Experience Architect

Rocket Wagon is looking for an Experience Architect (UX/IA) to join our team of designers, strategists, developers, and architects and help with client-facing application design. Rocket Wagon works within the space between product strategy and interaction development and with a broad spectrum of clients, from high-profile startups to publicly traded companies on UX design projects ranging from mobile devices to web applications.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside strategy team to define target audiences' needs, tasks and goals and translate them into creative information architect concepts
• Collaborate with strategy and visual UI design teams to brainstorm and validate experience design concepts
• Participate in user research, concept testing and usability testing
• Understand and utilize usability guidelines and design patterns
• Organize content into logical categories; and develop structural designand establish the foundation of information access and functional relationships at the site- and page-level
• Produce site maps, application maps, workflows, functional specifications and interactive or static wireframes to communicate architecture and experience
• Contribute to overarching UX strategy, by identifying how the proposed application architecture, features, functionality and navigation reflect the strategy and audience objectives
• Keep abreast of trends and best practices in interactive design, rich media and information design; share these lessons with team members and management
• Provide competitive analysis of IA and functional design, as appropriate
• Guide and be a resource for other information architects in their project roles

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5+ years experience in Web and mobile application architecture design for interactive mediums (e.g., information architect, interaction designer or experience designer)
• Advanced knowledge of architecture software programs (e.g., Axure, OmniGraffle, InDesign, Illustrator and similar)
• Experience building and rapidly iterating on interactive prototypes
• Experience thoroughly annotating and documenting wireframe designs
• Range of concepting ability, from sketching to high-fidelity prototypes
• Expert-level familiarity with design patterns for mobile, tablet and Web
• Excellent organizational, presentation and verbal and written communication skills.
• An extremely detail-oriented and flexible mindset, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive schedules (and while juggling multiple projects)