Expedia, Inc. - Rome, IT (Rome Area, Italy)

Job Description User Experience Designer
User Experience Designer
Expedia, Inc. - Rome, IT (Rome Area, Italy)
Job Description
User Experience Designer
Job ID #: 23745
Company: Venere
Location: ITALY - Rome
Functional Area: Technology
Employment Type: Full-Time Regular
Education Required: Not Indicated
Experience Required: Not Indicated
Relocation Provided: To be determined
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Position Description
Work with a cross-functional team of product managers, business analysts, visual designers, design technologists, copywriters and developers to
produce compelling and fun customer experiences; and assist in the distillation of user research and business objectives and or requirements into functional and interface specifications and/or prototypes.
Design great user experiences and/or interfaces for websites and related products.
. Proactively lead medium-size projects and other initiatives, set deliverables and deadlines, and help to drive projects to completion.
. Lead brainstorming activities, as needed.
. Define, categorize, and organize content.
. Create multiple solutions to a single design problem and iterate to a few alternate designs.
. Create specification as needed, including site maps, flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
. Prepare and share project and/or design presentations to the extended Expedia organization.
. Rationalize design decisions to stakeholders and peers.
. Support the execution of the Product Development roadmap and other initiatives.
. Provide insights on where user needs are not being met at the feature level.
. Provide recommendations on ongoing product strategy based on qualitative and quantitative data.
. Coordinate or execute user research efforts, e.g., interviews, usability testing, and surveys, as needed.
Requirements:
. Typically, incumbent has a minimum of 3+ years of progressively complex related experience.
. Implements activities that generally impact discrete components and/or processes of the work of own unit, team, or projects.
. Demonstrated proficiency in several areas of the professional function.
. Ability to effectively resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur.
. Ability to interact with internal and external peers and/or managers to exchange semi-complex information related to assigned activities.
. Receives work in the form of short- and mid-term assignments that often require the application of
independent judgment.
. Work is subject to supervisory review at regular intervals and operates within the context of defined procedures.
. Masters degree or equivalent experience, specializing in design, library sciences, human-computer interaction, ergonomics, computer science or cognitive psychology.
. 3+ years of experience in online interaction design or information architecture, preferably e-commerce.
. Outstanding conceptual design skills. Expected outputs are sitemaps, storyboards, scenarios, personas, flow diagrams, user journeys, user stories, comics, wireframes, low and hi (interactivity) functionality prototypes, interactive demos, content models, user interface specification (state transition diagrams, error validation rules)
. Knowledge of statistical data analysis
. Understanding of the product lifecycle (Evaluation/Requirements gathering, specification/design, implementation) and its deliverables
. Familiar with HTML/CSS
. Technical grounding in a range of Internet tools and their application.
. Skilled in the use of prototyping software like Visio, Illustrator/Photoshop, Axure RP, Balsamiq, Microsoft Office
Mandatory skilled in the following technologies:
. Execute usability best practices and user interface web standards
. Understanding of web accessibility (W3C WCAG)
. Enthusiasm for IxD, UX, and IA
. Amazing attention to details
. Fluent in both italian and English.
. Candidates with agile (SCRUM) experience with be given higher consideration
. Cross-disciplined candidates (IxD with project management, business systems analysis, design research, visual design, design technology and information architecture) will be given higher consideration.
About Expedia:
Our mission is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.
Collectively, the Expedia brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive. The Expedia portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to nearly 149,000 hotels and hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners. Please visit http://bit.ly/expediabrands to learn more about our travel brands
Additional Information
Posted:
May 13, 2013
Type:
Full-time
Experience:
Not Applicable
Functions:
Information Technology
Industries:
Computer Software, Information Technology and Services, Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Employer Job ID:
23745
Job ID:
4922656