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Full-time

(Los Angeles, CA)

Shopzilla is looking for a talented Interactive User Experience Director to work with its Product Management & Marketing groups on our principle consumer facing properties (Shopzilla.com, Bizrate.com and Beso.com). The ideal candidate will lead a design department, and work closely with the Editor-in-Chief, VP of Marketing and Product Managers across all platforms to help execute the creative strategy with the goal of conceiving and designing new interaction patterns on our websites, and improving on-site user experience and touchpoints. While we care about how our sites look, we have a team of talented designers tackling some of those issues: This person would weigh in on that, but primarily be fixated on how the sites work and function, and how better to enable users to navigate through the experiences.

What kind of interactive designer are you?

You are a UX professional that loves to innovate on a large scale. You are excited to introduce new user interaction strategies, while striving for simplicity and design elegance. You love products that don’t force you to think too hard, and you love creating the “a-ha” moment. You are obsessed with human psychology and the patterns of human behavior, and want to create products that cater to intuitive actions—both those in place now, and those to come. You can tell us what we’ll want, and how we’ll want to use it, before it exists.You are perfect for the position because you get just as amped designing site functionality, features and landing pages as you do creating the next email campaign that will drive trial and adoption. You believe a widget can be just as impactful to your brand as a home page layout.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years experience in user interface and interaction design.
• 2+ years experience designing analytic tools
• A passion for solving complicated interaction problems in the easiest, most streamlined manner possible.
• Experience with web design and multimedia applications. Working knowledge required of Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML.
• Ability to quickly produce multiple visual concepts and working interactive prototypes using basic HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to keep abreast of innovative design trends and their capabilities.
• Need to thrive in a highly collaborative, fast-paced, agile environment that focuses on the user experience above the bottom line.
• Ability to communicate ideas to stakeholders, and get buy-in from all teams, including product managers and engineers.
• Candidate should have a strong portfolio of work that showcases their broad range of interactive and graphic design skills.
•  Bachelor's or higher degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design or related field or equivalent experience required, Master's preferred.

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Full-time

(New York)

Qualifications: Minimum 7 years working in design field. Minimum 7 years working with digital media. Expert in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Bachelors degree of Science or Arts. Understanding of standard multimedia formats a plus. Problem solving skills, Communication skills, Creative, Personable.

Duties: The UI/UX designer is responsible for design through the full lifecycle of new digital products, including initial exploration, concepts, mockups, wireframes, detailed designs and final deliverables. They ensure that best UI/UX practices are utilized for optimized user-oriented workflows. Duties include and are not limited to: Initial exploration, concepts, wireframes and mockups for new digital products across platforms and devices. Creation of detailed designs and specs for digital products. Preparation and production of final deliverables for development. Overseeing development process to meet specs. Product design and integration of social components and interactive elements. Conceptualization and implementation of new Sales and Business Development initiatives.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers.

To apply please go to: www.turnerjobs.com and reference job# 128422BR

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Full-time

(Anywhere / San Francisco / New York)

We are a new viral campaign and media organization that was responsible for the largest online protest in history (1/18/12). We create dynamic, interesting, effective campaigns and media to spread new ideas about art, culture, and tech to millions of people around the world. We primarily work on high value, fearless projects and design is often an important part of our work (see americancensorship.org, sopastrike.com, freebieber.org, and fightforthefuture.org/pipa, getyourcensoron.com).

We are currently hiring for a full-time User Experience designer to join our organization and development process. We're looking for a generalist with very sharp skills in visual design and user experience and can move skillfully from wireframes to visual design to usability tests and ideally, HTML and CSS coding. We hope to work with a designer who is agile, has a diverse range of skills, and is a master at pulling together the perfect design for each of our project -- we're looking for someone truly talented who is passionate about great user interfaces with A-plus usability and polish.

You will be working closely with the leaders of the organization, and if you're a thinker and strategist you can play an important role in defining our work.

We need someone who can:

* Understand the goals of a project holistically and manage discrete tasks

* Make sane, classy design decisions on the fly

* Visual design for the web (for applications and websites, not just brochureware)

* Typography and app icons

* Optimize UI and UX for the goal at hand, sometimes quickly and using software like Optimizely

* Develop new, original visual direction for a wide-range of topics and audiences

* Deal with deadlines by proposing shortcuts and simplifications

Optimally:

* Do fast, high-quality XHTML/CSS work from mockups and PSDs

* Have illustration and print skills

* Bonus: knowledge of a modern web development framework like Rails or Django

* Experience designing a successful consumer-facing web product or site with millions of users.

