[Sigia-l] Job: Sr. User Experience Consultant, Morristown, NJ, USA

[Challis Hodge]

Company: Experience People (Recruiter)
Position: Senior User Experience Consultant
Location: Morristown, NJ, USA

Source: Direct Submission

Experience:  5 + years   (Masters Reqd)
Location: Morristown, NJ, USA 
Salary: Competitive
 
Description:  

The Senior UX Consultant works within a people-centered analysis, design,
and development process to analyze client business and user requirements and
to collaborate on solution design, deployment, adoption planning, and
assessment. The person in this role works as a collaborative member of cross
functional teams to understand users, design people centered user interfaces
and targeted adoption materials and approaches. This position serves as an
internal and external consultant and coach on user experience methods, best
practices, and service offerings. The Senior UX Consultant must be committed
to understanding and developing innovative, effective solutions for complex
people-process-technology problems in business contexts. This position
reports to the Director, User Experience and is considered a leadership
position within the User Experience group.

Responsibilities: 

* Entering the client assignment early, applying focused user research,
modeling and assessment techniques to discover and analyze business and user
requirements; 
* Contributing to solution design by planning and conducting iterative user
assessments, as well as by defining interaction and user interface designs 
* Applying user understanding and models to inform online learning/support,
deployment and adoption planning; and conducting multifaceted adoption
assessments post solution launch to guide continuous improvement. 
* Discovering, analyzing, and synthesizing business and user requirements
from clients, appropriate stakeholders, and end-users, and translating
findings into a solid solution model, organization, and design 
* Developing innovative user experience methods, tools, intellectual capital
and reusable assets that improve LDS operational excellence, efficiency, and
competitive advantage 
* Developing company-wide user experience/usability standards and points of
reference 
* Maintaining awareness of best practices and principles in relevant fields
including human-computer interaction, technology change management,
learning, communications, business and work practice analysis and design,
etc.

Requirements: 

* A minimum of a Master's degree in human computer interaction, behavioral
and social sciences (e.g., cognitive psychology, anthropology, etc.),
interaction design, industrial design, human factors or a related field. 
* A minimum of five (5) years in user experience research, design and
business consulting (experience with enterprise portals is a plus). 
* Conducting contextual inquiries, user requirements analysis, and user
modeling (e.g., task, process, and work practice modeling) 
* Planning and executing a range of user assessment methods and tools
including iterative user testing, online surveys, web analytics/online
behavioral analysis, heuristic analysis, and participatory design exercises 
* Creating and testing low and high fidelity technology solution prototypes 
* Designing user interaction models and user interfaces (e.g., templates,
wireframes, etc.) 
* Adoption support planning (e.g., communications, learning, change
management, etc.) 
* Consulting directly with clients to define and work through issues and
business problems 
* Knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative research methods and tools,
object oriented analysis and design (OOAD), business process analysis and
engineering, prototyping tools (e.g., * Visual Basic and DreamWeaver) is a
plus. 

Application instructions: http://www.experiencepeople.com/job_nj1841.html

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