience:

• Current knowledge of usability methodologies and best practices
• Experience managing relationships with external vendors and/or consultancies for outsourced work
• Experience establishing and enforcing process and procedures for running projects, tracking progress, and dealing with change and sign-offs
• Experience mentoring and coaching on latest methodologies and understanding of the business

See: https://mh.taleo.net/careersection/3/jobdetail.ftl?job=428008&src=JB-11420 (Source: Indeed.com)

User Experience Designer, Avepoint - NJ

AvePoint is currently seeking a creative User Experience Designer.  User Experience Designer maintains the knowledge of emerging technologies and serves as Product Development’s liaison to interdepartmental or interdivisional project initiatives. The successful candidate will design GUIs into visually compelling layouts with fluid navigation; adhere to enterprise GUI standards, and extend to business application requirements. This position also involves designing, prototyping and driving the implementation of screens for portals, or rich client interfaces. 
 
Responsibilities for the position include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate closely with a multi-disciplinary team of architects, product specialists, and development to help assess product requirements, create UI models, generate user task and interaction flows, document screen designs, and define user-interface interaction details
• Develop prototypes of designs, refining and changing them as needed, based on formal and informal usability tests
• Create flow charts of task flows and information architecture for the product features
• Establish a design pattern library to ensure consistency across the product
• Participate in the full lifecycle of product development, working with developers, testers, and product management
• Work closely with product management and marketing teams to understand the target-audience and market-place for new features
• Ensure product quality by applying usability techniques and testing methods at various points in the development process.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Design, Information Science, Human Computer Interaction, Interactive Design, Architecture, Product Design, or related field such as Graphic Design
• 3 to 5 years relevant development experience
• Strong skills  with GUI design tools (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, or other comparable HTML editors, as well as Illustrator, PowerPoint, and other tools)
• Strong understanding of programming languages and development tools (including ASP, HTML, Java Script, Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation)
• Ability to create functional prototypes of web-based applications using Microsoft technologies
• Strong ability to intelligently analyze functional needs and collaborate with development and product management staff in order to design  quality technical solutions
• Strong communication; analytical and interpersonal skills working with cross functional teams
• Familiarity with Sharepoint is a big plus
• Familiarity with usability testing methods

see: http://www.avepoint.com/about/careers-job-listings/?nl=1&jvi=owDVVfwJ,Job&jvs=Indeed&jvk=Job

 

UX Designer, Harvest - NY

Why Harvest?

• Startup culture, without startup stress. Harvest is a 6-year old, profitable startup. This means you'll experience the fun and excitement of a young, fast-growing company, but there won't be the typical crazy hours and instability of a normal startup. We’re as serious about work as we are about our lives outside of it.
• Small team, big impact. We’re a nimble, efficient and talented team of 22 people. What you will do will have a direct impact on Harvest and our customers’ lives. Your hard work will be seen, appreciated and used by thousands of your peers.
• Challenge yourself. Work with some of the smartest and most interesting people who genuinely care about their craft and demand the highest quality. Aside from the personal satisfaction of a job well done, you will be working with some of the most reputable businesses in the industry.
• Amazing work environment. Great salary, great benefits. Work out of our beautiful NYC office or from your home office. Wherever you are, Harvest will send you an awesome standing desk and a shiny new Mac of your choice.

Who You Are

• You take pride in doing great work and care about the details, big and small.
• You think critically and question everything. Before you start solving a design problem, you examine and challenge the premise and assumptions.
• You like to observe and watch how people (including yourself) interact with their surroundings. You empathize with their frustration, joy, sorrow, confusion and elation.
• You appreciate obvious, simple, quiet and invisible design solutions (over clever, loud, obnoxious, cool and trendy ones).
• You have experience with and are skilled at solving graphical user interface problems. More specifically, you have had a few years of experience designing for the web, and you enjoy solving problems for the web.
• You can follow through on a web design problem from start to finish: identify and understand the problem; conduct user research; sketch and iterate the details of design; specify the fine points and interactions of the design; work with a team to build a prototype; test and iterate; launch, collect and interpret feedback; tweak and improve the design.
• Users first. Your ego last.

