Description

The Senior User Experience/Information Architect is responsible for planning and managing all aspects of the user experience architecture discipline throughout a project engagement. The ideal candidate will apply skills across a range of interactive media vehicles, including websites, distributed applications, mobile & tablet devices and more.

Responsibilities

• Articulating user experience concepts and principles to team members and clients.
• Documenting user needs, creating user profiles and scenarios.
• Collaborating with business, marketing, content and creative strategists to define and communicate experiential concepts that address user and business goals.
• Writing functional specifications documentation, and detailed functional annotations.
• Creating information structures through process flows, site maps and navigational models.
• Developing wireframes that illustrate the site hierarchy, page structure and information relationships of an interactive design.
• Working closely with creative and production teams to develop the product concept, interface design and content presentation.
• Ensuring product quality by applying usability techniques and testing methods at various points in the development process.
• Preferred experience with: content inventory, taxonomy, affinity diagrams & card sorting, analytics and SEO principles, conceptual sketching, prototyping (from low to high fidelity), user research, user testing, and a history of strategic thinking and recommending outside-the-box experiences.

Qualifications

• A minimum of four to five years of related information architecture experience creating interactive websites, including direct experience with the majority of tasks outlined in the list of responsibilities above.
• A college degree in Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive Design or related area, such as Graphic Design.
• Team spirit and openness to collaboration, a can-do attitude and a fanatical dedication to quality.
• Mobile & Tablet website and application experience preferred, but not required.
• Interest or experience with responsive design, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery preferred (no coding required).

To Apply

If you have these skills and are looking for a job that will challenge your creativity and intellect, then we want to meet you! Please send your resume, salary requirements and reference to an online portfolio or work samples, to creativejobs@thinkinc.com.