Position Summary:

We are seeking a mid-level/senior interaction designer to join our Palo Alto location. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience, supported by strong visualization and prototyping skills, comfort working in multidisciplinary teams and excellent communication skills. Candidates should demonstrate an ability to work across a range of projects, from product interaction to software tools and applications to the web. Prototyping and production skills are essential, as well as a passion for design and a point of view about your work. All candidates must send a portfolio or work samples along with their inquiries. 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.

1. Client facing skills Successful candidates must be comfortable with clients and be able to effectively share their point of view and expertise. Candidates must be able to understand the scope and boundaries of projects.

2. User centered perspective Candidates must truly believe in a Human-centered approach to design and be comfortable going out into the world for inspiration. They understand basic Human Centered Design methodology, are comfortable with ambiguity and want to push design methodologies.

3. Communication skills Candidates must have strong presenting, verbal and written skills. They understand the business environment and what clients need to make something actionable and how to make clients feel comfortable throughout the innovation process. Additionally, successful applicants understand the value of design and brand within a design and business context.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 learnings and move forward.

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