[IxDA Discuss] 3 User Experience jobs in Atlanta

[Nathan]

User Experience Director

User Experience Community seeking passionate, strong willed,  
pragmatic yet innovative leader who can see the forest, the trees,  
through the trees, through the forest and the little lady bug sitting  
on the leaf in front of your eyes. Strong research background and  
ability to boil up the pond (sometimes the ocean) to derive at  
strategies and insights that help lead to proprietary user centered  
experience design in the interactive and digital fields. Director of  
User Experience skills needed: ability to absorb large amounts of  
Business Development, philosophy, process, methodology and be able to  
reorient, guide, recommend. Along with the trees and the forest comes  
a community of highly talented best in class individuals who need a  
shamen, mentor and leader to help drive vision and excellent day to  
day execution as needed.

Job Description:
Lead, set vision, and elevate the overall operations of the Central  
Region User Experience Team. Responsibilities include:

Operational Responsibilities
§       Managing the operations of the Experience Strategy, IA, User  
Research and Insights communities within the User Experience group.
§       Maintain a contractor network for Experience Strategy, IA,  
User Research, Interaction design
§       Insure overall community and Discipline team health
§       Manage overall hiring, career path management, reward and  
recognition plans
§       Manage overall firing, disciplinary plans working with ECD  
and Hr
§       50% billable


Stand for Great Work

§       Establish philosophies and methodologies for delivering User  
Centric Design solutions.
§       Insure all business development as it relates to User  
Experience needs – either hands on or through delegation
§       Advocate on projects and within solution development for  
Customer Centric audiences’ needs and other motivating factors —  
translate them into strategies and concepts for compelling  
interactions and experiences
§       Collaboratively inspire the development of scenarios,  
navigation models, and prototypes for demonstration of concepts to  
clients
§       Monitor, elevate and continue developing and documenting  
detailed information architecture and interaction designs for highly  
interactive interfaces to support marketing strategy, brand strategy,  
and desired user behaviors
§       Lead and/or participate in immersive user research, concept  
testing, and usability testing
Drive innovation, elevate quality, and establish benchmark work for  
clients

Required Skills:

§       Degree in a related field, such as human-computer  
interaction, visual design, product design, interaction design, or  
technical communication
§       7+ years experience developing interactive products
§       Demonstrated expertise in consumer or B2B eCommerce, software  
application interfaces, and/or interactive marketing – must include  
creating transaction-oriented interfaces
§       Demonstrated ability to work with templates and content  
management systems
§       Demonstrated experience leading and/or observing user  
research and usability testing and in translating results into design  
decisions
§       Demonstrated ability to document designs in scenarios,  
workflows, site architectures, interaction notes, and page template/ 
wireframe formats. Use case and functional requirements development  
preferred
§       2+ years business development experience
§       Strong user-centered design orientation
§       Strong team collaboration and facilitation skills
§       Proven ability to run a group larger than 5 people
§       Attention to detail
§       Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
§       Experience in a client services environment
§       Willingness to travel



Experience Lead

Avenue A/Razorfish has an immediate opening for an Experience Lead in  
our Atlanta office. As a member of our User Experience community, you  
would work with our strategy, creative, and technology teams to:
·       Taking a leadership role in developing transactional,  
informational, and marketing websites

·       Understanding target audiences' needs, tasks, and goals and  
translating them into creative concepts

·       Leading and/or participating in immersive user research,  
concept testing, and usability testing

·       Developing user personas and scenarios to clarify results of  
user research and focus the team’s design efforts on the needs of key  
users

·       Collaboratively developing prototypes for demonstration of  
concepts to clients

·       Developing and documenting detailed user experience  
specifications for highly interactive interfaces

Qualifications

·       Master’s degree in a related field, such as human-computer  
interaction, graphic design, or industrial design

·       5+ years experience as an information architect, interaction  
designer, or experience designer (or similar role)

·       Demonstrated ability to design complex transactional  
interfaces, taxonomies and metadata frameworks, and templates for  
content management systems

·       Demonstrated experience observing user research and  
translating user research into design decisions

·       Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills

·       Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions

·       Willingness to travel




Senior Information Architect Job Description

Avenue A | Razorfish has an immediate fulltime opening for a Sr.  
Information Architect in our Atlanta office. Information Architects  
will be responsible for developing and documenting the structure of a  
product. They will define and describe the Information relationships  
and navigation models at the product, screen, and module levels.  
Information Architects will develop approaches to the categorization  
and hierarchical structure of content or content types.

Responsibilities:
·       Employ user-centered design processes and prototype  
development to
ensure that Information is useful and usable



·       Diagram site Architectures and user interfaces using site  
maps and
wire frame schematics




·       Document display fields and business logic for content  
management
templates



·       Audit competitive sites, documenting best practices

·       Define business flows and other functional requirements

·       Develop controlled vocabularies and document relationships  
between
terms




·       Develop hierarchical classification systems or navigation or  
other
categorization needs



·       Create tagging schemes for Information access via search,  
browse,
or form filling




·       Establish approach to requirements gathering, prioritizing, and
tracking



·       Establish, document, maintain and revise functional  
specifications

·       Document all levels of prototypes through final  
specifications to
include UI behaviors, user interaction models, workflow, interaction
requirements, etc.




Qualifications:
·       7 years experience developing interactive products as an  
Information Architect, Interaction Designer, or Experience Designer

·       A degree in a related field, such as technical  
communications, human-computer interaction, library science graphic  
design, or industrial design

·       Web design experience including: HTML, the capabilities of  
Web browsers across multiple platforms, and new technologies

·       Experience with the following: Visio, Word, Illustrator,  
Photoshop, and various HTML editors.

·       2-3 years experience developing digital products, such as  
websites, CD-ROMs, or software

·       Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills

·       Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions

·       Experience observing user research and translating user  
research into design decisions



Years of Experience:    5-7 years
Level of Education:     4 year degree


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Nathan Shedroff                  WEB   www.nathan.com
Experience Strategist

22 Cleveland Street                  NET    nathan at nathan.com
San Francisco, CA 94103