US / MA / BOSTON / INFO DESIGNER

Title:

• Designer, Information

The Company:

• Large
• Rapidly growing
• Fortune 500 Company Benefits

The Job:

• Full-time Info Designer
• Middle-person between Customers and Design/Development

Responsibilities:

• Create and shepherd all documentation facing the customer for application platform that is web-based.
• Actions will be as a customer advocate. Work with developers and designers for to continue to modify or refine the product. Will give end-user guidance where needed.
• On the product blog, will be the moderator, participate in dialog, and contribute product focused articles, blog.
• Create instructional material, including training videos.
• Interface and cooperate with customer service team. Support training partner by providing subject matter support.

Qualifications:

• Possession of exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Able to convey abstract concepts to people who are not technical.
• Write clearly and simply, conveying to users exactly what they need to know.
• Know the software development process and interfaces well with developers, support, QA, product managers, sales and marketing staff.
• Five (5) plus years of information design experience and (in an ideal world) at least two (2) years of information design for a significant web app.
• Influence team to create a “buzz” around the ability to achieve stated goals, negotiate resolutions, build consensus, and build respect from other team members.
• Knowledgeable in web information design with experience in Camtasia (or similar video software), Robohelp, Javascript and Adobe Acrobat.
• Familiar w/ database (DB) concepts and software. Product experience and familiarity with Flex is a big plus!

Status:

• Am dealing directly with the hiring manager to facilitate the sourcing, screening, and hiring of this individual. Interviewing now.

Contact:

David Steinbach, RIAJobs@gmail.com, 978.857.8661,http://www.RIAJobs.blogspot.com

US / MA / BOSTON / SR FLEX SW ENGINEER

Title:

• Senior Flex Software Engineer

The Job:

• Interactive browser application development.
• “Answer-type” person in Flex, JavaScript, Ajax, debug Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox incompatibility issues.
• Guru-ship level abilities in UIF / UI / User Interface, team collaboration

Responsibilities:

• Develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
• Help deliver features and functionality for core product
• Collaborate with User Interface designers to come up with innovative new designs to challenging business problems.
• Engage directly with product managers, web designers, architects and customers to verify that requirements are clear.
• Engage with third-party developers creating product powered solutions in Flex and other technologies on the developer network.
• Use judgment to suggest approaches that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities. Includes comparing and prioritizing alternative engineering approaches to meeting requirements in a way that allows for future growth, supportability and maintainability.
• Develop plans for delivery of functionality by building high-level architectures and designs. This includes contributing to developing project estimates, building Quality Assurance test and documentation plans.
• Deliver features with appropriate levels of quality, and working directly with others to ensure deliverables meet customer functionality and quality expectations.
• Build and maintaining effective working relationships across business functions.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science/ Engineering, or equivalent.
• Five (5) plus years of development of web based products.
• Flex development experience
• Verifiable ability to develop rich user interfaces in a browser in Flex, as well as AJAX, Javascript, or similar technologies.
• Experience with: C++, JavaScript, HTML, IIS, XML DOMs.
• Must understand relational databases and data modeling (1-to-many / many-to-many relationships, normalization, etc), and how to apply to common business problems.
• Must be able to build and debug client side applications delivered as HTML pages using the following technologies: DHTML, JavaScript, XML, XPath, AJAX
• Should be able to manipulate XML DOMs in VB, VB.Net and Java environments.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including communicating tactical concepts to non-technical people.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work internally, across developer, quality assurance, documentation and customer support teams
• Leadership experience, including demonstrated ability to meet commitments, build consensus, negotiate resolutions and garner respect from other team members.
• Demonstrates self-directed, proactive and proactive approach to tackling problems.

Status:

• Am dealing directly with the hiring manager to facilitate the sourcing, screening, and hiring of this individual.

Contact:

David Steinbach, RIAJobs@gmail.com, 978.857.8661,http://www.RIAJobs.blogspot.com

US / MA / BOSTON / CTO / PHP / START-UP / EQUITY

Title:

• CTO (DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING)...EARLY STAGE START-UP

The Company:

• A current, Boston-based start-up in a collaborative RIA (Rich Internet Application) Web environment, with a focus on Education.
• Four (4) existing full-time employees plus two (2) technical from a consulting development company.
• Targeting September, 2008 launch.
• Currently funded with seed money, and going or Series A financing in 3-6 months.
• Has current list of partners, including both quantity and quality.

Salary:

• Maximum of 50k base, plus equity and benefits.

The Job:

• Partner and oversee the implementation of the product and help shape the vision.
• Join the current four (4) person team, and lead the technical implementation arm of the operation.
• The technical work is currently outsourced. This person will be responsible for managing that and eventually bringing it in-house.

