Job Order: 5944
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Lead Interaction Designer
Location: Pennsylvania
Company Summary:
Our client is a marketing agency that helps build healthcare brands that patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals feel confident turning to and recommending when they are sick, in need, or helping others.
Description:
JOB SUMMARY:
The Lead Interaction Designer leads the development of the user experience and provides usability and interaction design insights across a variety of high-profile engagements. This person works closely with clients and agency team to intimately understand user needs, and becomes the advocates of these needs throughout the project development cycle.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and present user experience solutions to internal teams and clients through sitemaps, wireframes, flowcharts and functional specifications
- Quickly understand and refine client strategy and develop content and functionality that meets both client objectives and user goals.
- Collaborate closely with copywriters, visual designers, and programmers to design the user interaction model, information architecture, and user interfaces
REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in any of the following: HCI, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Computer Science, Media Studies, Graphic Design, and/or related fields
- 3-5 years of experience developing interactive web sites and applications as information architect or interaction designer
- A good understanding of user-centered design principles. Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of interaction design process and skills.
- Ability to provide interaction-design and usability insights across a variety of high-profile projects
- Experience acting as lead interaction designer or lead information architect on site development projects, developing sitemaps, wireframes, flowcharts and functional specifications
- Experience with user experience research, both to uncover user needs and to test interaction design solutions
- Superior client-presentation skills, and experience interacting with senior marketing, research and technical clients
- Understand how to use and effectively incorporate interactive technologies
- Expert knowledge of MS Office and Visio
- Working understanding of interactive front-end technologies (i.e. HTML, JavaScript, Flash, CSS, DHTML), browser and platform constraints
- Good understanding of common back-end technologies and platforms
- Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry experience a plus
- Prior experience in an integrated marketing communications agency desired
- Uncompromising attention to details
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