[Sigia-l] JOB: User Experience Designer (Contract) – Adapt Technologies, Inc. – Pasadena, CA

[Lisa Colvin]

Please excuse the cross-posting.

Position Description: User Experience Designer (Contract) – Adapt Technologies, 
Inc. – Pasadena, CA

Do you love what you do?  Come be a part of a young company where you’ll have a 
real opportunity to make a direct impact on the development of our web-based applications.

Adapt Technologies is currently seeking two full-time mid to senior-level User Experience
Designers to join our young, fun, dynamic and dedicated team on a contract basis.
(There is a possibility of conversion to FTE if the fit is right.) The positions
report to the Director of User Experience and are located in Pasadena, CA (near 
Old Town). Telecommuting part-time is an option, and there is no travel required.

We offer a great culture (including normal hours, free lunches, snacks and lattes,
plus a casual anti-dress code.) It’s an agile, startup environment, so multitasking
is a given and interacting with team members across multiple disciplines and on 
many levels is a daily reality. 

Adapt Technologies (http://www.adapt.com) creates practical, self-service search
engine campaign management solutions for marketers.  The company was founded in 
December 2004 and is venture-funded by Mohr, Davidow Ventures and Emergence Capital
Partners.  Our team members come from leading universities and Internet companies
including Caltech, Google, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Disney and Amazon.com. 

Responsibilities

This role encompasses a combination of interaction, information and visual design,
with a dash of information architecture and usability thrown in for good measure.
Major deliverables may include annotated wireframes, use cases, process flows (altogether
totaling about 70% of the time) and comps (another 20%), plus QA (10%).  

Required Qualifications

*  Advanced degree in Interaction Design, Library and Information Science, Human
Computer Interaction, or related field or at least 3 years of experience in site/
system development with a minimum of 2 years as a web-based information architect,
user interface/ experience/ interaction designer or systems analyst handling multiple
projects simultaneously
*  Strong functional and visual design background specifically for the web, with
experience working on large, complex sites that integrate database or CMS driven
content, including e-commerce transaction processes
*  Solid background with web technologies including a basic understanding of the
technical systems and architecture which underlie dynamic websites
*  Excellent visual/ verbal communicator with a demonstrated creative vision for
organizing interactive systems
*  Comfortable with standard toolkit programs such as Visio, DreamWeaver, Photoshop,
etc. 
*  Extremely detail-oriented, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced, demanding
environment with aggressive development schedules
*  Portfolio presentation is expected, to include URLs of websites or samples of
user interface design that reflect candidate’s work as well as documentation that
led to the site, including wireframes, site maps, navigation flows, interaction 
design specs, comps, etc.

Additional Desired Qualifications

*  Understanding of Search Engine Marketing and Optimization (SEM/ SEO)
*  Hands-on experience with web development (hand-coded HTML, with the ability to
ramp-up quickly in DreamWeaver, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) 
*  Experience in media software applications such as Flash or Flex
*  Professionally active (ongoing professional reading, association memberships,
listserv participation and/ or conference attendance) in groups such as IXDA, IAI,
ASIST (SIG-IA), ACM (SIG-CHI), AIGA, etc. 

If all of the above sounds like a great fit, we want to meet you!  
Please forward resumes and samples or URLs to Lisa Colvin, Director, User Experience
[Lisa at Adapt dot com].