Senior User Experience Designer: EMC Corp.

Senior User Experience Designer

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.


Overview:
Primary work activities include detailed requirements gathering, creation of user task flows, design of low and high-fidelity prototypes, and documentation of functional and style guide specifications.The Senior User Experience Designer will lead the user experience analysis and design efforts for one or more projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with RSA Engineering, Product Management, Customer Support and customers to optimize the user experience for our customers and to make ease of use a product differentiator.


• Perform detailed requirements analysis by working closely with subject-matter experts.


• Communicate and validate designs by creating user task flows, wire frames, prototypes, and user interface design specifications.


• Gather user data by employing the methodologies of task analysis and participatory design.


• Collaborate with the global User Experience Design Team to generate design solutions and ensure consistency within and across products.


• Work closely with Usability Engineer to validate designs using a variety of methods, including usability testing, heuristic evaluations, surveys, etc.


• Mentor and train other members of the User Experience Design team.

Skills:

• Communicating requirements and design solutions to others both in person and in writing is a core competency for this position.


• Expertise in the iterativedesign process and Information Architecture principles.


• Ability to develop HTML prototypes for integration into a product.


• You should also be adaptable, a fast learner, and open to working on a variety of diverse work opportunities.


• Initiative, can-do attitude and creative problem solving skills a must.


• Excellent soft skills and the proven ability to work with others in a consultative capacity required. This includes excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to quickly build rapport and forge strong working relationships.

Education/Experience:

• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience performing user experience design work—requirements documentation, site maps, wire frames, prototypes, functional specifications and style standards.


• Solid understanding of the research literature in the usability field.


• Bachelor’s degree is required. Degree in Human Factors, HCI, Cognitive Psychology, or related field preferred.

Desirable:

• Enterprise product and security software industry experience.


• Experience organizing and facilitating usability tests.


• Experience with accessibility issues and Section 508 compliance.


• CSS/Javascript skills

EMC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace.

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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

If you're looking to make a difference, not just in technology but wherever people live and work, to advance what's possible and move the world forward, to work with the sharpest minds in information-come to EMC. And if you're looking for greater balance in your life, we can help there too with healthy work styles, full tuition reimbursement, personal wealth-creation support, and unlimited opportunities to do important and exciting work in IT. For more information on careers at EMC and to apply, click here.

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EMC Team