UX DesignerPosted: October 27, 2009
Title: UX Consultant
Location: East Windsor, NJ
Length: PERM
Rate: DOE
A client of ours in Princeton, NJ is looking for to bring on a User Experience Consultant to join their growing UI team. The main purpose of the UX consultant is enabling customers to produce software that delights their user audiences. The individual advocates the user*s perspective across all development phases, effectively communicating with stakeholders, iteratively creating UI artifacts including wireframes and prototypes which s/he tests with target users. The UX consultant will be an expert and evangelist for outstanding usability to the company*s customers and prospects. He or she will mentor customers on best practices, insuring a balance of outstanding usability with excellent design in their products. The UX consultant will build usability & design knowledge proficiency in key vertical markets including finance, insurance and healthcare in order to be able to offer specialized solutions. He or she will teach the iterative design and development process to customers, making recommendations based on user testing and other evaluation methods. The UX consultant will communicate knowledge and expertise via speaking engagements at tradeshows, symposiums, and other industry events and through published works including articles, newsletters and blogs. The individual promotes the use of usability *best practice* principles across all company*s product development groups and helps to boost the user experience of the products and websites.
Essential Duties:
* Execute UX consulting projects, providing practicable and well-founded expertise and concepts for customers
* Ensure that the customers* artistic and creative efforts are balanced with usability considerations
* Develop, maintain and deliver UX training to customers, through all of their 4 delivery mechanisms: live at customer, live at public places, live via the web and web-based prerecorded training.
* Effectively collaborate with other internal resources such as technical consultants and visual designers to realize projects and generate the best results for their customers
* Write articles and give presentations about user experience
* Exude passion externally to customers and internally to the company*s own design and development teams about the importance of outstanding usability & design
* Participate tactically in key enterprise sales efforts- provide pre-sales advice and expertise related
* Develop in-depth understanding of best practices in key vertical markets including Financial, Insurance and Healthcare and build best practices service offerings tailored to each vertical.
Minimum Requirements & Skills:
* 4-year degree in HCI, Psychology, Computer Science or related
* Had classes in college about Human-Computer Interaction & Computer Science
* 5+ years professional experience in UX consulting (web and desktop) in line-of-business applications
* Experienced in carrying out core UX methodologies, e.g. UI requirements analysis, wireframing, creation of UI Specs, usability testing
* Familiarity with the UI capabilities of ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF and Silverlight (a plus)
* Willingness and ability to familiarize with the company's entire suite of products and service offerings
* Track record of promoting UX to others (e.g. through articles)
* 2+ years professional experience in public speaking (e.g. at conferences)
* Ability to communicate complex and technical issues in a straight forward manner
* Ability to mediate between business people and technologists
* Great inter-personal skills
* Ability and willingness to travel and temporarily work at customer sites: 50% of the time
* Excellent listener and communicator
* Clear evidence of understanding excellence in design
Human Capital Management, Inc. is a staffing firm focused on the most important part of the Information Technology industry-PEOPLE. We are dedicated to attracting the area's most talented IT professionals. At HCMI we use the term partnering when describing relationships with our consultants. That is because we invest the time to understand the motivating force behind each consultant, provide consultants with a strong understanding of our clients' projects and strive to match each consultant with a project which will satisfy the consultant's short and long term needs. Only by connecting the best consultants to the best projects is HCMI able to drive the New Economy. HCMI has been able to identify, attract and develop intimate relationships with the most exciting projects throughout the Mid Atlantic Region. Please refer to job code 91938 when responding to this ad.
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