Senior UI Designer
AOL Entertainment, Mountain View, CA, USA

The AOL Product Design group is looking for a Senior UI designer for our entertainment products team.

You will spearhead the user interface design for the AOL Media Player and other entertainment applications and you should have a good understanding of the digital entertainment space.

Required Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with various organizational team members from Engineers to Product Managers and VP's.
• Experience designing client applications and/or complex web applications.
• Critically review user interface designs from a user-centered design perspective.
• Extensive experience crafting detailed interaction design specifications for QA and Engineers.
• Ability to collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Business owners, and Quality Assurance throughout all phases of a project.
• Solve complex user interface design problems.
• Possess good diagramming and screen layout skills to create product flows, navigation maps and screen layouts.
• Proficiency in industry standard UI design software in the basics (Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Visio, OmniGraffle).
• Lead brainstorming and ideation sessions to generate innovative solutions to complex design problems.
• Not afraid to question problem definitions and reframe problems to address the underlying issues.
• Visualize and model complex concepts, workflows and navigation systems Experience with shipping products, and cross-platform design experience is preferred.
• Desire to apply research practices/UCD design principles in innovative ways and within tight timeframes.
• Have working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and other web technologies and tools.
• Flash or other dynamic/interactive prototyping experience is a plus!

Important Additional Information

To Apply:
Please send resume in Word Format with a link to your portfolio if available:
jennagarcia00@aol.com

**May also have contract roles available**