[Sigia-l] FW: Job Title: User Experience Project Manager - Chicago and NYC

[Brett Taylor]

Subject: Job Title: User Experience Project Manager - Chicago and NYC

Job Title: User Experience Project Manager

Position Overview

UE Managers are responsible for day-to-day management and execution of
client engagements that involve strategic user experience design or
redesign efforts.  Managers work closely with Engagement Directors
throughout a project providing project oversight and client management.
Managers are responsible for client satisfaction, project delivery,
project margin, scope management, status reporting, accounts receivable,
and team development.  Managers work closely with Engagement Directors
in identifying and securing new opportunities within an existing account
relationship.  Managers are expected to think strategically and
participate in formulating strategic roadmaps and maturity models for
clients.

 

Required Experience:

*   Experience managing projects that include extensive user research,
contextual and ethnographic studies, persona development, scenario
development, requirements prioritization, conceptual modeling, wireframe
development, creative design, prototype development, functional design
and usability testing

*   Experience managing teams of user experience and creative
professionals while interfacing with senior client stakeholders that
have a deep appreciation for user centered design philosophies

*   Experience extracting and prioritizing business requirements to
assist with introducing strategic user experience design recommendations
and planning for clients

*   Experience with project team mentorship and issue resolution skills
to ensure on-time delivery, customer satisfaction, team satisfaction and
quality assurance.  

*   Effective written and verbal communication skills to manage projects
and project teams, and assist with status reporting, proposal
development efforts and project deliverables 

*   Experience scoping, planning and applying the necessary staff to
projects

*   Experience managing accounts receivables and project margin through
effective change management practices

*   Experience managing fixed price and time & material engagements is
required

 

Strongly Desired Experience:

*   Experience with web 2.0 and rich internet concepts and delivery
methodologies

*   Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle and Agile
methodologies and have proven experience guiding and motivating project
teams

 

Other Requirements

User Experience managers must have, a bachelor's degree, at least seven
years of consulting experience, two years of managing user experience
projects, experience with designing solutions that have portal and
content management constraints, and be willing to travel up to 80%.  A
Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction or a related design or
behavioral science discipline is preferred.

 

Why Roundarch

Roundarch is a specialized consulting firm with offices in New York and
Chicago, (http://www.roundarch.com/). We bring together the best user
experience and technical skills to deliver outstanding innovative
solutions to our clients; Fortune 500 companies and large government
organizations. Our clients look to us to solve high-impact problems at
the heart of their business.  Roundarch is amongst the first companies
to embrace Rich Internet / Web 2.0 design principles and technologies
and incorporate them into their design philosophy.

 

Please forward me your resumes if interested or if I can answer
additional questions.

 

thanks,

Brett Taylor
btaylor at roundarch.com
 

brett taylor + R O U N D A R C H + bus 312.529.2502 + mob 773.844.5233 +
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