**Information Architect-Work on High Profile, Internationally Known Website with 50 Million Members*
at Bring IT Inc. in Washington-Seattle
We are in need of a Principle Information Architect that will be responsible for developing strategies and design specifications that will improve the performance, usability and effectiveness of this Company's customer facing interfaces. If you have the following skills, please reply with your resume for immediate consideration. Thank you for your interest!
Responsibilities:
• Define, develop, and drive adoption of the Design Pattern Library with system usability guidelines, design guidelines, and GUI prototypes in order to provide consistent and documented site architecture.
• Apply strong technical knowledge to drive deliverables of the Design Pattern Library.
• Collaborate with the product definition team on interface design and interaction. The IA is responsible for creating wireframes and will work with a creative designer to flesh out the visual/brand design.
• Clarifies the vision & mission of the site by balancing business and customer needs.
• Drives the strategy for content and functionality on the site.
• Specifies user interaction on the site by defining its organization, navigation, labeling and search systems.
• Maps out and anticipates how to accommodate site changes and growth over time.
• Partner with the Product Manager and development team to evaluate and recommend appropriate metric tracking for the user interface.
• Keep up to date on emerging technology solutions and usability research.
• Work with Product Managers to reduce the complexity of business rules and still meet the product goals.
• Responsible for IA of key customer paths. Collaborate with Product Managers on information design for those key paths. Defend technical and UX design decisions with industry best practices.
• Apply strong technical knowledge to drive deliverables of the Design Pattern Library.
• Collaborate with the product definition team on interface design and interaction. The IA is responsible for creating wireframes and will work with a creative designer to flesh out the visual/brand design.
• Clarifies the vision & mission of the site by balancing business and customer needs.
• Drives the strategy for content and functionality on the site.
• Specifies user interaction on the site by defining its organization, navigation, labeling and search systems.
• Maps out and anticipates how to accommodate site changes and growth over time.
• Partner with the Product Manager and development team to evaluate and recommend appropriate metric tracking for the user interface.
• Keep up to date on emerging technology solutions and usability research.
• Work with Product Managers to reduce the complexity of business rules and still meet the product goals.
• Responsible for IA of key customer paths. Collaborate with Product Managers on information design for those key paths. Defend technical and UX design decisions with industry best practices.
Customer Definition:
• Responsible for gathering customer requirements, analyzing/recommending experience design, and overseeing execution of those requirements.
• Determine what feedback loop is required and then incorporate the feedback into IA deliverables.
• Determine what feedback loop is required and then incorporate the feedback into IA deliverables.
Required Skills, Education & Experience:
• 5 or more years of professional experience in designing usable web-based interfaces, with mass-market consumer products and e-commerce sites.
• STRONG Knowledge of site design (HTML & CSS)
• Strong JavaScript skills a plus
• Applying modular and systematic approaches to UX design and technical implementations
• Designing navigation, interaction and nomenclature systems
• Experience with Mobile (both m.sites and applications)
• Leadership and an ability to advocate the usage of a Design Pattern Library.
• Knowledge of Open Source UI libraries (jQuery UI) would be preferred.
• STRONG Knowledge of site design (HTML & CSS)
• Strong JavaScript skills a plus
• Applying modular and systematic approaches to UX design and technical implementations
• Designing navigation, interaction and nomenclature systems
• Experience with Mobile (both m.sites and applications)
• Leadership and an ability to advocate the usage of a Design Pattern Library.
• Knowledge of Open Source UI libraries (jQuery UI) would be preferred.
Published on 01-30-2012
