UI Developer Healthline Networks

Opportunity

Healthline seeks a seasoned and passionate web designer to join the team. This role works in close partnership with product management, marketing, editorial and engineering teams to create the next generation of Healthline Networks' products and services.

The UI Designer is responsible for the interaction and visual design of the entire end to end user experience on Healthline.com. This includes conducting user research, creating wireframes, mockups, prototypes and production-ready assets. You'll work on a variety of projects, from launching brand new features to redesigning existing experiences.

Roles and Responsibilities

Translate business and product requirements into addictive, informative and user experiences
Utilize a variety of means to convey your ideas to a cross functional team, including wireframes, mockups, storyboards, use case scenarios and dynamic, interactive prototypes
Create and enforce consistent design, style and brand standards across products and communications materials
Collaborate with product management and engineering throughout the development process to ensure high quality execution
Work with business development and ad sales to create compelling experiences for our advertisers
Gather user insights through user research and testing and incorporate them into product designs

Are you our ideal candidate? If so, you are...

Able to work fast and flexibly, but understand the importance of focus and discipline in a medium sized (approximately 100 people) organization
Articulate, clear-headed and able to quickly assess and execute creative solutions to challenging design problems
Excited about generating ideas about how to make a product better and you won't hesitate to speak up, even if it falls outside of your expertise
Familiar with and accustomed to communicating your design objectives to a range of individuals, from developers to marketers
Proponent of and champion of user-centered design methodologies
Results oriented, self-directed and self motivated
Highly organized, accurate and detail oriented, with "great communication skills"
You consistently incorporate user metrics into your design process
Great at balancing time to market with a solution and make the right trade-offs along the way
Able to design and mock up ideas quickly.

Education

Bachelors or equivalent degree in Human Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Visual Arts, Graphic Design or related field or equivalent
3 to 5 years experience as a key member of a UI team for a highly regarded consumer website.
Expert in design tools such as PhotoShop, Illustrator and/or Dreamweaver.
Fluent in the latest versions of HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Strong knowledge of web standards, cross-browser compatibility issues and page optimization.
Demonstrated excellent understanding of composition, color, page layout and typography
Expertise in consumer sites incorporating search, media and advertising
Strong experience incorporating the latest principles of SEO and SEM

Nice to Haves

Mobile and device experience
Ability to layout web pages and/or prototypes prototypes in javascript/CSS/HTML

About Healthline

Healthline offers an innovative approach to meeting the needs of health information seekers. Developed in collaboration with 1,100 medical specialists, Healthline's powerful consumer healthcare taxonomy ? the largest of its kind ? drives its suite of medically guided search and navigation services. Healthline offers two primary routes to delivering its intelligent health information services to consumers and business partners: through its website, Healthline.com, or through a network of trusted destination sites that include publishers, employers and health plans. Headquartered in San Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK Investments.

Location:	San Francisco, CA United States