This role is a great opportunity to work with top-notch product teams and have your designs used by the millions of customers. You will exercise an in-depth understanding of shopping behavior while you design, test and measure sponsored product placements across American-Is. Your work will have a direct and significant impact on American-IS bottom line and, where you see success, you can expect to see your work adopted globally by American-Is sites.
Interaction Designers at American-Is forming a core team that is responsible for the highest impact business and platform products. In addition, this team provides design stewardship and governance through a customized UI toolkit that specifies interactions at a very granular level. Interaction Designers create and maintain standards for this toolkit as well as recommended design patterns for our 3,000+ technologists to follow. Through collaboration with the technology and product teams, designers are able to test solutions in real-time and instantaneously deliver software to customers..
- Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or any design-related field
- 5 + years of experience designing transactional or highly interactive user interfaces
- Experience in several of the following: designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, large dataset visualizations and framework-level interactions, information architecture, graphic/visual design, usability research/analysis
- Track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices and tools to solve tough design problems
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and its varying methodologies
- Experience in project management a plus.
- Experience on institutional finance projects involving transactional interfaces is a huge plus.
