The ideal candidate is a leader and a strategic thinker who enjoys creating high-end design for business benefit. This person must be able to team and collaborate with art directors and engineers to create effective and intuitive user interfaces. At least three years of experience in the field of information architecture is required.

Skills and Qualifications

• Define, characterize and prioritize the audiences that a project is meant to reach
• Gather the communication and functional objectives by leading client working sessions, reviewing the competitive landscape, and creative brainstorming sessions with the project team.
• Organize content and develop categories, naming schemes and navigational hierarchies.
• Collaborate with art directors and engineers to create effective and intuitive user interfaces.
• Create user flows, schematic drawings and documentation to illustrate the structure and functionality of a project
• Organize and spearhead usability testing
• Communicate and collaborate with the project manager, engineers, designers and site authors in all stages of production
• Keep to schedule and budget maintained by project managers
• Work in a team environment

The information architect is a vital member on our collaborative design team and must be able to work in our studio in Washington DC. We are therefore restricting our search to candidates currently in the Washington DC metro area or willing to relocate. NavigationArts does not sponsor relocation.

Benefits

• Salary negotiable, commensurate with experience
• Competitive benefits including health, medical, vision, and dental
• Dynamic, energetic work environment with a proven industry leader