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Technical UI Artist
Start:  ASAP
Contract Length:  1 year, likely to extend
Location:  Bellevue, WA area
W-2 Contract Only

We are looking for a Technical UI Artist to work on an exciting new experience in the gaming industry. As a Technical UI Artist, you will be key to the authoring and integration of the user interface for one of the most exciting and creative intellectual properties in the industry. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience in console-based video game UI, with deep knowledge and understanding of UI implementation tools, design and UI/interaction design. You have worked extensively with in-house or 3rd party UI authoring tools and are familiar with a wide variety of art creation tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash. Teamwork, innovation, attention to detail and unbridled passion are characteristics we look for in all of our artists.  The ability to work well both independently and in a team environment is a must.

Responsibilities:

• Master the use of game engine tools to integrate UI assets into the game
• Work closely with the UI Artists, Designers and Developers to bring design mockups through the pipeline and into the game
• Work closely with Design, Production, User Research, and Dev to find the best solutions to UI challenges
• Find creative solutions to both technical and artistic challenges

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in games
• Deep understanding of user interfaces for console platforms
• Understanding of fundamental design principles (typography, layout, grid systems, hierarchy, color, composition), and motion graphics
• Knowledge of Adobe CS5 products (including Flash)
• Strong cross-functional communications skills - interacts effectively within a team environment and works collaboratively
• Passion for and knowledge of games - You play the latest and the greatest, and can articulate what qualities make a great title
• Extreme attention to detail - You believe that one pixel off is NOT “close enough”
• Exceptional organizational skills - You don’t allow things to fall through the cracks
• Scripting experience preferred

*If you feel qualified for this role, please email your resume to tyrel.lucke@compucom.com.  Thank you for your interest.*

Microsoft’s FUSE Labs is looking for a Usability Researcher and Community Manager for a 6+ month contract position for a unique opportunity on an innovation team focused on FUture Social Experiences.
 
Who We Are:
At FUSE Labs, we work with product and research teams to ideate, develop, and deliver new social, real-time, and media-rich experiences for home and work that allow people to create, connect and collaborate with what matters to them. FUSE Labs is a fast-paced, fun, and motivated team with a strong collection of seasoned members whose breadth of experiences gives us unique perspectives and opportunities. Learn more at: http://fuse.microsoft.com/
 
Your Role:

As a Usability Researcher and Community Manager in FUSE Labs, your primary role is to advocate for the users of our various social media, mobile, and community projects across phases of the development cycle -- from the moment of project inception, through early stage prototyping and iteration, to large scale deployment and community development.  You must be passionate about social media, proficient in user research methodologies, and socially intelligent in managing relationships with communities of users.  In addition, you must be self-motivated in ambiguous situations and able to wear multiple hats as needed to get the job done.
 
Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform usability lab studies and focus groups, and report results to product teams
• Review and report usage trends using web analytics tools
• Through community participation, track online usage patterns and summarize for product teams
• Maintain social media channels and other points of contact with users: e.g., Facebook, Twitter, online forums
• Blog about new releases, features, events, promotions, and other matters of importance to users
• Solicit and summarize ongoing product feedback from community membersIdentify and encourage potential users and community leaders
• Develop and deploy engagement activities to increase member participation
• Engage in forum and topic management, encouraging user discussions, and helping users get the answers they are seeking
  

Qualifications:

• A degree in Human Factors, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction or equivalent 3 to 5 years industry experience
• 2 + years industry experience conducting user research spanning traditional lab studies and field research, and effectively arguing for tangible improvements based on research results
• Domain expertise and experience with social media and online community products and services
  Active user of social media, including Twitter, Facebook, blogging, and so forth
• Experience participating with and/or managing online communities, including listening and engaging with the online community and acting on their behalf
• Strong social skills online and in person
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Quantitative, statistical analysis and online usage analysis skills a plus

If interested, please send your resume to Shelly Farnham at shellyfa@microsoft.com
 

Usability Researcher

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Location:  Redmond, WA

Start:  ASAP

Contract Length: *4 to 6 WEEKS*, might extend a bit longer

The UX Researcher will test the programming suite interfaces for parallel programming tools.

• We are developing programming tools for parallel programming that have a significant amount of new user interface components. We need a Usability Researcher to come in to help us review and perform usability testing of the visual and interaction design of these tools for 4-6 weeks.

