Monday, March 16, 2015

[KITlist] User Experience Designer (San Jose, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: 382.Intacct@hiredesk.net

 


Intacct makes small and midsized businesses (SMBs) and CPA firms more productive and improves company performance by providing award winning cloud computing financial management and accounting applications. We are the preferred provider of financial applications for AICPA (the trade association of the accounting profession) and focus only on one thing – delivering the most comprehensive cloud financial management system to over 8,500 organizations from startups to public companies. Hundreds of leading CPA firms and Value Added Resellers offer Intacct to their clients. As the fastest growing leader in this space with a strong focus on customer satisfaction, we value the individuality, ingenuity and originality each employee contributes. The talent and drive of our employees is a key to our continued success.

Intacct has been named one of the "Best Places to Work in 2015" by Glassdoor Employee's Choice Award, a "Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" in the San Francisco Bay Area, a "Top Workplaces for 2014" by the Bay Area News Group for the fourth consecutive year, and a "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for 2014" by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. In addition, Intacct's CEO was named Glassdoor's Highest Rated CEO for 2014 in the SMB category. Intacct is seeking top talent, motivated to help businesses and CPA firms achieve their business goals. Intacct looks forward to talking with you about being a part of our success.



"It is incredibly gratifying to be a part of an organization where everyone is committed to the success of our customers, our partners, and our fellow workers. We are honored to be recognized for the fourth year as one of the Top Workplaces in the Bay Area and are committed to fostering an environment where employees feel valued and part of a great team. This award, and our rapid growth, is reflective of each individual's dedication at Intacct and our overall commitment to excellence."

- Robert Reid, CEO

Job Description:

As part of a team of designers, the User Experience Designer you will work collaboratively with other designers, product leaders, and engineers to make our vision of consumer-like ease for business applications a reality. In your role you will lead design throughout the planning and development lifecycle, creating compelling, effective user experiences.

The role is both strategic and hands on. In the strategic arena you will partner with product management, setting vision and priorities for how to revolutionize ease for business applications. In the hands on arena you will drive customer research and designs that will deliver on core parts of that strategy, pushing the boundaries of ease expectations for web based productivity applications. You will have the opportunity to be creative, try new approaches and learn quickly from regular releases to beta and live customers.

The position requires a laser-like customer focus, a data-driven approach, and the ability to thrive in a team-oriented, product-focused environment. The ideal candidate will be driven by the challenge of solving unique UI/UX problems in a compressed timeframe while balancing the needs of the business and the constraints of the medium. The role will require someone comfortable with some ambiguity/ minimal direction, and can thrive in rapidly-evolving environments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create end-to-end user experiences for existing and new product offerings that simplify the user's workflow.

• Collaborate with product managers to create designs that meet the user and business requirements.

• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user centered design process.

• Quickly create and iterate on designs using conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and click-through prototypes. Deliver clear, detailed and pixel perfect final design specs.

• Influence and evolve design standards and guidelines to improve the overall user experience quality across web and mobile products.

• Apply usability heuristics and knowledge of current design best practices to evaluate new and existing features and offer viable suggestions for improvements.

• Work with visual design experts to drive brand and consistent, modern aesthetics across the product.

• Apply proven and innovative customer research techniques to gain insight for solution development.

• Work with engineers to implement designs, making detailed design decisions and trade-offs needed to deliver the final product.

Job Qualifications:

• Master���s Degree in Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, or related HCI discipline, or equivalent combination of experience and education.

• 5+ years experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar role, participating in the complete product development lifecycle of several successfully launched web and/or software applications.

• Proficiency in a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Balsamiq, InVision, and Dreamweaver.

• Fluency in user-centered design best practices and trends across web and mobile platforms, as well as knowledge of usability principles and techniques.

• Familiarity with the technical considerations and technologies needed when designing for web and mobile platforms.

• Excellent communication, presentation and persuasion skills with cross-functional teams and stakeholders; experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.

• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Strong visual design skills are a bonus

• A compelling online portfolio of sketches, wireframes, prototypes, hi-res comps, etc. that clearly expresses your ability to create successful user-centered design solutions.

Intacct Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, as Intacct Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by Federal, state, or local law.

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