Deep Focus is a full-service, thought-leading interactive marketing agency and consultancy. We deliver the most innovative, creative, immersive, effective, and efficient interactive marketing solutions through the creation of experiences that bring consumers closer to brands and each other via technology, goodwill, conversation, and good karma. Our creative, media planning and buying, publicity, promotional, and communications services have won the industry’s top awards – and our clients’ hearts.
We are looking for someone that is innovative and a great leader in addition to having a great portfolio.

RESPONSIBILITIES
•    Work in conjunction with the team to develop the innovative and cutting-edge creative experiences and nontraditional campaigns that have built Deep Focus’s award winning portfolio.
•    Assume the role of the user advocate and champion.
•    Translate concepts and rough ideas into fully-considered, comprehensive user experience designs that create emotional connection with users while being useful and/or entertaining.
•    Apply state-of-the-art thinking and best practices in interaction design, human-computer interaction and information architecture to their designs, while evolving and furthering the interaction design craft.
•    Codify user experience designs in appropriate documentation including site maps, wireframes, user flows and functional specifications, that is clear and concise, yet thorough and detailed.
•    Rapidly evolve the user experience from concept to build-ready documentation while fostering consensus and clarity around team decisions.
•    Partner with creative, account, production and technical disciplines to optimize the design in order to maximize effectiveness while minimizing production and development issues.
•    Help build and evolve the agency’s user experience practice.

QUALIFICATIONS
•    5+ years experience at an interactive or design agency.
•    Proven expertise in designing cutting edge user experiences with an emphasis on innovation.
•    Strong conceptual/strategic thinking and strong analytical skills.
•    Ability to steward a user experience design from beginning to end with tight and changing deadlines.
•    Ability to synthesize dynamic conversations including numerous voices into a clear, actionable experience design.
•    Experience working on user experiences across media, sites, social media and mobile platforms.
•    Experience working on major (Fortune 100) brands.
•    A strong portfolio that proves all of the above.
This position reports directly to the Group Creative Director

from Deep Focus
found 01.12.2010

I do think they are looking for a graphic designer not a IXD but worth including.

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Hi there, we’re Cru Digital. We’re looking for a new senior interactive designer – we’re hoping you may be it.

So how do you know if we’re going to be a right match? Let’s face it – it aint always easy to find the perfect job – and it certainly aint easy finding an awesome interactive designer.

For starters – you quietly know that you’re awesome (or not so quietly). Admit it, you look at most other web design work and scoff. You can’t believe how totally predictable, unintuitive and templated it is.

You have thefwa.com bookmarked and if it’s not already your default homepage you’ve at least definitely considered it a number of times… maybe Google has pipped it out… just.

You’ll also love the sun. Brisbane’s a sunny place – it’s pretty much summer for 11 months of the year. You’re excited about the idea of moving to a new city, with lots of sun, exciting projects and a young & social team. And we’re excited that you’re excited.

You’re continuously looking for new trends and innovative ways to engage people online. You frequent design portals and are secretly jealous when other designers do something cool for another client… it really should have been your client after all.

OK – if you’ve made it this far along we might be on to something good. Rather than make a hefty list of demands can we just ask you to send through your online folio? That’s right – we aint looking for print designers. Just the sweetest damn interactive designers on the planet. To make the most engaging digital work on the planet. Word.

ABOUT CRU

Most of it’s on the website (http://www.crudigital.com.au) – but here’s the Exec Summary:

We’re a digital agency
We’re based in Brisbane, Australia
We LOVE digital
We live to make the most engaging digital work on the planet
We work hard, we play harder
We’ve won loads of International digital awards
We love Friday afternoons
Did I mention we also LOOOOOVE digital
ABOUT BRISBANE / AUSTRALIA

Most of you have probably heard of Australians – sun loving, beach dwelling, beer loving descendants of convicts with Kangaroos in our backyard yada, yada, yada.

Many haven’t heard of what we lovingly call “Bris-Vegas”. Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia. It’s the capital of Queensland – the sunshine state.Essentially it works like this:

The sun shines 364 days a year
The people are friendly and easy going
We’re nice and close to lots of beaches and amusement parks =)
Our office is in that trendy suburb that most cities have – you know the one that used to be dingy but all of a sudden became hip and cool
We’re nice and close to lots of eats and drinks and bars… lots of bars

from Cru Digital
found 01.13.2010

This one is odd to me. I’ve not heard this particular job title and the combination of development, UX and marketing skills seems like they actually have two positions they need to fill.

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Are you looking for a challenge to use your marketing and interactive skills?

If so, we’re looking for you.

Currently, we’re searching for an Interactive Architect (IA) to develop and deploy various interactive initiatives (database design, UI/UX, B2C projects) for our clients.

Reporting to the Director of Interactive Services, the Interactive Architect will function within a team environment and be responsible for providing status updates to all departments and stakeholders as needed. In addition, you’ll:

- Use creative methods and skills; application architecture interactive marketing knowledge to solve client problems

- Work closely with development team members through all phases of client project (UI/UX, database design, application architecture etc.)

