Career Mondays: Senior Visual Designer and Interaction Designer — San Francisco, CA

This is for a friend of mine at Yola. Send your resume and portfolio at jobs@usabilitycounts.com.

Senior Visual Designer

Key Responsibilities:

• Producing innovative yet intuitive design solutions that address complex product, business, marketing and user needs.
• Rapidly developing user flows, wireframes, superior visual mock-ups, final design assets and documenting functional visual specs.
• Work with design, business development, and engineering to define and design products.
• Working closely with the Product Management, engineering and QA teams and support UI implementation efforts.
• Proactively works to understand customer needs and offers consultancy even when not asked.
• Acts as a source of expertise to others and contributes to discussion in own area.
• Accepts responsibility for and demonstrates support for delegated decisions.
• Communicates weekly or bi-weekly with remote team during off-business hours (can be early morning or later evening at times)

Experience:

A strong candidate for this role will match many of these criteria:

• 6+ years of designing consumer focused web and/or client application UI.
• Must demonstrate outstanding design talent, creativity and sense for clean visual and interaction design.
• Have an understanding of user-centered design process.
• Proven ability to work independently as well as in cross-functional groups.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe CS4 Suite (specifically Fireworks and Photoshop)
• Experience with other applications desired: Omnigraffle, HTML/CSS
• BFA or BA degree in design related studies

Please respond with a resumé and a link to an online portfolio or examples of work.

Interaction Designer

Must have skills:

• Demonstrated portfolio of interaction design deliverables, including wireframes, flows, site maps, specs, etc.
• Understanding of usability and user centered design principles
• Strong understanding of web concepts (HTML, CSS, XML, etc.)
• Experience working with engineering teams, particularly in an agile environment
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of, and desire to work in, a startup environment
• Mac platform experience
• Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Fireworks

It would be useful if you had:

• Visual design skills and portfolio (particularly web applications)
• Ability to code clean HTML and CSS

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