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Location: Waxhaw, NC
URL: http://www.jaars.org

JAARS, Inc. is seeking a driven, team-focused Web designer/developer—someone who’s able and eager to enhance our corporate sites, social media and email marketing. You’ll spend your days:
• Identifying key ways to improve our online media and spark interest in written content—then applying user-friendly solutions
• Creating wireframes and design comps
• Implementing your designs in content management systems, HTML emails and other forms
• Choosing and creating graphics, such as icons or promotional imagery
• Selecting and retouching photos

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or 5–7 years of experience
• Strong track record in user-centric Web design and development—proven by a robust portfolio
• Significant experience with HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript and PHP
• Skilled using industry design tools, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
• In-depth knowledge of online media production practices, such as Web standards and cross-browser support
• Experience designing or developing for Drupal is a plus
• Knowledge of version control, especially Subversion, is a plus

Key Traits
• Work well individually and with a team
• Comfortably give and receive creative critiques
• Effectively manage several projects at a time
• Take both initiative and direction
• Support our mission, code of conduct, and beliefs (see below)
• Participate in regular work-related spiritual activities without reservation

About Us
We’re a Christian nonprofit that provides technical support services—such as aviation, IT and media—to advance Bible translation and literacy in lesser-known languages. We work hand-in-hand with Wycliffe Bible Translators, SIL International and others to improve lives in more than 90 countries.

To learn more:
• Visit www.jaars.org
• Read Wycliffe Bible Translators’ doctrinal statement, which we support: http://www.wycliffe.org/About/WhatWeBelieve/Doctrine.aspx

To apply: Send your resume, portfolio and application (www.jaars.org/employee-application) to ron_barkey@jaars.org, with the subject line “Web Designer/Developer.”

Location: Los Angeles, CA
URL: http://www.truecar.com

Are you passionate about UX, information architecture and intuitive interaction? Are you moved by clean, purposeful information design? Does "useful" versus "usable" resonate with you?
If the answer is YES to these questions, then, we want to hear from you!

We are TrueCar (www.truecar.com), and we truly care about our employees. So much so, that WE PAY 100% PREMIUM FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL AND VISION COVERAGE for our employees and their dependents, and we match 75% on 4% of employees’ 401(k) contributions.
Also:
· Monthly cell phone reimbursement
· Monthly gym/fitness reimbursement
· Referral bonus
· Patent bonus

JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Designer must possess exceptional visual and user interface design skills, as well as user-centered design principals. This position requires an affinity for consistency, color use, typography, as well as a relentless and keen eye for subtle details. While exercising a gifted eye for aesthetics, the Senior Designer must be able to quickly grasp and distill highly complex issues. Strong communication skills and the ability to stay highly organized are critical. The role demands a self-motivated, highly organized, and creatively adept individual that can perform multiple tasks under minimal supervision. Our designer must be completely comfortable accepting feedback and addressing the needs of the team. A desire to convey and protect the company’s brand is a necessity.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
· Ability to translate business requirements into highly usable web designs, with a particular focus on user experience.

· Communicate with and work in an integrated Product Development, Design and Engineering team to define experiential goals/requirements and then design, validate, and document compelling and innovative user experiences.

· Work closely with Product Development to ensure that application and UI implementations meet experiential goals.

· Designing low and high fidelity prototypes, and writing design documents to effectively communicate functional behavior to stakeholders.

· Develop information architectures

· Rapid creation of mockup ups and wireframes of designs.

· Design web pages and present multiple iterations of designs.

· Help create test plan and strategy for usability testing.

· Special projects as assigned

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EDUCATION

· Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite tools, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.

· Proficient in creating Flash animations – with an understanding of animation mechanics

· Experience with some form of rapid prototyping using HTML, Flash, DreamWeaver or similar solution

· Experience with documenting designs as form of functional specification

· Practical experience with web technologies – understanding how they work and what they can do

· 5+ years of successful experience in designing, developing, executing & managing online projects

· Bachelor’s degree required, MFA or similar higher degree a plus

Local candidates
To apply: http://truecar.simplicant.com/job/detail/4371-senior-designer
Please include a link to your portfolio and current work.
Must be authorized to work in the United States

TrueCar (http://www.truecar.com) is a fast growing car-pricing information service based in Santa Monica, California. Our mission is to bring full pricing transparency to new car buying by creating a rich and satisfying experience for consumers. We help buyers negotiate a purchase price more easily and with less stress. For all employees of TrueCar, this company is a simultaneously challenging, exciting, energetic, frustrating, and ultimately rewarding experience. We believe in a casual work environment, and greatly value unique and creative thinkers with the ability to execute.

