Senior Information Architect

Medical Broadcasting Company (MBC), a DIGITAS INC. COMPANY, is the largest interactive agency focused exclusively on healthcare. Creating communications that change health-related behaviors is our specialty ? one that requires a thorough understanding of medical science, healthcare business, and human psychology. We design and build interactive marketing programs that engage, educate, and inspire consumers and healthcare professionals and help brands manage their customer touchpoints to promote value exchange and maximize business results over the entire product life cycle.

Job Summary:
The Information Architect (IA) leads the development of the user experience and provides usability and interaction design insights across a variety of high-profile engagements. The IA works closely with clients and agency team to intimately understand user needs, and becomes the advocates of these needs throughout the project development cycle.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Create and present user experience solutions to internal teams and clients through sitemaps, wireframes, flowcharts and functional specifications Quickly understand and refine client strategy and develop content and functionality that meets both client objectives and user goals Collaborate closely with copywriters, visual designers, and programmers to design the user interaction model, information architecture, and user interfaces

Required Skills & Experience: Undergraduate or postgraduate degree in any of the following: HCI, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Computer Science, Media Studies, Graphic Design, and/or related fields. 3-5 years of experience developing interactive web sites and applications as Information Architect or Interaction Designer. Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry experience a plus A good understanding of user-centered design principles. Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of interaction design process and skills Ability to provide interaction-design and usability insights across a variety of high-profile projects Experience acting as lead information architect on site development projects, developing sitemaps, wireframes, flowcharts and functional specifications Experience with user experience research, both to uncover user needs and to test interaction design solutions Superior client-presentation skills, and experience interacting with senior marketing, research and technical clients Understand how to use and effectively incorporate interactive technologies Expert knowledge of MS Office and Visio Working understanding of interactive front-end technologies (i.e. HTML, JavaScript, Flash, CSS, DHTML), browser and platform constraints Good understanding of common back-end technologies and platforms Prior experience in an integrated marketing communications agency desired Uncompromising attention to details

To Apply:
Please submit resume to http://tbe.taleo.net/NA4/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=TRAI&cws=1&rid=48



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