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

IBM in Costa Mesa, CA has an opening for a paid user experience intern. We are looking for students to start early in 2010 and to work for at least six months. We do not offer summer internships.

IBM interns join multidisciplinary product development teams to design, prototype, and evaluate graphical user interfaces for IBM’s industry-leading database, business intelligence, and content management products. Interns collaborate with user experience colleagues in Silicon Valley and around the world.

Applicants should have some combination of the following skills, experience, and personal characteristics:

Technical and Professional Skills

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Familiar with graphical user interfaces and style guidelines
• Knowledge of User Centered Design methodologies
• User interface design experience
• Prototyping experience
• Usability evaluation experience
• Strong interest in Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Software Experience

• Software applications for Windows, UNIX or LINUX
• User Interface prototyping tools (Visio, Axure, Visual Basic, Photoshop, etc.)
• HTML, XML or Javascript
• BASIC, C++, Java or other programming languages

Essential Characteristics

• Adaptable and dependable
• Highly motivated and a self-starter
• A good communicator
• Works well in teams
• An innovative attitude

Education

Internship candidates must be enrolled in a degree program – Preferred candidates will be pursuing a graduate degree with an emphasis on human-computer interaction (HCI). To be competitive, candidates should have HCI coursework and user interface design experience (class projects OK).

Send a resume and cover letter listing HF/HCI courses, programming/prototyping experience, and user interface design experience to:

Brian Salzman
Email: jsalzma@us.ibm.com

The position:

• As their Director of Interaction Design you will be integral in reshaping their strategy to focus on the future of consumer needs in the automotive marketplace and aligning their brand and products to capitalize on the strength of their current position.
• Product Focused: They are now implementing a product driven culture with strong leads in key decision-making roles.
• Customer Focused: User centered design methodologies are a key part of their product development process and investing in a comprehensive look at user needs is a central focus.
• Technology focused: They are a scrum/agile shop that utilizes the latest in Microsoft technologies.
• Investing in the Future: They are making substantial financial investments in the development of brand strategy, product strategy and product development. This role will be key to that process!

This role with have dynamic ability to influence change:

• This right candidate will play a heavy role in the future strategy of my client as well as be a key part of bringing these changes to fruition.
• Opportunities to be able to make this level of contribution at a company with this level of brand recognition are rare – this is a great challenge with tremendous resume building potential.

If you have 8-10 years of UX experience, the experience and ability to lead/manage a team of highly skilled IA’s and sell UX concepts through the organization, we should talk.

If you have previously applied for this position and would like to be considered again, reach out. If we spoke but the salary was too low, reach out, that too had changed! If you heard the buzz and side stepped the position based in old information, it’s a new year, a new role and a new process!

You might recognize this position — they are making some changes to it, and it includes better pay and a better interview process.

Send your resume to me at jobs@usabilitycounts.com. I’ll send it along.

Position Description

Certona Corporation is looking for an experienced UI Designer to create the next generation of analytics and merchandising tools for Certona’s ResonanceR personalization platform. The successful candidate will have experience with the full software development lifecycle, starting with gathering requirements from internal and external customers, graphical design, GUI development, and testing. Understanding of software usability, SaaS applications, e-commerce, enterprise dashboards, business intelligence, predictive analytics, and e-mail automation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to ensure understanding of business requirement and use cases
• Establish design patterns working with common interface components
• to promote consistency and reuse across applications
• May need to assist in the development of UML diagrams and wireframes
• May need to provide UI prototypes for usability evaluations
• Develop presentation layer for web-based applications in XHTML/CSS/JS/.Net
• Ensure that presentation layer code is semantically correct, liquid, well-formed, and valid
• Ensure that the presentation layer architecture supports localization and internationalization Create UI specification for Development and QA

Qualifications

• BS in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science or related field
• Five years UI design and UCD experience with web-based applications
• Expertise with XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript is mandatory
• Familiar with semantic, liquid layout design is a must
• Familiar with localization and internationalization standards for web-based applications
• Familiar with chart and other data presentation controls for the web
• Proven communication skills and ability to excel in a team-oriented environment
• Self-motivated and attentive to detail

