Interaction Designer
Niku, Redwood City, CA, USA

Niku Corporation in Redwood City, CA, is looking for a full-time "web producer," which at Niku means a combination of UI design, interaction design, and information architecture with some web design, usability, product management, and test engineering thrown in the mix.

Send cover letter and resume to job@niku.com. Put WEBPROD in the subject line. Please submit work samples if possible.

Job Description

The Development department at Niku is responsible for developing state-of-the-art, web-based enterprise applications. We develop a flexible, highly-customizable suite of applications that provide solutions for portfolio management, project management, financial management, collaboration, knowledge management, resource management, opportunity management, capacity planning, budgeting and forecasting, time and expense management, data mining and reports. As a member ofthis team, you will be working closely with other team members to design the look and feel and flow of Niku's native web applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Participating in requirements gathering, scoping, storyboarding and wire frames/schematics, writing use cases and functional specifications,developing site maps, prototyping, functional and UI verification, bug logging and minor bug fixing
• Collaborating extensively with architects, software engineers, test engineers, and documentation on varied types of projects from point releases to full releases to product vision demos
• Defining, maintaining, and enforcing UI rules
• Periodic overhauls to the UI to match the evolving vision of the product
• Following process and suggesting process improvements

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing web applications, ***not just small e-commerce sites or static websites***
• Extensive knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop
• Should have a thorough understanding of software development processes and methodologies and knowledge of complete product development life cycle
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, XML/XSL
• Proven ability to define the creative vision of a product
• Experience with information architecture, prototyping and designing GUIs, and defining and enforcing UI rules
• Familiarity with usability practices, use case development, technical documentation, and test engineering (QA) procedures
• Aware of Section 508/accessibility issues as well as cross-browser compatibility and localization requirements
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and analytical skills
• Ability to multitask while maintaining attention to detail
• BA/BS required (HCI, Information Services or a related field)
• Local applicants only

Desired Qualities

• Proficiency with Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0/MX
• Programming background
• Knowledge of portfolio/project management, resource management, financial management, or reporting tools

Important Additional Information

• Our product is a web-based enterprise application intended to do work (think tables and hierarchies) so experience with Flash is not very pertinent.
• While graphic design experience is welcome, and occasionally new icons are needed, most of the daily work involves creating new features from UI patterns we have already, so storyboarding, wireframing, and quick prototyping skills are more important that graphic design skills.
• Enforcing consistency is a prime directive, so you must get acquainted with thousands of screens in our app. Also, several weeks of each release cycle are spent on UI bug logging and fixing.
• Our functionality is very complex and requires strong analytical skills. For instance, can you design a clean, simple, usable page flow and UI to create business object attributes that should appear one way for one division and another way for another division, and be managed by different division administrators but still be centrally controlled?
• Such analytical skills are necessary to succeed in this position.

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