User Centered Design Lead, Quad Team

Work in a Post-PC World. Cisco Quad is an enterprise collaboration platform designed for today’s workforce: social, mobile, visual, and virtual. Quad connects people to the information and expertise they need, when they need it. Knowledge and ideas are easily shared across the enterprise, and teams collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries. It’s a new collaborative workspace that’s integrated, personalized, and relevant, and frees people to work in a post-PC world.

Be a part of something great. Come be a part of something great at Cisco and redefine the way we work and interact. We are the human network and we need human-centered designers focused on redefining the future of work through social media. To do this, we believe in bringing together extremely talented people and setting up an environment which helps them unlock their awesomeness. In this position, we invite you to join a fast paced team working side by side with designers, web developers and product marketers to create some of the hottest new features in the social collaboration space. Come help us unlock people’s creative potential in the workplace through social media.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a group of user experience designers to create a best in class social collaboration platform
• Create UI designs, ranging from paper-and-pencil concepts to wireframes and interactive prototypes
• Develop User Interface Specifications and Guidelines
• Innovate compelling new experiences that make collaborative work fun and productive
• Work with user researchers to design, observe, and analyze field studies
• Generate user personas and scenarios to document user needs and behavior
• Conduct heuristic evaluations on existing products
• Create and communicate conceptual designs to drive product direction
• Define the user interaction model and workflows for key tasks
• Work closely with engineers to implement and deliver the final product
• Facilitate project communication across a multidisciplinary team throughout all phases of the project

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience designing user interfaces and specifically web-based product interfaces
• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Human Factors, Industrial Design, or related field.
• Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, strong communication skills; and the ability to quickly prioritize tasks
• Ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey these designs in the form of presentations, prototypes, and design specifications
• Must communicate clearly and effectively; strong analytical and oral communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills; a self-starter that is able to collaborate actively with others in a cross-functional team
• Experience designing social networking or mobile communications applications is highly desirable
• Experience doing user-centered design in an Agile software development environment is preferred

To apply: http://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=908837&CurrentPage=3

Location: San Jose, CA

Duration: Full-time