Redfin's looking for an interaction designer, see below for the job
description. Please contact Leo Shklovskii, leo@redfin.com, if you're
interested.
Redfin is seeking a master craftsperson and customer champion to design
one of the last gigantic online marketplaces. Our challenges are
fascinating:
* How we can create a rich, addictive experience of neighborhoods
and homes so that the process of buying a home can move online
* How, using a map as a canvas, we can build an interactive
application that people can use over the course of a multi-month home search
* How we guide people through the home-buying and selling process,
so that the complicated becomes simple, and the terrifying leap becomes
a thrill
* How we can create a community of real estate mavens who work
together to help one another out as they move from evaluating homes to
looking for lenders, inspectors and movers
Redfin is a start-up that will give you the latitude to do your best
work; we prize our creative culture and consumer focus.
As our Interaction Designer, you would be responsible for the usability
of our site across all aspects of the home finding and buying process.
Redfin stands for a new, consumer-friendly force in a stodgy,
anti-competitive industry. Your will be critical in our success
navigating customers successfully through information overload and the
complexity of real estate transactions.
We thus need someone skilled in information architecture and
user-centered design, with an instinct for simplicity and a facility
with the most innovative online techniques. Depending on your experience
and aptitude, you may over time build and manage a small team of HTML
coders and graphic designers.
Responsibilities:
* Develop user models, storyboards/flows, and wire-frames detailing
major new experiences
* Develop prototypes for usability studies
* Lead focus groups, analyze site traffic, run A/B tests to refine
designs in a data-driven way
* Working with graphic designers at Redfin or through partners,
create web pages that Redfin engineers can use as the starting point for
application development
* Working with marketing, refine and pinpoint the target customers
we seek to thrill
Qualifications:
Because we believe that design is part instinct, part science, we
measure a designer primarily by the quality of his or her portfolio and
previous success. Other qualifications we seek:
* Website design expertise; familiarity with the most innovative
sites across the Internet
* Degree in human factors and interaction design preferred; visual
design degree would be a bonus.
* The ability to manage projects and people, with good
communication and leadership skills
* Expertise with standard design tools including Adobe Photoshop,
Illustrator (or equivalents); experience with Adobe Flash and JavaScript
* A portfolio of work that demonstrates a commanding knowledge of
user-centered design and architecture.
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