[Sigia-l] Experience People Job: Director of User Experience (Chicago, IL, USA)

[Challis Hodge]

Director of User Experience 

Experience: 7+ years
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Status: Permanent Full Time
Salary: Competitive
Travel: As Needed 
Category: Consulting/Agency/Professional Services

Description: Lead, set vision, and elevate the overall operations of the
Central Region User Expereince Team. 

Responsibilities: 

Managing the operations of the IA, User Research and Insights communities
within the User Experience group. 
Maintain a contractor network for IA, User Research, Interaction design. 
Insure overall community and Discipline team health. 
Manage overall hiring, career path management, reward and recognition plans.

Manage overall firing, disciplinary plans working with ECD and Hr. 
50% billable. 
Establish philosophies and methodologies for delivering User Centric Design
solutions. 
Support all business development as it relates to User Expeirence needs -
either hands on or through delegation. 
Advocate on projects and within solution development for target audiences'
needs and other motivating factors and translate them into concepts for
compelling interactions and experiences. 
Collaboratively inspire the development of scenarios, navigation models, and
prototypes for demonstration of concepts to clients. 
Monitor, elevate and continue developing and documenting detailed
information architecture and interaction designs for highly interactive
interfaces to support marketing strategy, brand strategy, and desired user
behaviors. 
Lead and/or participate in immersive user research, concept testing, and
usability testing. 
Drive innovation, elevate quality, and establish benchmark work for clients
ding. 

Requirements:

Degree in a related field, such as human-computer interaction, visual
design, product design, interaction design, or technical communication. 
7+ years experience developing interactive products.
Demonstrated expertise in consumer or B2B eCommerce, software application
interfaces, and/or interactive marketing - must include creating
transaction-oriented interfaces. 
Demonstrated ability to work with templates and content management systems. 
Demonstrated experience leading and/or observing user research and usability
testing and in translating results into design decisions. 
Demonstrated ability to document designs in scenarios, workflows, site
architectures, interaction notes, and page template/wireframe formats. Use
case and functional requirements development preferred. 
2+ years business development experience.
Strong user-centered design orientation. 
Strong team collaboration and facilitation skills. 
Proven ability to run a group larger than 5 people. 
Attention to detail. 
Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills. 
Experience in a client services environment. 


More info and application instructions:
http://www.experiencepeople.com/job_1877_il.html