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Position Description: User Experience Designer (Contract)
– Adapt Technologies,
Inc. – Pasadena, CA
Do you love what you do? Come be a part of a young company
where you’ll have a
real opportunity to make a direct impact on the development
of our web-based applications.
Adapt Technologies is currently seeking two full-time mid to
senior-level User Experience
Designers to join our young, fun, dynamic and dedicated team
on a contract basis.
(There is a possibility of conversion to FTE if the fit is
right.) The positions
report to the Director of User Experience and are located in
Pasadena, CA (near
Old Town). Telecommuting part-time is an option, and there
is no travel required.
We offer a great culture (including normal hours, free
lunches, snacks and lattes,
plus a casual anti-dress code.) It’s an agile, startup
environment, so multitasking
is a given and interacting with team members across multiple
disciplines and on
many levels is a daily reality.
Adapt Technologies (http://www.adapt.com)
creates practical, self-service search
engine campaign management solutions for marketers. The
company was founded in
December 2004 and is venture-funded by Mohr, Davidow
Ventures and Emergence Capital
Partners. Our team members come from leading universities
and Internet companies
including Caltech, Google, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Disney
and Amazon.com.
Responsibilities
This role encompasses a combination of interaction,
information and visual design,
with a dash of information architecture and usability thrown
in for good measure.
Major deliverables may include annotated wireframes, use
cases, process flows (altogether
totaling about 70% of the time) and comps (another 20%),
plus QA (10%).
Required Qualifications
* Advanced degree in Interaction Design, Library and
Information Science, Human
Computer Interaction, or related field or at least 3 years
of experience in site/
system development with a minimum of 2 years as a web-based
information architect,
user interface/ experience/ interaction designer or systems
analyst handling multiple
projects simultaneously
* Strong functional and visual design background
specifically for the web, with
experience working on large, complex sites that integrate
database or CMS driven
content, including e-commerce transaction processes
* Solid background with web technologies including a basic
understanding of the
technical systems and architecture which underlie dynamic
websites
* Excellent visual/ verbal communicator with a demonstrated
creative vision for
organizing interactive systems
* Comfortable with standard toolkit programs such as Visio,
DreamWeaver, Photoshop,
etc.
* Extremely detail-oriented, flexible and able to work in a
fast-paced, demanding
environment with aggressive development schedules
* Portfolio presentation is expected, to include URLs of
websites or samples of
user interface design that reflect candidate’s work as
well as documentation that
led to the site, including wireframes, site maps, navigation
flows, interaction
design specs, comps, etc.
Additional Desired Qualifications
* Understanding of Search Engine Marketing and Optimization
(SEM/ SEO)
* Hands-on experience with web development (hand-coded
HTML, with the ability to
ramp-up quickly in DreamWeaver, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
* Experience in media software applications such as Flash
or Flex
* Professionally active (ongoing professional reading,
association memberships,
listserv participation and/ or conference attendance) in
groups such as IXDA, IAI,
ASIST (SIG-IA), ACM (SIG-CHI), AIGA, etc.
If all of the above sounds like a great fit, we want to meet
you!
Please forward resumes and samples or URLs to Lisa Colvin,
Director, User Experience
[Lisa at Adapt dot com].
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