Category: Jobs
Job with Amazon
Amazon.com is looking for an experienced Information Architect to be a part of the Amazon Usability Team. If you have a fair amount of experience in the field, like to work on diverse projects and want to help shape the future of Amazon, send us your resume! Check the link associated with this post to view a description of the position (User Experience Specialist, #04-012214). Please submit your resume via our web form, and email a copy to raina@amazon.com. Thanks, we’re looking forward to hearing from you.
Nice Work if You Can Get It: Support Group
So, I've met a few more people who are interested in getting into the field who are not already employed as IAs, and we enjoyed discussing the challenges we have faced along the way and encouraging each other in meeting our goals.
I've created a Google Group to continue this warm, supportive conversation and invite any one interested to join and participate -- including those who do not belong to ASIST or the IA Institute, or who were not at the Summit.
This is a safe place to ask really dumb questions of other floundering hopefuls, and to provide support in a collegial setting.
Join or view at:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/iaNeophyte
Or send an email to:
iaNeophyte@googlegroups.com
Thanks,
Sonya M. Smith Wong
sonya.smithwong (at) gmail.com
IA Neophyte (from the Greek for "newly planted")
I've also just set up a blog, but I haven't posted yet... soon...
http://www.ianeophyte.typepad.com/
And if you have difficulty figuring out how to use Google Groups, please contact Brett Lider, because they're hiring. ;P [ <----- overuse of emoticons which is indicative of an internet Neophyte.]
Yahoo! Is Hiring
Come invent the future with Yahoo!
Join Yahoo! at one of the most exciting moments in our 10 year history.*
With site usage surpassing 345 million users, we will continue to create the most vital information and entertainment hub in the world. Wireless, broadband, and set top box technologies will pave the way for our future successes and you can be there to design and celebrate them.
The hunt is on for the very best.
Influencers from every area of design reside at Yahoo! We challenge you to join and collaborate with these thought leaders in creating products that will delight our users around the globe.
The future starts right now.
As Yahoo! grows, so must the User Experience Design team. We currently have Interaction Design, Visual Design, and Design Research positions open in over 16 different business units. If you are an interaction designer, visual designer, or user researcher that aspires to thrust the world’s most recognizable online brand into the future, we welcome you to get started at http://careers.yahoo.com.
*Yahoo! is committed to equal opportunity. In that spirit we welcome your interest in our employment opportunities.
Here’s a list of our current openings:
Vice President, Yahoo! User Experience Design
Director of UED Mobile
Director of UED Personals
Director of UED Small Business
Design Research Manager, Search and Marketplace
Design Research Manager Consumer Services
Design Researcher Mobile
Design Researcher Mail
Design Researcher Search
Design Researcher Finance
Design Researcher Network Services
Visual Designer Search and Marketplace
Visual Designer Sports
Visual Designer Mail
Visual Designer Special Events
Interaction Designer Personals
Interaction Designer Photos
Interaction Designer Mail
Interaction Designer Shopping
Interaction Designer Living Room
Interaction Designer Search
Interaction Designer Platform
Visual Design Interns, Interaction Design Interns, Design Research Interns
+others
Google is hiring!: UI Designers (UX), UI Engineers, Usability Analysts
Come work on the future of the web at Google! Find me around the convention hall or email me and we can talk about the opportunity.
User Interface job descriptions
UX positions at Comcast
Comcast High-Speed Internet is expanding the role of design for great customer experiences across the whole company. We need enthusiastic, communicative and experienced individuals prepared to evangelize the UX practice and push the limits of technology and the status quo!
We are offering positions for UX professionals in:
If you are passionate about what you do and willing to extrapolate your limits, join Comcast! Send your resume/portfolio to livia_labate [at] cable [dot] comcast [dot] com and pitch your awesomeness to Livia during the IA Summit.
Long and short-term positions available. Comcast is an equal opportunity employer. Long-term positions are based in Philadelphia, PA.
