Sr. User Experience Architect

IBT Media

(New York, New York)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About IBT Media

IBT Media is a fast growing global digital news organization, delivering news and insight to over 90 million monthly readers across the world. With innovations across the newsroom and the platform, we are engaging a new generation of readers with content that speaks to their interests, analysis that serve their businesses, and insight to make sense of a globally connected world.

Responsibilities

**In this position, the successful candidate will:**

- Lead projects and manage design teams in a very collaborative environment
- Possess strong presentation and communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Conduct audits of existing systems and web sites, based on clarity and usability best practices, and prepare reports of findings and improvement recommendations
- Lead discovery sessions and assist in defining business requirements, discover user personas/archetype and interpret user goals and priorities
- Lead the requirements definition activities. Facilitate the process of gathering, prioritizing, documenting, and garnering stakeholder buy-in.
- Adapt requirements to specific project phase or needs: functional requirements for a strategic engagement, use-cases for development process, or user stories for an agile development process.
- Develop detailed site maps that will define the page hierarchy, navigation schema, taxonomy and nomenclature
- Architect complex content and information systems into usage scenarios and use cases, wireframes, content outlines, mock-ups/storyboards, functional specifications as well as paper and interactive prototypes.
- Develop content and workflow maps indicating process and systems implications, navigation and content relationships
- Evaluate and review early visual mockups and or prototype designs
- Experience designing applications for global audiences
- Experience designing accessible applications
- Mentor jr. level team members

In this position, the successful candidate will:

Lead projects and manage design teams in a very collaborative environment
Possess strong presentation and communication skills (both written and verbal)
Conduct audits of existing systems and web sites, based on clarity and usability best practices, and prepare reports of findings and improvement recommendations
Lead discovery sessions and assist in defining business requirements, discover user personas/archetype and interpret user goals and priorities
Lead the requirements definition activities. Facilitate the process of gathering, prioritizing, documenting, and garnering stakeholder buy-in.
Adapt requirements to specific project phase or needs: functional requirements for a strategic engagement, use-cases for development process, or user stories for an agile development process.
Develop detailed site maps that will define the page hierarchy, navigation schema, taxonomy and nomenclature
Architect complex content and information systems into usage scenarios and use cases, wireframes, content outlines, mock-ups/storyboards, functional specifications as well as paper and interactive prototypes.
Develop content and workflow maps indicating process and systems implications, navigation and content relationships
Evaluate and review early visual mockups and or prototype designs
Experience designing applications for global audiences
Experience designing accessible applications
Mentor jr. level team members

Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

Minimum 10 years practicing UI / UX design for web, native mobile and custom applications, (web, mobile, native applications, social, email, promotions, etc.) for fortune 500 companies.
Bachelor’s (Master’s a plus) of Arts or Science degree in Human Computer Interaction (Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science a plus)
Familiarity with both agile and plan-driven development processes
Experience contributing to organization and team thought leadership (e.g., white papers, conference presentations, etc.)
Must be articulate with strong writing skills
Strong business development skills
Must be able to supply samples of previous research and design work

Software