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Sr. User Experience Designer, IntraLinks
Aug 16 05
Location: Midtown, New York, NY
We are looking for someone to join our growing Product Design group as a sr. user experience designer. Responsibilities include producing innovative, visually appealing human interface designs; creating design prototypes; working with developers to make designs a reality. We need someone who can work independently, engage team members, communicate ideas, create prototypes, and finally work with team members throughout the release cycle of the product. This position reports to the Principal Designer.
Day-to-Day Activities:
- Generate designs based on common sets of HCI, graphic design, interface design and other relevant theories
- Create prototypes at different levels of fidelity: paper, wireframe, interactive HTML, and Flash
- Present ideas and concepts to x-functional teams and incorporate feedback accordingly
- Create visual elements such as icons, borders, custom widgets, window treatments, and graphical layouts
- Collaborate with Product Design team to develop concepts of key additions and edits for the product
- Communicate designs to business specialists and marketing team members for validation and buy-in.
- Communicate designs to development and provide definition and direction during implementation
- Communicate designs to quality control and provide clarifications during the testing phase
- Work with Principal Designer and Product Design team to evolve internal design process and standards.
- This job requires 10% travel
Qualifications & Requirements:
- 4-5 years experience in application interaction design (UI Design, Product Design); solid experience with both web applications (not web sites) and desktop applications
- Education in design, HCI, usability or ability to display formal understanding of design and HCI theory and practice
- Understand in-house product design lifecycle
- Good communication skills: written and verbal
- Knowledge of browser-based and desktop technologies (HTML, Java, Flash, .NET)
- Prototyping skills using DHTML, Dream Weaver, Flash, or similar
- Experience with developing and running usability testing
- Experience with field research (goal-directed method by Cooper is preferred).
- Should demonstrate ability to use design processes for problem definition and solution creation while working individually and with a group
- Ability to create graphical elements: icons, widgets, windowing and boarders, data layout
Please submit your resume with a portfolio web site via http://tinyurl.com/e27cf Candidates are strongly encouraged to have an online portfolio for best consideration.
This position is located in New York, NY. Please have proper permits to work in the United States. IntraLinks, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
About IntraLinks, Inc.
IntraLinks (http://www.intralinks.com), the leading provider of digital workspaces, connects business communities and accelerates the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime using a web browser.
Since April 1997, more than 150,000 participants representing over 13,000 companies worldwide have used IntraLinks digital workspaces to communicate and collaborate on more than 20,000 projects and transactions. IntraLinks has been rapidly adopted by the financial services and pharmaceutical markets. Over 250 global companies are IntraLinks clients, including AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Bank One, Bear Stearns, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Ernst & Young, FDIC, JPMorgan Chase, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB. Founded in June 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston and London.