Director of User Experience
San Francisco

To apply, please visit us at http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Job.aspx?j=oJ0aVfwy&s=Startupers

Jobvite's corporate recruiting platform is revolutionizing the way companies identify, engage and hire talent. Jobvite is the only recruitment application built to involve all employees in the hiring process, leverage their social and professional networks, and manage all aspects of the hiring workflow in an easy to use platform that’s effortless to implement. Jobvite is a native SaaS application, built on Web 2.0 technologies.
We are a well-funded start-up with a unique product and a rapidly growing customer base. Our offices are located in downtown San Francisco, where we are building a team of the Bay Area's best and brightest minds to deliver a compelling SaaS solution to an under-penetrated SME market.

Be The First …

The Director of User Experience will be a strategic and hands-on role in defining and leading Jobvite’s next generation user experience, beginning with identifying and hiring key talent to build a world-class team including information architects and application visual designers.

The Role …
• Design creative solutions for current and future Jobvite product set with a balanced understanding of strategy, research, usability, interaction, and visual design.
• Build and manage a team of interaction designers, graphic designers, usability experts and create a collaborative team atmosphere.
• Hands on skills in creating user-centered designs and the ability to work with Marketing and Engineering to drive a cohesive UI strategy.
• Create new user scenarios while maintaining consistency of UI framework and design patterns.
• Mentoring cross-functional teams on new technologies and best practices, analyzing requirements, designing, and implementing new features and functionality.
• Providing creative art direction to visual designers
• Understand the complex, collaborative, multi-user landscape of the recruiting and applicant tracking software space.
• Direct the design and development of the corporate web site to provide a compelling brand experience for potential customers.

What You Bring To It …

• 5+ years of management experience with visual design, interaction, and usability teams.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and developing complete web 2.0 applications
• Deep understanding and experience of user objectives, user scenarios, key product strategy, point of differentiation, usability principles, web applications framework, and the development of a product road map
• Expert understanding of methodologies for designing easy-to-use interfaces, including information architecture, user-centered design, heuristic evaluation, and usability testing
• Expertise in interaction design, visual design, HTML, CSS.
• Understanding of JavaScript, AJAX, and Flash capabilities.
• Proven success at building great design teams and mentoring team members
• Enjoyment of dynamic, collaborative environments.
• Degree in Psychology, HCI, Human Factors, Design, or related fields

We offer a competitive salary, medical/dental benefits, PTO, paid holidays, and pre-IPO stock.

Please visit us at www.jobvite.com to learn more and view our Product Tour.

Jobvite is an equal opportunity employer.

To apply, please visit us at http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Job.aspx?j=oJ0aVfwy&s=Startupers