USER EXPERIENCE MANAGER

User Experience Managers

Fulltime

110-145k plus bonus

Must be located in Chicago or willing to relocate.

Travel 100% M-F

Bachelors Degree

Major Professional services firm is seeking highly motivated User Experience Manager with strong experience with user interface design, usability, web development technologies, and interfacing these technologies with Front End user interface system.

Manager:
Responsibilities:

• Create workplans
• Organize and lead teams
• Manage issues
• Identify cross team dependencies
• Conduct Front End analysis, interviewing, focus groups, requirements gathering.
• Use storyboarding, user scenario development, high level use case definition, user and task analysis, to capture and develop user requirements and integrate elements into user interaction designs.
• Create, evaluate and modify high and low fidelity prototypes to support development process.
• Design highly usable interfaces fro multiple channels-Internet, handheld, tablet PC, and touch screen kiosks, etc.
• Design and develop usablity testing plans.
• Plan, coordinate and facilitate usability tests.
• Provide heuristic analysis of existing user interfaces.
• Lead training classes on usability, interface design and information architecture.
• Promote user centered design principles throughout the organization
• Serve as a resource of human factors based knowledge and design.

Requirements:

• Min of 6yrs of experience with User Interface Design and Usability
• Min of 6yrs of experience in user research techniques such as usability testing, contextual inquiries and focus groups.
• Min of 3 years experience with web development technologies such as HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Flex, or Silverlight.
• Min of 2 years experience in project management
• Bachelors Degree
• Ability to travel 100% M-F