Sr. User Experience Architect

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.

**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

**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 - Axure RP - MS Visio - Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) - Proficient in Microsoft Project - Adobe Illustrator - Adobe InDesign