Job: Senior User Experience Designer

Capstrat is looking for the next great User Experience Designer. Our User Experience Designers (UXD’s) are the primary advocate for the end user during the Web development process. They work collaboratively with the entire team to produce experiences that best meet the end user’s goals. They will work most closely with the web strategists, developers, designers, producers, and end users to ensure project successes. Our UXD’s are impeccable thinkers, writers and presenters.

Responsibilities:

• User Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Developing goals of the Web product through user research, persona development, scenario building and use cases. Conducting contextual inquiry (in person observation & interviews) with target users to understand their mental models and behaviors.

• Business Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Developing requirements documentation related to how the proposed Web site will expand market opportunity, revenue and user retention. Analyzing information gained during user research and also conducting heuristic and competitive analyses.

• Information Architecture: Designing information space to achieve an intuitive structure. The Information Architecture fuses the interaction design with the interface design to create a complete blueprint of the Web site.

• Interaction Design: Developing flow and path models that describe user tasks and define how the user interacts with the Web site’s features.

• Interface Design: Designing wireframes to identify all elements users can interact with.

• Usability Testing: Conducting usability testing, analyzing the results and creating a recommendations report.

• Functional Prototyping: Developing prototypes as necessary to support the user design specifications.

Qualities we are looking for:

• Creativity & Analytical Skills: Experience will guide this person. They know the rules and how to break them elegantly. They are up to date on what this industry is doing and they participate in its thought leadership.

• Communication/Attitude: We are looking for someone who is a great communicator, with both internal team members and clients. They have to describe complex processes to people who’ve never thought about their projects with such detail.

• Presentation Skills/Independence: We are looking for a candidate who can present their ideas clearly to clients during presentations. We are also interested in someone that can self-direct under multiple deadlines.

• Writing / Proposals: Candidate must have strong writing skills and be able to properly communicate through their writing when working on proposals and reports.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years experience.

• A demonstrated understanding of User-Centered Design methodology

• Thorough understanding of web strategy, design, technology and traditional application development processes and practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Expert proficiency with MS Visio

• Working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or basic Web development tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver for simple prototyping.

At Capstrat, we believe in excellence. We hire smart, talented people who grow in an environment that’s fun, challenging, respectful and diverse. We insist on hard work, but seek to balance our work and personal lives because it is good for us and good for business. Doing well gives us a greater responsibility to do good. We believe in using our talents and abilities to serve the communities where we live and work.

If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers@capstrat.com