A Sample of Tasks and Projects You Might Work On

If you find any of the following unfamiliar or boring, this might not be the right job for you.

• Customer research: Visit a few customers at their office. Talk to the project managers and learn about how Harvest has improved their business, and how we can do better.
• Research and design an experimental new feature: collaborate with a visual designer to tighten and revise the interface, and work with the dev team to come up with a prototype.
• Re-think, re-imagine, and re-design a brand new timesheet that is consistent across mobile, tablet and desktop, while taking advantage of each platform's strengths and weaknesses.
• Explore the differences between touch and click. Conduct a few informal user tests with our team. Think about the speed, hit area, reach and limitations of the two input methods, and how we can take that learning to our products.
• Examine our popular Chosen library and its usability issues. What are its limitations? How can it be improved? How would it work on mobile and how can we bring it to different parts of Harvest?

See: http://www.getharvest.com/careers/ux-designer (Source: Indeed.com)

 

Sr. UX Designer, Equinox - NY

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you’ll use your innate passion for user experience, proven creative talent and expert-level abilities in design, user experience, interaction design and user-centered design principles to creating authentic, insight driven experiences that engage our users and are true to the Equinox brand. Responsibilities will include information Architecture, Interaction Design, Content Strategy and User Research.

Our client is always looking for the world's finest talent to bring their drive and unique personality to our growing team! This role requires someone who is extremely user centric and who will successfully function as an advocate for the users of the systems being developed. We are looking for someone who is passionate about the latest trends in interactive experiences across a variety of mediums with a strong desire for innovation. As a part of our team you will have the opportunity to work amongst world-class talent on a wide range of unique interactive projects, which include iPhone Apps, mobile sites, social networking, web and self-service kiosks.

This is a permanent full-time position located at out NYC corporate offices near Union Square.

Responsibilities:

•       Take a leadership role in developing the IA and UX for various platforms and channels (web, iPhone, iPad, mobile, kiosk)
•        Participate in product strategy development and rapid prototyping
•       Use a persona-driven approach to developing design rationale. Articulate UX concepts and solutions through scenarios and visualizations
•        Lead user research to garner a deeper understanding of the target users' needs, tasks, and goals
•       Develop detailed interaction, visual design and wireframe specifications that incorporate all technical, editorial, and usability specifications for new products, websites, mobile apps and kiosks
•        Work closely with development teams, marketing, business operations and visual designers to translate high level business requirements into detailed user experience designs
•        Leverage the latest best practices and trends in visual design??and offer active thought leadership in User Experience issues and trends
•       Be an advocate for the end-user
•       Participate in the development of the long-term vision for our products and their user experience based on product and market trends and corporate direction
•       Insure the application of UX/UI standards and processes including user feedback and testing through design and development
•        Participate in user research and usability testing when needed or appropriate

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to lead the process of designing complex transactional interfaces, taxonomies and metadata frameworks
• Demonstrated process and ability to develop big ideas, and execute against them in a highly collaborative environment
• Demonstrated experience conducting user research and translating user research into design rationale
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• 7+ years experience as one or multiple of the following: Information Architect, Content

See: http://www.maxhire.net/cp/searchresults.aspx?jobpreviewkey=5C6D361D43515B7D56122E775116260729&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 or http://careers.equinox.com/us/new-york/creative/jobid2674362-user-experience-designer?apstr=%3Fmode%3Djob%26iis%3DIndeed%26iisn%3DIndeed.com (Source: Indeed.com)

 

Usability Analyst, Bloomberg - NY

Job Requisition Number: 34927
United States
New York - USA

The Role:

Bloomberg's User Experience group is expanding and looking for an experienced, self-motivated Usability Analyst practitioner with expertise in complex software products and business systems.