Please send your resume and cover letter to careers@certona.com.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years project management experience in the Internet field, preferably in the entertainment industry
• Experience and knowledge of web site technology, design and production
• Ability to use online traffic tracking tools to report and help interpret data for editorial decision making.
• Ability to use online publishing and content management systems for programming and reviewing web pages.
• Must be able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Must be proactive and able to prioritize projects based on business and promotional goals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work closely with other producers artists, content developers, engineers, QA testers, and webmasters on day-to-day production; established people skills
• Ability to create and maintain accurate schedules

Skills Required

• 2 to 4 years experience in website production required; working with children‚s or branded content preferred
• A college degree or equivalent work experience with website, digital or entertainment production and development
• Superior organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of Brand development very helpful, understanding of (and passion for) the brand extremely helpful
• Self starter with high level of initiative
• Ability to manage multiple projects, set priorities and meet deadlines
• Proficiency with managing external developers and contractors
• Familiarity with project management tools, e.g. Microsoft Project and Visio
• Established presentation skills and familiarity with Microsoft PowerPoint
• Ability to analyze and provide solutions to complex technical problems

Email your resume to jobs@usabilitycounts.com.

The company

A well-funded startup with founders that have multiple successes behind them (good, as opposed to lucky). They seem like really good people, and the track record of the leadership is solid. Like huge startup solid, five times over, with cash in the bank.

The position

Information Architect with some design experience so when the contract designer is done, the IA can carry through creating of buttons, some graphics, etc. Must know personas, wireframes, site maps, A/B testing, usability testing, but doesn’t have to be overly formal about it. It’s an agile environment, so the IA should have experience working in one. I would like to see people with at least 5 years experience, because the manager doesn’t have time to baby sit. The person must be a self starter. Consumer-facing site design experience required. Social Media (Facebook Connect) experience a huge plus. Willing to wash my car in exchange for the position, another plus.

Send resume, portfolio, some indication of design experience and salary expectations to jobs@usabilitycounts.com.

Stamps.com is seeking an experienced User Experience Designer to help design new products, features and upgrades for B2B and B2C web sites and client applications. Stamps.com has over 350,000 users of their flagship product and is expanding into web-based tools. You will be part of a small, creative team focused solely on product design to come up with our next generation of easy-to-use, powerful tools. You must have a passion for clean, intuitive UI, and be self-motivated and directed as we give a lot of lattitude to create. In addition, we engage in lively discussion on UI patterns, approaches, etc. so you must be willing to play well and be able to take direction where necessary.

Primary Responsibilities

• Analyze high level requirements to develop sitemaps, user flows, wireframes and functional prototypes using Axure.
• Present designs to team & management; iteratively refine designs based on feedback to arrive at final product prototype.
• Analyze best UI patterns used in industry and apply to our products
• Oversee adherence to internal web style guide and web standards, and refinement of it.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant experience as Information Architect, User Experience Designer, UI Designer, Web Designer, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred.
• Have both good visual design/layout skills as well as good analytical skills to be able to conceive, understand, define and effectively address user goals & needs.
• A portfolio of User Interface showing designs, site maps, wireframes, or user interfaces.
• Good knowledge of capabilities of HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, and Web 2.0 in general.
• Knowledge of design software such as Axure, Visio, ProtoShare, Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks, Dreamweaver, etc.
• Must be detailed oriented and be able to drive projects to completion

Kelley Blue Book is looking for a Director of User Experience to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of the interaction design of Kelley Blue Book’s website, kbb.com. This individual will work closely with other senior level executives to identify effective product strategies and lead a team of interaction designers and information architects to deliver innovative, customer centric design solutions. The ideal candidate has a passion for user centered design and a wide breadth of experience across multiple types of products and design methodologies.

This is a full-time position located in Orange County, CA. Formal training in human computer interaction, a minimum of 5 years experience working on a highly trafficked consumer facing web site and prior management experience required.

