Ux Designer (Beverly, Ma)

Feb. 8, 2012

Boston, MA

Confidential

JOB SUMMARY: UX Designer

FashionPlaytes.com is an exciting ecommerce company for girls at the intersection of innovative business trends including mass customization, social commerce and social gaming.

FashionPlaytes is seeking a Senior UX Designer to drive the ongoing design and refinement of the FashionPlaytes "be a designer" experience for girls 6-12. In this role you will work with the marketing, gaming and engineering teams to define and execute a plan to enhance, expand and refine the experience for our young fashion designers and their parents. We're looking for a talented and motivated full time UX designer who is a wizard at interactive design and will drive the creative across our business. As a designer, your task is to create inspirational interactive experiences for our tween girl audience and their parents with clear calls to action in our ecommerce funnel for the girls and their moms. Social Gaming experience is an added bonus. In addition to technical and design skills, the candidate must be self-motivated, flexible, have the ability to multi-task and clearly communicate to peers and management in a fast paced start-up environment.

Primary Responsibilities

Drive and execute the UX design for FashionPlaytes.

Collaborate with other designers, marketing and engineering to plan and execute design projects.

Define and articulate the design vision using storyboards, concept sketching, wire-frames and prototypes.

Work with other designers, developers or vendors on branding and visual consistency.

Required skills

Minimum of 3 years of web design and development experience is required.

Solid understanding of navigation and GUI for maximizing usability.

Solid knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, (Adobe Creative Suite)

Practical experience in development of HTML & CSS.

Experience working in a Ruby environment a bonus.

Apparel graphic design a bonus

Flash and ActionScript are an added bonus.

Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and business environments.

Experience working with Copywriters and external designers.

Seasoned working under tight deadlines without taking your eye off feature relevance and quality.

Detail oriented.

Qualifications

Passion for ease of use, information visualization, consistency and design quality.

Must be an advocate for customers and users, and an integrated and consistent UX.

Highly detailed with a passion for effective visual and interaction design and promoting end to end experiences.

Must have strong work practices and design discipline.

Self-motivated and highly organized with capability of working in a fast-paced team environment.

The successful candidate will:

Have a great track record in creating highly functional, user-focused, complete, and desirable designs

Know best practices for web-based information architecture, tool/app/UI interactions, and content delivery

Be an effective evangelist for UX best practices and user-centered design

Be able to lead teams through the design process and partner effectively within cross-functional teams

Be innovative, enthusiastic, flexible and creative

Have the ability to think strategically, act tactically, and solve problems quickly

Demonstrate excellent project management and scheduling skills

Be able to drive cross-team collaboration efforts

Be able to work independently to establish trusted relationships with partners

Be comfortable with ambiguity

About FashionPlaytes

FashionPlaytes is the first girl-driven fashion & style commerce experience. Empowering girls through creativity, self-expression, social interaction & gaming, FashionPlaytes turns girls into fashion designers and uniquely enables them to buy the clothes they design. With more than 6 million possible design combinations, our young designers can create their own brand and showcase their designs through the development of an online collection, studio, lookbook, models and Runway Challenges. We are building a game changing experience for the apparel world -- the first ecommerce experience specifically for the next generation of consumer, the digital girl. Named one of the Best Retail Web Sites 2011 by Internet Retailer, FashionPlaytes has received the Parent Tested Parent Approved seal and a 2010 Mom's Choice Award for outstanding product. The FashionPlaytes office is located in Beverly, MA

Contract to possible Full-Time Position.