- Serve as mentor to junior level developers, other team members

- Ensure deadlines and goals are achieved

- POSTION SUMMARY

The Interactive Architect (IA) will play a major role with development and deployment of interactive marketing initiatives for various clients. Under the direction of the Director Interactive Services, the IA will function within a team environment and be responsible for creating project artifacts (Sitemaps, Wireframes, and User Flow diagrams), mentoring the rest of the team in modern web development practices and technologies, and working closely with a creative group to develop hard-working campaigns for our clients.

MAJOR FUNCTIONS

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Develop and deploy various interactive initiatives (database design, UI, B2C projects)
Responsible for creating wireframes, sitemaps, and user flow diagrams
Use creative methods/skills, web application architecture experience, and interactive marketing knowledge to solve client problems
Work closely with development and creative team members through all phases of client projects (UI/UX design, software architecture, database design, etc.)
Serve as mentor to junior level developers, other team members
Interact with other managers, departments as needed
Ensure deadlines and goals are achieved

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

Specific knowledge and skills include but are not limited to the following:
Expert level web development experience with .NET 3x or an open source web technology, HTML/CSS and JavaScript
Experience with web application architecture, user interactive design, and database design
Strong communication, organizational skills
Minimum five years web development/lead experience with B2C web initiatives, at least 2 years as senior developer
Familiarity and experience with SEO implementation
Experience setting and implementing web marketing strategy from a tech perspective
Experience with web analytics (Google Analytics, Omniture Site Catalyst, etc)
Experience with source control systems and deployment methodologies
Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Computer Sciences, Marketing, or related field (experience will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree)

UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS

Previous agency experience, B2C marketing, and mobile development experience a plus
Demonstrated research ethic
Proficiency with mentoring and strategic decision making skills
Hacker Group, a high charging, high demand work culture, offers a highly competitive compensation package (including benefits, matching 401K and employee discounts).

In addition, our downtown Seattle office located near the waterfront, offers one of the best settings.

Think you have what it takes?

from Hacker Group
found 01.13.2010

Although not specifically IXD or UX I could see many of the talents we hold translating well to this job

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Summary:
Comms planning genius required to create the best work of their life.

Background

Wieden + Kennedy London is a creative communications agency.
In fact, our ambition is to be the most admired creative business in the world. This
goes way beyond just advertising. Sure, we make ads for our clients (which
include Nike, Honda, Nokia, Lurpak and The COI, amongst others), but that’s only
the tip of the iceberg. We’re constantly thinking about, talking about, and making
stuff for both ourselves and for our clients (both in the real and digital spaces)
that challenges convention and gets people thinking, or behaving, differently.

The Planning Department (or, possibly more appropriately, the Planning
Collective) at W+K London plays a central role in this. Made up of a motley bunch
of people that, in a former life, have variously been digital planners, content
planners, partnership experts, media planners, clients and even good old account
planners, we’re all bound by a few things that, regardless of background, remain
sacred: strategic nous, curiosity and passion. On top of that, as the source of
inspiration for the agency, it’s vital that we’re both interesting and have a point of
view.

The Role

Communications Planning at W+K London is quite different to Communications
Planning in, say, a big Media Agency. For a start, there are none of those big
process flow diagrams that you traditionally see wheeled out at pitches. The
‘process’ here is far more iterative – you’ll work hand-in-hand with account
teams, creatives, producers and other planners to make world-class work happen,
whatever it takes. You’ll be involved from idea inception, right through to final
implementation – and beyond.

Specifically, this role is to support the Planning and Creative Departments (and
the Agency at large) in understanding how we take what we make and connect it
with people; whether it be housewives buying butter, teenagers drinking too much
alcohol, or football communities hungry for Nike’s point-of-view on Wayne
Rooney’s hat-trick at the weekend.

You’ll need to be able to bring comms planning alive for the agency, and show us
how media can be used creatively to give ideas an extra dimension. You’ll need to
challenge and inspire the creative teams day in, day out, and encourage them to
think differently about how channels can work to enhance what they’re
producing.

This is a horizontal role. By that, we mean that rather than running one or two
accounts, you’ll work project by project across all pieces of business in the agency,
as well as the odd pitch. Part strategy, part creative, and part media, this is a high
profile and vital role which sits at the very heart of what we’re striving to achieve
as a company.

The Person

Ultimately, we need someone that gets how communications planning and media
works. This doesn’t necessarily mean you need to have worked in a media /
comms agency, but for obvious reasons, that might help.

We need somebody that’s digitally fluent but not myopic. The right person will get
how digital media fits into a broader communications framework and will be
equally comfortable talking about ‘old’ media, too.

