[Sigia-l] FW: Senior IA - London

[nick cochrane]

Senior IA – London.

Working for a full service new media agency who have particular expertise
with financial and Charity clients. You will be working alongside usability
consultants, the Head of User Experience  and digital metric consultants in
the pursuit of excellent intuitive user experiences across their digital
solutions.

The Senior Information Architect will be required to: 

Information architecture activities
• Lead workshops and interviews with clients to extract their understanding
of problems and identify objectives for their products and sites
• Understand users; performing user research and usability testing; creating
personas, mapping tasks and creating flows and interaction models
• Analyse and model existing and potential content to create content
templates for content management systems
• Develop top-down information architectures, including taxonomies and site
maps
• Create information architecture reports, including site maps, wireframes,
flow charts or use cases, functional & presentation specifications, and
style guides 
• Demonstrate an awareness of usability and accessibility issues 

Business activities
• Work on new business ideas at pitch level as well as live projects
• Lead the user experience streams within projects, working directly with
project managers, interface developers, technical teams and designers to
create new and revise existing web sites
• Communicate with project and account managers regarding the status of
specific projects

The successful candidate will have the following education and experience: 
• Bachelor's degree in HCI, library and information science, interaction
design or related field or equivalent experience. 
• 5+ years experience as information architect

Specifically, the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the
following:
• In-depth knowledge of and experience of information architecture
• Knowledge of and experience in usability and interaction design
• Experience working with content management systems
• Experience in writing information architecture reports and working with
designers, producers, and software developers
• The ability to think creatively; generate innovative ideas, prioritise
complex tasks, and work well under pressure
• Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills and proven
ability to communicate complex processes at all levels
• Excellent project management skills, showing the ability to prioritise and
plan activities taking all factors such as deadlines and resource
requirements into account

The senior information architect should have:
• First class interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate
clearly and confidently at all levels.
• The ability to use your own initiative.
• A flexible and positive attitude.
• Ability to present compelling arguments.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to plan work effectively
to meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to generate new concepts and product ideas.

Nick at zebrapeople.com
Immediate
Central London
£40-£45k



Nick Cochrane
Zebra People Ltd
020 7729 4771 
www.zebrapeople.com 
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