Description
No 3rd Party or H1 Visa
This individual should have a strong graphic design as well as technical background and the ability to assimilate into our business, allowing for contribution to the overall product vision.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Participate in the complete Agile software development life cycle
- Design user interfaces for our next-generation, web and Silverlight applications.
- Use experience, research, and analysis to solve complex UX design problems with elegant solutions.
- Adapt creative styles as needed while maintaining creative, technical, and brand standards.
- Collaborate with product management and engineering throughout the product lifecycle to actively plan, problem-solve, and ensure successful launch of services.
- Maintain active knowledge of and implement user-centric design best practices.
- Contribute to the evolution and strategy of company design policies and practices as they apply to the implementation of standards, interaction, color, typography, artwork, and all other visual/interactive expressions of the user experience.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Required
- 5+ years total UX/UI design experience in web application design and development of dynamic data driven websites.
- Expertise in HTML/XHTML, HTML5, JavaScript, XML, CSS, CSS3 and CSS frameworks.
- Expertise in visual design tools such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Expert use and understanding of current typographical, graphical, navigational, and web standards best practices.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate concepts and ideas through wireframes, simulations and prototypes.
- In depth knowledge of User Interface design principles, Human Factors, User-centered Design Processes, Interaction Design guidelines, usability testing methodologies.
Preferred
- Experience creating WPF/Silverlight XAML user interfaces in Visual Studio or Expression Blend.
- Experience with Telerik controls for Silverlight.
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Prototype or Moo Tools.
- Experience with mobile platforms.