Company Zilliant
Location Austin, TX
URL www.zilliant.com
Contact Laura.Hauck@zilliant.com
Description
Zilliant is expanding their Zilliant Precision Pricing Suite (ZPPS) product development organization. We are looking for a highly skilled and creative individual to join our world-class Product Engineering Organization. This individual should possess senior-level user experience design skills with an exceptionally strong background and formal training in user interface design, graphic design and/or human-computer interaction (HCI). As a User Experience Designer at Zilliant, you will have an opportunity to create best-in-class, innovative user interfaces for our state-of-the-art pricing applications.
This critical and highly visible role offers opportunities to design suite-wide user interface metaphors, information architecture, elegant interactions, and data visualizations to provide real-world pricing solutions for Fortune 500 companies.
Major roles and responsibilities:
- Provide user interface designs for the Zilliant application suite of pricing products
- Iterate with Product Management on requirements gathering and design process
- Consult with Architects and Engineers on design and implementation
- Develop and maintain a User Experience Standards guide for use by the development organization
- Develop wireframes and other design artifacts using Visio or other tools
- Design and maintain the application's look and feel through full-color mockups, asset creation, and UI reviews
- Develop conceptual software prototypes/mockups using HTML, Photoshop, and other tools
- Lead/participate in user research, concept testing, and usability testing
- Collaborate effectively with the other members of the User Experience team
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Factors, Graphic Design, Industrial Design or related field
- 5+ years experience as an User Experience Designer (or similar role)
- Strong background and formal training in user interface design, graphic design and/or human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Expertise in Web/UI design tools and techniques (Adobe Creative Suite, Dreamweaver, Visio, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Expertise in principles of Web site and application GUI design
- Experience working w/ highly technical teams
- Strong leadership skills with passionate advocacy for the end-user
- Creative problem solver with strong attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Candidate should provide User Interface samples demonstrating past experience
Desirable skills:
- Software company work experience
- Enterprise application design experience
- Work with JSP and Java Swing front-ends; DHTML and AJAX; and/or Windows Desktop Applications
- Interface design for mobile devices
- Exposure to Agile development processes
To apply
Please apply directly at www.zilliant.com/company_careers.html.
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