Senior Interaction Designer (Long-term On-site Freelance)

Senior Interaction Designer (Freelance)

Location:  MySpace, Beverly Hills

As a Senior Interaction Designer you will work closely with Product Managers, Visual Designers and Developers to build intuitive, simple and informative data-driven user interfaces. You will be part of a small team of high-impact players, charged with driving product design for key components of the MySpace User Experience by leading Interaction Design across multiple verticals throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

·         Lead Interaction Design with deliverables such as use case scenarios, task flow analysis, sitemaps, wireframes and UI element design.

·         Strong background in usability patters and style guides.

·         Act as the mediator between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility.

·         Translate usability and user research findings into tangible design.

·         Communicate design recommendations and rationale to key stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

·         Collaborate with other MySpace product teams to develop cross-product solutions across MySpace and the ability to work well in a user-centered agile design process

·         Contribute to a culture of innovation and teamwork.

Requirements:

·         At least 5 years experience as a key member of an Interaction Designer team participating in the complete product development life-cycle of successfully launched consumer and business software products

·         Strong analytical skills, written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills

·         Strong empathic skills--understands how and why an interface succeeds or fails and can spot likely problems in flow, layout, copy or presentation before they go into production

·         Values strong visual design and pays fanatical attention to the details that make the difference between a mundane and a delightful user experience

·         Able to quickly understand the constraints of a design problem, identify the tradeoffs and communicate them to decision makers and fellow designers

·         Able to create testable paper prototypes and high-fidelity static prototypes

·         Able to work independently as well as in teams that span multiple functions and/or departments and works well under pressure

·         Able to adhere to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment

·         Able to engage in any software product design project and make a strong positive contribution

·         College and/or advanced degree(s) in Interaction Design, HCI, Industrial Design, other computer-related design disciplines, Computer Science, or equivalent.