User Experience Designer recruitment

The Company
Moody's Analytics helps capital markets and risk management professionals worldwide respond to an evolving marketplace with confidence. The company offers unique tools and best practices for measuring and managing risk through expertise and experience in credit analysis, economic research and financial risk management. By providing leading-edge software, advisory services, and research, including the proprietary analysis of Moody's Investors Service, Moody's Analytics integrates and customizes its offerings to address specific business challenges. Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $2 billion in 2010, employs approximately 4,500 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 26 countries. Further information is available at www.moodysanalytics.com.

Responsibilities

Moody's Analytics is looking for a creative, dynamic, analytical
experience designer to join its User Experience team supporting
Moodys.com. The ideal candidate should possess experience defining,
driving, and delivering best-in-class experiences for complex analytical
applications. Ability to think strategically, has experience in visual
and interaction design principals, and can coach stakeholders in
user-centered design best practices, process, and vision.

This position will play a key role in designing innovative, engaging and
effective designs that help our users easily solve complex problems.

Functional Responsibilities:

- Interpret business requirements into effective UI designs

- Deliver end-to-end user experience solutions for multiple products and
platforms, from concepts, detailed wireframes, prototypes, to visual
design comps, and detailed design specifications

- Solid understanding of software and web design principles.

- Ability to simplify and turn complex information into intuitive
graphics, charts, graphs, and other forms of data visualization

- Works with other designers to ensure user interface is consistent with
User Experience best practices and standards and Moody's brand
guidelines

- Contribute in building a user experience online style guide, pattern
library, and other design repositories

- Ability to coach and mentor stakeholders in user-centered design
process and usability best practices

Qualifications

- Degree in graphic design, interactive design or related discipline

- 4+ years experience in visual and interaction design

- Familiarity in developing user profiles, user scenarios, task flows,
and information architecture

- Excellent visual design skills, including strong understanding of
layout, color, composition and data visualization principles

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, decentralized
environment

- Ability to successfully juggle multiple projects in a compressed
timeline, with competing priorities

- Practical knowledge of design tools, including Adobe creative suite,
HTML, CSS

- Experience in working Agile environment a plus

- Experience designing for Flex applications a plus

- Experience in financial environment preferred

- Portfolio demonstrating experience producing elegant solutions for
complex applications is a must

Equal Employment Opportunity

Moody's Corporation is committed to equal opportunities and diversity
in its recruitment practices. We welcome applications from all sections
of the community and are dedicated to the fair and equal treatment of
potential and existing employees, candidates and clients regardless of
sex, marital status, ethnic origin, religion, disability, sexual
orientation, age or any other characteristic protected by law.