Leader of User Experience & Visual Products
at AppFirst in New York, NY
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May 10, 2013
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Overview
AppFirst has undertaken an initiative to deliver a new product line for its ecommerce, gaming and SaaS customers. This is an exciting opportunity to design, guide & create this new solution suite.
The goal is to deliver an extremely well-designed (think “Apple”) user experience. At its heart, the suite will empower a customer to visualize, monitor and correlate risks to business performance (for example, dollar value of abandoned shopping cart) with degradations in system performance. The solutions need to be equally meaningful/actionable on a 50” dashboard watched by the full company as it is on a 15” laptop used by the CTO or a mobile device used by a member of the DevOps team.
The goal is to deliver an extremely well-designed (think “Apple”) user experience. At its heart, the suite will empower a customer to visualize, monitor and correlate risks to business performance (for example, dollar value of abandoned shopping cart) with degradations in system performance. The solutions need to be equally meaningful/actionable on a 50” dashboard watched by the full company as it is on a 15” laptop used by the CTO or a mobile device used by a member of the DevOps team.
Responsibilities
This is a senior position at AppFirst and, as leader of the User Experience & Visual Products team you will be required to lead by example.
Synthesize competing demands and constraints of the product as seen from three viewpoints: business viewpoint, user experience viewpoint and application & operating system metrics viewpoint.
Design simple and intuitive solutions to complex UX problems.
Effectively participate in brainstorming sessions to discover potential innovations, whether they be incremental or mind blowing.
Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and conduct appropriate user requirements discovery and analysis activities.
Guide the development of user requirements in the form of written specifications, personas, storyboards, sketches, scenarios, work/task flows, and prototypes.
Effectively communicate design rationale: how user research, design concepts, and design principles inspire and drive the work.
Lead and actively contribute with a small team of user interface engineers to design, develop and QA the visual interface.
Experience
A strong belief that the user experience is the defining factor in making the product successful.
A minimum of 5 years of experience as a User Experience Designer, Information Architect, Interaction Designer or similar role.
Significant experience in product management and user experience design.
Strong visual design skills and information architecture.
Skills
Ability to communicate with wide variety of personalities.
Ability to work and thrive in a fast paced environment.
Flexibility (ability to change direction based upon team and stakeholder consensus).
Ability to listen and interpret communication into product design.
Positive attitude.
Actively work with team in a hands on fashion.
Role modeling.
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