Senior User Interaction Designer Xoom
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By driving revenue growth through user conversion and retention, your impact to our business is measurable through to the bottom line. Your thorough understanding of user-centered design principles and the ability to dive into the website redesign project will have an immediate impact on the company.
As our Senior User Interaction Designer, you will lead the product team to be user experience centric and to delight our customers with the features we build. It is critical for you to work well in cross-functional teams and have a strong leadership presence. Exceptional communication, analytical and interpersonal skills are a must. Moreover you need to balance user experience, business needs and time-to-market, and make tradeoffs where appropriate.
Responsibilities:
From a strategy and execution standpoint and with the support of the product team you will:
Revamp and modernize our site to provide a seamless experience in order to increase our conversion and retention rates.
Internationalize and localize our site to support multiple languages, currencies and payment types.
Leverage the latest technologies to add new and innovative features to continually delight our customers.
From an organizational leadership perspective you will:
Develop a user centric paradigm within the immediate product team and beyond.
Develop and evangelize a process for user centered design.
Manage a usability and know-your-customer program to gain insights into our users behaviors and needs.
Leverage the power of analytical tools to uncover trouble spots in our site.
Take a look at our site and imagine how your abilities and talents will transform our website and impact our business.
Qualifications:
At least 4+ years experience working as a senior-level interaction designer for finance-related and/or e-commerce transactional websites. Visual web design experience a plus.
Solid understanding of the fundamentals of user interface design; should have experience working through the entire product life cycle and be familiar with user-centered design methods.
Knowledge of best practices of all major best of breed web-based interfaces.
Proficient in creating prototypes which capture the interface flow, navigation, and look and feel.
Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, Flash and web 2.0 interactions and technologies.
Education:
Degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or related discipline or equivalent work experience. Masters or other advanced degrees are a plus.
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301 Brannan Street
5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States
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