Interaction Designer, Senior

Description
Description
Yahoo! Music is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join its User Experience & Design group. This team's charter is to define and design the user experience for music services and applications. You will be responsible for the User Experience and provide direction to improve the web and software experience, usability, and functionality. In this position you are expected to foster and support a collaborative, innovative culture, working closely with other members of the interaction design team, visual designers, user research, product managers, and engineers to define the experience strategy, spearhead the value of user-centered design and the conceptual design of these services to achieve maximum user experience results. This is an individual contributor position.

Primary responsibilities include:
* Apply the user-centered experience design practice to Yahoo! Music products
* Create interactive prototypes to flesh out design concepts, communicate ideas, and use in usability tests
* Develop, evaluate, iterate and implement high quality detailed UI specifications for complex projects, including use cases, flow diagrams, wireframes and final documentation
* Generate UI systems that advance UED and business objectives and success metrics
* Ensure design specifications meet the strategic goals of the product teams and that products are deployed according to design specifications
* Incorporate UED guidelines, business requirements and corporate goals into design solutions
* Identify emerging best practices within ID
* Work with usability researchers to design test plans and iterate designs throughout user testing
* Translate usability research findings into design improvements
* Work with visual designers to improve and refine visual design and consistency
* Proactively communicate status and updates to relevant stakeholders throughout UI process

Qualifications:
* Bachelors or Masters degree
* Five or more years experience in interaction design, information architecture, or related discipline
* Extensive experience designing large, highly trafficked web sites as well as desktop software and web applications
* Expert knowledge of user interface design principles, HCI practice, user testing methods, user centered design practice and knowledge of the product development process
* Ability to solve complex issues as well as supply technically viable alternatives
* Capacity to review the work of junior interaction designers and provide guidance
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* Able to collaborate with others in a cross-functional team and foster a positive collaborative environments
* Methodical, detail oriented, efficient, organized, self-starter, highly productive
* Able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment and meet deadlines
* Experience with Visio, Photoshop, and Illustrator
* Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for prototyping
* Solid understanding of the pros and cons of various web technologies