Position Summary

We are seeking an interaction designer to join our New York location. Candidates should have 1-3 years of experience, supported by visualization, prototyping, and interface skills. Additionally, they should be comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams and excellent clarity and communication skills. Candidates should demonstrate an ability to work across a range of projects: product interaction, software tools, and web application. Prototyping and production skills are essential, as well as a passion for design and a point of view about your work.

Please indicate your specific roles and contributions for each project submitted as part of the portfolio. Additional areas of skills and perspectives are listed below:

Communication skills - Candidates must have strong presenting, verbal skills, written skills, and storyboarding. Additionally, successful applicants understand the value of design and brand within a design and business context.

Team skills - Successful applicants believe that better work is done through collaboration and have the ability to inspire teams through collaboration as well as direction, vision and planning. The ability to relate to individuals and nurture talent also a requirement.

Visual design sensitivity - Candidates for this position know the difference and spot the difference between good and great work and are able to nurture teams to deliver great work.

Prototyping skills - Successful applicants for this position understand that you succeed sooner by trial and experiments. Understand that prototyping can be done at many fidelities and have experience doing and leading that work. They understand that grounding ideas in concrete designs is the best way to gain learning’s and move forward.

Technical skills (craft and tool mastery) - Successful candidates must know what excellence is. They not only identify and evangelize best practices, but are able to push new boundaries and explore new territory in order to deliver innovation.

Additional Skills Required

• Information Architecture

• Concept Model Design

• UI Development for Functionality

• Visual UI Development

• Flash

• Illustrator

• Photoshop

• Final Cut Pro

• After Effects

• Creation of Physical Controls (preferred)

• Creation of Physical Interactions (preferred)

• Onscreen Prototyping Tools- Flash (preferred) or Macromedia Director

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Equal Opportunity Employer:
IDEO is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.