User Experience Director at adMarketplace

About the Company:

adMarketplace Brings the Performance of Search to the Content Space

The adMarketplace Pay Per Click advertising platform delivers Search Engine performance across our large Content network. The Internet's most successful marketers and agencies access adMarketplace's Real Time Bidding platform through our expert account team or via web services. Publishers with high quality traffic can apply to join our platform through PubMarketplace. Advertisers can also access adMarketplace through our self-serve website.

Description:

adMarketplace's advertising platform, one of the industry's largest, is critical to the businesses of leading advertising agencies and national brands. We need a passionate and driven UI/UX expert to lead product design for a new unified front-end interface. This strategic visionary must also be hands-on and capable of gathering user requirements and performing competitive analysis. Our UX Director will work side-by-side with highly motivated and skilled cross functional teams of business analysts, front-end and back-end developers and quality assurance engineers. Responsibilities: UX * - Perform requirements gathering, Web metrics analysis, user interviews and usability testing * - Create conceptual models (i.e. user mental models), wireframes, mockups, prototypes, flowcharts and site maps Leadership * - Assert your design vision while embracing healthy conflict and debate * - Mentor, motivate, inspire and share credit * - Facilitate meetings; deliver quality presentations and demonstrations * - Possess excellent written and oral communication skills * - Challenge others and ask probing questions Technology * - Understand front-end and back-end programming * - Understand principles of building digital experiences using web standards * - Champion awareness of new and emerging technologies and best practices Experience: * - Masters or Bachelors degree in Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Human Machine/Computer Interaction, Computer Science or related experience * - 5+ years experience creating and managing high-level web properties * - 5+ years product design experience * - Agile development; scrum master experience a plus * - Proven track record of delivering first-class UIs * - Has created excellent UX deliverables (wireframes, mockups, etc.) * - Adobe Suite * - Presentation layer code (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript). * - User Experience best practices, A/B testing and user research techniques * - Familiarity with the online advertising is a plus Compensation: * - Competitive salary * - Stock options * - Health and life insurance * - Rapid career advancement and management opportunities in an exciting, fast-growing company About: adMarketplace.com is a flat organization with empowered, self-directed teams that work together constructively in a collegial, apolitical meritocracy that values honesty, commitment, accountability and results. Our employees are known in advertising and technology circles as the experts' advisers; we organize and host meetups, speak in public about our industry and technology trends, and are often quoted in the press. One of the main ways we are able to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google is by building the most easy-to-use, feature-rich user interfaces in the industry. Our software is algorithmically complex, and the problems we solve here every day are fascinating and often require creative, outside-the- box thinking. If you want to be a user experience rockstar, this is where you want to work. Experience with Big Data makes you extremely marketable--at 2 billion query requests per day and 1 GB of data generated per hour, we ARE Big Data.

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