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Lead Information Architect


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Company MissionStaff
Location Philadelphia, PA
URL www.missionstaff.com

Description

MissionStaff has a unique opportunity in Center City Philadelphia for a Lead Information Architect to manage a project focused on cutting edge interactive product development. You will join a think-tank of the top Information Architects and User Experience professionals in the Philadelphia region. This is a Senior role, leading a team of 3-4 people with a single product focus, integrating mobile and video experiences. The Senior Information Architect will collaborate up and down with both product and business folks to communicate project objectives.

Responsibilities include guiding the creation of the architecture for the user experience framework – linking the product key performance indicators to the solution (feature set, underlying information architecture, interface presentation), etc. You will lead your team in gathering functional specifications and documentation describing application behaviors and rules as well as interpreting KPI statistics, user feedback and stakeholder requirements into elegant, easy-to-use, highly adoptable interfaces.

Requirements:

  • Bachelors or Masters Degree or 5+ years relevant experience
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Experience managing teams focused on UI design and interactivity for Rich Internet Applications and AJAX implementations
  • Ability to translate product requirements into UI and interaction models
  • Excellent documentation skills (especially user flows, annotated wireframes, workflow diagrams and interaction model diagrams)
  • Experience with communication products and services (ie: webmail, IM, Voip, etc) and video
  • Advanced VISIO and/or Adobe InDesign skills

For more information on this and other exciting UX opportunities:

Meg Metz | mmetz@missionstaff.com | (215) 545-1600

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