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Senior IA, Zebra People
Aug 25 05
Source: SigIA
Senior IA – London.
Working for a full service new media agency who have particular expertise with financial and Charity clients. You will be working alongside usability consultants, the Head of User Experience and digital metric consultants in the pursuit of excellent intuitive user experiences across their digital solutions.
The Senior Information Architect will be required to:
Information architecture activities
• Lead workshops and interviews with clients to extract their understanding of problems and identify objectives for their products and sites • Understand users; performing user research and usability testing; creating personas, mapping tasks and creating flows and interaction models • Analyse and model existing and potential content to create content templates for content management systems • Develop top-down information architectures, including taxonomies and site maps • Create information architecture reports, including site maps, wireframes, flow charts or use cases, functional & presentation specifications, and style guides • Demonstrate an awareness of usability and accessibility issues
Business activities
• Work on new business ideas at pitch level as well as live projects • Lead the user experience streams within projects, working directly with project managers, interface developers, technical teams and designers to create new and revise existing web sites • Communicate with project and account managers regarding the status of specific projects
The successful candidate will have the following education and experience:
• Bachelor's degree in HCI, library and information science, interaction design or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience as information architect
Specifically, the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the
following:
• In-depth knowledge of and experience of information architecture • Knowledge of and experience in usability and interaction design • Experience working with content management systems • Experience in writing information architecture reports and working with designers, producers, and software developers • The ability to think creatively; generate innovative ideas, prioritise complex tasks, and work well under pressure • Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to communicate complex processes at all levels • Excellent project management skills, showing the ability to prioritise and plan activities taking all factors such as deadlines and resource requirements into account
The senior information architect should have:
• First class interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate clearly and confidently at all levels.
• The ability to use your own initiative.
• A flexible and positive attitude.
• Ability to present compelling arguments.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to plan work effectively to meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to generate new concepts and product ideas.
Nick@zebrapeople.com
Immediate
Central London
£40-£45k
Nick Cochrane
Zebra People Ltd
020 7729 4771
www.zebrapeople.com