To apply: http://truecar.simplicant.com/job/detail/4371-senior-designer

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

The Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Pittsburgh works with schools and community organizations to develop better learning environments for the city’s urban youth. Part of this effort is the design and development of new learning technologies and activities. CUE is looking for someone to lead that design and implementation work.

This individual will work closely with CUE researchers, Pittsburgh Public School students and teachers (specifically those at Pittsburgh Milliones 6-10 University Preparatory school), and other community members (e.g., museum curators) to understand their needs, develop prototype technologies, and assist in their implementation in context.

Responsibilities:

*Support ongoing teacher training in the use of technology in the classroom, including locating appropriate tools to use.
*Design and build working prototypes of new technologies to address students’ needs.
*Collaborate with community partners to develop extra-curricular learning experiences for students.
*Assist university and school IT staff in the daily logistics of a 1:1 laptop program.

Education Required:

*Baccalaureate

Qualifications:

*BA/BS required.
*A MA in Computer Science, Learning Sciences, Game Design, or similar is a plus.
*Extensive knowledge of interactive technology design required.
*Expertise with Django, Ruby on Rails, Wicket, or similar web development frameworks is required.
*Linux expertise a strong plus.
*Must pass a criminal background check.
*Experience working with schools, museums, or after-school programs. Experience designing and implementing new interactive technologies (please be prepared to demo past work).

To apply: must apply at www.pittsource.com; enter job number 0127747

Required Knowledge: django, python, piston, postgresql, trac, git
Deadline: April 17, 2010
Location: London, UK

Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: www.bo.lt

Create a groundbreaking interface for a killer marketing application.

We are a well-funded startup located on the Waterfront in San Francisco building our third and biggest, software company. The Sr. Interaction Designer is a key missing member of our team. The Sr. Interaction designer knows how to understand online marketers, and give them a solution that they look forward to using.

We are in “stealth mode,” but we expect that an huge percentage of online marketers will use what you design here. The job begins with practical and effective user research. You will help us pull together a group of experts who’s lives will be improved with our solutions. You will be responsible for creating mockups and prototypes to preview potential functionality and elicit feedback. And you are the voice of the customer in our functionality prioritization. Using your keen sense of what is beautiful and intuitive, you will work with visual design resources, and interface engineers to make sure the product is great.

Key Activities
Initiate and lead ongoing user research and usability analysis
Analyze and synthesize research
Propose, create and solicit feedback on mockups
Work with visual designers and interface developers to create working prototypes for user feedback
Work with Product Managers and Engineers to establish development priorities
Manage the production of world-class interfaces using in-house and contract designers
Working with interface engineers to translate designs to working software
Iterate

Skills
BA/BS or MS in Human Computer Interaction, Usability, Human Factors, Graphic or Industrial Design or a related discipline
5 years Interaction Design experience
Strong knowledge of Web based user interface design processes
Significant experience with prototyping tools including Photoshop, Illustrator and Visio
Detailed working knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies especially JavaScript, CSS and AJAX
Passion for simple, intuitive designs

To apply: Send a link to your work to jamie@bo.lt

Location: St. Augustine, FL
URL: http://www.flagler.edu

The Art and Design Department at Flagler College is seeking candidates for a faculty position in Graphic Design in a department that encourages cross-disciplinary study between fine art and graphic design. Candidates should possess a strong commitment to teaching and a broad knowledge of graphic design and digital media applications.

Candidates should be flexible and able to teach a variety of Graphic Design courses with an emphasis on web and digital media design. Ideal candidates should have a strong design sensibility and a thorough knowledge of the latest digital media technologies, including CSS, HTML, Dreamweaver and Flash.

Candidates with a postgraduate degree who hold a MFA, MA or Ph.D. in Graphic Design or related field will be considered for the position. Employment will begin August 2010; salary is commensurate with experience and credentials.

