Information Architect | IA Contract Boston

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Position Type – Contract
Location – Boston
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Recruiter –Bri Barber

MarketPro is hiring a Contract Information Architect to work onsite with our client, a large interactive Agency. What does it mean to be the largest independent interactive agency in the world? Besides everything you’d expect – award-winning creative, genius marketing, and technology prowess – it means people join this organization because they share an all-embracing desire to do things differently, to never feel like it’s an assembly line and to do groundbreaking work on a daily basis.

Job Description:

Information Architects are responsible for the navigation, organization, interaction design, and business/user process engineering for leading-edge Web solutions, software, and mobile devices/applications. You will apply user-centered design methods to translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into world-class user experiences for leading companies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess existing sites/properties for usefulness, usability, visual design, content, and branding with minimal oversight.
• Develop evaluation criteria based on industry standards and best practices, modifying these to fit the specific objectives and needs of the project; rate and rank sites based on findings.
• Lead participatory design/user testing sessions (with oversight and direction) and identify and document meaningful patterns from the findings;provide recommendations to the client/internal team based on findings.
• Execute participatory requirements gathering sessions and participate in debrief sessions (with guidance and oversight); create feature lists from sessions.
• Create engaging scenarios and develop frameworks describing key aspects of a proposed experience, and how it reconciles business and user needs.
• Create visually compelling representations of the solution’s high-level interaction, navigation, and organization design (i.e., concept models).
• Develop visual representations of the organizational structure, hierarchy, and relationships of screens in a site (i.e., site maps) as well as the interactions between the user and the functional modules in the solution.
• Develop screen details (i.e., wireframes) depicting all elements on a unique screen type, including the content, functional, and navigation specifications.
• Estimate, plan, and lead tracks of Information Architecture work in the development of a quality solution; track progress according to the plan created for the project (e.g., conduct design reviews and creative status meetings as needed).

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in design-related discipline: Interaction, Information or Interface design; Human-Computer
• Interaction; Design Planning; Graphic Design; Communications.
• 3-5 years of industry experience. ( complex overhauling on massive systems)
• Candidates must be versed in user-centered design methods and techniques.
• Ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams.
• Prior experience in a consulting firm or agency preferred.
• Prior experience in UI design for customer facing portals

About MarketPro:

MarketPro is the leading marketing staffing andmarketing recruitment firm in the USA.  Whether your need is interim / contract or direct placement, we provide top companies with talent that exceeds expectations both functionally and culturally.  Our recruiters know the best marketing talent, because they are experienced marketers.  MarketPro places talent all marketing related disciplines and does so in less time with a higher success ratio than anyone else in the industry.

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