My first official Good Jobs posting comes from Dave Towers at Avenue A | Razorfish. I know Dave from his days running e-commerce at JCrew.com. He recently moved from NYC to LA--another East Coast transplant! (Although technically I think he's actually from the West Coast, but anyway...) Email Dave if you're interested in the job below or if you know someone who might be right for it.
Job Title: User Experience Director
Company: Avenue A | Razorfish
Description: Back in grade school, some people used to make fun of the smart kids. We hire them. We hire them because some challenges demand intellect. Some opportunities require curiosity. And some questions are so tired of being answered with the same trite cliches that they're begging for someone with brilliance and an offbeat sense of humor to wrestle with the answers.
We're Avenue A | Razorfish, the world's largest interactive agency and a division of aQuantive, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQNT). We help forward-thinking companies transform their businesses online. We're more than 1,000 creative minds in 12 U.S. cities and Europe. Each office is filled with opportunities for people who want to invent the digital future. It's a big challenge, but it's a big Internet, and there's work to be done.
Our Los Angeles office seeks a passionate, strong willed, pragmatic yet innovative leader who can see the forest, the trees, through the trees, through the forest and the little lady bug sitting on the leaf in front of your eyes. Strong research background and ability to boil up the pond (sometimes the ocean) to derive at strategies and insights that help lead to proprietary user centered experience design in the interactive and digital fields. Ability to absorb large amounts of business development, philosophy, process, methodology and be able to reorient, guide, recommend. Along with the trees and the forest comes a community of highly talented best in class individuals who need a shaman, mentor and leader to help drive vision and excellent day to day execution as needed.
Responsibilities Summary:
* Manage the Los Angeles User Experience practice including Experience Strategy, IA, Research and Insights.
* Serve as a cross-functional leader within the overall Los Angeles management team.
* Lead the UX team to deliver supeior quality work by establishing philosophies and methodologies for the practice.
* Participate in business development work.
Qualifications Summary:
* Degree in a related field, such as human-computer interaction, visual design, product design, interaction design, or technical communication
* 7+ years experience developing interactive products
* Demonstrated expertise in consumer or B2B eCommerce, software application interfaces, and/or interactive marketing - must include creating transaction-oriented interfaces
* Demonstrated experience leading and/or observing user research and usability testing and in translating results into design decisions
* Demonstrated ability to document designs in scenarios, workflows, site architectures, interaction notes, and page template/wireframe formats.
* Strong team collaboration and facilitation skills
* Proven ability to manage people
* Superior oral and written communication and presentation skills
To find out more about this job or to recommend someone for it, click here to email Dave Towers.