To apply: Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter, vita, a list of three references (including telephone numbers and e-mail addresses) and samples (both candidate and student) of graphic design and web design work that demonstrate a successful application

Location: San Francisco, CA USA
URL: http://www.eventbrite.com

Are you a world class interaction designer? Want to join our amazing team at the world’s fastest growing social commerce company? We need your help to deliver the best user experience on the web.

Why Eventbrite?

Eventbrite empowers anyone to host successful live experiences of any type or size by providing an easy way to manage, promote and sell out the event. We bring together transactions with social interactions to allow events to live, flourish and take flight anywhere online. This isn’t just another Bay Area startup, either. We have a proven business model serving tens of thousands of event organizers and millions of eventgoers. We have some of the world’s best investors in folks like Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Michael Birch, and more. We have passionate customers and a fun-loving, dedicate team: Eventbrite was recently named one of the best places to work in San Francisco.

Why You

Because you live, breathe and sleep user-centric web design. Because you love to collaborate but won’t settle for anything less than greatness. Because you can’t help but think through entire experiences, rather than static pages, and you’re driven to innovate in pursuit of concrete business goals. Because you want to reach millions of users but need to work as part of a small, agile team.

You have at least 3-5 years of interactive web and visual design experience, as well as demonstrated mastery of the creative stack and CSS+HTML. Startup experience is a huge plus and a great attitude is non-negotiable. We’re looking for the best – you know who you are.

Interested? Send us a cover letter, resume and a link to your portfolio to learn more.

To apply: Please apply via this URL: http://bit.ly/9DsEtu

Location: Seattle
URL: http://kindle.com



Amazon Kindle is the #1 bestselling, most gifted and most wished for product on Amazon.com.

The Kindle Design team is seeking a talented and passionate senior user experience designer to work on Amazon’s revolutionary wireless reading device. This designer will be responsible for designing the UI architecture, usability, interaction flows, and visual design of new and existing applications and experiences.
 
We’re looking for a designer to create elegant, customer-focused interfaces while meeting business teams’ needs and collaborate with a team of passionate designers.


Responsibilities
• Contribute to the design of useful, usable, and desirable user interfaces in a team environment
• Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
• Use business requirements and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements
• Design the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of applications and experiences
• Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes
• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns
• Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and Amazon.com executives for review and feedback


Qualifications
• At least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions is a requirement for application
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a collaborative team with developers for implementation of designs
• Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
• Ability to define, articulate, evangelize, and integrate the role of design within an organization
• Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently
• Fluency in best design practices and solid knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience
• Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, OmniGraffle and Dreamweaver


Preferred skills and experience
• Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, or Flash
• Experience designing mobile web, and/or on-device mobile applications
• Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides

To apply: markpr@amazon.com

Location: Cleveland, OH
URL: http://www.within3.com

Within3 is a technology startup that offers a social networking platform and custom-built communities for professionals in the medical/healthcare vertical. As member of our growing UX team, youʼll be designing and developing communities and growing our product verticals.

This is a full-time position, on-site position. We are looking for talent in and around the Northeast Ohio area, in particular. Relocation is not part of the package.

Job responsibilities include:
• Owning the community design process – e.g .wireframes, flows, prototypes, usability, screenshots
• Building out your designs in production-level XHTML and CSS
• Supporting community content updates as requested by clients
• Creating style guidelines and promoting standards
• Producing mockups and demos for sales/marketing initiatives

Competencies and profile:
• “T-shaped” in your skill-set.
• Your design is informed by lots of outside sources including feedback and collaboration with others
• You can read a clientʼs brand essence quickly, help them to articulate their goals and see solutions that "fit" perfectly
• Youʼre good at producing quick turnarounds, juggling and prioritizing a number of projects
•You know how to be a perfectionist within different time-frames
• We know that designers have egos. You acknowledge that bias, and keep yours in check.