This would be a great job for somebody who can tackle a heterogeneous mix of projects and enjoys the variety, and for any front-end dev who wants to use their skills to make millions of people happy by standing up for what’s right.

All of the work you do will have a direct impact on making the world better:

* Your UX work will help people band together to exert their power

* Your speed making XHTML/CSS will mean rapid responses whenever the other side stumbles, or overreaches

You’ll go home satisfied :)

LOCATION

The team will be 100% remote-—no need to commute or relocate.

COMPENSATION

Competitive, market rate, commensurate w/ experience. Benefits.

If you’re interested, send links to work you’ve done to tycheng@gmail.com. Include as much relevant information as possible: significant things you’ve done, projects you’ve worked on. Being well-rounded is a plus, so don’t exclude significant skills or achievements just because they aren’t design-related (e.g. starting a business, being an activist, etc).

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Full-time

(New York, NY)

About Us

GroupMe is a group messaging app that helps millions of people around the world stay connected.

Since we launched less than two years ago, we've processed billions of messages, grown the company to 25 people, won the Breakout award at SXSW, and been acquired. Now, as a part of the Skype division at Microsoft, our goal is to be the daily communications provider for *billions* of people.

Even though we're part of a huge company, we have a great deal of autonomy, and continue to operate like an independent startup that works hard and iterates quickly. We work in a sunlight-filled loft near Union Square with hardwood floors, a ping pong table, and a pinball machine. We sing karaoke across the street sometimes. Basically, we love our jobs and have a lot of fun doing them.

The Job

Your primary responsibility will be collaborating with designers and engineers in order to develop product ideas from early wireframes and sketches to pixel-perfect final designs.

Requirements

• An online portfolio that contains work that is beautiful and usable, demonstrating a love for tight detailing and impeccable typography. Ideally, it should show off your work in a range of platforms (web, mobile, tablet, print) and applications (sites, apps, branding, marketing).

Nice To Haves

• Coding experience
• Illustration, video, motion graphics skills
• Experience conducting usability tests
• A passion for photoshopping your coworkers' faces onto other people's bodies

Compensation

• Excellent salary
• Comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 401k
• Stock and bonus potential

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Freelance

(Anywhere)

At Auxiliary Design Co., we build digital experiences that pull their weight. Whether it's a website, an app, or something awesomely top-secret, our clients rely on us to get them there. We're their behind-the-scenes reserve of strategic vision and design skill, paired with a healthy dose of good old-fashioned elbow grease when it counts.

The Job

We're looking for a talented UI designer who believes that our work should be better than what was asked of us. Someone who lives and breathes the web, and believes that knowing how to write code is essential to being a great designer.

We're looking for a freelancer interested dedicating part of their schedule to help us build beautiful things. We're expecting it will be about 10-20 hours a week initially. This is a job that could turn into a full-time position down the road for the right person, so we're really looking to make sure we find someone who is a great fit.

You Should Have

• 1-2 years of real-world experience
• A portfolio of digital UI design that showcases both traditional and mobile work
• A mastery of Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator & Photoshop
• Ability to work remotely with a small collaborative team
• Amazing time-management skills
• Ability to articulate design decisions clearly
• a working knowledge of HTML5 & CSS3

You Can Be

Located anywhere, as long as you're available to meet via Skype a few times throughout the week.

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Full-time

(Portland, OR)

Subtext, a Portland, OR based UX design group, is looking for a strong UI/IxD Designer to join our creative team.

Our focus is to build a talented team capable of concepting, prototyping and implementing extremely usable and beautiful interfaces for a variety of web, mobile and touch platforms. As a team, we build strong, lasting relationships with our clients by becoming the trusted source for expertise, thereby creating more positive project engagements to push the creative limitations and solutions.

The ideal candidate will need to have a strong understanding of the web, a solid foundation in design application & theory, and a passionate curiosity to explore an ever-changing field. Responsibilities will include: brainstorming and researching creative concepts, wireframing and working with development to prototype unique solutions, as well as creating pixel-perfect interfaces to be integrated into the visual layer of any given project. The candidate will work closely as a team with a developer to ensure the vision of the project is carried through.

To succeed in this position you’ll need:

• A BFA or BA/BS in some flavor of design (or perhaps you have a few years of real-world experience).
• An online portfolio demonstrating a solid understanding and application of typography, composition, color and concept.
• Examples of project work illustrating strong problem-solving skills, as well as unique solutions within limitations.
• A strong understanding of the process of designing for the web (wireframes, comps, general pixel pushing, etc.)
• Some understanding of HTML/CSS and what can be done with it.
• The ability to think on your feet, and desire to go after the ideas you concept.
• Willingness to prove yourself, but a humbleness to accept direction and criticism.
• Ability to articulate reasoning behind design decisions internally and in front of others (clients)
• Your finger on the pulse of what other designers are doing in the industry.