The Usability Analyst is a multi-disciplinary team player who can quickly learn our organization's needs and culture, and take responsibility for leading qualitative, usability-oriented customer research initiatives that assist our team in making critical design decisions regarding current and future Bloomberg products.

The ideal candidate is driven by the desire to be a customer advocate, and is passionate about gathering insights based on direct observation and behavior to create user experiences that are intuitive, satisfying, and easy to learn and interact with. Preference for a role focused on customer-centered qualitative usability research (vs. interaction design) is key for this candidate.

The User Experience professionals at Bloomberg form a core team that serve as a consulting resource for the highest-visibility business application and platform projects. The Usability Analyst will collaborate closely with other Usability Analysts, UX designers, product and technical managers, graphic designers, technical writers, programmers, subject matter experts, and both internal and external customers.

The person in this dedicated role will be actively hands-on with all strategic and tactical activities for planning, executing, and analyzing user research initiatives in a fast-paced environment; Can evangelize the value of user research and UX activities; And provide strategic direction, leadership, and guidance on incorporating user research methodologies into the product design and development lifecycle.

This is a very visible, customer facing role, and so it is important that the candidate has a professional, confident, and polished demeanor, is outgoing and articulate, and can easily adapt to new situations, people, and environments.
This is a unique opportunity to influence one of the most ubiquitous and influential software products in the marketplace. Although this is not a management role, this position will directly report into Bloomberg's CTO Office.

The candidate should be able to:

-Quickly synthesize business objectives and customer needs
-Develop a UX research approach, schedule, and detailed test plan for a given product scope
-Plan, recruit, script, facilitate, collect, analyze, and document usability data
-Identify and articulate potential usability issues both verbally and through documentation
-Transform the data into prioritized, actionable recommendations
-Clearly communicate usability analysis, recommendations, and potential design solutions
-Create persuasive presentations geared towards product owners, developers, visual designers, other UX team members, and c-level executives

The Usability Analyst at Bloomberg may often work in tandem with another Analyst, ormay work solo depending on scope and nature of the project. Studies will typically be conducted at our in-house Bloomberg Usability Lab, or may occasionally be conducted onsite with customers. The candidate should ideally be equally comfortable in both the role of usability evaluation facilitator as well as observer/notetaker.

This is not an interaction design role, but experience with interaction design principles, tools, and techniques is important both for communication with the internal team, and articulation of issues to stakeholders. Understanding of /experience with information architecture, wireframes, taxonomies, content strategy, prototype development, programming languages, and visual design principles is important as a foundational element.

The candidate should have a track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices and tools to solve tough design problems. Previous experience with design or research projects involving complex workflows, visualization of large datasets, operating system-level tools, and both web and software environments is a plus.

Ideally, the candidate has worked on both long-term, multi-phased research and design initiatives, as well as short-term, quick turnaround projects. Cross-vertical experience including but not limited to financial services, news and media, productivity software / applications, or products with a sizable and diverse customer base is also helpful.

Methodologies should include expertise in / experience performing:
-Usability Testing (in lab environment)
-Rapid Iterative Testing (RITE)
-Qualitative and Quantitative data analysis
-Eyetracking
-Persona Development
-Heuristic Evaluations
-A/B and Multivariate Testing
-Analytics and KPIs
-Survey Evaluation
-Card Sorting
-Ethnography/Contextual Inquiry
-Remote Usability Testing
-Other UCD methods

Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science/Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related field
- 5-10+ years of experience applying research to interactive design, prototyping, and product development for preferably high-volume B2B AND B2Cdesktop applications, rich Web-based applications, or platform-level tools
- Strong, analytical problem solving, decision-making, and leadership skills
- In-depth understanding of user-centered design principles and tools
- Familiarity performing studies in a fixed usability lab environment
- Familiarity with data-logging tools and systems such as Ovo Studios, Morae, Camtasia, or similar
- Familiarity with wireframing and prototyping tools such as Visio/OmniGraffle Flash/Flex, Blend/WPF, Director, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, etc is a plus
- Familiarity with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