Position Overview

• Lead the design of our new web site
• Create an amazing user experience for our members
• Optimize Conversion from Visitors to Consumers
• Team work within the company to strategize and implement an ever improving experience.
• Lead the creation of our Product Requirement Documents
• Team with the Engineers in the web team to create a productive and friendly work environment
• Team work with the entire company and our community to identify new needs and get feedback on existing features

Required Experience

• 4+ Years as a Web Product Manager focused on Conversion to paying customers in B2C websites
• 4+ Years of experience building dynamic, customizable and personalizable web sites
• 4+ Years of practical experience of web optimization of conversion based on metrics, AB testing and other such techniques
• Excellent understanding of Web Engineering
• Excellent understanding of Web Marketing
• Successful track record of driving the successful completion multiple cycles of optimization of conversion of traffic from non-paying to paying in a B2C environment
• BS/MS in Marketing or MBA
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

The Online Producer will work on projects including large-scale websites, small sites, banner + email programs and large-scale, integrated direct marketing campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Helps scope and manage all client (proposals, statements of work, deliverables, timelines, status, budgets, etc)
• Act as primary internal contact to client services teams
• Coordinate integration and hand-off between creative team, offline project managers and client services
• Schedule and manage project development, overseeing full development cycle and site launch, overseeing information architecture, creative personnel, tech and QA stages; and managing status and resourcing reports
• Managing schedules and route approvals and requests to internal agency groups as well as assist in implementing calendars and light QA/Online testing.
• In this role you will be working closely with Supervisor, Account Directors, Creative Teams, Project Managers, Developers, Vendors, and IT Staff.

Experience

• The ideal candidate must have strong commons sense and prior experience (2 to 5 years) working with the Internet, new media production, or related experience.
• Must have the ability to delegate tasks and lead a team, along with providing quick solutions to both team and client.
• An in depth understanding of project financials – estimated budgets, costs, actual hours, etc. – and the ability to track and reconcile.
• Thorough understanding of managing web capabilities/technologies and production processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, along with effective meeting facilitation skills.
• Ability to work within deadlines, ensuring timely, cost-effective delivery and client satisfaction.
• Self starter who works as well independently as they do as part of a team.
• Strong analytical abilities.
• Proficiency in MS Office, a solid knowledge of Microsoft Project Scheduling, Browsers, Visio and Operating Systems are a must.
• Must be able to work overtime when required.
• Must understand how HTML, CSS, (.Net or PHP) works in order to effectively project manage.
• Knowledge of localization, experience with e-commerce sites and working with external developers and HTML is a plus!

Salary is in the 65 to 80K range DOE and freelance rate is commiserate with fulltime salary.

Job Description

Disney Shopping, Inc. (DSI) is the online destination for innovative Disney products featuring beloved Disney characters from the latest box office hits to vintage classics. DisneyStore.com (the new destination for all DSI sites) has the largest selection of merchandise for kids and adults, including media, toys, apparel, home, collectibles, electronics and exclusive products that can be personalized. With thousands of items to choose from, DisneyStore.com offers the best of Disney for the young and young-at-heart.

The Producer is a versatile executor of the day-to-day operational tasks necessary to run DisneyStore.com. This role will own the execution of product launches, pricing and shipping updates, promotion set-up, SQL scripts, CYO xml, A/B and segmentation testing, and HTML markup and e-Spot creation and maintenance. The ideal candidate should be able to work under pressure well and manage multiple projects at once.

Subject Matter Expert: CMC (WCS Commerce Tooling), TOAD, CYO, eSpots, DOTT process

