Job Title:
Senior UX
About Grey:
Grey has spent almost 100 years mastering the art of fame and perfecting the science of fortune. It’s part of our culture, and it permeates every aspect of our work. From the E*TRADE Baby, to CoverGirl Ellen DeGeneres to the Russian oligarch’s petite lap giraffe for DirecTV, among others, we’ve helped create pop culture sensations, and more than 90% of our clients reported positive sales growth — famous and effective. Since moving to award winning, LEED gold-certified new offices in New York’s Flatiron District, Grey has grown dramatically, increasing our client list by 50% and equally growing our number of employees. Our reputation for smart, nimble thinking behind our famously effective work continues to grow as well: Grey is the only agency to be named one of Fast Company’s “50 Most Innovative Companies in the World” two years in a row. By every measure — growth from existing clients, new business success, a soaring creative reputation — Grey’s performance has never been better. At the heart of that success is the continued infusion of the industry’s top talent. We’re looking to continue both trends — best year, top talent — this year and beyond.
Description:
UX at Grey are responsible for the navigation, organization, interaction design, and business/user process engineering for online experiences and applications. You will apply user-centered design methods to translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into world-class user experiences.
Typical deliverables include content audits, content taxonomies, metadata schema, sitemaps, annotated wireframes, clickable prototypes, and custom content models. Typical assignments include architecting global web platforms and application interfaces but may also involve shepherding content migrations, leading governance planning efforts, and training end clients.
Responsibilities:
UX are expected to:
- Work with digital strategists to perform content audits and reviews.
- Work closely with digital strategists, visual designers, and technologists to consolidate and make sense of large amounts of information.
- Collaborate with digital strategists to populate content matrices showing all content elements, relationships, and dependencies.
- Develop functional specs as needed to indicate process and systems implications, navigation, and content relationships.
- Architect user interaction solutions/schema based on sound usability principles, research and technical feasibility.
- Facilitate user interface definition sessions by leading teams through white boarding exercises and discussions.
- Develop site maps to represent organizational structure, hierarchy, and relationships.
- Develop and annotate wireframes that indicate features, content, navigation and layout of information.
- Utilize low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity prototypes at various stages for client presentations.
- Work with producers to estimate, plan, and lead all UX tasks.
- Facilitate user interface definition sessions by leading teams through white boarding exercises and discussions.
- Create and maintain a centralized repository of UX documentation and templates.
Required skills, experience and qualifications:
- 4+ years experience architecting and/or redesigning large-scale websites and applications
- The precision of a scientist and the aesthetic eye of an artist
- Able to make sense of large amounts of data / content
- Passion for diving into technical details.
- Able to create powerful spreadsheets for content audits, taxonomy, and transcreation
- Able to collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams
- Able to interface with clients
- Solutions-oriented
- Detail-oriented
- Reliable and dependable
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment
- Able to prioritize tasks and multi-task as needed
- Active listener
- Effective communicator – in writing and in person
- Familiar with web applications, tools, and technologies
- Knowledge of MS Office, Excel, and Basecamp
- Able to work nights and weekends as needed
- Bachelors degree
- Design or advertising agency experience preferred
Contact: Tiffany Tutson, ttutson
Grey Group is an equal opportunity employer M / F / D / V.