Sr. Data Artist & User Experience Designer - Interactive and exploratory experiences
Douglas Smith
Location: Redwood City & San Francisco, CA
Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Experienced
Turn, Inc seeks a senior data artist and user experience designer to re-imagine data in our industry-leading products for the advertising space. A successful candidate will have deep background in data visualization, prototyping and building interactive data experiences. The candidate will also have strong knowledge in user experience design fundamentals from IA to UI as well as an ability to apply strategic design thinking to business goals. The candidate is a hands-on designer/prototyper and will be responsible for delivering interactive prototypes that solve business problems, interacting with product management, engineering, qa, program management groups as well as gathering valuable analytics-based use cases with in-house and external customers. A passion for data driven products and business intelligence is a strong plus. The individual will be comfortable working with senior members of the management team and engineers in interactive design sessions.
The Sr. Data Artist will help shape the future of Turn, Inc’s products with a strong focus on simplicity, ease of use, and focus on the specific user persona. The individual must have a proven track record of defining concise and distinctive user centered data visualization solutions through an iterative design process as well as synthesizing input from multiple stakeholders including product management, account management and sales, engineering, and executive management. The Sr. Data Artist will work closely with the Director of User Experience and leading PMs for Turn’s analytics products to bring a singular focus on the end users, their tasks and goals, and the context of their natural habitats. Specifically, this candidate will be able to build data driven experiences on top of a rich data set representing consumers across digital environments.
Responsibilities
Ø Analyze advertising data including performance, audiences and contexts, devise data visualization design plan that best represents the data and helps the end user recognize insights into the data
Ø Develop the rich interactive prototype, using d3.js and other libraries against the design plan
Ø Develop code that can transition into production environments and interact with application level js libraries
Ø Develop a data visualization pattern library that can be implemented across the platform for common use cases
Ø Achieve consensus and communicate design requirements.
Ø Develop alternative approaches to meeting product requirements, using judgment to suggest optimal solutions to design problems that balance customer need, business constraints, and technological realities.
Ø Take responsibility for creating the user interface of key customer experiences and projects, concentrating on end-to-end scenarios and key user tasks.
Qualifications
Ø Experienced with enterprise UI/SaaS conventions and standards, with a healthy mix of new approaches and forward thinking
Ø Capable of defining and implementing design guidelines, and design specs; demonstrate experience with industry/platform standards.
Ø Prior experience in conceptual development and creative prototypes as well as tactical UI design and implementation.
Ø Excellent strategic problem-solving and decision-making skills in the field of design.
Ø Demonstrated ability to successfully manage several projects simultaneously.
Ø Demonstrated ability to analyze an application and transform the design to make it simple and easy to use.
Ø A quick study. Methods to gather and synthesize information quickly and efficiently
Ø Able to successfully negotiate a range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation.
Ø Facility with various design methods and processes, including Agile and iterative development.
Ø Experience with major data visualization libraries, d3.js and standard design tools including Adobe suite and Omnigraffle.
If you’re interested in helping Turn change the industry, please submit your application along with:
Full resume
Link to portfolio
Link to website/blog (if applicable)
About Turn, Inc.
Turn was founded to bring the efficiencies of search to digital
advertising and to empower the world’s premier advertising agencies and brands
to reach custom audiences at scale. We are
a software and services company with the industry’s only end-to-end platform
for delivering effective data-driven digital advertising. Our technology
infrastructure, self-service interface, optimization algorithms, real-time
analytics, and interoperability represent the future of media
and data management.