Responsibilities

• Follow best practice guidelines and protocols for day to day operations and future changes in the e-Commerce systems
• Responsible for product’s online life cycle starting from merchandising turnover through product upload into Commerce system, including establishing and updating pricing and product content, gifting options, associating product multi-view imagery, setting appropriate availability codes and product gating, flagging products for specific site functions. Understand how these levers affect the site. Assist Visual Merchandising in continually tuning these levers for maximum gross margin sales and conversion
• Responsible for Create-Your-Own XML creation along with associated database work necessary to launch the product. Also make updates to XML throughout the life cycle of product (price change, personalization charge changes). Test enhancements to flash configurator
• Responsible for set up of “quick picks” and testing of new concepts to achieve the business goals surrounding this
• Create and maintain “how to” guides and processes
• Responsible for electronic transfer of product from DisneyStore.com to DisneyOutlet.com
• Responsible for HTML coding for eSpots and associated database configuration using e-Commerce tooling
• Set up A/B testing/Experiments/Segmentation and link associated content to each condition
• Set up merchandising-related promotions via Commerce content management tooling and responsible for accuracy
• Ensure products are correctly placed in appropriate promotional groups
• Ensure online execution accuracy (products, pricing, deals, promotions, etc.)
• Thoroughly QA work prior to launch and on an ongoing basis post-launch
• Enter in defects into Clear Quest
• Provide insight into specific expertise for the operational areas handled
• Think ahead and identify potential issues
• Prepare reports on an as-needed basis
• Field Guest Services requests, including updates to GS pop up, shipping info, holiday cut offs
• Implement shipping rate changes
• Liaison with Web Development team on day to day work
• Acquire knowledge of web analytics, web usability and information architecture
• Review content error reports daily and make appropriate fixes
• Run buyable/published reports and distribute to Planning teams. Make appropriate site updates as needed.
• Write and document SQL scripts using Oracle tooling
• Assist Production counterparts (ABCNewsstore.com, DisneyStore.co.uk) in a role as a subject matter expert and collaborate with them to find efficiencies in process
• Suggest automated solutions for current manual processes
• Develop effective working relationships with other departments and groups with whom work must be coordinated or interfaced
• Provide second tier after-hours on call support of DisneyStore.com

Experience

• 3+ years previous e-Commerce-related production experience
• BA/BS or equivalent is required
• Thorough understanding of HTML and doctype specific syntax is a must
• Thorough knowledge of all content management tools (both internal and external tooling) in relation to the e-Commerce systems used for DisneyStore.com
• Ability to troubleshoot syntax errors in HTML markup
• Working knowledge of basic SQL, Access databases.Oracle familiarity preferred.

• Integrating the user interface as designs into a variety of web-based templates that are functional in the development and quality testing environments
• Code development of HTML, xHTML, JavaScript, CSS, VTL, AJAX, XML, XSLT
• Managing quality assurance testing feedback and corrections and deployments
• Documentation and design using Adobe Photoshop as becomes necessary to address interface experience gaps
• Code using web standards and best practices, unobtrusive JavaScript, graceful degradation and progressive enhancement
• Use JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as YUI, EXT JS, and jQuery to create interactive interfaces

Requirements

• 5 years experience defining web based user interfaces
• 5 years hands on writing of HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML and XSLT
• 2 years using an existing UI library such as jQuery
• Excellent knowledge of browser compatibility issues

Send me a message if interested at jobs@usabilitycounts.com.

The Product Analyst is involved primarily in the pre-development phase of the product development lifecycle. Product vision, work initiation, prioritization, product scope, requirements management, product sponsor management, business value and approvals are among the areas of action for this position. During the development phase, they are primarily concerned with making sure the product under development matches the vision requirements by working with all areas of software development including artists, designers, engineers, managers and quality assurance teams. This position requires business knowledge, organization, independence and good communication.

Duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Receives requests for new development and enhancements from initiating stakeholders and insures that work requests are complete, accurate, and reflect the intent of the initiator
• Participates in evaluation of the request queue, including elaboration on requests, supporting evaluation of business value, and balancing of capacity with demand
• Participates in the request approval process, which includes screening and approval of requests based on identified business, financial, and technical criteria, as well as prioritizing approved requests based on importance to the business, external deadlines, and resource availability
• Defines and controls the scope of an application release, including integration of all approved and applicable work requests into a single project
• Works with both business and technical stakeholders to create, gather, document, and manage the lifecycle of the business and functional requirements related to work requests, which may include creating use cases and creating documentation for requests; manages the organization and changes to requirements and changes to deliverables
• Leads, tracks and executes the requirements definition phase of the product development cycle, ensuring that all key stakeholders have participated in the process
• Continuously identify and implement process/tool improvements for requirements definition/elicitation process
• Responsible for the creation, implementation and maintenance of standardized requirements documentation
• Is knowledgeable of competing products and can evaluate product and business performance and feature sets against the competition
• Participates in the review of product and technical solutions to project requirements; makes sure designs meet requirements
• May be assigned issues and risks to be resolved during development or quality assurance
• Creates and maintains products guides which provides a central location for documentation related to products and services

This position requires a minimum of four years product management and requirements analysis experience in an information technology environment, as well as proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Visio. Additional software tools, if required, need to be learned quickly.

