(San Francisco, CA)
User Experience Designer
As an User Experience Designer, you will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and other Designers through numerous stages of the product development cycle. You will be involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from ideation to implementation. Specifically you will be responsible for translating user needs, business needs, and visions into sketches, flows, wireframes, etc., optimizing workflows, maintaining information priority, and all the fun things that go into the skeletal structure of UI design. This position requires heavy interaction with product managers, marketing and our very talented front-end engineering team. In this role, you'll help define the design and interaction that is seen and experienced by millions of users every day.
Responsibilities
- Translate requirements into concepts and elegant user experience design
- Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use, improving and optimizing the user experience
- Develop and maintain high-level wireframes, story boards, mockups, specifications, and navigation maps that communicate your design ideas
- Build prototypes to demonstrate and test your recommendations
- Inform design through user research
- Gauge the usability of new and existing product features and make constructive critiques and, if needed, suggestions for change
- Think creatively and design the best product on the web, and then make it even better.
- Focus on simple and clean experiences. Don't be afraid to explore non-conventional approaches to address conventional problems
- Extend and continually improve a platform-agnostic information design system, and maintain the style guidelines that instruct a growing team's work
Requirements
- Outstanding portfolio of proven, innovative, solid work
- Extensive experience developing complex web application interfaces and a passion for designing compelling, user experiences.
- 3+ years of experience designing for applications/systems
- Demonstrated experience in creating various prototype methods and knowledge of best practices
- Clear communication, organization, and writing abilities
- Experience with user research techniques and knowledge of when to use the right testing tool
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize projects, and communicate timelines
- Ability to synthesize feedback while still maintaining ownership of design process
- Experience designing for social sites and applications a strong plus
- Ability and desire to work in HTML/CSS a strong plus
- BS/BFA, any discipline
Job Perks: Some Benefits of Joining Zoosk: * Sexy MacPro or MacBookPro stations to work in style * Free beverages and snacks, to keep you fired up * Free catered dinner every night * Medical, dental and vision plans * Life Insurance and 401K savings plan
Apply: www.zoosk.com/jobs
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