Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, Soap.com and BeautyBar.com, is making ecommerce a little easier through "wow" customer service, industry-leading logistics and an intuitive, forward-thinking website experience. The Quidsi culture - a classic startup - is widely known as entrepreneurial, fiercely intelligent, team-oriented and deeply creative. In recognition of its startup success, Inc magazine recently ranked Quidsi #35 in its annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies, and named it the #1 retailer, online or off.
Over the next two years, our goal is to create the most elegantly usable ecommerce websites so we're looking for someone who wants to both be part of a dynamic, creative team and have ambitions to be a rock-star UX designer.
The Senior User Experience Designer should demonstrate a rich but versatile aesthetic, be a little geeky when it comes to usability, and intuitively understand and solve for the nuances of ecommerce design patterns. In addition, and quite significantly, the role needs to interface with our marketing and merchandizing teams to help them realize their business goals.
Responsibilities
Meet with Marketing and Merchandizing stakeholders to define functional solutions for business problems
Create wireframes or prototypes as proof of concept
Design interaction, look and feel
Write non-technical specification for programmers
Final-pass QA
Qualifications
BA/BS or MA/MS in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Human Factors or related field
2+ years of experience in designing and prototyping for the web; ecommerce experience is preferred, but not required
Knowledge of user-centered design principles coupled with a "don't make me think" understanding of usability
Strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills; high-fidelity prototyping experience is a plus
Ability to write non-technical specs for programmers
Demonstrated ability to manage expectations, meet firm deadlines and thrive in a dynamic work environment
Knowledge of coding/scripting is not necessary, but a good understanding of what HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are capable of bringing to the modern web is desired
Above all else: good intuition and a little quirkiness
This position is located in Jersey City, NJ. Our office is currently located across from the Exchange Place PATH Station, but we will be moving to New York City later in 2011.
Quidsi Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will only respond to those we wish to contact for an interview. All inquiries will be kept confidential.
contact: careers@quidsi.com
company url: http://www.quidsi.com
May 13, 2011 5:05 PM
