Sulia (beta.sulia.com) — Global mobile realtime media.
Position
Head of Design and User Experience
Company Overview
Sulia is built from the ground up on one central premise: that organizing media produced and consumed on mobile devices is a massive global market opportunity. Sulia is a realtime media company dedicated to growing a distributed news and entertainment system, and building mobile products that let people across the globe connect with their interests and personal experts.
Sulia is based in New York City. The company is backed by leading media and technology investors, including FirstMark Capital, Village Ventures, IA Capital Partners, Founder Collective, Ron Conway, and Mark Gerson.
Responsibilities
The Head of Design and UX will be a key member of the senior management team. Using his/her innate passion, creative talent and focus on user-centered design, this individual will translate user needs and motivations into beautiful, compelling and original design concepts and interfaces.
The ideal candidate will advocate for the user and design interfaces that are intuitive, elegantly simple, and enjoyable, but will also have the judgment and courage to propose solutions never built before and go against convention when appropriate.
In the coming months Sulia will launch new products that will present realtime information, and engage users in their interests, in entirely new ways. These are major consumer-facing products and we are looking for someone who wants to lead the industry in crafting how realtime consumption experiences should be, and someone interested in working with a proven, energetic and ambitious team.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- 7+ years of UX experience at consumer Internet company, including at least one year in mobile.
- A portfolio of work demonstrating experience in the design of complex interfaces and workflows across multiple platforms, including mobile.
- Experience with mixed media/content creation, consumption and personalization.
- Works well with editors and engineers, and appreciates their ideas and input.
- A strong point of view, creative ideas and the ability to promote conceptual thinking among the team
- Passion for understanding the motivations of users, and how to translate them into innovative, elegant and practical on-screen flows.
- Experience with games and virtual rewards a plus.
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