UX Designer/Researcher

Animoto makes it easy to create professional-quality videos on your computer and mobile device. At our core, we believe that video is the most powerful way to communicate what you care most deeply about -- whether that’s your family, business, or a cause -- and that making videos shouldn’t be limited to only those with technical know-how and expensive production equipment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading research and product validation with product managers, designers, and developers to articulate user needs, refine user stories, and translate those goals into ideas and designs
• Leading new feature ideation and prototyping efforts through design sprints and usability studies
• Advocating low-fidelity artifacts, prototyping, and other lean UX techniques able to rapidly and efficiently validate and refine product ideas and designs
• Creation of wireframes, user flows, and prototypes
• Collaborating with product designers to ensure that interaction design is consistent with Animoto’s visual language and pattern library
• Presenting research and designs to internal stakeholders, and fellow team members
• Managing your time wisely and keeping your team up-to-date
• Communicating often and clearly with all members of the team

REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years of professional work experience, at least 2 explicitly in UX
• Must have an online portfolio
• Must have taken part in or led research and user validation efforts
• Web application development experience and native mobile experience, preferred
• A bachelor’s degree in design, or a significant amount of demonstrable experience on the job
• Familiarity with working in an Agile environment
• Well-versed in web and device interactivity and usability principles
• Significant prototyping experience, with examples you are able to walk through during an interview