• UX Researcher will perform heuristic evaluations of tools, forms, interaction flows, and visualizations for parallel debugging and parallel application performance profiling. The Researcher will also be responsible for conducting lab studies of the parallel tools.

• Strong usability lab skills required

• Knowledge of the Visual Studio design language is desirable

• Ability to communicate design ideas effectively and the ability to generate and drive design ideas.

• A MS in Human Factors, Experimental Psychology, Human Computer Interaction or equivalent 3 to 5 years industry experience required

The culture of this group AND / OR what makes it unique:

• Strong technical and research backgrounds, most people have dual-qualifications such as HCI-CS, HCI-design, or CS-psychology or some other combination

• High value placed on design talent across teams

• Fast-paced delivery-focused environment

Day-to-day duties for the contractor:

• Review visual designs for the TC debugger and profilers for interaction and visual design issues

• Review periodically with lead and PM contacts

• Consult with Product Managers to solve design issues

• Create needed visual assets and designs

Additional requirements:

• Expertise in visual design and some knowledge of Visual Studio desirable

• Expertise in programming and debugging desirable.

*If you feel qualified for this role, please send your resume to tyrel.lucke@compucom.com.  Thank you.*

POP is looking for a Senior User Experience Architect who will work with team leadership to determine UX project strategy and creates the deliverables that support the chosen approach.
 
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with a creative team of designers, writers and technologists to create smart, innovative online solutions
• Create and document information architecture concepts with site maps and wireframes that illustrate site structure, flow, general layout, navigation controls, and informational relationships
• Plan and conduct user research, usability studies and competitive audits and convert findings into action items that impact design decisions
• Contribute innovative ideas and supporting presentation materials to new business pitches.
• Stay informed of and share industry best practices.
• Work with team manager to accomplish team- and company-improving initiatives
• Stay involved in user experience/web community
• Participate in interviews and provide input as requested for new hires
• Mentor junior team members

 QUALIFICATIONS

• Combine strong problem solving and tactical expertise with strategic thinking abilities
• An engaging online portfolio that includes some of the following: B2C or B2B websites, online community portals, desktop software, mobile applications or product interface design
• Demonstrated experience in information visualization, diagramming and interaction design
• A proactive, constructive, and committed attitude; demonstrates great follow-through
• Excellent time management skills demonstrated by the ability to execute on multiple projects while working on a tight deadline
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills
• Extreme attention to detail
• Proficiency in Visio, Illustrator and Photoshop
• A minimum of four years of experience in the user experience field, preferably at a digital agency
• A bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Library Science, Human Factors or related subject
• Willingness to travel up to 20 percent of the time
• Make Web sites feel simple, even when they’re not.
• Learn. Fail. Learn. Succeed. Repeat.

To apply visit http://www.pop.us/#/careers.

User Experience Researcher (Gaming)

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Location:  Redmond area

Contract Length:  6 months, likely to extend to 12 months

Start:  ASAP

Note:  This is a good team.  It has a great reputation and the people are fun to work with!  I have hired many people with this manager.

The Research team is a multidisciplinary team with the charter of designing awesome end-to-end experiences that are effortless, intuitive, and delightful. We are looking for a User Experience Researcher with strong research and communication skills who is interested in working on entertainment experiences on the team's products.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of industry experience conducting user research and effectively arguing for tangible improvements to the user experience based on the research results

• Experience using standard user research techniques at various stages of the development process (e.g., lab usability studies, heuristic evaluations, surveys)

• Ability to work independently (with supervision and guidance) to create and moderate user studies to acquire data from consumers.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze research data, create results presentations, and deliver them to product teams. Strong oral and written communication skills are a must.

• Intermediate statistical analysis skills, and ideally familiarity with one or more statistical packages used for analysis (SPSS, Statistica, etc). Strong skills using Excel to perform basic analyses are acceptable.

• Skills and interest in finding creative ways to present and visualize rich research data are plusses.

• Interest in working on entertainment experiences and consumer-facing products and services is desirable. Background playing games is a big plus. 

• What will the duration of this position be? Is there potential for extension (if less than one year)? 6 months with extension to a year highly probable.

• Can you briefly describe the culture of your group? What makes your team unique? We have at diverse, fun group. We work in entertainment, so we try to entertain each other. Sometimes we succeed.

