Digital Project Manager
February 26, 2010 by jason · Leave a Comment
The Digital Project Manager would be hired to work alongside a Senior Digital Project Manager and studio teams ensuring that the project work runs on time and to budget and is delivered to the highest possible standard.
The Digital Project Manager needs to be a highly organised and motivated individual. The role is about “making things happen” and requires the ability to be solution orientated and think creatively when faced with project issues as well as being highly organised and with a good attention to detail.
Working within the Volkswagon.co.uk client team you’ll be responsible for project managing a variety of projects
Middleweight Information Architect/Interaction Designer
February 13, 2009 by olivia · Leave a Comment
The IA/IxD is responsible for designing, developing and documenting the structure of both web sites and applications In this role, you will be expected to work collaboratively with a project team and
support other IAs in the execution of all information architecture deliverables.
Be aware that much of Tribal DDB’s work is on digital marketing sites, where the emphasis is as much on persuasion and motivatiion as on usability or the organization of information. We are therefore
particularly interested in individuals who are as interested in design as in IA, and who can demonstrate particular success in working alongside designers in a digital marketing context.
Core Duties/Responsibilities
- Creating the information architecture for marketing, informational, and transactional sites/microsites.
- Understanding target audiences’ needs, tasks, and goals and translating them into creative concepts and functional components
- Supporting the team in translating business requirements into involving interactive experiences.
- Planning, facilitating and documenting immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing.
- Developing user personas and scenarios to clarify results of user research and focus the team’s design efforts on the needs of key users.
- Collaboratively developing prototypes for demonstration of concepts to clients.
- Working alongside visual designers to develop user journeys that motivate users to engage fully with the interactive concept.
- Conducting expert reviews, competitive benchmarking and market research.
- Developing and documenting detailed user experience specifications for highly interactive interfaces.
- Contributing to the further development of user experience design as an intellectual discipline both within Tribal DDB and in the wider professional context.
Required Skills
- Demonstrated ability to execute IA on complex transactional interfaces, taxonomies and metadata frameworks, and templates for content management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.
- Experience with user-centred design methodologies.
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions.
- Readiness on occasion to extend his/her role to encompass activities normally associated with other disciplines.
- Openness to contributions from other disciplines to the project’s information architecture or interaction design.
Required Experience
- Role typically requires 3+ years experience as an information architect, interaction designer, or experience designer (or similar role).
- Degree in a related field, such as Library Science, Cognitive Science, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Technical Communications, English, History, Anthropology, Economics. Proficiency in a variety of design tools including OmniGraffle, Visio or equivalent, as well as the MS Office Suite.