[IxDA Discuss] job: design director_San Diego, CA (Intuit)

[Falkenburg, Nancy]

This is a new role, with great impact across our entire suite of
TurboTax offerings:

COMPANY NAME:  		Intuit 
JOB LOCATION:  		San Diego, CA
JOB TITLE:     		Design Director
JOB DURATION:  		FTE

CONTACT INFORMATION: nancy_falkenburg at intuit.com 

JOB DESCRIPTION: 


Intuit Inc. is looking for a Design Director for its TurboTax offerings.
We want a design leader that has the vision and skills to influence the
direction of this popular brand. You need to be someone that is
passionate about design, in love with software technology, and has a
strong desire to delight customers.


- Provide a vision and design strategy for TurboTax offerings.

- Create and deliver world-class interaction and visual design for
TurboTax. 

- Drive innovation of the UI framework, common UI components and enable
new user experience scenarios.

- Collaborate across multiple disciplines including design, user
research, editorial, product management, engineering, and marketing.

- Contribute to the success of product innovation by applying best
practices, driving user-centered design processes in the business unit
and leading teams in conceptual development.

- Provide people management for members of a team that includes
designers, researchers, and editors.
 
Qualifications :       

- 7 years of industry experience as a Design Manager or Art Director at
a leading software or online company.

- Deep understanding of design principles and elements. 

- Knowledge of art direction and brand strategy. 

- Ability to produce sketches, storyboards, scenarios, design
prototypes.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe CS, Acrobat, Flash, Director,
HTML/DHTML/XML, CSS/CSSX, Ajax. 

- Knowledge of emerging technologies, and capabilities of different
platforms and browsers. 

- Proven success at building great design teams and developing
individuals.

- Degree in Interaction Design, Information Design, Industrial Design,
Graphic Design, HCI, or related field


CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Please reply to: nancy_falkenburg at intuit.com