Director of User Experience

Experian CheetahMail seeks a Director of User Experience to drive our application’s user-interface design. The candidate will work with the product management group to execute new application functionality, create wireframe documents and prototypes, gather feedback from other stakeholders and collaborate with the development team during iterative releases. This position requires a true team player with strong leadership and relationship skills, coupled with a demonstrated track record of designing high quality user interfaces for enterprise software applications.

Responsibilities 

• Creating and maintaining UI prototypes and UI specifications.
• Translate market and product requirements into first class user interface designs in the form of conceptual models, wireframes,     paper prototypes, screen mockups and other specifications
• Create and maintain the internal standards, templates and processes necessary to ensure a consistent, unified, high-quality user   experience across all products in the suite.
• Work with the development teams to ensure that the designs are properly incorporated into the final product.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or related field; Advanced degree is prefered.
• 5+ years of UI Design and Usability evaluation experience specifically around web-based UIs.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities and the ability to work collaboratively in diverse, cross-departmental teams.
• Demonstrated skill in leading design and documenting UIs.
• Requirements definition experience required.
• Use-case and persona creation experience required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial: flexible, optimistic, problem-solving approach to work.
• Familiarity with both agile and plan-driven development processes.
• Samples of previous research and design strongly work preferred.