Additional requirements include:

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and project team members to further the business objectives of our products and services
• Excellent written, verbal and social skills – You will be interacting with all types of people
• Ability to work in a fast paced, multiple project environment on an independent basis and with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of video games, video game business models, the gaming market and competing services is helpful

Top interactive agency is seeking a seasoned  Sr Content Strategist/CS Lead for a three month project of the over 5,000 page site. Environment is highly collaborative and friendly, and extremely fast-paced and tactical in this stage.

Requirements

• Competitive site analysis and benchmarking in content breadth, organization and presentation.
• Creating development plans for web content;  recommending content types and organization based on user needs and marketing goals, identifying content gaps
• Presenting content strategy deliverables to clients
• Selecting and evaluating content; maintaining site content inventory.
• Defining research requirements for web strategy.
• Developing content attributes and classification schemes (content models)
• Understanding of relational databases is desirable.
• Content development and editorial calendar planning experience is desirable
• Supervisory/mentoring experience desirable

Experience

• Content Strategy Experience:  5 years
• Interactive marketing experience: 5 years

A company located in Denver, Colorado are looking for a senior level Lead Experience Architect with strong interests and capabilities in the rapid development of Rich Internet Applications. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies is a must.

Responsibilities

• Gather business requirements, user needs, and visual requirements
• Facilitate key client workshops to solicit feedback and generate consensus
• Guide clients through key design engagements
• Brainstorm best practices and innovation
• Design interaction design diagrams and interface wireframes
• Help define the user model and user interface for new applications
• Develop storyboards and prototypes to communicate UX and design ideas
• Analyze functional and performance requirements to maintain design architectures
• Lead a small team of professional UX Designers
• Strong client-facing presentation and communication skills

Required experience and skills

• 8 or more years of user interface design experience focused around
  visual design for software applications, web, mobile devices, CD-ROMs, or
  kiosks
• 5 or more years as a User Experience lead
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with user interface design patterns, visual design elements, web technologies, and development methodologies
• Demonstrated experience in designing usable applications
• Experience with SaaS platform UI design
• Strong knowledge of MS and Adobe Suite software
• Solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field (BS or MS in Computer Science or related field a big plus).
• Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to web-based applications
• Experience with activities and deliverables associated with user centered design, SDLC, and functional requirements gathering.
• Excellent leadership, communication, project management, and teamwork skills.

The Opportunity

A large consulting company is seeking several .NET experts with five years of .NET programming experience. The selected candidates will work in small groups on multiple software development projects, and will work closely with the assigned Project Managers to deliver quality solutions to our client companies.

Skills

• Expert-level expertise with ASP.NET, Web Services, and Windows Forms
• Experience with large-scale applications in a leadership role
• Expert-level competency in C#.NET
• Broad experience with .NET Framework (1.1/2.0)
• Experience with ADO.NET, SQL Reporting Services and SQL 2000/2005
• Third-party controls (Infragistics or similar)
• Experience with .NET 3.0 (WF, WCF, WPF, WCS)
• Demonstrable experience developing solution architecture
• Leadership experience throughout the software lifecycle

Pluses

• Training or speaking experience (MCT or similar)
• Expert-level experience with one or more emerging technologies such as AJAX.NET
• Experience creating custom controls for either ASP.NET or Windows Forms
• Security, including CAS and WCS

Background

• Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects and rapidly changing priorities.
• Ability to communicate with clients at all levels.
• Ability to come up with the best solution for given requirements.
• Ability to provide reasonably accurate estimates for projects, based on client-provided technical and functional requirements.

The opportunity is for a temporary to permanent mid to senior level Information Architect that lives local to  San Francisco.

The company is a high-end fashion retailer in Union Square area of San Francisco. Office is in the heart of everything: shopping, restaurants, transportation, and is housed in a heritage-style office building with exposed brick walls, big open spaces, and a cozy, close-knit team.

Must be able to lead initiatives and make recommendations, and be proactive the user experience process. Experience working on major site builds in an e-commerce environment is required. Experience in fashion a major plus, but not a requirement.

Please be able to have the full range of information architect skills like building wireframes and writing personas, understand shopping cart functionality, and an ability to evangelize your user experience ideas to a greater team. Having a great sense of humor, and a collaborative team spirit is great too.

