User Interface Designer
thePlatform, a subsidiary of Comcast and the industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions, is hiring a User Interface Designer.
thePlatform helps content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses solve their unique media publishing requirements. Our proven media management and publishing technology services scale with our customers' operations and support their business model with an open, versatile approach to providing an ideal technical solution for their needs.
As a UI Designer, you will develop an understanding of our users and their workflows, translating user needs into design solutions for our media management software. You will collaborate with product planning, program management, development, and QA to create prototypes and designs from initial planning through implementation and release of software products.
We practice agile development, with a focus on rational, sustainable schedules. There is a strong, collaborative relationship between design, program, project managers, developers, and QA engineers as partners in delivering quality services. This position offers a tremendous opportunity to learn from a broad range of customers, technologies, and project types in a growing company with one of the healthiest development organizations you'll find anywhere.
Responsibilities
- As a customer advocate within an agile development process, aid the Product Owner by translating user needs into design solutions for media-related products.
- Collaborate in the development of user personas, information architecture, and requirements.
- Work through phases of the software lifecycle, from understanding user needs, creating clear design goals, mocking up/prototyping design solutions, working with development to understand the impact of design choices, and providing final UI assets.
- Help facilitate user-centered design process by working with marketing to obtain feedback from our user community.
- Create overall design guidelines.
- Participate in design reviews with internal and external stakeholders, including development, marketing, and executive teams.
Requirements
- Experience in software user interface design and with full software life cycle.
- Knowledge of design techniques such as information architecture, storyboarding, wire-framing, and design specifications and guidelines.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with technical disciplines as well as marketing and product planning.
- Exceptional creative, analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
- Experience with user interface prototyping in different tools, for example, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Flash, Flex, and HTML/XML.
- Familiarity with web technologies such as Web 2.0, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, HTML, and CSS.
- Bachelor's Degree in Art, Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Information Design, Communications, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field.
This position will be filled at thePlatform headquarters in Seattle, WA. Please email your resume to jobs@theplatform.com. We are an equal opportunity employer.