{"id":5734,"date":"2011-03-17T15:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2011-03-17T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:31:36","slug":"job-ux-specialist-doubleverify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2011\/03\/17\/job-ux-specialist-doubleverify\/","title":{"rendered":"JOB: UX Specialist, DoubleVerify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City \/\u00a0User Experience Specialist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleverify.com\/about\/careers\/new-york-city\/\">\u00ab Back to New York City<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>New York City<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporting Relationship:\u00a0Director<\/strong>, Product Management<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date Posted: <\/strong>February 25, 2011<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Company<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DoubleVerify (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleverify.com\/\">http:\/\/www.doubleverify.com<\/a>) is the pioneer and market leader in online advertising verification. We increase online advertising accountability and transparency by providing agencies, marketers, publishers and ad networks with real-time audit, verification and prevention capabilities.\u00a0 DoubleVerify has recently been named by Dow Jones\u2019 VentureWire as one of the Top 50 Start-Ups to Watch.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/venturecapital\/2010\/10\/12\/venturewires-fastech-conference-to-spotlight-most-promising-start-ups\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full article.<\/p>\n<p><em>Market Opportunity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DoubleVerify currently verifies 35 billion impressions per month and its client list includes over 150 Fortune 500 marketers and ad networks. DoubleVerify has been chosen as a preferred verification provider for major holding companies including Publicis, GroupM, InterPublic Group and Havas and has partnered with ten of the top 15 ad networks. DoubleVerify has closed two rounds of financing to date with a total funding of approximately $14 million.<\/p>\n<p><em>Position Overview<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DoubleVerify is in search of an extraordinary User Experience Professional who will spruce up our User Interface.\u00a0\u00a0The UX Specialist is a business critical team member who will interface with cross-functional teams including Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Account Management, Implementation and Engineering to arrive at the best solution designs of our Product Suite.\u00a0 This role will be creative, collaborative, drive greater business visibility that will be demonstrated by increased utilization and ease-of-use of our products and services.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The UX Specialist will leverage existing designs, client relationships, feedback from the various process groups and their own expertise in web-based product development to drive our product designs to greatness \u2013 greatness that will be aligned with DoubleVerify\u2019s strategic goals<\/p>\n<p><em>Job Responsibilities:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Own the design of the most impactful user interface and related features, and participate in the product definition process with the Product Manager, Engineering Manager and Product Owner<\/p>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Develop expert-level knowledge of competitive and complimentary products and bring new ideas to the team<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Help translate requirements into specs<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Design wireframes, prototypes, mockups<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Create corporate visual design guidelines and standards<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Travel to client sites to interview users and create focus groups to arrive at most optimal design<\/div>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Significantly influence product strategy and direction<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Minimum Qualifications<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a04-6+ years in User Experience modeling<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Detailed interviewing, requirements gathering, specs, mockups, and wireframe development skills<\/div>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0High degree of creativity, interaction design and problem solving ability<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Uncanny drive to design the best user experience in the world<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Strong software design and communication skills. (Ability to communicate ideas through design)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Proven track record and a passion for designing compelling, award-winning user interfaces<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation skills &amp; and attention to detail.\u00a0\u00a0Must be able to explain technical concepts and analysis implications clearly to wide audience and be able to translate business objectives into visual designs<\/p>\n<p>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Experience working with various cross-functional teams \u2013 a team player!<\/p>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Advanced mastery of office tools such as, Visio, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Experience with the software development lifecycle<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Ability to travel to user sites and create focus groups<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Demonstrated ability to see the user\u2019s pain and translate it into an easy workflow that the user will love.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Track record of working under pressure and tight deadlines in a very fast passed environment and vertical<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0A great portfolio of samples of interaction design work is a must<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Strong business orientation and acumen; being accountable for results<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Preferred Job Qualifications:<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Relevant analysis experience in consultative role.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0MBA or other Advanced Degree desired (a formal education in Interaction Design, Product Design, Industrial Design, HCI, Architecture, or related field from NID \/ IDC or equivalent)<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Demonstrated knowledge of Interactive Advertising is a huge plus<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Prototyping skills using tools such as Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver and OR the knowledge of imaging\/video domain applications would be a plus<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Utilize state of the art graphic design tools which he\/she will select to best meet the job\u2019s requirements, such as Photoshop or Illustrator<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Knowledge of rich applications such as Silverlight<\/div>\n<div>\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Background in Online Advertising is preferred.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Contact: Kimberly Kahn \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:kimberly.kahn@doubleverify.com\" target=\"_blank\">kimberly.kahn@doubleverify.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City \/\u00a0User Experience Specialist \u00ab Back to New York City Location: New York City Reporting Relationship:\u00a0Director, Product Management Date Posted: February 25, 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}