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Freelance Experience Director
Razorfish
Seattle, WA, United States
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About Razorfish:
The Experience Director is responsible for leading the User Experience team, collaborating across disciplines and working directly with our clients.
Job Description:
This is one of the most crucial project roles at Razorfish as it requires an ability both to lead the project team and the client through a user-centered design process to develop meaningful experience concepts, and to execute on those concepts. The Experience Director is an ideas person who can sell "the big idea" to the client, but who also loves getting her or his hands dirty in the process.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the development of the information architecture and content strategy of transactional, informational, and marketing websites
• Discover target audiences' needs, tasks, and goals and translating them into creative concepts
• Translate business requirements into meaningful interactive experiences - Lead immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing
• Develop user personas and scenarios to clarify results of user research and focus the team's design efforts on the needs of key users
• Lead team in collaborative development of prototypes for demonstration of concepts to clients
• Develop and document detailed user experience specifications for highly interactive interfaces
• Drive User Experience thought leadership in both the company and the industry
Qualifications:
• Demonstrated ability to lead design of complex transactional interfaces, taxonomies and metadata frameworks, and templates for content management systems
• Demonstrated ability to develop big ideas, and execute flawlessly against them in a highly collaborative environment
• Demonstrated experience conducting user research and translating user research into design decisions
• Demonstrated experience using web analytics data to inform design decisions
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions
• High tolerance for ambiguity matched only by your desire to organize it
• Willingness to travel
• 7-10 years experience as an information architect, interaction designer, or experience designer(or similar role).
• Master's degree in a related field, such as library science, industrial design, graphic design, or human-computer interaction
This is a Freelance opportunity, local Seattle candidates only.