Purpose of Position:

• Interviewing business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and end users as part of requirements gathering
• Balancing usability best practices with technical options/constraints on a project-by-project basis
• Translating business, marketing, and brand objectives into clearly organized and intuitively navigable interface plans
• Collaborating with graphic designers to ensure usability standards and/or develop unique interactive experiences
• Internal collaboration, both with Oasis UX peers and core project team members
• Creating core IA deliverables: site maps, content inventories, development and training documentation, wireframes, click-through prototypes etc.
• Presenting IA deliverables to clients
• Conducting usability testing
• Internal & client-facing advocacy for UX issues
• Maintaining current with usability and interface design best practices
• Contributing to the growth and department of the overall organization by bringing innovative ideas for delivering maximum business value to our customers

Primary Duties:

• Site mapping, wireframing and prototyping
• Disparate environments: Portals, Intranets/Extranets, Public-facing websites and Custom Applications
• User testing, use cases and profile/scenario development
• Workflow and taxonomy best practices
• Problem-solving and idea generation
• Project and team management abilities
• Consensus-building within large organizations
• Ability to communicate ideas to designers, clients, and technologists and broker compromises
• Specification/documentation and end user training skills
• Search engine optimization skills a plus
• Work sample showing problem-solving for a complex business solution is required (wireframes are preferred)

Skills and Knowledge

The Candidate

• Overall information architecture experience – 1-3 years. Knowledge of Visio and Axure prototyping technologies a plus
• In-depth knowledge of user experience design methodologies and best practices
• Prior consulting experience preferred

Soft Skills

• Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills (you can converse with customers and team members of all levels)
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
• Disciplined self-starter able to manage work to successful completion
• Ability to collaborate with creative and technical team members as well as with clients
• Customer, team and project commitment
• Efficiency and the ability to work in a deadline-driven environment
• Flexibility across projects, platforms and solutions (and the drive to keep your technical proficiencies current)
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle