Sr. UI Designer

 

Job Title: Sr. UI Designer

City: Mountain View

State: California

Country:   United States

 

About the Company:

 

 For 20 years, Intuit has been revolutionizing an industry and is changing the face of small business and personal finance through our innovative products QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax. 25 million customers have made our products and services household names. Intuit has been recognized by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the top companies to work for and America's most respected software company.  Our innovative environment is the place where talented people want to work. Our leadership continues to elevate the company to new levels of success.- Provide desktop and web application interface designs and/or design consulting on teams from concept development through delivery.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

- Define and design new products in new markets as well as incremental re-work of current desktop and Internet-based products. - Work closely with user researchers and product managers to understand key user needs, set ease of use goals, and iterate until those goals are met.
- Lead the design process, drive decisions, create schedules, and track issues.
- Deliver prototypes, mock-ups, and design specifications for your designs ? while working hand-in-hand with user researchers..
- Perform design reviews and usability testing during various phases of the product development to evaluate and iterate the designs.
- Teach out best design practices across Intuit, in conjunction with other UCD specialists
- Mentor more junior designers
- Develop strong relationship with business unit UCD teams and other key organizational leaders
- Enjoy working closely with others, respectful of other perspectives

Qualifications:

 

- Minimum BA/BS degree in Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology or related field.
- 5+ years of application interface design experience.
- Strong knowledge of interface design processes and methodology in creating desktop and internet applications.
- Familiarity with one or more prototyping tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must have strong project and people management skills and be able to function as project leader as well as individual contributor.
- Proficiency with rapid prototyping tools such as PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Director, and Visual Basic.
- Proficiency with HTML, DHTML, JavaScript.
- Proven track record of designing products/services that meet user needs

 

If you are interested in this position, please apply at:  http://www.intuit.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=55709.