[Sigia-l] Usability Engineer Position - Minneapolis

[Jeremy Harrington]

A Product Lifecycle Management Company  has an immediate opening for a 
Usability Engineer in it's Arden Hills, MN office.  Please contact 
deedee.demulling at ugsplm.com for further information.

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Job Description:
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Creating and Maintaining Usability Group Teamcenter wide documentation 
and communication.  We currently have UI Guidelines, UI Design Patterns 
and the Usability Newsletter that are updated quarterly to reflect our 
iterative design process and user validation process.

This person will also be practicing user centered design activities 
throughout the software development lifecycle to include Analysis, 
Design, Testing and Training with guidance from other members of the 
Usability team.  We provide services and collaborate on software design 
with a variety of our product teams.  Services include: User and task 
analysis, conceptual design, prototyping, usability testing and 
usability training

Prerequisites and Essential Functions:
Maintain current Usabilty Team documents that are used across the 
product suite.
Collect and Distribute the quarterly newsletter for the Usabiltiy team 
to the entire organization.
Gather and review user and task data from a variety of sources
Develop usability test plans and conduct usability tests
Gather and analyze customer data
Assist in developing curriculum and teaching usability courses to 
various groups in the organization
Ensure user interface design consistency across all product modules
Work with the usability, product and developtment teams to develop and 
write standards and guidelines
Assist with user interface specifications
Collaborate with product teams to prioritize usability issues
Understand and promote the process of user-centered design

The Ideal Candidate will have:
BA/BS in Technical Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Human 
Factors Psychology/Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Industrial 
Design, Visual Design, or related field.
One or more years of software team experience
One or more years of experience in technical communications or user 
interface design
Excellent organizational and communication skills
Knowledge of customer data gathering and analysis methods such as 
contextual inquiries, user profiling, task analysis, focus groups, etc.
Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, software 
developers, QA staff, technical writers, and external consultants and 
clients
An understanding of the software development process
The ability to work autonomously and collaboratively to bring projects 
to completion
Experience in Product Data Management, Product Lifecycle Management is 
a plus
Someone who has a passion for improving the user experience and a 
willingness to learn the user centered design process

If interested, please email your resume to deedee.demulling at ugsplm.com