• What will the day-to-day activities be for this person? What will they be responsible for accomplishing? Working to plan and conduct lab studies and other user research.

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• Help define user interfaces for existing and new products.
• Work closely with product designers to create detailed storyboards, including cross platform interactions spanning long periods of time.
• Provide constructive criticism of existing and new products, and follow it up with suggestions for change.
  

• BS/MS in Human-Computer Interaction or related field preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in designing usable web-based interfaces.
• Expert HTML/CSS skills.
• Strong, clean visual design sense.
• Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
• Familiar with Incentive and Gaming Mechanics
  

Senior Statistician / Quantitative Design Researcher

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Contract:  3 months, likely to extend

Start:  ASAP

Location:  Redmond, WA

I need someone who has deep statistical knowledge AND the ability to write scripting, especially in SPSS syntax.  Experience with C# or C++ is a plus.  Candidate must have experience with and ability to gather web metrics and other related data to identify problems with products, work with UX Designers to use the data to guide redesign, then verify that the improvements resolved the previously identified problems.

In addition, the Sr. Statistician MUST have experience with the following:

·         Perform Multi-variant and univariate analyses using SPSS

·         Familiarity with Bayesian analysis

·         Write/review Complex code in SPSS (syntax is required).

·         Write macros or reusable syntax in SPSS

·         Explain difference between inferential and descriptive.

·         Understand when to use a T-Test and when to use an ANOVA

·         Designed: experience writing C or other compiled programming language

·         Behavioral science experience developing and validating questionnaires or scales

Job description:

The main focus of this position will be to design experiments, conduct statistical analysis, and prepare reports on results for experiment and general metrics data analysis. The work products will contribute to data-based decisions on software design and business requirements implementation. Deliverables Work with the project teams to identify questions and research designs to address them. Conduct power analyses and prepare planning documents for experiments and ongoing metrics analyses. Regularly review colleagues' analysis code, methods and results. Ensure that all produced analysis code, methods, and results are reviewed by peers. Capture, transform, and clean large data sets, verifying their integrity. Carefully document each step in data capture and analysis. Conduct univariate and multivariate statistical analyses. Interpret results of analyses and prepare high-impact reports. Produce a library of syntax and utilities that can be reused on subsequent analyses. Contribute to metrics analysis best practices and procedures.

Deliverables:
Work with the project teams to identify questions and research designs to address them.
Conduct power analyses and prepare planning documents for experiments and ongoing metrics analyses.
Regularly review colleagues' analysis code, methods and results.
Ensure that all produced analysis code, methods, and results are reviewed by peers.
Capture, transform, and clean large data sets, verifying their integrity.
Carefully document each step in data capture and analysis.
Conduct univariate and multivariate statistical analyses.
Interpret results of analyses and prepare high-impact reports.
Produce a library of syntax and utilities that can be reused on subsequent analyses.
Contribute to metrics analysis best practices and procedures

Required Skills:
SPSS univariate and multivariate statistical analysis (expert level)
Experimental design (expert level)
SPSS syntax and macro coding (expert level)
Power analysis (expert level)
Ability to work in a collaborative environment
Ability to consult with product teams to understand information needs and develop appropriate experiments
Ability to review other analysts' code and interpretation of statistical analyses to maintain quality control, and to have one's own work reviewed by others
Ability to present the results of statistical analyses in ways that emphasize the key takeaways and illustrate results visually

Desired Skills:
Scale development
Survey design
Survey sample validation
Survey weighting, sample balancing, weighting survey data to estimate the population
General programming language experience (e.g. C++ or C#)

*If interested in this position, please email your Word document resume to tyrel.lucke@compucom.com.  Thank you.*

Aerotek CE is on a quest to identify a Usability Test professional with extensive Microsoft PowerPoint and medical device development experience to step in and assist with the development of a new navigation and usability experience project for future products. The ideal person for this three month contract would be able to work independently, has at least four years experience in Usability testing, and is proficient in creating PowerPoint presentations. knowledge of regulatory standards such as HE 74 & 75, EN 60601-1-6, EN 62366 a big plus, as is a Bachelors Degree in HF, psych, clinical ed, or SW design.

For additional information please call or email:

Marcus Willams
Technical Recruiter
Aerotek Engineering
11000 Northeast 33^rd Place #200
Bellevue, WA, 98004

Tel: 425-893-6002

e-mail: marwilli@aerotek.com