See: http://jobs.bloomberg.com/job/New-York-Usability-Analyst-Job-NY/2246694/?utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed

 

Director, Information Data Architecture, McGraw-Hill/Platts - NY

Director, Information Data Architecture-27215US 

Description

Platts is the world’s leading energy information provider.  Our real-time news, pricing, analytical services and conferences help markets operate with transparency and efficiency.  With more than 600 employees in 17 offices spanning five continents, you get the best of a small company and a Fortune 500 corporation at Platts.

 

Platts is currently seeking a Director, Information Data Architecture position to be responsible for leading and oversight in the development of information architecture, and logical data design, developing, implementing and supporting logical data models. This position will act as the primary advocate of information architecture and data modelling methodologies and data processing best practices with in-depth understanding of enterprise data standards, data quality and how data is used as a strategic asset.

 

This position also provides technical design leadership to projects, with respect to data architecture design. The Director will work closely with both the business stakeholders, product owners and cross-functional IT teams and requires excellent information architecture, data design, building/supporting logical data models, communication, influencing and negotiating skills and the ability to apply these skills appropriately across all levels.

 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an enterprise information architecture for Platts business needs, through an examination of the current state situation and establishing a future state with an execution plan and road map to assist the delivery teams in delivering the information architecture strategy. Analysis of industry and market trends, standards and emerging data practices to determine potential usage and impact on Platts business. Establish a Master Reference Data Strategy and implementation roadmap
• Design, develop, and coordinate an Enterprise Metadata and taxonomy Strategy, including organizational design and required roles and responsibilities. Working with external and internal stakeholders to develop the standards, processes and procedures to align with the information architecture for the organization. Formulate the standards, processes and procedures to align the information architecture across all projects
• Review the information architecture design of key application projects to ensure alignment with the enterprise standards and target architecture/roadmap. Support various project teams in data analysis, logical and physical data models and prove guidance and mentoring to technical team. Provide leadership to create the strategy and direction for data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics for the enterprise
• Monitor and engage with regulatory bodies, compliance and emerging industry standards to determine their impact on information architecture and outline the strategy to enable or improve the outcome of the information architecture
• Oversee the creation and evolution of architecture deliverables, including services, frameworks, templates, taxonomies, tools, standards, guidelines and best practices that support the delivery of IT solutions

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience or certification
• 6+ years of hands-on database administration or information architecture experience - in both maintenance/operational and project support roles
• 3+ years experience with data environments
• Expert in supporting data analysis and development tasks in the software engineering process
• Expert in providing data consulting and communicating technology direction
• Expert in supporting data design activities, particularly bridging application interfaces to data
• Expert in 2+ business areas/practices
• Expert in conducting data design reviews and evaluating data technologies
• Expert in leading task forces for data design and development activities
• Expert in facilitating and developing logical data design (from business requirements), supporting DBA's physical design work, facilitating the development of data libraries (meta-data definitions), performing quality assurance on data aspects of systems and reports
• Experience in leading logical data architecture design for projects and for enterprise services
• Experience in developing business cases for data architecture options
• Experience at evaluating next horizon logical data design, data visualization, reporting, and data management technologies
• Experience in leading logical data architecture/technology task forces/teams
• Experience at setting data architecture direction
• Experience in translating and executing on a data, reporting, and/or database technology direction
• Experience in creating, inspiring and driving a data, database, reporting, and/or overall business systems direction
• Experience in overall information design and architecture

 

Benefits

Regular full-time employees of The McGraw-Hill Companies routinely receive the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance, Flexible spending accounts with company contribution
• 401K with company matching, long-term and annual incentives, stock purchase program
• Many work/life benefits such as low-cost emergency child- and elder-care, parental leave for birth or adoption, flexible work arrangements, volunteer opportunities, employee assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, and much more

