Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Senior User Experience Architect in New York, NY

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
About DoubleClick
DoubleClick is a global leader in digital marketing technology and services. The world's top marketers, publishers and agencies rely on DoubleClick's expertise in ad serving, rich media, video, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium. DoubleClick provides unique insights and insider knowledge no one else can. That's why all 10 of the world's top 10 brands, 8 of the top 10 global agencies and 8 of the top 10 U.S. and European Web sites choose DoubleClick to help meet their digital marketing needs. Headquartered in New York, and with 17 offices and development hubs and 15 data centers worldwide, the company employs more than 1000 people. Learn more at .

Our suite of products is driven by the DoubleClick Technology Group (DTG), comprised of over 300 IT professionals, located in New York, Colorado, Chicago, San Francisco and Europe. DTG is an agile software development shop, and employs a mix of open-source and third-party technologies including Java, C++, Perl, ASP.NET, Ab Initio and Oracle running on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms.In this rapidly growing industry, DoubleClick is both a market leader and innovator, creating an impressive number of new product releases every year.

We pride ourselves with hiring passionate, self-motivated and innovative professionals who enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies and pushing those technologies to their limits. If this sounds exciting, come join us taking our world-class, high-volume systems to the next level!

Job Description:
The User Experience Architect (UEA) is an active participant in an Agile development process, working collaboratively with Product Management and the engineering team to envision, design, and usability test new applications and enhancements.

Role & Responsibilities:
* Facilitate client's workshops to understand business goals
* Observe and interview users to determine usability and productivity requirements
* Propose navigation models and high-level page designs.
* Conduct formative usability tests to inform design and summative usability tests to measure progress.
* Promote cross-product re-use and consistency through peer reviews and styleguide contributions.
* Introduce new methods and techniques for design and evaluation.

Minimum Job Requirements / Skills:
* Graduate degree in Information Design, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, or related field, or equivalent experience with a Bachelors.
* Thorough knowledge of the relevant research on user interaction design.
* 4 or more years employment experience in user interaction design and/or usability testing, with at least 2 years of web-application experience.
* Mastery of user interface design concepts, UI standards and web-conventions
* Experience with task analysis, workshop facilitation, and usability testing
* Facility with prototyping tools (i.e., Visio) and picture editors
* Good knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and platform/browser constraints

Optional Skills:
* Appreciation of AJAX and asp.net capabilities; coding in these tools a major plus
Experience with Morae/UserVue software
* Understanding formal development processes; experience with Agile development
* Experimental design, basic statistics, survey construction.

Soft Skills:
* Superior oral and written communication required - this is a client-visible position.
* Must be consummate collaborator/team player, willing to go beyond role definitions
* Able to thrive on a fast-moving team
* Must be able to multitask, prioritize and think creatively

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