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User Experience Lead

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User Experience Lead (title dependent on experience)

We are seeking a User Experience Lead who has extensive experience in all areas of user centered design, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and usability.   This person will partner with the team lead and contribute individually on specific projects.  The User Experience team will be responsible for the user experience across all products and will drive our efforts to create one easy-to-use, easy-to-learn user experience across our entire suite of applications.  

Responsibilities

• Own the user experience for all products.   Conduct research and work with customers and end users to determine the critical user experience needs for a best-of-breed Talent Management suite.  Produce designs for intuitive, reusable Web 2.0 components and user interactions across all of our products, ensuring a consistent, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use suite of applications.


• Work in tight partnership with Product Management as well as Product Engineering and Quality Control.   Manage projects from creation all the way to implementation.  Lead the effort to create standards for the Product Management and Product Engineering groups to use in the creation of new products.


• Assist in building a User Experience team that will define the user experience for all of our products. Recruit and hire experts in interaction design, information architecture and visual design, as needed.  

Position Requirements

• 5-10 years with user experience work


• Knowledge of creative process involved in creating highly usable and elegant web applications


• Experience educating others and having the ability to instill processes into the product development cycle


• Ability to work at an executive level and exhibit motivation, drive, ambition, customer focus, enthusiasm and tenacity


• Strong methodical and pragmatic problem-solver who inspires confidence and trust with internal staff and customers, with a strong sense of teamwork, active listening skills, and strong negotiation and influencing skills.


• Previous experience sourcing, hiring, developing and retaining the most talented people while empowering them to high performance.


• Advanced studies in user centered design, human factors, and/or creative design as well as a deep understanding of web technology and enterprise-class systems are considered a strong plus.

Contact information

Apply Online at TheLadders.com