To learn more about Comcast, visit http://comcast.com and http://comcast.net
Practice IA in Canada!
I would like to speak with IA's who are interested in practicing IA in an agency setting in Western Canada. We are a company of approx. 180 people, with a successful design focus and an interesting base of US clients.
We currently have open positions in our IA group in Calgary, Alberta. We are a talented group of IA's with a strong and progressive UCD practice. Professionalism, innovation and a strong desire to collaborate and succeed are valued and encouraged.
Please contact me here in Montreal - or after the conference - if you are interested in discussing our opportunities. US citizens are welcome.
Hannah Galloway
Practice Lead, Information Architecture
Critical Mass
IM: IARecruiting[at]hotmail.com
E: hannahg[at]criticalmass.com
www.criticalmass.com
Run Forest (job opening)
See the forest AND the trees! Work on the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service site. As a contractor local to Washington, DC, create a way to unify hundreds of silo'ed sites.
Job requirements:
Mid- upper-level information architecture skills
Business analysis
User research
Strong communication
Understanding of how IA melds with IT
Live in the DC area
Willingness to work as a contractor
Submission Details
Send your resume and rate requirements to
Shari L. Laun
Director, Business Applications Solutions
Network Specialty Group Inc.
shari at nsgi-hq.com
www.nsgi-hq.com
Why am I posting this? This is a job I'd accepted, then backed away from when I was offered a full-time job in Richmond...a decision I probably shouldn't have made. The folks are neat, fun, forward-thinking, and smart as hell. But they want someone on a contract basis, not a staffer.
At any rate, I offered to pass the word on here at the conference, so you can tell Shari I sent ya!
Run Forest (job opening)
See the forest AND the trees! Work on the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service site. As a contractor local to Washington, DC, create a way to unify hundreds of silo'ed sites.
Job requirements:
Mid- upper-level information architecture skills
Business analysis
User research
Strong communication
Understanding of how IA melds with IT
Live in the DC area
Willingness to work as a contractor
Submission Details
Send your resume and rate requirements to
Shari L. Laun
Director, Business Applications Solutions
Network Specialty Group Inc.
shari at nsgi-hq.com
www.nsgi-hq.com
Why am I posting this? This is a job I'd accepted, then backed away from when I was offered a full-time job in Richmond...a decision I probably shouldn't have made. The folks are neat, fun, forward-thinking, and smart as hell. But they want someone on a contract basis, not a staffer.
At any rate, I offered to pass the word on here at the conference, so you can tell Shari I sent ya!
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Want to meet up with other job seekers who are new to the field? Read on.
I've been 'converted' to IA and am now looking for full time work doing it. My co-mentee and I are both career transitioners who are not recent grads, and we want to meet other folks who are here at the summit in similar situations with like aspirations.
Apprenticeship-seekers? Newbies? Less than the 4 years' experience every job board posting seems to require? Wannabes? Too Old/Experienced/Indebted/Motivated to be a traditional Intern? Novices?
I prefer the term "IA Neophyte." Come discuss at the reception tonight, Friday - I'll be in the corner farthest from the room entrance.
(If you are employed as an IA, feel free to share an anecdote on "The First Time I Got Paid For It.")
Cordially,
Sonya M. Smith Wong, M.L.S.
P.S. Alternatively, if you don't make it to the reception (or the summit), post a comment here to arrange a get together later in the weekend, or email me at sonya.smithwong at gmail dot com.
Looking For a Few Good IAs
Ever think about living in the Pacific Northwest? If you're considering a change of scenery (or acquiring a new business card), we're looking for a couple full time IAs to add to our team, and what a better place to find candidates?
I thought since I'll be at the Summit (I'm not a recruiter), if anyone's looking for a full-time gig, we could meet and see what's possible. For more information go to www.zaaz.com.
Feel free to contact me at pams@zaaz.com if you'd like to learn more.