Job Title: Senior Information Architect
Job Description
PM Digital is a leading Digital Marketing Agency specializing in Creative, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media, Display Advertising, and Shopping Feed Management. We bring qualified traffic to your website through a combination of our services, hands-on strategy, and expert level talent. Our Creative/Web Development division develops high-performing online and offline creative leveraging the strengths of our clients’ brands and direct response best practices.
At PM Digital, the role of Information Architect/User Experience Designer involves more than organizing information, it’s also about taking a creative approach to developing exceptional web-based and mobile interfaces that are intuitive and highly-usable.
The Senior IA/UX Designer plays a key role in the project discovery process communicating with clients to understand their business goals and help define strategy, content, and features for design of their website. In addition, reporting directly to the SVP Creative Strategy, this role is instrumental in growing the IA/UX team, assisting in budgeting and forecasting and direct interfacing with the creative, strategy, project management, technology and account teams.
Primary Job Functions
• Interpreting requirement documentation to derive exceptional user interfaces that balance the execution of an innovative experience strategy with core business objectives and technical platform considerations
• Defining user-interface design, navigation, structure, and hierarchy to serve as a blueprint for all web experiences including mobile and responsive
• Creating wireframes, sitemaps, work-flows, content inventories, specification documents, user scenarios and prototypes, along with thorough documentation and annotations of UI control behavior
• Analyzing target audiences, user behaviors, metrics, and functional specifications to execute user-friendly, goal-oriented solutions
• Interfacing with designers, programmers, and project managers to assure the completion of jobs to meet project specifications
• Working with clients to understand their business models and goals, presenting deliverables to clients, and describing the intended user experience via communication and documentation
• Writing labels for navigational elements and calls-to-action for user interfaces
• Tracking research regarding web design, usability, and technology trends
• Managing the IA team, including inhouse staff and contractors, leading and growing the team and their capabilities
Education and Experience Requirements
• BA or BS in either Graphic/Visual Arts, Library and Information Science, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Information Sciences, Marketing, Industrial Design, Fine Arts, or a related area
• 4+ years of relevant experience working on large, complex websites
• Experience developing, extending and applying detailed user interface specifications, UI pattern libraries, reusable GUI components, content inventories, and design guidelines for websites and/or mobile experiences
• Experience observing or conducting user research and translating results into UX decisions
• Experience working directly with clients, communicating objectives and presenting deliverables
• Experience developing wireframes, sitemaps, and user-flows, augmented with clear annotations of UI control behavior, to clients and team members
Professional and Personal Skills
• Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology
• Working knowledge of user-centered design principles and practices
• Working knowledge of website design methodology and web development technology trends
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and timeliness of solution delivery
• Comfortable in a fast-pace environment handling multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficient in architecture-related software such as Axure and Visio. (Knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, SQL Server, MS Office, Acrobat, or Dreamweaver a plus)
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
Interested parties please submit resumes with cover letter and salary requirements to kfiore@pmdigital.com