UX Designer Job in San Francisco 94103, California US
Talent Merchants, Inc.
About the Job
Seeking a bright, talented, creative UX Designer with passion to join our growing team the kind of people who see opportunity in the face of challenge and who excel in a fast-paced, team-centered work environment. Since company's founding in 2001, they continue to maintain a casual, diverse, friendly and supportive work culture that genuinely appreciates good ideas, values every team member and provides opportunities for advancement.
Company offer competitive salary packages and believe in rewarding those who go the extra mile. In addition to all the basic benefits (medical, company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, flexible spending accounts, and more), they offer perks way outside the norm that make up our fun and inclusive culture (paid birthday holiday, employee referral program, MUNI passes, casual dress code, employee appreciation events, and much more).
UI Architect
If you have a passion for information architecture and user experience, we offer the opportunity to work in a collaborative Customer Experience team designing and maintaining a large e-commerce sales and self-service online product website used by millions of customers.
Must be able to work in multi-disciplinary groups including technical, business and customer experience perspectives. This position will work closely with business owners, our Creative team and outside agencies.
Responsibilities:
- Translate business goals, user needs, design direction, and operational requirements into effective user experiences.
- Design user interface, interaction flow, and UI architecture of customer-facing e-commerce sites and applications.
- Collaborate with product, marketing, technology, and design teams to ensure superior user experience, usability and maximize conversion.
- Identify opportunities to improve conversions and other business and financial metrics.
- Articulate user experience issues and advocate for/incorporate usability findings, customer input, site analytics data, and other research to a user-centered design process.
- Create user scenarios, wireframes, task flows, mockups, and iterate quickly through design cycles. Develop/Support/Maintain consistency and quality UI style guides and specifications.
- Communicate design feedback, project status, timelines, conceptual ideas and design rationale to management, design partners and project teams.
- Perform competitive design research and identify media, technology and design innovations and opportunities.
- Potentially re-architect website to accommodate an expanding portfolio of products.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in UI Architecture for high-traffic websites
- 5 – 7 years of professional experience in human factors, user interaction and usability environments, and information architecture
- Extensive experience with front-end, e-commerce, customer facing UI
- In-depth knowledge of user-centered design processes, techniques and tools.
- Proficiency with appropriate design and prototyping tools, including Visio and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Flex, etc.)
- Experience driving the design review cycle with project stakeholders. Able to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience balancing multiple projects concurrently
- Degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User-Centered Design, or related field
- Some exposure to A/B testing
- Work samples or an online portfolio required for application