User Interface Manager

[Dwayne King]

The User Interface Manager will lead our clients' product development resources toward a world-class user interface solution within its full breadth of products and solutions. World Class will be measured in terms of usability , intuitiveness, consistency, relationship to ergonomics, and time to market.

As the User Interface Manager leading this new group, you will work closely with other departments to plan, direct, and implement the user interface design, aesthetic direction, and usability efforts for their hardware and software products. You must be able to design interfaces that are engaging, follow usability best practices, and reinforce clients' visual brand. With the goal of creating intuitively usable products, you will drive user interface designs from conceptualization through prototyping to implementation, developing high level, and/or detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate designs. You will assist program management, marketing, and

engineering in authoring functional user requirements documents for the interfaces. You will champion user-centered design and conceive, set, and implement user interface guidelines and standards. Implementing usability processes and methodologies, you will evaluate designs, conduct usability tests, provide feedback to project teams and propose solutions.

Responsibilities: 

- Manage multiple simultaneous interface related tasks, determine priorities, and provide the required deliverables to meet or exceed program needs.

- Define standards and guidelines for the overall user experience, user/work flows, navigational hierarchy, terminology, GUI, interaction, and functional design.

- Work with cross-functional teams to understand interface requirements on a product-by-product basis and work with the user interface team to design, prototype, test, and deliver user interface designs.

- Manage department budget and direct reports and lead critical resources to support the objective. Able to lead, inspire, and

direct the activities of people within the department and the organization.

Special Skills (Candidates with these skills will be given preference):

- User Research skills including focus groups, web-based, and direct methods, using advanced statistical techniques and quantitative analysis.

- Experience applying a wide variety of methods for gathering usability data with ability to justify usability findings and work with teams to incorporate the findings into the product.

- Experience with Windows user interface design standards and have knowledge about designing user interfaces for a range of form factors, small to large displays and devices.

- Ability to complete rapid prototyping and experience creating low fidelity interaction prototypes as well as realistic-looking prototypes.

- Experience with current user-centered design methods including contextual inquiry, task analysis, cognitive walkthroughs, usability studies, and user workshops.

- Excellent oral and written communications skills and

presentation skills.

- Must be a fast learner, extremely organized with a high degree of attention to detail.

- Must be self-motivated, enthusiastic, creative, team player, and have an outgoing personality.

- Strong in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Icon software.

- Must provide an extensive portfolio of work supporting his/her user interface value and strengths.

Education:

- Minimum Bachelors degree in a field that is directly or indirectly supportive of user interface such as software programming, human factors, industrial design, technical communications, or cognitive psychology.

Experience:

- 5+ years of professional experience in the field of information architecture/user interface design or a related field. Experience in UI design for software products is a must.

- 3-5 years of experience managing groups within the user interface field or a related field.

About Aquent

Aquents Information Technology group helps companies acquire the personnel, project support, and technology they need to

solve a wide range of business problems. Our alliance partners, including Rational and IBM, ensure that we can apply the very latest tools and techniques on behalf of our clients, and our team of staff consultants allows us to provide consistent, high-quality support that wont disappear when the contract ends. 

 

Travel required:

none

Telecommute:

no

Web: http://www.aquent.com