Experience we are looking for:
• Great portfolio with clean, simple design approach
• Photoshop is your bread and butter
• Skilled with (X)HTML and CSS hand-coding skills, separating content from style (table-less)
• The ability to communicate and build cases for superior user experiences
• Demonstrate a history of building easy-to-use user interfaces, and a solid understanding of usability issues, best practices, and interaction patterns
• Experience working in an Agile environment is a plus

To apply: Send resume and link to portfolio to rbennett@within3.com

Required Knowledge: I am looking to partner up with an awesome Graphic Designer, preferably in Chicago, IL.
Deadline: April 19, 2010
Location: Chicago, IL

Location: Pasadena, CA
URL: http://www.goldstar.com

Goldstar is currently seeking a front-end web developer with great graphic design skills and attention to detail to join our production team. You’ll take wireframes, specs and mockups to build the front-end then work with a back-end developer to wire it all together. You’ll also contribute to the design of various web and email-based projects with your beautiful and elegant, yet intuitive and clean design sense.

Skills and Experience Required
- Semantic and standard compliant HTML and CSS
- CSS framework experience
- BFA or MFA in Design or at least 5 years design experience
- Excellent understanding of browser capabilities and issues
- Advocate for best practices, great usability/user-centered design and exceptional quality
- HTML for emails, aka 1999 standards
- Experience working with Ruby on Rails or other MVC framework
- Experience designing for social and e-commerce applications
- Experience in an agile work environment is a plus

About Goldstar
Goldstar helps people go out more by providing fun ideas, half-price tickets, member reviews, and all the tools they need to have great nights out. We’re present in 11 markets and help 1,000,000+ members go out to more than 3,000 venues. We want to make the world a better place by making live entertainment more accessible.

The company is located in Pasadena, California and is privately held. The work environment is focused, but casual, and the company’s big enough to have a lot of interesting people working in it, and small enough that you’ll know them all. It’s a fun business to be around, and the company is growing very fast.

Compensation and Perks
- Salary Range: From $50,000 to $80,000 annually, commensurate with experience
- Paid medical, dental and vision benefits (Blue Cross, Delta Dental, and VSP)
- Stock options as part of the Goldstar Employee Stock Option Plan
- Paid vacation
- Participation in the Employee Comp Ticket Program

This is an on-site job in our Pasadena, CA offices. Relocation help may be available.

Please submit a resume and links to your code and design.

To apply: Apply online at http://goldstar.catchthebest.com/apply/54c7/8244

Location: Minneapolis, MN 55401
URL: www.bestbuy.com

Bestbuy.com is one of retail’s most highly respected websites. With Best Buy’s focus on their customers, their international expansion and new business models, they are setting out to make it an even better customer experience by building a flexible, web-based services infrastructure. If you have a strong web architecture and development background and wish to join a rewarding and challenging effort, consider Best Buy.

The St e-Business Architect will guide efforts to develop and integrate technologies into the online channel roadmap of priority initiatives. In addition, this position will give architectural direction as the website is reengineered into a web services platform.

Position requires excellent communication and cross-functional working skills. Position also requires strong business, technical, and e-commerce expertise to affect excellent outcomes on Bestbuy.com and all managed online properties.

Responsibilities:
-Online Channel Architecture Planning
-Key participant in developing and executing the online channel technology architecture vision, strategies, and tactics to support revenue objectives and business expectations for an exceptional customer experience.
-Identify and integrate Industry best practices and develop strategic relationships with leaders in the emerging web technology space Capability Development
-Key participant in assessing online landscape and determine which new emerging capabilities the online channel should be pursuing
-Create patterns and practices for uniform web development and operational architecture -Creates roadmap for integrating the new capabilities into the online channel Provides direction to teams delivering the technology -Organizational Effectiveness Foster strong working relationships across enterprise to ensure integrated and consistent approach to creating capabilities and transformation to web services.
-Guide, coach and mentor developers

Basic Requirements:
-High School diploma or equivalent
-5 or more years of experience with emerging technologies in the internet space
-Experience with developing strong relationships with emerging technology companies
-Experience developing strong professional relationships and influencing peers, management and other teams
-5 or more years of Web Architecture experience in complex business environments
-3 or more years of experience with agile development (XP, Scrum, Hybrid, Crystal, or DSDM acceptable)
-5 or more years of experience with high-availability/high-scalability systems

Preferred Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree
-Proficient Java experience
-Experience with the Spring Framework
-Resource-oriented architectures
-Event-driven architectures
-Automated deployment
-Automated functional testing
-Ruby, Scala, or Clojure
-Experience with either Kanban or Lean development processes
-Hadoop or Greenplum systems
-Strong communication and facilitation skills

To apply: https://bestbuy.taleo.net/careersection/7/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

Location: Minneapolis, MN 55401
URL: www.bestbuy.com

Bestbuy.com is one of retail’s most highly respected websites. With Best Buy’s focus on their customers, their international expansion and new business models, they are setting out to make it an even better customer experience by building a flexible, open, web-services based infrastructure. If you have a strong web architecture and development background and wish to join a rewarding and challenging effort, consider Best Buy.

