User Experience Designer

at Extractable

Location: San Francisco, CA - SOMA

We're looking for a UX guru and a leader to join our award-winning digital user experience design agency. You've got a passion and a knack for user-centered design. Your ideas inspire clients and your team. You understand how to create a digital experience that is fun, engaging, and fulfilling for the user while meeting a client's highest strategic goals and brand aspirations.

In your more than seven years of designing, you've led geographically diverse teams and have a rich portfolio of consumer-facing and B2B applications that you've greatly improved. You've elicited more than a few "Wows" for your designs. You are equal parts UI designer, brand strategist, and business analyst. You have opinions about what's coming after Web 2.0, and can back that up with logical reasoning. You can explain to a client why some Web technologies and rich Internet concepts might be terrible for their business, while others would be critical.

You also are expert at creating user scenarios, sketching storyboards, drawing wireframes, building conceptual prototypes, writing features specifications. You are also experienced in conducting contextual inquiries and usability testing and know how to draw insights from them as part of your design methodology. You tinker with your approach, experimenting with new ways of designing because you're always trying to improve. You welcome feedback. And give it back to help your colleagues become better.

Although the majority of your time will be spent on client projects, you'll also be helping out with new proposals and pitches. Which means you've been in sales situations before and can hold your own deftly answering questions from a VP of Marketing or a COO at a Fortune 500 company.

We're a casual bunch but take our work seriously. We also believe in a meritocracy, so prima donnas need not apply. You should have a minimum seven years of experience in the digital design or interactive marketing industry. Formal education in graphic design or illustration with a minimum of a Bachelors degree or equivalent business experience. You're proficient with design and prototyping tools, such as Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, HTML, with a working knowledge of XML, Flex, and Web 2.0 applications.

If your background and interests match, let us know why in your cover letter. Also send your cover and resume as an attachment, along with a link to your portfolio. Email to jobs@extractable.com.

Interested?

Send your cover and resume as an attachment, along with a link to your portfolio. Email to jobs@extractable.com