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Elance is pioneering a new way to work, helping businesses level the playing field by providing them with access to great talent on demand. As a key member of our Design team, you'll be a driving force behind the Elance product user experience. You will focus these visions into usable, useful and desirable solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences.
In this role, you will:
•Be a major factor in representing the face of high quality design practices. This includes participation in all aspects of UX: research, ideation, strategy, interaction design, and visual design
•Be a subject matter expert in the area of interaction design, experience design, design technology, and engineering. Stay up-to-date on current trends in interaction design for web, mobile, desktop and tablet apps
•Create wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes to communicate your design concepts to a broad range of stakeholders and end users
•Collaborate with product, engineering and development partners; produce design solutions, and adapt your designs to emerging engineering constraints
•Ability to multitask and manage multiple small to large projects in a cross-functional environment
•Write and speak as a thought leader for high quality software development through a focus of UX
•Working knowledge of effective UX design patterns
•Train and mentor other UX designers
To win in this role, you will need:
•A degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction or related field. BS required, MS is highly preferred.
•7+ years of industry experience as a UX / interaction designer in a cross-functional UX team, dedicated to the complete UX design and development lifecycle of several successfully launched software and web applications
•Demonstrated leadership in UX-focused software design projects
•Skills and experience in user research, strategy, ideation, and product definition
•Skills and experience in interaction design and visual design
•Demonstrated history of delivering high-quality product experiences for a variety of platforms including desktop, web and mobile
•Working knowledge of web front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
•Knowledge of Axure is a plus
About Us
Ready for a job that's part evolution, part revolution?
Elance is quickly evolving and moving into a revolutionary new market space: The online workplace.
Help us redefine the global workforce by building on our pioneering platform. You'll impact the lives of millions daily, freeing countless freelancers to work on what they want, from where they want. All while allowing businesses, startups and entrepreneurs to find top talent to help build their dreams.
We're always looking for A-players to join our team of bright and humorous people. If you take your work seriously, but love to laugh at yourself and with others, want to be challenged but have fun along the way, and never settle for anything less than stellar work, Elance is for you! In addition to amazing career growth opportunities, we also offer competitive compensation, great benefits, super cool people to work with, and a beautifully renovated workspace to collaborate and innovate in.
Visit us at www.elance.com and check out our openings in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and Europe.
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