Schedule - Full-time
Primary Location - US-NY-New York
Job Type - Systems/Technology
Organization - Platts
Corporate Brand - Platts

See: https://mh.taleo.net/careersection/3/jobdetail.ftl?job=434146&src=JB-11420 (Source: Indeed.com)

 

Integrated Technologies Librarian, Lafayette College - PA

Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Salary: Not Specified
Status:Full-time
Posted:12/17/12
Deadline:
Integrated Technologies Librarian
Lafayette College Library seeks a service-oriented and creative Integrated Technologies Librarian to maintain and extend the library’s core information systems. The successful candidate will contribute to the continuous improvement of the user experience by integrating new and existing technologies to support research, teaching and learning. S/he will maintain the library’s IIS (Innovative Interfaces’ Sierra) and associated linking and fulfillment services, both for local and external resources; be responsible for some technical and design aspects of the library’s Web presence, including UI/UX design and the use of web analytics tools; and investigate and recommend technologies to improve discovery, access, and delivery of digital resources. Qualifications include:  ALA-accredited MLS or the equivalent; ability to work collegially and communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences; deep understanding of both public and technical service environments; knowledge of current and emerging technologies in academic librarianship; ability to develop creative and innovative approaches to improving the user experience; ability to understand and convey meaningful information about technical problems to vendors and the college’s central IT unit; expertise in XHTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery. Candidates with additional programming knowledge, a history of user interface development, advanced experience administering Drupal and/or institutional repository software, or with keen interest in and strong potential for innovative digital library development work will receive special consideration. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience; excellent benefits, including college tuition support for children. The library strongly encourages and supports professional development. For consideration, please submit a resume, cover letter addressing job qualifications, and three professional references to: Neil McElroy, Dean of Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042 or via email to: [email protected]. Lafayette College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.
Email [email protected] to apply for this job.

See: http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/Integrated-Technologies-Librarian/21625.cfm (Source: Indeed.com)

UX Strategist, DIRECTV - NY

DIRECTV (NASDAQ: DTV) is one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services delivering a premium video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming and industry leading customer service to more than 30 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America. In the U.S., DIRECTV offers its 19.4 million customers access to more than 170 HD channels and Dolby-Digital® 5.1 theater-quality sound, access to exclusive sports programming such as NFL SUNDAY TICKET™, Emmy- award winning technology and higher customer satisfaction than the leading cable companies for eleven years running. DIRECTV Latin America, through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries, leads the pay-TV category in technology, programming and service, delivering an unrivaled digital television experience to more than 10.6 million customers. DIRECTV sports and entertainment properties include three Regional Sports Networks (Northwest, Rocky Mountain and Pittsburgh) as well as a 60 percent interest in Game Show Network. For the most up-to-date information on DIRECTV, please visit www.directv.com.

 

 

The Digital Media Group is responsible for end-to-end Product Development, UX/UI Design and Content Strategy across all DIRECTV digital platforms.

 

The User Experience Strategist is responsible for managing, developing, and enhancing digital Entertainment, Acquisition and Self-Care products, applications and services across all DIRECTV digital platforms, mobile, and 3^rd party devices. The UX Strategist will contribute to the development and design strategy on a variety of projects in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.  The UX Strategist will constantly strive to enhance and innovate the digital portfolio of DIRECTV.

 

Responsibilities will include:

• Support the full product development lifecycle from the point of initiation, through discovery, requirements definition, design, user research, development, launch and refinement.
• Drive a product roadmap and accompanying feature sets.
• Partner with UI/UX design teams to create strategic solutions that balance user and business objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement across digital products and services through the interpretation of user experience research.
• Executive level reporting and management of development status, issues, and escalations.
• Reach across the enterprise to build relationships and consensus that help the product and UX design effort succeed.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including Product Owners, UX/UI design teams, Content Strategists, Creative Directors, Project Managers and development teams.

