[JOB] UX Information Architect - Boston, MA

[OSS]

This is a long term, 100% on-site, contract UX Information Architect
position located in Boston, MA paying $60.00 to $75.00 per hour. More
$ possible for exceptional candidates. No telecommuting allowed. US
Citizens or Green Card holders only please. Local candidates only.
Full company details provided to qualified applicants. Thank you.

Job Summary:

The UX Information Architects is responsible for the navigation,
organization, interaction design, and business/user process
engineering for leading-edge Web solutions, software, and mobile
devices/applications. You will apply user-centered design methods to
translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities
into world-class user experiences for leading companies. As a senior-
level practitioner, you will be expected to lead small tracks of work,
work directly with clients, and drive a point of view for the end-user
facing solution. We look for people who are passionate about what they
do, and thrive working with other smart people to solve the toughest
design challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

* Assess existing sites/properties for usefulness, usability, visual
design, content, and branding with minimal oversight.
* Develop evaluation criteria based on industry standards and best
practices, modifying these to fit the specific objectives and needs of
the project; rate and rank sites based on findings.
* Lead participatory design/user testing sessions (with oversight and
direction) and identify and document meaningful patterns from the
findings; provide recommendations to the client/internal team based on
findings.
* Utilize low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity prototypes
across the different stages of the design.
* Prepare, conduct, and analyze behavioral in-context research events
into meaningful themes, categories, and visually compelling frameworks
and behavioral models (with guidance and oversight).
* Identify opportunities to create business value and improve the user
experience, based on user research; organize opportunities into
visually compelling matrices or maps.
* Execute participatory requirements gathering sessions and
participate in debrief sessions (with guidance and oversight); create
feature lists from sessions.
* Conduct, prepare notes, and analyze stakeholder interviews to
understand key success factors for a project or pursuit.
* Lead development of personas/segmentations based on research
findings; integrate personas/segmentations with related deliverables
such as opportunity maps.
* Create engaging scenarios and develop frameworks describing key
aspects of a proposed experience, and how it reconciles business and
user needs.
* Create visually compelling representations of the solution's high-
level interaction, navigation, and organization design (i.e., concept
models).
* Develop visual representations of the organizational structure,
hierarchy, and relationships of screens in a site (i.e., site maps) as
well as the interactions between the user and the functional modules
in the solution.
* Develop screen details (i.e., wireframes) depicting all elements on
a unique screen type, including the content, functional, and
navigation specifications.
* Estimate, plan, and lead tracks of Information Architecture work in
the development of a quality solution; track progress according to the
plan created for the project (e.g., conduct design reviews and
creative status meetings as needed).

Job Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree preferred in design-related discipline:
Interaction, Information or Interface design; Human-Computer
Interaction; Design Planning; Graphic Design; Communications.
* 3-5 years of industry experience.
* Candidates must be versed in user-centered design methods and
techniques.
* Proficient to expert in: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio,
Microsoft Office.
* Excellent analytical and process-oriented skills.
* Excellent verbal and written skills.
* Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
* Ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams.
* Prior experience in a consulting firm or agency preferred.
* Prior experience in UI design for mobile devices a plus.

If you are interested in this job, please submit your RESUME and
HOURLY requirements to opensourcestaffing|AT|gmail.com