The Senior Experience Architect is responsible for performing a lead role in the research and interaction design efforts for Siteworx's client applications and large-scaled websites.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a user experience lead by gathering requirements based on existing business processes, goals, user needs, by managing small UX teams, and by building consensus through strong communication, work, and client management
• Research and analyze the competitive landscape and make recommendations relating to website organization and information hierarchy
• Convey strategy by conducting collaborative workshops, using web analytic programs, and clearly explaining UX deliverables
• Create UX deliverables: task analyses, UI documents, user interaction models, information architecture diagrams, targeted conceptual mock-ups and prototypes, design briefs, design specs and guidelines, cms object models and screen flows with little direction
• Support Sales through representing User Experience, conveying strategy, and by thinking and reacting quickly
• Support the proposal process by creating strategy and clearly defining this in a proposal
• Collaborate with the internal creative and technical teams to ensure that website and application designs meet both client and end user needs
• Communicate updates to the project leads and or client on the progression of projects including setting clear expectations
• Manage a UX team on a per project basis (Internal or External)
• Ensure deliverables are on time and in budget
• Manage multiple deadlines and work with project managers to scope project tasks and levels of effort as they pertain to a project or deliverable for you and any team you’re managing
• Mentor Experience Architects and Associate EAs in work quality, client relationship management, and time management
• Innovate new Siteworx deliverables as projects require
• Represent Siteworx through writing and speaking engagements
• Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Education: Master’s degree in HCI, computer science, or web design.
  
• Experience: Five years experience in human factors, user interface design and information architecture specifically in the Web or Web-based application arena.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Excellent client-facing consultative skills including the ability to lead clients, drive best practices, negotiate, and set clear expectations
• User focused, highly motivated, organized, able to multi-task, and work under tight deadlines
• Strong knowledge of user-centered design principles, information architecture, and information design
• Strong ability to analyze business requirements to define and improve applications and business processes
• Strong understanding of social networking and its features
• Strong ability to think beyond the deliverables
• Strong ability to understand business metrics and view organizational needs with the goal of helping the client enhance ROI
• Strong analytical skills supported with appropriate data
• Experience evolving the Web presence of large-scale websites, large-scale media websites and web applications
• Strong understanding of industry tools for generating flow diagrams, user interface diagrams, and specifications
• Familiarity with e-Commerce best practices, non-profit and associations, CMS as it pertains to user experience, and Web analytics a plus

Email resume to: cxjobs@siteworx.com