The Sr eBusiness Architect will guide efforts to develop and integrate technologies into the online channel roadmap of priority initiatives. In addition, this position will give architectural direction as the website is reengineered into a web services platform.

Position requires excellent communication and cross-functional working skills. Position also requires strong business, technical, and e-commerce expertise to affect excellent outcomes on Bestbuy.com and all managed online properties.

Responsibilities:
-Online Channel Architecture Planning
-Key participant in executing the analytics and feedback vision.
-Server design experience for massively parallel computation.
-Network and storage design for high-volume, high-throughput applications.
-Parallel data processing programming experience.
-Capability Development
-Architect and implement the production data crunching infrastructure Design and prototype data induction processes.
-Create patterns and practices for operational architecture Lead a group of data scavengers, processors, and pushers.
-Define processes for creating new reports, algorithms, and correlations.
-Create guidelines and standards for programs.
-Organizational Effectiveness
-Foster strong working relationships across enterprise to ensure integrated and consistent approach to creating capabilities and transformation to web services.
-Guide, coach and mentor developers
-Collaborate with source system owners
-Collaborate with data consumers

Required Qualifications:
-High School diploma or equivalent
-5 or more years of experience with web technologies
-3 or more years of web architecture experience in complex business environments
-3 or more years of experience with high-scalability systems
-2 or more years of experience with agile development Experience developing strong professional relationships and influencing peers, management and other teams

Preferred Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree
-Proficient Java experience
-Hadoop, HDFS
-Hive, Pig, or Cascading
-Ruby, Scala, or Clojure
-Experience with either Kanban or Lean development processes Strong communication and facilitation skills

To apply: https://bestbuy.taleo.net/careersection/7/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

Location: New York, New York
URL: http://www.healthleap.com

We are looking for an experienced visual/graphic designer who can make beautiful, compelling, designs with a focus on simplicity and usability.

A description of you:
- Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. are your left hand; these tools come with ease to you.
- You can design in HTML and CSS (this is a must)
- Usability, simplicity and consistency are always at the root of your designs. If it’s not simple to use, it’s not good design. Just being pretty doesn’t cut it for you.
- You have ideas about how to make a product better, and won’t hesitate to share even if they fall outside of your expertise.
- RoR knowledge and experience with WordPress theme is a plus
- You enjoy working in a start-up environment

And now us:
- We are a young Health 2.0 start-up. We’re incredibly driven and excited about what we’re building together.
- We care deeply about the work we do, and it’s often very hard work, but have a lot of fun while we do it.
- We work in an Agile environment, able to react quickly to constantly evolving processes, and do so very well.

To apply: Please send resume to jobs@healthleap.com. As far as your portfolio goes, this is a visual designer position that is heavily web related so we expect some kind of web presence from you. Please provide a link to your website and/or web portfolio when apply

Location: New York City, New York
URL: www.patch.com

Patch is a local news company focused on reinventing community journalism one town at a time. We employ a full-time editor for each community we serve, and create personalized news in towns across the country, encouraging participation from local users with our high-quality content. We’ve been very successful in meeting our goals so far, and with a big expansion planned for 2010, we need your help!

We currently have an opening for an experienced Product Manager who will become a member of our Product Team for our local news platform. You will help with product strategy, flow and requirements gathering. Are you an independent and creative thinker who has a strong desire to take ownership of software projects at a small but rapidly growing company?

We are looking for someone who:

• Will become an expert user of the site, learn it backwards and forwards, and understand it from the perspectives of multiple user constituencies.

• Be an advocate for the user, keeping his/her best interests in mind at all times.

• Solicit and collate feedback about the product from across the organization, and turn this data into actionable product feature enhancements & projects.

