UPA Job Bank: July 2008
UPA Job Bank: July 2008
The Job Bank is a service of the Usability Professionals' Association, listing jobs for usablity and user experience professionals.
Posted on: 18 July, 2008
Paychex, Inc. is a leading national provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses. Paychex was founded in 1971. With headquarters in Rochester, New York, the company has more than 100 offices and serves more than 522,000 clients nationwide. FORTUNE magazine rated Paychex one of "100 Best Companies to Work For" in America three straight years (2002-2004). We are currently seeking "Great People for this Great Opportunity."
General Purpose: The User Experience Designer is responsible for overseeing usability requirements and creating all user experience deliverables (web design solutions to meet project objectives, wire frames, web site navigation, design revisions based on usability test results). The primary function of a User Experience Designer is to increase usability and end user satisfaction of Paychex' web based applications. Collaborating closely with end users, business unit stakeholders, business analysts, content strategists, web developers, and project managers, the user experience designer is critical to defining the user experience, layout, processes, and workflows for web sites and applications developed by the Enterprise Web Management department.
Bachelor's degree required with 1-3 years experience, preferably in Graphic Design, Business or related field. Possesses outstanding skills in user interface (UI) and interaction design. Possesses exceptional oral and written communication and customer interaction skills. Knowledge of CSS, HTML, and XML/XSLT. Knowledge of Adobe technologies such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Fireworks and prototyping tools like Axure.
If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please visit our website at www.paychex.com/careers to create a profile and apply for reference code position 080118W.
EOE
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Posted on: 18 July, 2008
Reporting to: VP, User Experience, economist.com
The Economist.com User Experience team is responsible for creating a world-class online experience for a leading global news analysis site with a sophisticated, demanding and international audience. The team contributes to an ambitious online strategy with experience planning and customer insights, and executes on the strategy with information architecture, interaction design and visual design, in close collaboration with technical and marketing teams.
The User Experience Architect and Analyst plays a key role in the team. With strong quantitative analytical and wire-framing skills, the architect and analyst informs how key projects take shape.
We are looking for a strong practitioner who will gather requirements, review and interpret web statistics and other research data, and help create effective, desirable and intuitive user interfaces.
The Experience Architect ad Analyst works with editorial and product teams to understand business goals and with designers and developers to guide the prototyping and implementation process.
Projects include Web sites, applications, products and services for other delivery platforms.
This position may require travel to London once per quarter.
Interested candidates please send salary requirements, cover letter and resume to jobsny@economist.com
Posted on: 18 July, 2008
Careers with a passion for life.
As the world’s leading medical technology company, we provide lifelong solutions to people with chronic disease. Everything we do is deeply rooted in our mission—to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Every 5 seconds the life of someone somewhere in the world is improved by a Medtronic product or therapy.
This position will work with product managers and developers to create user experiences that innovate, are highly usable, enhance user satisfaction and have significant impact to the business.
BS and 3-5 years professional design experience practicing a user-centered design methodology.
PREFERRED EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: BS or MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design or related field. Medical device product development experience highly desirable.
OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES: Candidates must have strong presenting, verbal and written skills. Experienced with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio, Flash. Creative with a strong, clean visual design sense and extremely detail oriented.
With people like you, who have purpose and passion, we’ll supply physicians and their patients around the world with the means to extend life and restore health. To route your resume directly to the hiring department, visit http://www.medtronic.com/employment/ and apply for requisition #60662. No phone calls please. Medtronic is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural diversity in the workforce.
Posted on: 18 July, 2008
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.us.kpmg.com), is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 123,000 professionals, including more than 7,100 partners, in 145 countries. We offer our clients industry insights and a multidisciplinary range of services. We are currently seeking an Associate Director, Project Management to join us in our Montvale office.
KPMG offers and supports flexible work arrangements as well as part-time schedules. We also offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
Interested? We strongly encourage you to apply online at www.kpmgcareers.com and search for requisition 18850 or click the job link below.
KPMG. A great place to build your career.
No phone calls or agencies please.
KPMG Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. KPMG maintains a drug-free workplace.
© 2008 KPMG LLP, a U.S. limited liability partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative. All rights reserved.
Posted on: 18 July, 2008
The Knowledge Management Competency Center (KMCC) at SAP is seeking a Senior Information Designer to help design/prototype internal innovative and intuitive user interfaces for the Sales & Marketing colleagues. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with the user centered design (UCD) process and mastery of information architecture, user interface design and visual design. The candidate would have a passion for designing user friendly interfaces for an international user group. The candidate will have experience with basic user research techniques such as contextual inquiry, user interviews, taxonomy and usability testing and a solid understanding of how to incorporate user requirements/research into the user interface design process. The Senior Information Designer will support the development of standards for the Corporate Portal user experience.The Senior Information Designer will also support KMCC engagements, and translate usability testing results into improved Portal design.
Location: Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
To apply, please follow the link below to the job posting
or go to www.sap.com/careers
Posted on: 18 July, 2008
Please send your resume to: Jackie Hall - jackie.hall@sap.com
SAP is the leading provider of enterprise applications for corporations, governmental agencies, and educational institutions. SAP solutions help enterprises around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration, and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. The company has more than 26,000 customers in over 120 countries that run more than 88,700 installations of SAP software.
* Plan, design and conduct research studies to identify the ways in which users will interact with the application being developed
* Employ a range of research methods appropriate for different stages in the product development lifecycle
* Contribute to defining user profiles, analyze user tasks and workflows, identify pain points and usability issues
* Work closely with interaction designers, solution managers and developers to conduct and analyze field research, assess the usability of prototypes and influence the future direction of existing products
Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Human Factors, Psychology, Anthropology, or related social science
* Deep understanding of UCD methodology and qualitative and quantitative research methods
* Strong communication, negotiation and leadership skills
* Proven effectiveness working with cross-functional teams and interacting with customers and users
If you want to make a direct impact on the design of SAP’s products, join SAP User Experience!
Posted on: 11 July, 2008
Farm Design in Hollis NH is seeking a Senior User Research professional with experience in product related ethnography and human factors design. Successful candidate will demonstrate experience in designing research protocols, recruiting participants, undertaking fieldwork, analyzing, and reporting data including management of outside resources. Previous consulting and medical product design experience are preferred.
Please submit your resume to career@farmdesigninc.com
Posted on: 11 July, 2008
Merck & Co. Inc., established in 1891, is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first.
Join us and experience our culture first-hand — one of strong ethics & integrity, diversified experiences and a resounding passion for improving human health. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.
Under the direction of the Senior Director, the incumbent will be a senior level usability professional that will build and lead the usability discipline within the Merck Global Intranet Center of Excellence (CoE). Position requires a minimum of 10 years experience in the usability/user experience space, at least 5 of which has been spent as a Lead Usability Engineer and/or Lead Strategist managing a team of usability professionals. Within this role, the ideal candidate will define overall visions and strategies for research. The incumbent will have a keen understanding of user-centered design principles and a demonstrated ability to work synergistically with creative and technology teams to create user experiences that are positive and innovative.
BS required , preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field . Advanced degrees in HCI, Business Management, Information Systems, or Engineeringdesired. At least10 years experience in the usability/user experience space, at least 5 of which has been spent as a Lead Usability Engineer and/or Lead Strategist managing a team of usability professionals.
Proven ability to understand both business and user goals and how they relate as well as experience developing usability guidelines and standards for intranets and enterprise-wide portals. Current in usability related topics such as Web Accessibility, Intranet Governance, Globalization and the Portal Paradigm. Experience driving primary user research in order to inform business decisions. Must have experience leading the user experience efforts for the development of a primary enterprise-wide employee portal.
Requires experience driving statistically significant research in order to inform business decisions and demonstrated experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Metrics-focused and experienced working with a Web Analytics package.
Requires excellent communication and presentation skills as well as a client-focused demeanor.
Consistently cited as a great place to work, we discover, develop, manufacture and market a wide range of vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. Each of our employees is joined by an extraordinary sense of purpose — bringing Merck’s finest achievements to people around the world.
We offer an excellent salary and an industry-ranked benefits program, including tuition reimbursement, work-life balance initiatives and developmental programs at all levels. Merck’s retirement package includes a pension plan and one of the best 401(k) plans in the nation.
To be considered for this position, please visit our career site at www.merck.com/careers to create a profile and submit your resume for requisition # INF003757. Merck is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V — proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations.
Our work is someone’s hope. Join us.
Where patients come first — Merck
Position is Full Time and located in our Rahway, NJ facility.
Posted on: 11 July, 2008
Specific Title for Posting: Information Architect
Job Location: Philadelphia, PA or Los Angeles, CA
The Information Architect is a full-time position based in either Philadelphia, PA or Los Angeles, CA with occasional travel to customer locations for consultative meetings and billable work. The three key responsibilities of the Information Architect are excellent interpersonal and communications skills, internally and with customers; strong web development background with skills and experience in IA & site design, usability and HTML, and; provide leadership on web-based projects to bring together architecture, visual design and implementation.
The Information Architect must have significant requirements gathering experience, developing site architecture from user/organizational research and be highly proficient with the required software products to support the role. The successful applicant will have the proven ability to define site structure and create site maps, taking in to account local and global navigation.
The Information Architect will be based in and work daily from either Philadelphia, PA or Los Angeles, CA with regular overnight travel (25%) to remote customer locations to conduct meetings, assessments and other consultative work. The successful candidate will posses the technical qualifications for the position, a desire to grow professionally and technically by acquiring new skills related to IGCN’s products, and the customer service “soft skills” to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.
