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Design Research Manager, Yahoo!
Mar 17 05
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Company: Yahoo!
URL: http://www.yahoo.com
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Position Title: Design Research Manager
Duration: Full Time
Job Description:
As the No. 1 Internet brand, Yahoo! serves hundreds of millions of people worldwide. That's a whole lot of human beings making Yahoo! their destination of choice. The Sunnyvale, CA based Communications and Consumer Services User Experience Group designs many of the leading products and services for that population: including Mail, Messenger, Photos, Address Book, Personals, Mobile, set-top, and desktop applications.
Under new creative leadership, we're staffing up to take a quantum leap forward in the ways that people connect with one another on planet earth. If you're a brilliant design research manager who dreams up new interaction metaphors in your sleep, then we need your brains and skills to help make it happen. And we're prepared to compensate you well for your contributions.
- What do YOU think needs to be done to seamlessly bridge devices like cameras, mobile phones, terrestrial phones, TV, music players and computers to make end-to-end user experiences feel fluid and effortless?
- How do YOU think that various communications modalities should come together to enable dynamic shifting between synchronous and asynchronous temporal relationships?
- What services and tools do YOU imagine should be offered with unlimited storage to enable social networks to bloom more fully than ever before? And how would you employ those technologies to help people looking for a soul mate?
If you're ready for the challenge, check yourself for the following personal characteristics:
1) Armed with competitive technical know-how
2) Even keeled and comfortable in a kitchen with multiple cooks
3) Design for big picture strategic integration and don't sweat the small stuff
4) Totally sweat the small stuff and will do whatever it takes to ship with fit & finish
5) Can embrace "Life Engine" as your mantra
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will manage the User Experience & Design research team for Yahoo’s Consumer Services business unit (including Y! Mobile, Y! Living Room, and Y! Access services). In this position you will lead the design research team to spearhead a user centered design process and develop usable, useful and compelling web experiences. You are expected to foster and support a collaborative, innovative culture working closely with an interdisciplinary team of smart and fun interaction designers, visual designers, and prototypers that matrix into a functional organization of product managers, engineers, and marketing professionals.
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* Responsible for the design research across the business unit. Coordinate with product managers and design managers in determining best research strategy for given projects.
* Mentor and grow a team of senior design researchers.
* Enable both tactical focus on project execution and strategic thinking and envisioning among your team members.
* Collaborate with other research organizations within Yahoo! (market researchers and data mining analysts) in order to create comprehensive coordinated research.
* Understand the business needs, while researching the needs of the user, in order to create solutions and opportunities for the business unit.
* Synthesize research findings from other data sources (including market research and data mining) into meaningful recommendations and actionable items.
* See the big picture across individual research insights and communicate it effectively to executives.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
* Master's degree or Ph.D. in Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive or Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related area (or equivalent experience).
* At least 5 years experience in user experience research or related area, conducting ethnographic research, participatory design, heuristic evaluations, usability testing, benchmark testing, competitive evaluations, and questionnaire/survey design within a product development organization or large website.
* A minimum of 2 years management experience
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