At the risk of this sounding too much like a formal job description, the person we
hire will have to be a ‘self starter’. This isn’t because you’ll be left to sink or swim
(you won’t, we promise) but there will be many occasions when you just need to
get on with stuff. We work in structured chaos, and that needs to be something
that you’re happy and comfortable with.

You’ll need to leave your ego at the door. We have an aphorism at W+K that gets
used a lot: “The work comes first”. This comes straight from the top – it’s a
founding principle of the agency and it applies across the board, from the grad
Account Exec right up to Dan Wieden himself. It basically means that we need
people that are willing to put our creative output above their own ego. And as
such, we don’t tend to hire many ‘glory hunters’.

Similarly, and this probably goes without saying, we tend to go for people that
have something a little different about them, whether it’s an interest, a skill or
whatever. It doesn’t mean we’re a bunch of nutters, but it does mean that we’re
constantly learning from each other and being stimulated by the people we sit
next to. Which we think is a great thing.

And being funny, alongside an appreciation of Nathan Barley, will probably help
too. (Although that’s not a pre-requisite).

Details

We expect the right person to have around 4-6 years’ professional experience.
But that’s not fixed – if you’re up to it, feel free to prove us wrong.

We also recognize that people don’t work for free. So if we like each other, we can
chat about money and benefits later on.

from Wieden + Kennedy

found 11.03.2009

Do you view the people around you as a never-ending source of design inspiration? Know how to best craft a digital interface to invite audience participation? Fantasize about the possibilities of new technologies? Believe the best work is achieved through collaboration across disciplines? Understand how to design for multiple touch points across complex digital eco-systems?  Sweat the details, while keeping in mind that simplicity and usefulness are paramount?

If so, we want to hear from you.

At R/GA, Interaction Designers are integral to the creative process and have played pivotal roles in the conception and execution of groundbreaking experiences for some of the biggest brands in the world. (Think Nike, Nokia, L’Oreal Paris, Barnes & Noble, and Goldman Sachs.) We are looking for people who value digital as a means of deeper engagement between brands and consumers, not as a buzzword or an item to check off a list of “integrated” campaign elements. We are hungry for people who are hungry to create the next Nike+, a digital platform that shifted how brands engage with their consumers.

Qualifications:
5+ years professional experience:

*   Detailed knowledge of user experience Best Practices
*    Ability to ask appropriate questions, communicate effectively, and persuasively convey design solutions to a broad range of stakeholders, product managers, engineers, customers, etc.
*    Strong attention to detail and exceptional organization, logic, and analytical skills
*    Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks
*    Comfortable working with tight deadlines
*   Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
Ideally, you also have experience designing digital experiences that focus on one or more of the following areas:

*   E-commerce
*   Social Media
*   Mobile
*   Retail Design

from R/GA
found 12.062009

Experience Leads play a critical role at HUGE. They are the nerve center of our design process and take a hefty share of responsibility for the success of large-scale projects.  Experience Leads oversee an interdisciplinary team through research, strategy development, concepting, product definition, and design.

A successful Experience Lead at HUGE is an innovative designer, a decisive product owner, a confident manager, a helpful mentor, a team player, and a skilled client partner all rolled into one. In addition to project work, Experience Leads manage and mentor a small group of Interaction Designers who may or may not be assigned to their project.

Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Project Managers and Engagement Directors to create project scopes, schedules, and road maps
Plan for, delegate, oversee, and polish all UX project deliverables (such as strategic vision briefs, concepts, wireframes, site maps, content inventories, etc.)
Create and present aforementioned deliverables when necessary
Partner with other disciplines to ensure a stellar final product
Champion principles of usability and user-centered design and know when it’s ok to violate those principles
Work with research team to define correct research processes, and participate in user testing or fieldwork as needed
Partner with Senior Clients to keep project momentum moving forward and to maintain a positive working relationship
Collaborate with HUGE teammates and clients to ensure that the integrity of the experience is maintained through launch
Contribute to our process and shared knowledge, and help to evolve the HUGE way of working over time.
Represent User Experience in pitch work and business development

Requirements/Qualifications:
5+ years experience creating interfaces, large scale websites, or applications
Desire to produce the best experiences in the industry hands-down
Full understanding of how to apply the methodologies of interaction design and research to website and product development
Successful track record leading interdisciplinary teams in creating killer products
Tendency to lose sleep over how to remove the need for annoying “Cancel” buttons
Experience managing, growing, and mentoring junior colleagues
Proven client management skills
Capacity to think holistically about a client’s business
Engaging presentation style
Solid writing and visual communication skills
Familiarity with usability heuristics and relevant HCI literature
Knowledge of InDesign or other tools for generating wireframes and behavior specifications
Ability to play nicely with other intelligent and talented types
The curiosity of a scientist and the passion of an artist
Ability to inspire passion, dedication, and killer work from others
Open to feedback and knows when to how and when to defend design choices
Takes risks in design that lead to a perfect balance of innovation and usability
Proactive, hands-on person who loves a challenge

from HUGE
found 01.12.2010