Senior Interaction Designer

Are you a high-level designer with extreme attention to detail? Have you designed for  user experience across multiple verticals?  Does working with talented team members for a great company sound enticing?

Do you enjoy collaborating with other top designers in a casual working environment? Can you put user research findings into tangible design?

Does building intuitive, informative, and data-driven user interfaces come naturally to you?

If you this describes you, FILTER has a two-month contract for a well known technology company located in Beverly Hills, and we would love to hear from you.

 SKILLS YOU’LL NEED

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

·         Must have strong background in usability patterns and style guides.

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

·         Translates usability and user research findings into tangible design.

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

·         Collaborates with product teams to develop cross-product solutions across company and possesses the ability to work well in a user-centered agile design process.

·         Contributes to a culture of innovation and teamwork.

·         Must have 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.

·         Possesses strong analytical skills, written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills.

·         Must have strong empathic skills: understands how and why an interface succeeds or fails and can spot possible 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.

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

·         Creates testable paper prototypes and high-fidelity static prototypes.

·         Works independently as well as in teams that span multiple functions and/or departments and works well under pressure.

·         Adheres to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment.

·         Engages in any software product design project and make a strong positive contribution.

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

A BIT ABOUT FILTER

FILTER is a full-service creative resources company that connects industry-leading companies with the very best creative talent throughout the West Coast. Offering both creative staffing services and interactive media design and production, FILTER helps clients to make their ideas a reality and complete their projects with more speed, flexibility and cost efficiency. The company is headquartered in Seattle and has branch offices in Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. FILTER has been serving the creative community, including top consumer brands and technology companies as well as leading design, advertising and interactive agencies, for the past two decades.

We will review your resume and portfolio and contact you if your skills and experience appear to be a good fit.

FILTER is an equal opportunity employer.