The Profile Group, Inc. - A Technical Placement Firm

Cambridge, MA 

Web Developer who enjoys being involved in the product side? Can you add ideas and creative thought to the product vision? Can you translate it in to an innovative experience and dabble in development? If this peaks your interest we would love to talk to you!

Our team is looking for an innovative User Experience and Interaction developer who can move from workflow and product discussion to developing specs and working closely with development. If you have a passion for great design and love developing products from concept to production code, this could be the position you’ve been searching for.

Our group works on a variety of projects so your skill set should be flexible enough to move across rich client applications, gadgets, traditional web and Silverlight.

Responsibilities include:

• Defining and documenting user interaction and guidelines for multiple delivery platforms (web, desktop, mobile, etc.)
• Articulating ideas through mockups, prototypes for proof-of-concept, discussion and usability testing.
• Evaluating, and helping to define new user interaction platforms.
• Understanding and evangelizing user centered design and product development processes, standards, and best practices.
• Demonstrating excellent interpersonal, leadership, management, and communication skills that inspire, challenge and motivate others.
• Working proactively with Product Managers, Innovation and Developers to define, refine and follow through on user experience solutions.

Qualifications include:

• Outstanding communication skills, self-motivated, highly organized, detail-oriented and able to work in a team environment with potentially multiple projects.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles (typography, layout, hierarchy, color, composition, animation).
• Ability to work closely with developers, software architects and product managers.
• Ability to produce sketches, storyboards, wireframes, scenarios, design prototypes, flows and specifications.
• Proficiency in a wide spectrum of products, techniques and technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Expertise in the application of tools and technologies across web, client and device.
• 3+ years experience designing and developing forward thinking, user centered solutions
• BS/BA/MFA/degree in graphic design, visual communications, computer science or related.
• Familiarity with ASP.NET(C#), Flash/ActionScript, Expression Blend, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, WPF and Silverlight a plus.