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Senior User Experience Designer Balihoo
Summary:Job Title: Senior User Experience Designer
Location: Boise, ID
Sector: Marketing with an emphasis on marketing automation
Reports to: Senior Vice President of Product Management
Compensation: Competitive base salary, stock options, plus benefits
About Balihoo:
Balihoo is a dynamic and rapidly growing SaaS company headquartered in Boise, ID. To support our continued rapid growth, we continue to hire aggressively across various departments. At Balihoo, we are looking for highly motivated, dedicated and talented individuals who will be able to contribute significantly to the success of the company while receiving tremendous opportunities for professional growth and development.
Job Description:
Balihoo is searching for a Senior User Experience Designer to lead the translation of business requirements into UX design concepts, prototypes and compelling experiences for our customers. This position will serve as a mentor across development and product management, leading those teams to focus on user-centered design principles.
The User Experience Designer will develop a deep understanding of Balihoo customers and users through disciplined, research oriented UX programs that engender the participation of product managers and developers. That understanding will translate into a clear strategy for intuitive and compelling user experiences that increase adoption and usage of our applications. We work in a Scrum development environment and the User Experience Designer will need to work very closely with product managers and developers in rapid development iterations.
Balihoo is a high growth internet company transforming from a startup into a more established organization. UX and interaction design as a discrete discipline will be yours to establish in the company. Leadership and change management will need to be in your DNA so be sure to highlight such experience.
Additional Responsibilities:
Leading UX strategy and development of new processes across the company
Developing concepts and prototypes to help stakeholders envision proposed user experiences
Developing and administering usability testing and user research initiatives
Establishing and maintaining UI consistency across all applications
Producing screen designs for developers within an iterative Scrum environment
Education and Experience:
Fluency in a wide range of UI design tools
Moderate visual graphic design skills
Extensive experience with Usability Testing methods
Experience conducting user research to understand fundamental needs and goals
Experience with web application design
Experience with Agile methodologies including Scrum
Experience delivering information architectures and taxonomies, user profiles (personas), style guides and component libraries
Understanding of front-end development technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX
BA/BS degree. Degree in Human-Computer Interaction is a plus.
5 years of experience designing web applications with demonstrable body of work
Advanced visual graphic design skills are a big plus
Experience designing for marketing applications is highly desired
Experience designing for data visualization is highly desired
Experience designing mobile web UI is strongly desired. Experience designing for native or hybrid web applications is a big plus
Low fidelity prototyping skills are a must. High fidelity prototyping is a big plus.
| Location: | 404 South 8th Street Suite 300 Boise, ID 83702 United States |
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Balihoo
5 - 20M RaisedInvestors: Highway 12 Ventures, Lacuna, OpenView Venture Partners
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| Web Site: | www.balihoo.com |
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| Headquarters: | 404 South 8th Street Suite 300 Boise, ID 83702 United States |
| Employees: | 41-100 |
| Industry: | Software |
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