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User Experience Designer
IMT Labs
San Francisco, CA, USA

Job Duration: Full-Time / Permanent

Job Description:

IMT Labs is a global provider of consumer-focused instant messaging chatbots and our first character "Spleak" is used by more than one million young people every month. The company is expanding rapidly and is looking to hire a User Experience Designer for our San Francisco office. IMT Labs has strong VC backing and offices in San Francisco, Copenhagen, Denmark and Delhi, India.

Spleak is a 21 year-old virtual girl who lives in New York and hopes to soon land a record contract. She currently goes to school and spends lots of time with her friends. She is available to play games, share stories, or chat anytime on MSN Messenger, eBuddy, Meebo (buddy name: spleak@hotmail.com) and will soon be available on even more leading instant messenger platforms.

The User Experience Designer will be responsible both for leading the development of all of the graphical elements of the Spleak user experience as well as for leading the effort to ensure that all of Spleak's Web and IM based features and functionality meet the highest standards of usability.

Key responsibilities for the User Experience Designer include:

  • Design the new graphical elements of the web and IM based user experience – includes: web site graphics, MySpace page, instant messenger backgrounds, emoticons, instant messenger winks, etc...
  • Work with the other members of the Product and User Community team to ensure that all new features and functionality meet the highest standards of usability – including leading usability testing of new products with current & target users
  • Design of a new corporate website & other marketing materials
  • It's a small company – so a lot of other things will come up

Competitive compensation offered including market salary, health insurance, and stock option participation

Job Qualifications:

  • Enthusiasm about working in a high growth start-up environment
  • Demonstrated experience designing for the web for young adults
  • Expert skills in graphic applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash)
  • Front-end dev. experience (HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, AJAX)
  • Experience in building wireframe mockups & w/ usability testing
  • Familiar w/ basic usability issues & information architecture
  • Strong familiarity with IM

Contact Information: Please send your resume and a note of introduction to josh@imtlabs.com

www.spleak.com

Received: 18-Oct-06

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