Interaction Designer

Position Summary

Want to change the way the world works, and while you're at it, help build a supremely usable, world-class web application?

Every day, thousands of people in over 90 countries work and earn their living in virtual teams on the oDesk platform, and hundreds of new employers look to tap our global talent base and build a remote team. As we grow, our challenge is to offer more and more power to our users without sacrificing usability. We are looking for a talented and passionate Interaction Designer to join our team and build supremely usable web applications.

We are seeking a combination of a left-brain analytical UI/ID/IA designer with a right-brain Visual Design aesthetic.

Responsibilities:

Work with Product Managers, Product Architects, the Marketing team and developers:

• Design new features and improve existing ones
• Create workflows, annotated wireframes, interactive models, prototypes and functional specs
• Advocate and shepherd usability and conduct usability studies
• Improve GUI infrastructure, methods and processes
• Align site UI with branding initiatives
• Design landing pages and other online marketing materials

Must be able to:

• Effectively aggregate and communicate ideas, design, and rationale both verbally and visually
• Understand business needs, weigh various approaches and tradeoffs
• Balance open-mindedness, flexibility and adaptability with ownership, confidence and persistence

Experience:

• Demonstrated experience delivering wireframes, flows, mockups and specs
• Demonstrated experience with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Portfolio showing clean, usable, effective, lightweight and compelling design
• Excellent communication and organization skills - function as a thought leader as well as an individual contributor
• Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript (and JQuery) and CSS
• Understanding of existing web technologies and how and when -- or not -- to use them.

About oDesk:

oDesk, a rapidly growing Internet startup in Silicon Valley, is at the center of three emerging trends: internet marketplaces, homesourcing and offshore outsourcing. Using the oDesk platform, oDesk buyers are able to hire, manage, and pay talented providers from around the world as if they were in the same office. oDesk is venture-backed by Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners.

To learn more about oDesk, please visit www.odesk.com/about