Qualifications:

• Very bright
• Well-educated
• Expert in PHP and LAMP technologies.
• Understand the nature of a start-up (low money and high equity).
• Want a start-up.

Status:

• Am dealing directly with the Founder, who is eager to see an ideal person. Can be an immediate hire.

Contact:

Dave Steinbach, Recruiter
Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC)
978.857.8661
RIAJobs@gmail.com

http://www.RIAJobs.blogspot.com

UIF / Interaction Design...Senior...US / MA

Filled! :=)

US / MA / BOSTON METROWEST / USER INTERACTION DESIGNER / FULL_TIME

Title: Senior Applications User Interface / Interaction Designer

Location: US / MA / BOSTON METRO-WEST / UIF Designer

The Job:

• Help build new solutions for current and new products.
• Provide full life-cycle solutions, turn ideas into attractive, customer “wowing” solutions to solve important customer challenges.
• Solutions need to be easy and elegant, deliver full user satisfaction, and delight the client.

Responsibilities:

• Think strategically in delivering end to end user experience with all focus on user needs and business goals. Deliver all design criteria, from delivering concepts and prototypes, to User-Interface specifications.
• Turn visions into concepts, converting those concepts into designs that illustrate elegance solutions despite system complexity.
• Lever rapid-prototyping and frequent customer interactions to influence design directions.
• Use sound judgment to suggest solutions optimize the balance among customer needs, business constraints, and technical realities.
• Remain current with new technologies and industry trends.
• Effectively collaborate with all departments (design, research, engineering, product management, marketing, and other members of the team)
• Utilize leadership skills to impel to the best outcome for stakeholders, provide a rich, learning experience to teammates, and draw others to desire to work with you because of those abilities.
• Participate and foster the corporate design community.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS in product or interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field.
• Five (5)-plus years if UIF (user-interface) design with Web applications and Websites, Desktop, or Mobile Applications.
• Experienced in delivering high volume, high profile or award winning websites or products is nice, but not necessary.
• Senior or extensive experience and skill set with impelling and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management and user research
• Experience with design software such as Photoshop or Illustrator
• Experience with Ajax, DHTML, Flash or other RIA (Rich Internet Application) technologies.
• Skilled in an array of methods to convey ideas and concepts (ex. Prototypes, wireframes, etc.)
• Effective communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Creative problem solver with ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others.
• Must have a strong portfolio available for viewing.

Contact:

David Steinbach, FlexCentral@gmail.com, 978.857.8661, http://www.HRDotCom.com

US / MA / BOSTON METROWEST / USER INTERACTION DESIGNER / FULL_TIME

Title: Senior Applications User Interface / Interaction Designer

Location: US / MA / BOSTON METRO-WEST / UIF Designer

The Job:

• Help build new solutions for current and new products.
• Provide full life-cycle solutions, turn ideas into attractive, customer “wowing” solutions to solve important customer challenges.
• Solutions need to be easy and elegant, deliver full user satisfaction, and delight the client.

Responsibilities:

• Think strategically in delivering end to end user experience with all focus on user needs and business goals. Deliver all design criteria, from delivering concepts and prototypes, to User-Interface specifications.
• Turn visions into concepts, converting those concepts into designs that illustrate elegance solutions despite system complexity.
• Lever rapid-prototyping and frequent customer interactions to influence design directions.
• Use sound judgment to suggest solutions optimize the balance among customer needs, business constraints, and technical realities.
• Remain current with new technologies and industry trends.
• Effectively collaborate with all departments (design, research, engineering, product management, marketing, and other members of the team)
• Utilize leadership skills to impel to the best outcome for stakeholders, provide a rich, learning experience to teammates, and draw others to desire to work with you because of those abilities.
• Participate and foster the corporate design community.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS in product or interaction design, human factors, graphic design or related field.
• Five (5)-plus years if UIF (user-interface) design with Web applications and Websites, Desktop, or Mobile Applications.
• Experienced in delivering high volume, high profile or award winning websites or products is nice, but not necessary.
• Senior or extensive experience and skill set with impelling and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management and user research
• Experience with design software such as Photoshop or Illustrator
• Experience with Ajax, DHTML, Flash or other RIA (Rich Internet Application) technologies.
• Skilled in an array of methods to convey ideas and concepts (ex. Prototypes, wireframes, etc.)
• Effective communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Creative problem solver with ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others.
• Must have a strong portfolio available for viewing.

Contact:

• David Steinbach, FlexCentral@gmail.com, 978.857.8661, http://www.HRDotCom.com