Senior User Experience Architect

Description

Overview:

Join our innovative Creative Lab to help create user-centric technology that is intuitive, usable, cool, and elegant. You’ll work with developers and designers to map out and deliver amazing user experiences to further evolve the Esri brand.

Our Creative Lab is a small, stealth team of designers, writers, and strategists, working closely with the Executive Creative Director. Our job is to help promote Esri’s solutions, maps, apps, and incredible geochicness around the world. We love bold ideas, big ideas, fun ideas, smart ideas, and even challenging ideas. In other words, we love ideas. Period.

Responsibilities

Create information architecture diagrams, user experience workflow diagrams, wireframes, proof-of-concepts, and interactive prototypes
Create holistic design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements
Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale, and the specifics of user centered design process
Foster collaboration and present cohesive interaction, design, and user experience approaches to a non-design audience
Ensure consistency between the various customer-facing platforms created by Esri
Work in partnership with business stakeholders, graphic designers, and developers to design end-to-end experiences using participatory and iterative design techniques
Act as a UX evangelist, ensuring others understand the value of UX activities and help develop and drive user experience strategy
Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in the web design space
Serve as a mentor for other user experience designers

Requirements:

Bachelor’s in human factors, interaction design, psychology, or a related field (master’s preferred)
Minimum of five years of related work experience in interaction design, user interface design, and user experience research
Demonstrated skill set in design, development, and research
Experience working with cross-functional teams including business development, product management, and engineering
Strong ability to create information architecture diagrams, user experience workflow diagrams, wireframes, proof-of-concepts, and interactive prototypes
Familiarity with user interface guidelines and best practices for major platforms (iOS, Android, web) and an understanding of the limitations and tradeoffs of using various development technologies and standards (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, etc.)
Ability to create pixel-level mockups and/or clickable high fidelity prototypes based on an existing style guide, using tools such as Balsamiq, Fireworks, or Photoshop
Demonstrated ability to work as part of a highly collaborative team to listen effectively, to respect others’ perspectives and contributions, and to offer and accept feedback openly
Outstanding verbal and written presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to quickly adapt the content to the audience
Organized, able to think beyond what is asked for, and able to juggle multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced, often evolving environment (even if it’s always sunny outside)

Recommended Qualifications

Experience with internationalizing websites and mobile apps
Experience working in an agile product development environment
Belief that all ideas are good (or at least worth considering)

Portfolio Submission

Please include a link to your online portfolio or samples of recent work and a link to your blog. Samples must demonstrate design skills and a mix of low fidelity and high fidelity UX deliverables.

BONUS POINTS: Tell us what inspires you—books, websites, cars, etc.

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