Sr. Interaction Designer/ UX Designer -Los Angeles -Belkin
Sr. Interaction Designers / UX Designers
Full-time & Freelance
Los Angeles, CA
Design the Total Experience. Get in on the ground floor.
Do you want to design the entire consumer experience? At Belkin you could be doing strategy and design work for product interfaces, instruction guides, out-of-box, web apps, in-store signage, packaging, manuals, product graphics, and desktop software. If you have a holistic
vision for the user's experience and you are very broadly skilled, this job is for you.
Belkin International, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high technology products for consumers and business. Our broad product lines include our popular iPod accessories, stylish and useful laptop accessories, and leading N1 wireless networking gear. Belkin products are globally
recognized in the marketplace for their good design, ease of use, and innovation. Headquartered in Los Angeles California, the company has twice made Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S. Check us out at http://www.belkin.com
We have both full-time and freelance positions open. The job description below applies to full time people, but freelancers have similar roles and requirements.
Your Role:
- Create and deliver fantastic user experiences across numerous touchpoints
- Be an advocate for user needs
- Use your skills and knowledge to influence how products get developed
- Be part of a team of creative and smart people
- Handle all of the UX / interaction design requests from the business unit assigned to you.
- Interact with Belkin's product development and marketing teams
- Create project deliverables, such as scenarios, flowcharts, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed designs.
- Work with other related people, like user researchers and usability engineers.
- Manage your own projects like an internal consultant: high quality, valuable, on-time results.
- Help Belkin to further integrate user-centered design methodology
- When possible, help your assigned business unit define their vision for future plans and products
- Supervise outside vendors if needed for your projects
- Minimum 5 years experience in user centered design (8 years experience preferred)
- Preferred: Masters degree in interaction design. Acceptable: Bachelor's degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, graphic design, human factors, or related field
- Experience and expertise in user centered design processes and techniques.
- Years of experience in product creation and/or software/site development processes. Experience in consumer electronics is a plus.
- Intuitive understanding and empathy for everyday users: their motivators, their goals, their barriers
- Ability to turn complex design challenges into innovative elegant solutions, and to put those solutions into tangible form.
- Proven track record of user centered design projects and deliverables (portfolio required).
- Years of experience working with other related disciplines such as usability engineering and prototyping/coding.
- Ability to explain usability and user experience to other departments-- in their language.
- Experience participating in user research and usability testing
- A good understanding of graphic design and an ability to use visual design techniques to organize information and improve usability
- Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively or independently
- Ability to prioritize projects and to meet critical deadlines
- Ability to run presentation meetings, design reviews, and creative workshops
- Proven track record of working with people on all levels in a company-- executive suite to the warehouse
- A positive outlook and a can-do attitude Benefits
- See http://www.belkin.com/jobs/benefits/
- Send an email with UX DESIGNER in the subject line to design[at]belkin[dot]com
Ron Zajac
Senior Recruiter
Belkin International, Inc.
Human Resources
323 203-3872
323 469-1559 fax
www.belkin.com
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