[Sigia-l] Re: Posting Job Opportunity

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

Orbitz the premier travel website would like to post the attached opportunity.

  Thanks,
Roseanne Stanoy
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TITLE:  Information Architect
DEPARTMENT:     Product Marketing
REPORTS TO:     Lead Information Architect


Summary
An Information Architect at Orbitz will work closely with 
multi-disciplinary teams in the planning, designing and documenting user 
experiences and functionality for web-based travel booking, travel 
management and marketing products. Information Architects will also work 
closely with internal teams to ensure that user experience; industry and 
usability standards and best practices are adhered to and in alignment with 
Orbitz’s business goals.

Responsibilities
·       Create, maintain and continue to evolve the information 
architectures and interactions for the Orbitz.com Web site and associated 
products.
·       Evaluate the scope of projects, identify issues and risks and 
recommend approaches.
·       Identify and prioritize tasks and then evaluate the level of effort 
required for the IA portion of initiatives.
·       Stay abreast of user interaction relationships and dependencies 
across multiple initiatives.
·       Work closely with Lead Information Architect to manage 
availability, report on progress and plan for future efforts.
·       Develop a broad understanding of Orbitz’s and the competition’s 
business, technologies and products.
·       Work closely with internal teams to ensure that user experience 
best practices are promoted.
·       Work closely with Product Marketing teams to ensure that product 
requirements are understood, complete and then transformed into user 
experiences that are sensitive to the user’s needs, business goals and 
technology involved.
·       Effectively present solutions to internal stakeholders.
·       Work closely with Consumer Research team to understand consumer 
needs prior to efforts and evaluating usability of designs that are both in 
progress and final.
·       Work with IA team to establish and continue to evolve documentation 
standards and work flow.
·       Present finalized and in progress designs to designers, editors, 
front-end developers, QA and engineers to aid these teams in the 
development of their project plans, to ensure that solutions are feasible, 
to alert others to potential risks and to gather feedback.
·       Create low and high fidelity prototypes for usability evaluations 
as needed.
·       Create and maintain documents such as wireframes, flow charts, site 
maps, content inventories, functional specifications (schematics)
·       Participate in and report on usability studies performed by 
Consumer Research team when necessary.

Qualifications:
·       Must demonstrate a high level of experience in either information 
architecture, interaction design, user experience design or human factors 
engineering in the development of large-scale, dynamic Web sites, intranets 
or web based applications.
·       Must demonstrate direct involvement in the creation of artifacts 
such as wireframes, process flows, flow charts, schematics, functional 
requirements, user scenarios, personas, use cases or content matrices.
·       Will have a thorough understanding of how technologies such as 
browsers and scripting languages can impact or constrain potential solutions.
·       Will have broad experience working closely with multi-disciplinary 
teams.
·       Must have a thorough understanding of Information Architecture, 
Interaction Design and User Experience concepts combined with strong 
technical ability, practical skills, creative problem solving skills and a 
high level of analytical ability is required.
·       Must have strong conceptual skills, a critical eye for detail and 
the ability to translate complex concepts into visual representations.
·       Will have experience with and an understanding of Human Factors and 
usability methodologies, protocols and processes such as analysis, 
prototyping and participation in studies.
·       Will demonstrate experience with project management processes such 
as estimating efforts, assigning resources, creating schedules, identifying 
tasks, prioritizing tasks and updating project plans
·       Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team work skills.
·       Must be organized, self-motivated and able to switch rapidly 
between different projects.
·       Must have a high level or proficiency in Visio, Word, Excel and 
Windows.

Ready to launch a new career? Contact Orbitz today

Email resume to:
Roseanne at orbitz.com

Orbitz is an equal opportunity employer







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