User Experience Designer - International reach

Come join an impactful team whose day-to-day challenges include shaping the next generation of a global portal. The team’s charter offers numerous opportunities of influence across the network, from planning and implementing user experiences such as visual identity and UI control behavior, to shaping the next generation of social and community services and personalized services, to creating best-in-class experiences for individual international markets. Our Global User Experience team is seeking a strategic, talented, and creative product designer who is excited about making our product the planet’s largest media and people network.

As Product Designer, you will report directly to the Senior UX Lead at the US, Silicon Valley branch. You will design from concept to execution on a variety of both local and global products. Sample projects could include:

• Encouraging users to consume and share content through social networking applications
• Network cohesion initiatives, including visual identity, shared sign-in, and other cross-network experiences
• Future vision initiatives, including vision prototyping
• New ways to make our content available to users in ways that are personally relevant and engaging
• Creating exciting new experiences based on partnerships with 3rd parties.

Your primary responsibilities include working proactively with your Senior UX Lead, other designers, product teams, producers, usability, and research to create, implement, and document interface designs. You will carry this through from concept to design, including sketches, flows, wire frames, final production-quality mockups, and assets.

As a designer who is part of a larger global user experience team, you will have additional responsibilities to regularly collaborate with the designers and researchers in the United States (Redmond and Mt. View, California), London, Dublin, and Japan branches to ensure we are creating truly global experiences that delight users in each market while at the same time strengthens the brand. This includes regular work sharing for input and feedback as well as working on joint collaborative projects.

REQUIREMENTS:

You should have a proven record of creating product designs that meet business needs, partner requirements, and user scenarios.

You’ll bring strong creative, conceptual, and problem-solving skills, plus the strong communication and presentation skills necessary to effectively present, explain, negotiate, and monitor design solutions.

You should have a passion for graphic design, hi-impact graphic communications, and digital media, with an in-depth understanding of contemporary trends and a drive to innovate and invent.

You must be able to work collaboratively with other designers, and work on multiple interrelated projects to completion on schedule.

You must be able to work well with ambitious product teams driving features that will define how users find information, share, and communicate over the Internet.

You must be able to assess data from multiple sources, synthesize it, and develop strategies for your projects.

Your key leadership skills include the ability to set priorities with your manager, support current products while working on the next product version, and make smart choices involving competing priorities.

You must be a fast learner who understands the importance of our collaboration products and technologies.

The ability to work on multiple projects and assignments and to participate in cross-group activities is a must.

PARTICULARS:

• This is a 3+ month, full-time, W-2 contract position located in Silicon Valley, CA

• This position is not eligible for telecommute or offsite work
• This position comes with full benefits including a comprehensive low premium, zero deductible health care plan, generous 401(k) plan (with immediate vestment), dental, vision, and bonus paid time.

TO APPLY:

Please send your resume and portfolio link/samples to JobsAG@sakson.com

AQUENT (formerly Sakson & Taylor), is a firm that offers content design and development, marketing, and creative services solutions. For more than 20 years, we have helped provide outsourcing and staffing solutions to clients such as Microsoft, HP, and Starbucks. We’re a minority-owned business, committed to maintaining professional quality with a personal touch.

To view our other openings in design, marketing, technical communications, and project management, please visit http://jobs.aquent.com/