Education: Relevant technical training as appropriate to skills and experience. Traditional academic college education (Associates or Bachelors) is a plus.
Years of Industry Experience: At least two to three years of experience in the Information Architecture discipline is required. Additional industry experience will also be considered.
Specific Skills & Knowledge: Solid HTML skills and knowledge of supporting software applications (Visio, PhotoShop, etc.); demonstrable experience with requirements gathering and development of deliverables, and; thorough knowledge of standard technologies for the web.
Preferred Skills: World-class “soft skills” (verbal and written communication, responsiveness, and interpersonal skills); hands-on experience in web implementations; knowledge of supporting platform technology (Microsoft OS, SQL Server, etc.).
Additional Information: Ability to travel up 25%
Compensation: IGCN offers competitive salaries and bonuses dependent on experience, benefits and reimbursed expenses.
Posted on: 11 July, 2008
In order to be accepted kindly visit www.pfizer.com/careers and upload your resume to requirement # 080044
Seeking an analytic problem solver who can synthesize many forms of research and business requirements into informational, navigational and web page/application strategy, design and specifications. Works with clients to understand their business models and goals and helps define a strategy and approach for the development of their technology solutions.
This role will lead all User Experience activities, and fulfill various roles on a diverse range of technology projects. Some of the key roles will be:
Posted on: 11 July, 2008
Excellent contract-to-hire opportunity for skilled Interaction/User Interface Designer! Our client in Milwaukee, WI has multiple large projects kicking off and they are adding three designers to their team. Positions will be contracting through Odyssey Information Services for a time and possibly converting to permanent employment based on performance and skill level. Our client is offering great long-term opportunity for growth and excellent compensation package including benefits upon conversion! During the contract, Odyssey also offers the following:
Qualified candidates will be responsible for driving the user-centered design process, creating new conceptual designs, applying design standards to new features of existing products, and collaborating with developers and business analysts to design the total human-computer interaction and architect the flow of information. Candidates for consideration will possess at least 5-7 years of experience.
Candidates for consideration must submit resume, compensation requirements, and interview availability to Jaclyn@OdysseyIS.com or call Jaclyn @ (800) 982-4319 for more details. Local and non-local candidates welcome! Our client is ready to hire, so please forward resume ASAP!
Posted on: 11 July, 2008
How to apply: Send resumes to rwilson@nctv.com
Want to work less than one hour from the beach? Want to work on cutting edge technology? Want to help create the next generation of Dishwashers? If so, this is your job.
A large appliance manufacturer is seeking several mechanical design engineers and one electrical design engineer for its eastern North Carolina facility. Come join a leading edge team design the next generation of dishwashers. We plan to be listed in consumer reports for your new designs. We are putting a team together of the best in the industry. Relocation is provided. The company is paying top pay and excellent benefits for the right candidates. If you have experience in sheet metal, rubber, molding, latches, switches, racks and other components then you need to apply.
BSME
Three plus years as a design engineer in a manufacturing facility
Experience at an appliance manufacturing facility a huge plus
Posted on: 11 July, 2008
The User Centered Design and Research Group at State Farm Insurance is seeking candidates to fill multiple positions for a growing team of existing UCD professionals. In this role you will be responsible for designing and conducting user research for a wide range of software and non-software products; including, applications used by our customers on statefarm.com® and business tools used by our sales force and employees for the purpose of selling and maintaining insurance and financial services products. In addition, you could be asked to evaluate and provide input into IVR systems, business processes, and hardware and software purchase decisions. You will collaborate with other UCD practitioners, software developers, and business leaders across the organization. State Farm continues to work hard to be our customer’s first and best choice and is a company that recognizes that UCD is paramount to accomplishing this goal.
The skills required for the position are typically associated with an advanced degree in Human Factors, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, or related field. Ideal candidates should have:
Send resume to: Rodney Litwiller, Human Resources Representative, State Farm Insurance Cos., rodney.litwiller.gho5@statefarm.com
As the # 1 insurer of automobiles and homes in the United States, State Farm Insurance has been helping people manage the risks of everyday life and recover from the unexpected since 1922. Today, State Farm Insurance Companies® is one of the 50 largest corporations on the Fortune 500. State Farm's 17,000 agents and 68,000 employees serve over 76 million auto, fire, life, and health policies in the United States and Canada, and more than 1.8 million bank accounts. Our success is built on a foundation of shared values, quality service and relationships, mutual trust, integrity and financial strength.
At State Farm, we recognize that our workforce is the key to our business success. We remain committed to maintaining an environment that enables every employee to make the greatest possible contribution and we continually develop our people to higher levels of responsibility. At State Farm we embrace diversity and strive to be the employer of choice for candidates of all backgrounds.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package including but not limited to:
This position is located at our corporate headquarters in Bloomington, IL which is centrally located two hours from Chicago, St. Louis, and Indianapolis.
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