User Experience Designer (Mobile & Tablet) | Nov. 2011
New York -or- Atlanta
Contract-to-Hire
Grow with an Industry Leader:
Mobients, a mobile design & strategy leader for Fortune 500 clients is seeking your expert mobile and usability (UX) talents. If you eat, sleep and breathe Experience Design, while fantasizing about how mobile/touch/tablets have changed and can further change the world, read on. This rewarding position will propel you into the forefront of the evolving mobile arena working with our high-powered forward-thinking clients and our innovative design-driven team.
Innovate In the Mobile/Tablet Space:
Our intense passion for improving people’s lives through ground-breaking and forward-thinking mobile design will enable you to blaze new trails as you collaborate with a cross-disciplinary mobile team of rock stars to ensure multiple points-of-view. Shape the mobile user experience beyond the ordinary to create impactful results. If you wish to invent the mobile space, Mobients is your natural career choice.
The Future: Here Now
At Mobients you will have the opportunity to change the world with your digital mobile insights and breakthrough ideas in this evolving arena – we are on the forefront of emerging technologies such as gestural interfaces, motion graphics and augmented reality.
Role Summary
Our Experience Designers play a key role in defining the mobile/tablet/touch context and providing clients with forward thinking solutions. They are the nerve center of our design process. UX Designers have tremendous opportunities to directly contribute to our rise in the mobile space through publishing ‘Points of View’ and knowledge sharing.
A successful experience designer at Mobients is a combination of innovative designer, strategic thinker and a team player.
Core Responsibilities:
- Thinks mobile innovation and revolutionary future-thinking mobile solutions in the context of compelling user experiences
- Demonstrates working knowledge of best of breed interaction practices, information architecture design, conceptual modeling, heuristic assessments, user & process/task analyses, and usability testing
- Produces detailed high grade-deliverables including storyboards, user scenarios, personas, design prototypes and user requirements specifications for mobile and tablet platforms such as Mobile Web, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone7
- Defines business flows and other functional requirements
- Collaborates with Visual Design and Technology team members to develop comprehensive solutions
- Participates in collaborative design workshops and brainstorming sessions
- Helps craft stakeholder interviews and presentations
- Prepares, conducts and compiles competitor audits and UX research findings
Desired Skills:
- Minimum of 2 years designing for mobile phones/tablets. Prefer experience with Android mobile and tablets, iPhone/iPad/iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, mobile Web
- Expert in a variety of user research and usability approaches
- Familiar with user experience design methodologies including Agile
- Highly proficient in design and rapid prototyping tools including Omnigraffle, Visio, InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop
- Solid experience working in internal or client-facing team-based settings
- Excellent presentation and communications skills
Qualifications:
- Degree in HCI, Psychology, Design, Computer Science, Mathematics, Fine Arts, Industrial Design, Anthropology or other related field, PhD a plus
- 3 - 5 years in a User Experience-related field
- Experience working in team-based environments
- Mobile/Digital Media portfolio
- Prior consulting firm or agency experience desired