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| Authentic Jobs | Los Angeles, CA | Shopzilla, Inc: UX DirectorFull-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:
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February 8, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | New York City, NY | Coursekit: Interaction DesignerFull-time (New York City, NY) We are looking for an ambitious, entrepreneurial designer to add to our burgeoning team; someone with a true maker’s spirit, a tinkerer’s curiosity, and the drive to be part of a team building something big. You’ll be challenged to invent, develop, and execute daily alongside a team. You should be independent and able to express ideas and opinions while hearing those of the team. You should be excited by speedy turnarounds, confident in your ideas, and take pleasure in crafting details. Responsibilities:
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About the Coursekit team: Everyone at Coursekit is an artist – from customer support to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet. Job Perks: Book Allowance Choice of Equipment Apply: Please submit a URL to relevant work and a PDF of your resume. Your contact person will be Aaron Car?mbula. More... |
February 8, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | New York | Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.: UI/UX Designer, CNNMoney.com 128422BRFull-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 Apply: More... |
February 8, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | New York, NY | PolicyMic: Front-end developerFull-time (New York, NY) PolicyMic.com is looking for a creative and passionate front-end developer with a good eye for design to join our small angel-backed New York City team. PolicyMic is the first fully democratic media outlet. We are the fastest growing news outlet for the under 30 demographic. The PolicyMic front-end developer will perfect the design of the existing site and lead the design/development of new products (we have an awesome line-up!). Here's who we're looking for:
If this sounds like the gig for you, send us your resume & your portfolio. The job will be based out of our Harlem office. Apply: Please send your resume & portfolio to Chris. More... |
February 8, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | Anywhere / San Francisco / New York | Fight for the Future / Center for RIghts: User Experience and Visual Designer GeneralistFull-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). Apply: More... |
February 7, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | San Francisco, CA | Birst Inc.: UI DesignerContract (San Francisco, CA) Birst is looking for a UI designer to join our team based in San Francisco on a contract basis to start but with the possibility for a full-time position. Our ideal candidate is passionate about design, with an eye for detail, and loves to create clean, engaging, useful user experiences. You'll have a fantastic portfolio of design work and preferably a number of years having worked with enterprise web apps (SaaS). Most of all we’re looking for someone who likes a good challenge and the opportunity to redefine how users experience business intelligence software. Skills required for this role:
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Send your resume andsamples/portfolio link to: sschmitz@birst.com About Birst: Birstis at the forefront of the next generation of business intelligence software. We provide a complete solution for agile business analytics based on a modern cloud-based architecture. We help all types of organizations get more insights quickly from data that can span internal and external sources with a solution that’s one-third the cost, time, and staff of traditional BI software. For more information, visit http://www.birst.com. Apply: More... |
February 7, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | New York, NY | GroupMe: DesignerFull-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
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February 7, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | New York, NY | GroupMe: UI DesignerFull-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
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February 7, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | Anywhere | Auxiliary Design Co.: Junior UI DesignerFreelance (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
You Can Be Located anywhere, as long as you're available to meet via Skype a few times throughout the week. Apply: More... |
February 7, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | Austin, TX | Bazaarvoice: UI/UX DesignersFull-time (Austin, TX) User Experience and User Interface Design at Bazaarvoice Looking for a company that gets UX and UI? Bazaarvoice does. We sincerely want to build products that brands and their customers love, and so Product organization values a good user experience highly. What sorts of experiences are we designing? Bazaarvoice enables millions of online consumers across the globe to voice their honest opinions about products and services. More often than not, Bazaarvoice-powered interfaces are responsible for the bulk of a brand’s site engagement and personalization. On the flip side, we equip our clients — Fortune 500 brands like Home Depot, OpenTable, North Face, Ticketmaster, Samsung and Geico — with rich data-visualization tools that make it easy to analyze the massive influx of consumer feedback. One of the most exciting aspects of designing user experiences at Bazaarvoice is the sheer scale. The experiences you create will be enjoyed by over a thousand major brands and several hundred million consumers across the globe. Bazaarvoice Designers are at the forefront of understanding how social, mobile, and new forms of technology impact the commerce experience. Key projects and responsibilities: • Represent end-users in a product discovery leadership team. Organize user feedback into root problems, facilitate solution