Qualifications:

 

• 5 years experience in product design, user experience, and/or product management with an online technology or entertainment company.
• Ability to work in fast paced, high-tech, rapidly growing and exciting environment.
• Ability to grasp complex concepts and systems quickly, and express them in simple ways.
• Experience in developing effective and impactful deliverables including (but not limited to) requirements documents, use cases, sitemaps, content inventories, flow diagrams, taxonomy.
• Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills including the ability to provide guidance to highly technical professionals and executive management.

See: https://directv.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=202728&src=JB-10224 (Source: Indeed.com)

 

Usability Analyst, Bloomberg - NY

The Role:
Bloomberg's User Experience group is expanding and looking for an experienced, self-motivated Usability Analyst practitioner with expertise in complex software products and business systems.

The ideal candidate is driven by the desire to be a customer advocate, and is passionate about gathering insights based on direct observation and behavior to create user experiences that are intuitive, satisfying, and easy to learn and interact with. Preference for a role focused on customer-centered qualitative usability research (vs. interaction design) is key for this candidate.

The User Experience professionals at Bloomberg form a core team that serve as a consulting resource for the highest-visibility business application and platform projects. The Usability Analyst will collaborate closely with other Usability Analysts, UX designers, product and technical managers, graphic designers, technical writers, programmers, subject matter experts, and both internal and external customers.

This is a very visible, customer facing role, and so it is important that the candidate has a professional, confident, and polished demeanor, is outgoing and articulate, and can easily adapt to new situations, people, and environments.

The candidate should be able to:

-Quickly synthesize business objectives and customer needs
-Develop a UX research approach, schedule, and detailed test plan for a given product scope
-Plan, recruit, script, facilitate, collect, analyze, and document usability data
-Identify and articulate potential usability issues both verbally and through documentation
-Transform the data into prioritized, actionable recommendations
-Clearly communicate usability analysis, recommendations, and potential design solutions
-Create persuasive presentations geared towards product owners, developers, visual designers, other UX team members, and c-level executives

This is not an interaction design role, but experience with interaction design principles, tools, and techniques is important both for communication with the internal team, and articulation of issues to stakeholders. Understanding of /experience with information architecture, wireframes, taxonomies, content strategy, prototype development, programming languages, and visual design principles is important as a foundational element.

The candidate should have a track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices and tools to solve tough design problems. Previous experience with design or research projects involving complex workflows, visualization of large datasets, operating system-level tools, and both web and software environments is a plus.

Ideally, the candidate has worked on both long-term, multi-phased research and design initiatives, as well as short-term, quick turnaround projects. Cross-vertical experience including but not limited to financial services, news and media, productivity software / applications, or products with a sizable and diverse customer base is also helpful.

Methodologies should include expertise in / experience performing:
-Usability Testing (in lab environment)
-Rapid Iterative Testing (RITE)
-Qualitative and Quantitative data analysis
-Eyetracking
-Persona Development
-Heuristic Evaluations
-A/B and Multivariate Testing
-Analytics and KPIs
-Survey Evaluation
-Card Sorting
-Ethnography/Contextual Inquiry
-Remote Usability Testing
-Other UCD methods

Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science/Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related field
- 5-10+ years of experience applying research to interactive design, prototyping, and product development for preferably high-volume B2B AND B2Cdesktop applications, rich Web-based applications, or platform-level tools
- Strong, analytical problem solving, decision-making, and leadership skills
- In-depth understanding of user-centered design principles and tools
- Familiarity performing studies in a fixed usability lab environment
- Familiarity with data-logging tools and systems such as Ovo Studios, Morae, Camtasia, or similar
- Familiarity with wireframing and prototyping tools such as Visio/OmniGraffle Flash/Flex, Blend/WPF, Director, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, etc is a plus
- Familiarity with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

The Company:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.

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