Company: HiveLive

Location: Boulder, CO

Description:

We are looking for a talented UX / IxD designer to join our well funded and quickly growing startup. Situated near the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, HiveLive offers a high energy work environment focused on teamwork and collaboration. Applicants for this position should include a: link to their online portfolio, cover letter and a resume (if this exists on your portfolio site / linked in profile please indicate this).

This is a junior level position with the opportunity for advancement for individuals who excel. We are willing to speak with recent graduates, as well as applicants with more experience, with the right qualifications, interest, and aptitude in the space.

Job Summary

The Junior Solutions Architect will iteratively specify, prototype, design and implement UI Skins, Information Architecture and User Experience for HiveLive customer communities based on the HiveLive LiveConnect platform. The ideal candidate will be experienced with, and have a passion for, social networking and interactive web communities. Key factors for success in this position are: the ability to creatively solve customer design problems and assimilate a variety of design challenges and tasks while ensuring deadlines are met, the ability to self-manage and excel under tight deadlines, the ability to communicate effectively with both internal stake holders and clients. This position works closely with Sales Staff, Community Managers, and Engineering to produce usable community constructs and templates that are visually integrated with existing client brands and highly useable in large community settings.

Duties and Responsibilities

Understand end-user requirements, and be able to translate them into highly usable community designs, in concert with Community Managers and Sales Executives
Focus information layout and user interface design to meet client needs
Work closely with Sales staff to determine client needs, skin demo communities and create community architecture
Become an expert in the HiveLive platform and provide technical support for sales demos and calls
Assist clients in creating community constructs and patterns based on best practices
Work directly with clients and Community Managers to design and rollout new client communities

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Advanced to Expert level CSS2 - hand coding with strong knowledge of browser compatibility issues
Ability to read and code XHTML to standards without WYSIWYG editing tool
Advanced to Expert Photoshop / Illustrator CS3 skills
Intermediate to Advanced Dreamweaver CS3 skills
Extremely comfortable in a mixed computing environments (Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix)
Basic knowledge of human cognitive development or response (such as psychology, education, library or information science), and good understanding of new media technology
Knowledge of the web and its design limitations
Knowledge of information design principles
Exceptional portfolio of work that demonstrates elegant workflow solutions
Excellent analytical, oral, written, and visual communication skills
Ability to collaborate actively & effectively on multidisciplinary teams
Ability to quickly familiarize with goals and integrate style into project identity
Passion for User Experience Design and solving large community design problems
Ability to self-manage multiple projects and work within deadlines
Ability to generate and present creative ideas and solutions to complex problems
Strong attention to detail
Color vision including color discrimination

Educational and Experience Requirements

Bachelors degree (BFA preferred) in interaction design, graphic design or related field.
1 - 3 years experience in User Interface Design, Information Design and Design for large online communities

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