Bonus if you have:

• Read the whole series of A Book Apart.
• The ability to write well.

Other info: 

This will be a full-time paid position, in equal measure with experience. Individual can work remote occasionally, but will need to spend a good amount of time with the group in order to be successful. 

Subtext is a small creative group that focuses on crafting great user experiences for brands in the digital channel. Learn more about us at entersubtext.com.

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Full-time

(New York, NY)

The Cooper Union, a 150-year-old college is searching for a full-time Webmaster to manage and maintain a redesigned and rebuilt  website. The new website is being launched simultaneous with the Inauguration of a new President of the college who will take its  programs in art, architecture, engineering and humanities to the next level to meet the challenges for innovation and global reach during  the first half of the 21st century. 

The position involves direct oversight, management and content development of Cooper Union's institutional web presence. These  responsibilities will involve daily upkeep and administration of the college's website via the content management system, the management   of web associates, the authoring of original editorial content, supporting other CMS users and end-users throughout the college, CMS template creation and support documentation.

The ideal candidate will have equally developed editorial and technical talents. He or she must be extensively familiar with contemporary web publishing practices, including blogging and the blogosphere, web traffic analysis, content management systems, web design, search engine optimization, and be passionate about emerging web technologies. The candidate will also have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and have had previously published original work online. Digital imaging and photo retouching skills will help the candidate produce strong visual materials to accompany web content. A sensitivity to design and aesthetics is also highly desirable. Because the Cooper Union is comprised of schools of Art, Architecture, and Engineering, a strong interest or background in any of these disciplines will be helpful to the ideal candidate.

Qualifications

BA/BE/BS degree Strong English-language editorial and writing abilities Knowledge and experience in CMS management on an Unix/Apache/PHP/MySQL server Proficiency in HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL Familiarity with Unix server environments, as well as OSX and Windows Desktops Advanced proficiency in digital imaging; particularly Adobe Photoshop CS5, photo retouching and manipulation

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is an AA/EOE by choice.

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Full-time

(New York)

Your mission: Define the future of the art experience.

For the first time in history, a large (and ever growing) percentage of the world’s greatest contemporary art will be freely and legally available to the public through a single platform—and all in high resolution format.

But how will the world experience and interact with this content in the future? We are looking for someone to answer that question with beautifully designed products and services that span multiple digital mediums such as web, mobile, and touch.

At Art.sy's core is the Art Genome Project, which uses artificial intelligence to create connections between works of art and help people discover new works and learn about art history. We are backed by Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt, Chris Dixon, Wendi Murdoch, Dasha Zhukova, and Thrive Capital.

We are looking for someone with the following qualities to join our team:

Required

• Strong interaction and product design skills
• A Human-Centered Design approach
• Humility, maturity, lack of ego, being a joy to work with
• Excellent visual design sensibility

Nice to have

• Contemporary art world knowledge
• Front-end coding experience

Why consider Art.sy?

• You will be our second designer, joining our Head of Design (who previously worked at IDEO, and whose past work includes The Future of the Book). At this early stage you will play a central role in defining our culture, platform, and its impact on the world.
• You will work with a world-class engineering team. See our open-source contributions here. 
• You will be expected to take ownership over large areas of our product and service offerings. 
• There are no set hours or holidays, no pointless bureaucracy. Work whenever you want, wherever you want.
• You will learn new things every day: from artificial intelligence to modern and contemporary art history.
• Our downtown Manhattan office has stunning 360 degree views of New York. You can see the horizon in all 4 directions, the iconic midtown and downtown skylines, the Hudson and East rivers.

Your Challenge

• Your designs must harness complex technology (high dimensional search, visual search, semantic search—to name just a few) within simple, intuitive, and beautiful interfaces. 
• You will face questions such as: How do we show connections between artworks to help people discover art they love? How can we educate users with different levels of art knowledge? How can we enhance the way people experience art in physical space through digital tools?

The Opportunity

• The art market is the last major industry yet to be disrupted by technology.
• We have partnered with over 250 of the largest galleries in the world and several major art museums.
• We envision a world where passion for art is just as common as it is for music today.

If you want to help us make that vision a reality, we would love to talk.

Job Perks: Employment includes full benefits, health insurance, top-of-market cash and equity compensation, Visa sponsorship, relocation, exciting travel opportunities (in the past we've flown the team to major art fairs in Basel, Switzerland and Miami).

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