Manager, Information Architecture recruitment

Information Architect

In a world where software and technology are pervasive and touch all aspects of how our clients discover opportunities, exchange information and transact business, the Global Markets Design and Innovation team is designing and building innovative, immersive and compelling experiences, whether on-screen, mobile or in digital spaces - experiences that need to be malleable, portable, sharable, flexible, intuitive and engaging.

The Global Markets Design and Innovation team is not just changing the experience for the end-user, but pioneering new hybrid approaches for the user researcher, designer, technologist, and business analyst to create and innovate together.

We're leading the way on how new technologies and modes of interaction, information design, visualization and interactive experiences will reshape the way we think about designing technology driven experiences. We are grounded in understanding our users context (not just the what, but also how and why) and innovating in terms of the user interface, interaction, and information design.

[If you were wondering - we sit alongside our marketing and design colleagues in Sapient Nitro - we're part of the same great design community].

Job Title:
Manager Information Architecture

Job Summary:
Have you conducted in context observations and interviews and also developed highly detailed wireframes?
Have you created innovative information designs and visualizations that helped your client see the world in different or more effective ways?
Are you a conceptual thinker and a detailed designer?
Have you designed websites or software applications or interactive spaces or mobile applications?
Are you able to excel bread and butter application UI design with and get your clients excited about innovation and richer, more compelling experiences?

You will work closely with developers and business analysts to translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into intuitive and compelling user experiences for our clients. You will play an active part in expanding the current client relationship and forging new ones.

Responsibilities:
· Lead behavioral in-context research events; analyze, synthesize, and organize research data into meaningful themes, categories, and visually compelling frameworks and behavioral models.
· Lead participatory design/user testing sessions and present findings and recommendations to cross-functional teams and senior clients.
· Identify opportunities to create business value and improve the user experience, based on user research; organize opportunities into visually compelling matrices or maps.
· Identify strategic opportunities for competitive advantage based on findings.
· Lead the assessment of existing applications for usefulness, usability, visual design, content, and branding.
· Articulate objectives to guide the development of evaluation criteria.
· Lead stakeholder interviews, including: conducting, preparing notes, and analyzing findings to understand key success factors for a project or pursuit.
· Facilitate user scenario planning sessions with both internal team and clients.
· Lead development of personas based on research findings; integrate personas with related deliverables such as opportunity maps.
· Drive the development of engaging scenarios and frameworks that describe key aspects of a proposed experience, and how it reconciles business and user needs.
· Lead the creation of visually compelling representations of the solution's high-level interaction, navigation, and organization design (i.e., concept models).
· Create (and lead the development of) interaction models, comprehensive wireframe systems, and process flows for large-scale solutions; present deliverables to senior clients.
· Estimate, plan, and lead tracks of creative work/projects in the development of a quality solution; track progress according to the plan created for the project (e.g., conduct design reviews and creative status meetings as needed).
· Manage and facilitate operational level client meetings, including workshops.
· Serve as the primary point-of-contact/facilitator for planned (regular) client meetings.
· Support creative aspects of sales pursuits, including proposal creation and orals presentations.
· Identify tools, templates, and techniques that evolve existing approaches for the larger creative community at Sapient.
· Assist and participate on internal thought leadership and innovation initiatives.