Southern California

(pay unspecified)

Location:

Southern California

Job Type:

Permanent, Staff

Project details:

Unannounced PC/Console Project (PS3, X360, PC)

Experience & Qualifications:

Responsibilities:

- Gather business, interface, and data structure requirements for interactive Web and Mobile applications.

- Work within the house Design and User Experience team to define interactive experiences.

- Manage mixed teams (IA, Visual Design, Front-End Development, Vendors) to deliver web site enhancements on time and to spec.

- Prepare paper prototypes and click-through demos of key application interface functionality.

- Produce design artifacts for project deliverables, such as annotated mock-ups, wireframes, user interface elements and interaction workflows.

- Incorporate site analytics and customer feedback and apply them intelligently into iterative design solutions.

- Bring projects from concept to realization - doing everything possible to ensure their success.

- Experience with a JavaScript library (i.e. jQuery, YUI, ExtJS, Prototype)

- Experience in C/C++, Java, C#, and/or Python

- Strong Object Oriented Programming skills

- Extensive experience creating dynamic web pages using standards-compliant, cross-browser compatible HTML, CSS, JavaScript and/or a templating language.

- Knowledge in optimizing website performance

- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

- Excellent verbal and communication skills

- Experience working in a team environment on multiple projects

- Passion for the web development and gaming

- 4-5 years of experience in web development

- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Additional Information:

- 5+ years of professional web application design experience with an emphasis on interaction, and visual design.

- Experience managing direct reports.

- Experience across the entire product lifecycle (lived through multiple launches)

- Expert abilities with the Adobe InDesign, XHTML, CSS, Rails, and Javascript

- Solid understanding of the capabilities of Web browsers across multiple platforms, and the constraints involved in designing for online media

- Ability to rapidly produce multiple visual concepts

- Familiarity with Mobile and Console Applications a plus

- Voracious appetite for all things Web; if it is happening, you already know about it.

- Ability to communicate or prototype transitions and animations within the user interface.

- Passion and experience in working on mobile and console applications a huge plus.

- Have the adaptability and perseverance to produce multiple rounds of designs in pursuit of the most user-friendly solution.

- Expect to engage in an ongoing healthy debate about design vs. user experience.

- Passion for solving interactive problems and finding the easiest, simplest way for users to get from point A to Z.

- A skilled communicator who welcomes honest, candid feedback.

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