• Propose new features and document product requirements. Practice smart documentation: no more no less than necessary.

• Has worked closely with engineering & design teams to implement features in a rapid, iterative manner.

• Work with the head of Product Management to prioritize both the short-term development queue and long-term product roadmap.

Skills your will need to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• A detail-oriented individual who wants everything to be just right, but can prioritize and identify the 5 most important things from a list of 100.

• 2-5 years as a Product Manager working on web-based software.

• Knowledge of and/or interest in best practices for web usability & analytics.

• Familiarity with issue tracking and/or project management software.

• Experience in an agile development environment.

• General understanding of web application architecture, client/server interactions, AJAX, etc.

• Experience with programming (professional or as a personal hobby) is desired but not required.

Some great things about working at Patch:

· We have a spectacular team focused on solving complex problems.

· Our engineers work on fulfilling, self-directed projects.

· We actively encourage participation in open-source projects.

· Competitive pay and benefits including 401k, medical, dental etc.

Join Our Team!!

To apply: johnb@patch.com

Required Knowledge: PHP, AJAX, MySQL, Javascript, XTML, CSS,
Deadline: May 30, 2010
Location: Los Angeles

Required Knowledge: Our Firm is looking for a web developer to design and develop two websites, due to two new company aquisitions of new companies we are looking for talented designers and programmers who can help us [...]
Deadline: April 16, 2010
Location: London,Hamburg,Paris

Location: Mountain View, CA
URL: http://www.kosmix.com/

Senior User Experience Designer

About Kosmix
Kosmix is your guide to the Web. We are a 65-person company made up of some of the brightest and most passionate minds in the areas of search engineering, web application development, product management and user experience. Kosmix is near profitable; we are very stable financially and with our emergence as a key player in real-time search space are on the cusp of major growth over the coming years.

Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Internet pioneers Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman (both Stanford CS alumni who also founded and sold Junglee to Amazon.com for $ 250 Million in 1998), and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an office in San Francisco, CA. Kosmix has raised $55M in funding from Time Warner Investments, Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, as well as private investors including Jeff Bezos, Jonathan Miller, and Ed Zander.

The User Experience Team
As a strategic part to product development at Kosmix, the UED team plays a key role in every step, from initial brainstorming sessions to product launch. In addition to creating the best user experience for our web products, we are also developing for other platforms such as smart phones or ipad. We are a fairly small team, which allows for each team member to truly own and lead the design effort and influence the Kosmix user experience.

The Opportunity:
• We are looking for an experienced Senior User Experience Designer who is passionate about conceptualizing high-level ideas and as well as tactical UI design and implementation
• You will be responsibile for creating the user interface of our key consumer experiences and projects, ranging from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation
• Solving problems creatively and coming up with a variety of solutions is one of your strengths
You will be working hand in hand with product managers and web developers to bring product ideas to life
• As a Senior member of the UED team, you will be contributing to a range of design challenges, including usability testing, information architecture, interaction design and visual design
• You will define and implement design criteria, guidelines, and specs; illustrate experience with industry standards and corporate visual design guidelines
• Your design expertise will allow you to effectively communicate, incorporate feedback and get buy-in on proposed solutions from key stakeholders
• You will Identify and lead process improvements that make the UED team more efficient and effective

The Desired Skill-set:
• 5+ years of experience as a UED Designer with a focus on consumer-facing products
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, or related field
• Strong online portfolio available for viewing
• Proven ability to set the design direction for your projects and to collaborate with other designers
• Ability to adhere to critical project timelines in a fast-paced, iterative design and development environment
• Self-motivated, able to solve problems and deliver results
• Process oriented, conceptually driven, and able work collaboratively in a technical setting
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively articulate design ideas

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a copy of your resume and link to your online portfolio to boris@kosmix.com. We look forward to getting to know you!!

