User Experience Designer, YouTube Job in San Bruno, California US
User Experience Designer, YouTube - San Bruno
This position is based in San Bruno, CA.
The area: User Experience
We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We're passionately interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. The User Experience team is a critical driving force behind gathering these insights and then using them to inspire and inform design. We are a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, copywriters and Web developers who collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create innovative, usable, great-looking products that people love to use.
The role: User Experience Designer
YouTube is looking for a User Experience Designer with a proven track record of outstanding conceptual design, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design skills. You will be responsible for all stages of design within a product area and must think strategically while executing with great attention to detail. You must have the ability to successfully collaborate with other designers, product managers, and engineers to develop innovative, user- friendly, best-of-breed products that adhere to and help build the YouTube brand. The ideal candidate for this position possesses a solid understanding of user-centered design principles, absolute comfort working with HTML and CSS, excellent visual design skills, great technical know-how, and proven expertise in designing for the Web.
Responsibilites:
- Help define the user model and user interface for new and existing YouTube products and features.
- Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Gauge the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.
Requirements:
- Solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field (BS or MS in Computer Science or related field a big plus).
- Experience with early stage/new product conceptualization as well as shipping of new version and/or feature enhancements of existing products.
- Proven record of designing usable web-based interfaces with technical skills around HTML and JavaScript preferred.
- Strong, clean visual design sense.
- Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
