[Sigia-l] UX Designer role(s) - full service digital agency - midtown manhattan - $80-110k

[Andrew Boyd]

Am I the only one that thinks "animal husbandry" when I hear the term "full
service"?
On 13 Dec 2012 21:43, "Ben Tregoing" <ben at tda-digital.com> wrote:

> User Experience Designer(s) – full service digital agency – Midtown
> Manhattan - $70-110k
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have two new roles to brief you all on, with the same independent full
> service digital agency, based in Midtown Manhattan.  They are looking for
> two user experience designers, one senior (up to $110k) and one more junior
> (up to around $85k). The agency works on multi-platform (web, mobile,
> tablet) digital product design, with some advertising / marketing stuff
> aswell (not a huge amount, and generally only as part of a wider, long arch
> piece of work).
>
> What do they make:
> The agency’s projects are primarily in the pharmaceutical realm (don’t
> switch off just yet), with some significant work in the sporting arena too.
> The split is around 70-30 in favor of pharma, but the work they are doing
> in this space is not the usual restrictive, regulation heavy snoozeathon
> stuff that a lot of other agencies are bogged down in, it’s genuinely
> interesting, complex work. Most of their pharma stuff is from the position
> of ‘agency of record’, so there is already a body of trust and knowledge in
> place between the agency and the client.
>
> They have some proprietary tech that they can utilize in a number of
> interesting ways, that allows them to model and interact with 3D
> environments and space, and build this into products. This can be utilized
> in a number of different ways, including virtual tours of 3D space with
> innovative interface’s sitting on top, or modeling of 3D environments to
> aid in the purchasing of venue tickets. They have also built some pretty
> complex internal tools for large multinationals (tablet based sales tools,
> data analysis products etc..), that look really pretty but are also
> functionally very interesting.
>
> How do they make it:
> UX becomes involved at the point of pitch, and is one of the first
> disciplines through the door at the kick off point for a project, gathering
> requirements, getting under the skin of the business, and understanding
> what the questions are, alongside the strategy team. From there, UX will
> drive the research and requirements phase, with generous budget and time
> afforded to user access (more for the complex products, less so for the
> marketing and advertising work). Lots of workshops, focus groups,
> interviews, a lot of data and research provided by the clients. From here,
> personas are created, uses cases and scenarios, storyboards and narratives
> etc..
>
> In the current set-up, the design process is lead by the senior UXD, who
> defines page templates, primary journeys and flows, screen and IA concepts
> and templates, content and data relationships, taxonomies, lots of
> sketching and whiteboarding. The more junior UX designers will then work on
> the more detailed wireframes and documentation, all the way up to working
> prototypes or functional specs, ready for build by the dev team.
>
> What are they looking for:
> For the senior role, they need someone with full UX design cycle
> experience, as comfortable in front of clients gathering requirements and
> leading strategy workshops as they are transforming those insights into
> workable, visualized concepts. Knowledge of pharma would obviously be big
> help, but not essential, and cross platform experience would be a big plus.
> They are open to someone ‘stepping up’ into this role, as long as you can
> show the key attributes (good in front of clients, strategic thinking).
>
> For the more junior role, a good solid understanding of the UCD process
> from beginning to end would be great (even if you haven’t been able to
> practice it on a project yet). Maybe you’re coming off an internship with a
> good agency and looking for your first full time role, or maybe you’ve
> earned your stripes over the past year and are ready for a new challenge.
> Limited exposure to typical asset creation is pretty essential (sitemaps,
> journeys, wireframes etc..), they can teach you research techniques.
>
> Drop me a line if either of these sound interesting!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ben Tregoing | Director TDA-Digital - North America
>
> UK: +44 203 328 5609
> M: +001 917 972 8064
> E: ben at tda-digital.com<mailto:304467ben at tda-digital.com>
>
> Happy to connect: [cid:B818124A-46CB-4E32-9EFA-C2733D54E523] <
> http://uk.linkedin.com/in/bentregoing>
> [cid:E14AD150-A6B3-43F0-B51B-0EFB10347174] <https://twitter.com/TDA_NYC>
> UK: 69-85 Tabernacle Street | London | EC2A 4BD
> US: 330 Madison Avenue | 6th Floor | New York | NY 10017
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service.
> For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com
> ______________________________________________________________________
> ------------
> 2013  IA Summit
> April 4 - 7, 2013
> Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, MD
> -----
> When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible.
> *Plain text, please; NO Attachments
>
> Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/
> ________________________________________
> Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org
> Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l
>
>