Sr. UX / Interaction Designer

at Engine Digital

Location: Vancouver, Canada

We're seeking an impassioned and innovation-driven Sr. UX / Interaction Designer to join our Vancouver studio.

Our team is focused on producing immersive digital marketing campaigns and platforms that span web, mobile, social, and experiential channels for leading brands in verticals that include sports, entertainment, and media. We strive to connect our clients' brands with their consumers through clever and innovative user experiences that reach, engage, and convert visitors to customers.

In the role of Sr. UX / Interaction Designer, you'll work within our Planning and Strategy team, playing a critical role in defining intuitive and inspiring systems, processes, and relationships that connect people to the user experience. You will participate in the requirements gathering and ideation process, helping to identify user experience solutions that exceed the goals and objectives set by the project lead, our client partners, and their customers.

You'll pitch to different audiences: agency leaders, your design and development colleagues, client stakeholders and executives. It's not just the creation of tight, insightful documentation that matters. You have to be able to sell the big picture as well as the detail. Over the course of a project you'll refine the design and pursue opportunities for additional innovation, while honoring the broader context of the user experience objectives.

The ideal candidate will bring significant experience developing web, mobile and social user experiences and products that meet best practices and push the bounds of innovation. A personal relationship and working knowledge of platforms and technologies will prove your ability to know the rules and how to break them. Critical and subjective thinking, initiative to improve both product and process, along with an ability to work within, and lead a team is essential. If you're nodding your head right now, drop us a line.

Responsibilities:
• Lead discovery and requirements gathering process including developing process, setting agendas, conducting client stakeholder interviews, and helping to define the product requirements list
• Lead documentation, annotation, and presentation of both low and high-fidelity schematics and prototypes including system diagrams, content strategy, information architecture and wireframes
• Develop user personas, use cases, scenarios, pathing, storyboards, flowcharts, and design specifications, taking into account behaviors, needs, abilities, circumstances, and contexts
• Plan websites, web apps, intranets, social platform apps, mobile apps, and mobile web experiences
• Conduct research and analysis, presenting those findings to real people, internal and client
• Conduct usability audits, heuristic audits, focus groups, and competitive analysis
• Help the senior team to author project briefs and roadmaps
• Develop and document content strategies
• Participate in the evolution of agency processes that improve the agency's efficiency and work product, as well as our clients' brands and user/customer experiences
• Collaborate with all agency practice groups
• Provide leadership and guidance to jr. team members
• Public speaking, presentations, content creation, and commentary as part of the agency's UX perspectives through blogging, events, and other media channels
• Estimate and report on personal and team time
• Help project managers with resource targeting

Requirements:
• 5+ years experience in UX or information architecture and a solid portfolio of work to back it up
• Experience working within a fast-paced team environment preferably within a creative or interactive agency setting
• Experience with marketing-driven projects that mesh user experience with customer experience methodologies, with appreciation for the value of design and brand in a business context
• Expert-level experience with planning applications including OmniGraffle, Visio, and Adobe Illustrator
• Familiarity with APIs, web services, and 3rd party platforms such as CMS, CRM, intranets, blog platforms, and social networks
• Acute knowledge and participation in social media technologies
• Experience with A/B testing, web analytics, and analytics platforms
• Working knowledge of front-end development languages (XHTML, CSS, JS) and frameworks (jQuery, Sencha, JQTouch)
• Familiarity with back-end technologies (PHP, .NET, MySQL, SQL, Python, Ruby) and mobile technologies (Mobify, PhoneGap, iOS SDK, Android SDK)
• Passionate, driven, and ahead of the curve with ad tech including new and emerging technologies, platforms, channels, trends, and best practices
• Expert-level experience with common UX principles and language including user-centered design, patterns, and design thinking
• BA or MA in computer science, interaction design, cognitive science, HCI or equivalent is preferred, but equal attention given to self taught candidates with proven capabilities and experience
• Clear communicator, able to stay focused under pressure

Interested?

Details on how to apply here: http://bit.ly/rz2KD2