[Sigia-l] JOB: Senior User Experience Architect - Ascentium - Los Angeles, CA

[Lisa Colvin]

Hi all,

Please excuse the cross-posting! Feel free to ask me any questions about this position.

Thanks~
Lisa


Lisa Colvin
Practice Lead, User Experience Architecture (Southern California)
lisa.colvin at ascentium.com 


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Senior User Experience Architect
Information Architecture, User Experience Strategy & Interaction Design 

Ascentium Corporation is an award-winning, integrated technology and marketing consultancy with a proven track record in delivering information-driven business solutions to achieve our clients’ strategic objectives. Our business is pairing strategy, technology and marketing to help the operations, marketing and sales organizations inside companies work together to grow their business. And we're really good at it. 

To become even better, we are seeking an entrepreneurial Senior User Experience Architect to join the rapidly growing practice in our Los Angeles office. We offer a great culture with a dynamic and dedicated team where multitasking is a given and interacting with team members across multiple disciplines and on many levels is a daily reality. 

Senior User Experience Architects are responsible for conceptualizing, designing, and communicating user-centered design solutions for our customers. You’ll be a key contributor on cross-disciplinary teams which may include team members from our marketing, analysis, project management, visual design, business consulting, and technology practices. As the user-centered design expert on a given project, you’ll ensure that the most effective, innovative, and usable solutions are created for our customers. You’ll work with clients and end users to understand business requirements, user needs, business processes, and to present design concepts and deliverables, serving as the primary user advocate throughout the research, design and implementation process.


Core Responsibilities

* Contribute to the strategic acquisition, maintenance and enhancement of customer relationships through outstanding communication and project execution

* Work with clients to research and understand their business models and goals, creating design solutions which will further those goals

* Define the architecture, navigation, user flow/ experience, information and interaction designs that strategically, effectively and directly solve customer needs

* Select  appropriate methods and create deliverables documenting information design concepts and solutions to meet project, schedule and budget constraints (may include personas, sketches, diagrams, process flows, wireframes, sitemaps, storyboards, and rapid prototypes)

* Represent the discipline, and Ascentium, in customer meetings and presentations

* Assist in sales and business development efforts as required, from requirements gathering and research to writing formal proposals and presentation materials

* Assist in developing the user-centered design community, its methods, and its cross-disciplinary expertise

* Be an advocate for the user


Qualifications

* Graduate degree (or equivalent) in Psychology, Human Factors, Library Science, Technical Communications, Anthropology, Interactive Design or related field.

* 7 or more years experience in a user-centered design role handling multiple projects simultaneously (and preferably in an agency/ consulting environment) 

* A minimum of 3 or more years of direct Internet-related experience including the design of web sites and web applications or services as a web-based information architect, user interface/ experience/ interaction designer or analyst 

* Solid background with the web and web technologies including a basic understanding of the technical options, systems and architecture which underlie dynamic websites 

* Familiarity with conducting or overseeing some or all of the following: usability sessions, task analysis, heuristic evaluation,rapid prototyping, persona workshops, and other methods of user needs/ goals analysis 

* Excellent visual,  verbal and written communication with a demonstrated creative vision for organizing interactive systems
 
* Extremely detail-oriented and flexible with a proven ability to work with a multi-disciplinary team in a dynamic, collaborative environment with fast-paced development schedules

* Proven ability to quickly understand a customer’s business model and processes and then create effective, elegant, and usable design solutions depicting a strong knowledge of UCD practices, principles, issues, and techniques

* Proven ability to scope and deliver those solutions on time and within budget

* Comfortable with UX toolkit programs such as Visio and DreamWeaver, Microsoft office, Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, Intuitect, Acrobat, etc. 

* Professionally active (ongoing professional reading, association memberships, listserv participation and/ or conference attendance) in groups such as IAI, ASIST (SIG-IA), ACM (SIG-CHI), IXDA, AIGA, etc. 

* 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, etc. 


Dedication to Your Career Growth

Ascentium is a career company that is owned by Partners, and we view nearly every person we hire as a potential Partner and stockholder. When you join Ascentium, a senior team member will be responsible for your career success. We try to advance everyone's career, sometimes even faster than they want us to. We work very 
hard at times when it's necessary, but we discourage long work weeks, and we actively try to find people with families who want to have a personal balance in their lives, and who don't want a lot of travel.


CONTACTING US

My name is Andrew Burnell, and I‘m responsible helping the best people in the country find out about Ascentium:  how good a place it is to work, and how great a career you can have here. If you think you have the background, are really smart, are a great person to work with and who can inspire our customers, then 
send your resume to me at andrewb at ascentium.com and I’ll do my best to find you a place at Ascentium.


CONFIDENTIALITY

Our commitment to your confidentiality: For senior people, it often feels risky to send your resume to an email alias, and some top people do not even keep a resume. If you are currently employed or just want to explore Ascentium, or, if you are in a Principle, Executive or Account Management role, then send your resume to andrewb at ascentium.com with 'Confidential - Attention Partner' in the title or at the top, and we will review it, and hand deliver it to the appropriate Partner for confidential consideration.