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Usability Team Leader - Minneapolis
Jan 26 04
UGS PLM Solutions has an immediate opening for a Usability Engineer (Teamcenter Usability Team Leader) in it's Arden Hills, MN office.
Please contact deedee.demulling at ugsplm.com for further information.
Job Description:
This position is needed to support a new client development effort in the Teamcenter product suite. This person will be responsible for providing project management, mentoring and international coordination of the usability services required to support the requirements for this customer critical project. The goal is to provide services and input that will result in a positive user experience in the Teamcenter product suite. This role will be guiding and leading usability team members and coordinating the work priorities and staff assigned to the variety of client projects we are involved in. This person will be responsible for reviewing all the work produced for this client and will ensure consistency of design recommendations across projects and be actively producing design within the product as well.
This person will be able to work with product development teams that are located internationally and locally across the Software Development Life Cycle. You will be measured by your ability to prioritize projects, prepare a usability plan, execute and deliver with timeliness and with quality. You will also be measured by your effectiveness with your peers and development partners and the resulting outcome of the product’s usability. Identifying metrics and collecting those throughout the project is essential.
We follow a User Centered Design process, with UI Guidelines, UI Design Patterns and a Usability Newsletter that is published for the entire product organization. These are updated quarterly to reflect our iterative design process and user validation process. This person will be practicing user centered design activities throughout the software development lifecycle to include Analysis, Design, Testing and Training while providing guidance to other members of the Usability team. We provide services and collaborate on software designs with a variety of our product teams. Services include: user and task analysis, conceptual design, prototyping, usability testing and usability training.
Prerequisites and Essential Functions:
Activities & Responsibilities:
-Work with Product Management and Product Development to define and plan a product release -Be a project manager of the user centered design techniques to be used and deliverables to be produced over the course of the product release -Create and maintain a usability plan for assigned projects you are leading.
-Instruct others and/or provide the following:
* Gather and review user and task data from a variety of sources
* Gather and analyze customer data
* Design and prototype user interfaces for web-based and desktop software
* Develop usability test plans and conduct usability tests
* Assist in developing curriculum and teaching usability courses to various groups in the organization
* Facilitate design meetings
* Ensure user interface design consistency across all product modules
* Work with the usability, product and development teams to develop and write standards and guidelines
* Perform detailed design and assist with user interface specifications
* Collaborate with product teams to prioritize usability issues
* Champion the importance and the process of user-centered design
* Mentor your product team and usability peers in the usability design process and techniques
The Ideal Candidate will have:
-BA/BS, MA/MS or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Psychology/Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Industrial Design, Visual Design, or related field, PLUS applicable project experience.
-Three or more years of software usability experience, preferably in a web-based environment -Three or more years of experience in user interface design -Experience designing commercial software products -Excellent organizational and communication skills -UI Design and prototyping skills (HTML and Java knowledge a plus) -Knowledge of customer data gathering and analysis methods such as contextual inquiries, user profiling, task analysis, focus groups, etc.
-Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, software developers, QA staff, technical writers, and external consultants and clients -A thorough understanding of a variety of software development processes -The ability to work autonomously and collaboratively to bring projects to completion -Experience in Product Data Management, Product Lifecycle Management would be helpful, but not required
If interested, please email your resume to deedee.demulling at ugsplm.com