To apply: If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a copy of your resume and link to your online portfolio to boris@kosmix.com or apply through our jobs page: http://recruit.trovix.com/jobhostmaster/jobhost/ApplyToJobPostResumeExt.do?action=applyToJob

Location: Washington, DC
URL: www.edf.org/jobs

With world attention focused on both the environment and the economy, Environmental Defense Fund is where policymakers and business leaders turn for win-win solutions. This leading green group, founded in 1967, has tripled in size over the past decade by focusing on strong science, uncommon partnerships and market-based approaches. You can be part of a vibrant workplace that welcomes diverse perspectives, talents and contributions, where innovation and a focus on results are a way of life. With programs from Boston to Beijing, Environmental Defense Fund is the only environmental group to receive an A rating from Wired magazine.

Overall Function:

Environmental Defense Fund is increasingly using online communications to get the word out and exert influence. We’re looking for a Web Producer to help keep our online presence as top-notch as our science and policy work. Together with other senior members of our Internet team, the Web Producer will help build the next generation of our online presence. Projects can range in scope from routine landing pages to a full site makeover. The position is based in Washington, D.C.

If you are a resourceful project lead with a strong interest in telling great stories and inspiring action, this position is for you.

Responsibilities:

• Work with program and communications staff to articulate and clarify their goals
• Based on the goals, guide the team in developing content strategy, design guidelines, information architecture and outreach plans, including use of social media.
• Schedule, track and manage projects with multi-disciplinary teams of staff and consultants. Small projects might include just a writer or a subject expert. Large projects can involve an outside designer, UI researcher, programmer, communications director and additional writers and experts.
• Build site sections using our content management system, HTML, CSS, and Wordpress.
• Take full responsibility for the overall cohesion and quality of projects, including quality assurance.
• Supply the energy, communication and leadership to keep projects moving in a decentralized, matrixed organization.
• Pitch in with ideas and other help as needed on a small, close online team.

Qualifications:

• Five or more years of experience coordinating and executing projects of similar scope and complexity.
• Thorough knowledge of online production environments and challenges.
• Proficiency with standards-compliant HTML, CSS and basic image editing and design using Photoshop
• Experience keeping project teams focused, organized and moving. Knowledge of Basecamp is a plus, but compulsive use of any similar tool is a good sign.
• Strong user-centered design background, including familiarity with common research techniques. Strong design experience or formal design training is a plus.
• Excellent written and in-person communication skills. Editorial background is a plus.
• Familiarity with dynamic content, RSS feeds, incorporating social media components, Wordpress, video and audio editing. Experience creating multimedia features is a plus.
• Fascination with emerging communications tools, and curiosity about how we can use them to advance EDF’s mission.
• Flexibility to take on new roles as the evolution of the Internet leads us in unanticipated directions.
• Commitment to environmental progress is not required, but it will make the work more interesting.

(April 2010)

To apply: Qualified applicants should submit their cover letter (including salary requirements) and resume through the EDF jobs page (www.edf.org/jobs) or email directly to jobs@edf.org. Due to the volume of employment applications and queries received, EDF is u

Location: New York, NY
URL: http://www.nytco.com

This person will design new editorial and application areas of New York Times digital products, including NYTimes.com, mobile properties and applications for alternative platforms. He or she will enhance existing features and functionality as well as develop new digital products from scratch. A strong competency in information architecture/interaction design and creating superior user interface designs are a must. Experience in high-volume Web-based publishing is a plus. The position will also include design documentation, producing isolated instances of code and general collaboration in the design process.
Primary Responsibilities
• Design user interfaces and produce graphics for editorial and application areas throughout NYTimes.com
• Work collaboratively with design colleagues (e.g., information architects, design technologists, other Web designers) and stakeholders (product managers, product managers, editors, technologists) to shape user experiences for new Times-based digital products
• Produce isolated instances of client-side code as necessary
Secondary Responsibilities
• Preparing information architecture deliverables, including wire-framing, site maps, use case scenarios and other interaction design activities
• Support Design Director and management staff on a variety of additional projects and troubleshooting
• Routine presentations to stakeholders
Required Qualifications
• 5-7 years Web Design experience with a focus in interaction design/user interface
• Exceptional level of facility with the principles of visual design, layout, typography, art direction, usability and interaction
• Exceptional level of personal organization and attention to detail, creativity, conscientiousness, entrepreneurship
• Familiar with HTML, XHTML, CSS, Web standards-based design, RSS
• Advanced familiarity with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash
• Passionate about interactive design and all things Internet
• Drive to develop new skills

To apply: rohanna.thomas@nytimes.com