If you have any friends that fit this, send it along to jobs@usabilitycounts.com. If there’s a hit, and the person gets hired, I’ll make it worth your while.

The opportunity

An international software development company is looking for a on-site full time Java Senior Engineer with three or more years experience in the design and development of J2EE-based mobile applications to join their application development team, and will be working on applications that comprise of web content management, provisioning, billing, and data analysis applications and defining development processes. The company produces very dynamic and highly interactive applications for the web, and is looking to fill this position immediately. The position is full time, and some travel is required.

Tasks

• Design and lead the implementation of mobile and web storefront, content management, hosting, and provisioning applications
• Define software development processes and frameworks, technical documentations such as UML, use cases, and test plans
• Act as a liaison to other engineering teams working on joint projects
• Provide technical assistance and resolve development issues with external partners

Skills

• 7+ years of professional experience with J2EE software/application programming with an additional background in C/C++
• Experience with Java/J2EE specifications, application server, database schema design, Oracle and JDBC, Hibernate, Struts/Spring, source control and build software such as CVS, Subversion, and ANT
• Practical development and production experience with the wireless industry and development environment especially pertaining to the following technologies: J2ME, BREW, Symbian, Smartphone
• A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Pluses

• Some development experience within the mobile gaming or content space is preferred

Background

• Good communication skills
• Well versed at working with software development teams and processes in a fast paced environment
• Experience working in a corporate environment
• Thorough knowledge of software design concepts, such as object-oriented programming, common design patterns/algorithms, and development lifecycle processes

Pay Range

• Full Time: Depending on experience

The opportunity

An international entertainment company is looking for a contract UNIX or Linux Systems Administrator with four to six years experience to join their systems administration team. The company produces entertainment properties for the web and mobile networks, and is looking to fill this position in the mobile division.

The position is contract.

Requirements

• Proficient in shell scripting
• Working knowledge of Atlassian Products (JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience in versioning systems like CVS, Perforce or Subversion
• Experience in VMWare (ESX) installation and configuration
• Advanced understanding of TCP/IP and other network protocols along with working experience on firewalls, routers and load-balancers
• Collaborative work style, team oriented and good communications skills

Background

• Good communication skills
• Well versed at working with information management teams and processes in a fast paced environment
• Experience working in a corporate environment

Pay Range

• Contact: Depending on experience

I’ve been receiving inquiries about posting jobs here. Because of this, I’ll be posting new opportunities every Monday. Some of them aren’t pure User Experience, but they do have some kind of User Experience or SharePoint slant to them. If you see anything here, or are looking for a job, send me your resume at jobs@usabilitycounts.com. Recruiters, also send along a note, I’d like to offer the blog as another channel.

Senior Level Front End Developer, Southern California

The opportunity

A stable financial services company is looking for a Senior Level Front End Developer with three years experience to join their web applications development team. The company provides financial advice and tools to their customers, and is well positioned to survive to current downturn in the financial market. They may consider the right candidate if they have experience in a J2EE environment and are looking to expand their skill set.

The position is full time.

Requirements

• Rich Internet Application (RIA) development experience, preferably with AJAX, Flex or Flash
• Experience with Java Server Plages
• Experience with Actionscript 2 and Actionscript 3
• Advanced HTML, CSS and CSS-P skills
• Advanced JavaScript skills

Pluses

Background

• Good communication skills
• Advanced technical leadership and mentoring capabilities
• Well versed at working with User Experience teams and processes
• Experience working in a corporate environment
• Proven track record of delivering innovative solutions

Pay Range

Senior Level Flex Developer, Southern California

The opportunity

A technology product and services company is looking for a Flex Developer  with two years experience to join their User Experience team. The company is international in scope and a leader in their field, and their client list includes Fortune 500 companies that use their award winning, enterprise-level products and solutions. They may consider the right candidate if they have experience in a J2EE environment and are looking to expand their skill set.

The position is either a full time or contract.

Requirements

• Rich Internet Application (RIA) development experience, preferably with AJAX or Adobe Flash
• Experience with the Adobe Flex development environment
• Advanced HTML and CSS skills
• ActionScript skills
• JavaScript skills

Pluses

Background

• Good communication skills
• Well versed at working with User Experience teams and processes
• Proven track record of delivering innovative solutions

Pay Range