From: | John S. |
Sent on: | Friday, October 3, 2014, 9:54 AM |
**Please, no recruiters. We love
you but aren't seeking your help with this hiring.
I'm the Director of UX at HYFN, a digital agency in Hermosa
Beach. We're on the lookout for a UX Designer to join our highly
skilled team and lead on a variety of client facing projects. I'm
a regular at the LAUX MeetUps and know LA has some amazing UX
talent. HYFN is a great place to work, especially if you like the
beach (we're literally steps from the sand). Please take a look
at the job req below and if you're interested let me know!
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UX
Designer Position @ HYFN
Job Title: UX Designer
Skill Level: Mid-Senior
Who We Are
HYFN is an award-winning digital agency with
offices in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and New York
City. With a
strong commitment to meaningful engagement, we partner with
business leaders to
design and develop groundbreaking, cross-platform solutions to
meet the
ever-increasing demands of the diversified media landscape and
evolving digital
culture. HYFN’s
different from other
digital agencies in that we offer a full service solution to our
clients. Our in-house,
multidisciplinary teams work
closely with each other in core competencies that include:
· UX
Design
· Creative
Design
· Motion
Graphics and Video
· Digital
& Social
Strategy
· Custom
Product Coding and
Development
· Implementation
Launch and
Management
· iOS,
Android, Windows,
and Air Application Development
We're looking for a mid-senior level UX Designer
who enjoys
refining their skills across diverse projects, constantly seeks
new ways to
incorporate UCD principles and methodologies, and someone who
simply loves this
stuff! Our Hermosa Beach office is located walking distance from
the beach,
which explains why our offices are littered with surfboards. At
HYFN we abide
by the work hard/play hard mentality and have cultivated a
culture that really
embraces radical ideas, endless curiosity, and a constant
refinement of skills.
Learn more about us at www.hyfn.com
· Design
intuitive user
experiences across a wide variety of projects spanning digital,
social, mobile,
and responsive interfaces.
· Push
the boundaries of
design through a solid understanding of the user
· Collaborate
with HYFN’s
top-notch UX and Creative design teams to create cohesive and
seamlessly
integrated experiences.
· Implement
user research
methodologies to gain a deeper understanding of users’ needs and
goals.
· Be
an end-user advocate,
driving user needs and goals into both creative and pragmatic
design solutions.
Duties
· Generate
annotated
wireframes, prototypes, sketches, storyboards, site maps,
mockups, user flows, personas,
and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user
experience designs.
· Identify
the best ways to
organize information on a given site or app.
· Collaborate
across
interdisciplinary teams to retain the vision of the customer
experience.
· Manage
UX design projects
in a timely fashion with clear goals and accountabilities.
· Evaluate
prototypes with
stakeholders to see how they map to various customer needs.
· Articulate
your process
through the use of sketches, wireframes, and presentations.
· Run
formative and
evaluative usability test sessions at different stages of the
design lifecycle
· BA,
BS, MA, or MS in HCI,
Psychology, Computer Science or in a related area
· At
Least 2-3+ years of
UX, IA or/and UI design experience (Note: UX related work
experience
will be considered in place of a degree if accompanied by an
impressive
portfolio)
· Excellent
knowledge of UI
design processes and User-Centered Design (UCD)
· Solid
UX and interaction
design skills.
· A
portfolio that
demonstrates experience in designing interfaces for diverse
subject matters and
media.
· Expertise
in creating a
variety of design documentation including (but not limited to)
user scenarios,
task flows, conceptual models, personas, competitor analysis,
heuristic
analysis, wireframes, and prototypes.
· Strong
organizational
skills and an attention to detail.
· The
ability to quickly
absorb new business domains.
· A
creative and ambitious
mindset.
· Endless
curiosity and a
constant drive to learn and try new things.
· Self-motivation,
excellent
communication/presentation skills, and the ability to thrive in
multidisciplinary teams.
· The
skills to balance
great design with short deadlines and the highest-standards
output.
Additional Skills
· Proficient
with design
and prototyping tools like Visio, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, Axure
RP, and Adobe
Creative Suite.
· Some
knowledge of
technologies like HTML5, CSS 3, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, iOS,
Objective-C,
Android is a big plus.
· Competitive
pay
· Full
Benefits
o
Health
o
Dental
o
Vision
o
401k
· Stock
Options
· Walking
distance from the
beach (we have regular surf sessions)
· Working
on a fun and
energetic team
· Joining
on the ground
floor of a rapidly growing digital agency