brainstorms, and help the team determine which ideas are worth further exploration. • Own interaction design. Have the technical prowess to produce interactive user prototypes, but the pragmatism to assess what minimum fidelity is required for the task at hand, be it performing a usability study or simply communicating your design to a developer. Also, work with developers to produce live data prototypes when necessary, and identify which KPIs to measure. • Love UX. Deliver insights about our users to internal and external stakeholders. Share prototypes with leadership and clients, and get everyone fired up about concepts. You’ll enjoy this job if: • You are an active collaborator. Because you are self-motivated and self-directing, you enjoy working with a small team of smart, energetic people like yourself. You are also inspirational and influential to all the teams around you. • You have an exceptional knack for interaction design, and feedback and iteration are critical to your process. • You feel at ease in the high-tech world of casual-computing, mobile, or web. • Your creativity is undeterred by technical challenges. You don’t mind figuring out how to code this or fake that; in fact, you kinda like it. You already learned CSS, HTML, and Javascript (or a JS library) for past projects, and you look forward to opportunities to exercise that inner geek. Bazaarvoice offers you: • A highly valued and influential role in a Product organization that truly appreciates UX and UI • An opportunity to make things that matter to many people. • A competitive salary in the workplace voted “Austin’s Best Place to Work.” • Austin “Live Music Capital of the World” Texas! Those who live here, love here. Portfolio required. User Experience Designer – https://careers-bazaarvoice.icims.com/jobs/1380/job?mode=view User Interface Designer – https://careers-bazaarvoice.icims.com/jobs/1468/job?mode=view Job Perks: Unlimited paid vacation, great health beneifts, added benefits for continued education and general health & well-being. Definitely room for growth within the organizaiton. Apply: Or you can apply directly to the positions through our company website: http://bazaarvoice.com Please go to the 'Current Jobs' section and apply directly to the User Interface Designers and/or the User Experience Designer postings More... |
February 7, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | Portland, OR | Subtext: User Interface/Interaction DesignerFull-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:
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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. Apply: More... |
February 7, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | Atlanta, GA | Nebo: Interactive Art DirectorFull-time (Atlanta, GA) If you obsess over how type renders in different browsers, lean forward while nudging that last pixel into place, and geek out over a well-designed interactive experience, we need to chat. We’re looking for an Art Director that can lead by example and also get in the trenches and inspire teamwork. You’ll be responsible for establishing the direction for each project and leading a group of designers all the way though to final execution. We want you to think about more than the desktop, and consider how a project will be viewed through mobile devices, touch screen kiosks, and interactive installations. Nebo wants to keep the team engaged in collaborative concept creation and exploration. Besides being amazing at what you do, we expect you to leave any ego at the door and bring an open mind to the table.Nebo resides in a modest building behind the best coffee shop in Atlanta. We’re a small, passionate boutique with more sites to design than we know what to do with, and we need your help to elevate the work. Responsibilities:
This is a full-time, on location position. Compensation is dependent upon experience. Job Perks: Willing to relocate good candidates. Home brewed beer on tap. Results oriented work environment. Awesome office space. Great culture. Apply: Please include links to recent work and/or portfolio. More... |
February 6, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | New York, NY | The Cooper Union: WebmasterFull-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. Apply: More... |
February 6, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | Melbourne, Australia | Thirst Studios: User interface designerFull-time (Melbourne, Australia) Thirst Studios is looking for a full-time UX/UI designer to join our small, dedicated, enthusiastic team, based at our Melbourne office. Our ideal candidate will be passionate about design for the web and love to create clean, engaging, useful online experiences. You'll have a fantastic portfolio of design work and preferably a number of years commercial experience. Most of all we’re looking for someone who is passionate about the industry and has a desire to push the web design / UX / UI fields forward. Skills required for this role:
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Salary: The salary for this role will be based on skills and experience. Send a cover letter, CV and samples/folio link to: work@thirststudios.com About Thirst Studios: Thirst Studios is a small user experience design team based in Melbourne, Australia, with a strong focus on simplicity, interaction design, usability, web standards and accessibility. We help organisations create & improve online products through research, strategy and design. In essence, we make simple, creative, easy-to-use online experiences that are a pleasure to use. You can find out more about us at www.thirststudios.com Feel free to contact Ben Tollady or Andrew Gunstone on +61 (3) 9642 8454 if you have any questions. Apply: More... |
February 5, 2012 | ||
| Authentic Jobs | New York | Art.sy: Senior Interaction DesignerFull-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
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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). Apply: More... |
February 5, 2012 | ||
