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Senior Usability Analyst - 07002206
SAS Institute, Inc.
Cary, NC, USA

Description

As a world leader in business intelligence and analytics software, SAS is seeking to expand its usability community. You will contribute as a senior member in this community. With the support of your usability colleagues, as well as development and product management, you will translate sets of requirements for web and/or rich client applications into highly usable screen designs and flows.

Specifically, you will gather user data via task analysis with end users, by administering questionnaires, and by talking with sales and product management. Using this data, you will generate design solutions that you will present to your development team and product management. You will iteratively test designs using low- and/or high-fidelity prototypes and present your findings and recommendations to the development team. Finally, you will generate and maintain UI specification documents.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Bachelor's degree in cognitive, experimental, or human factors psychology; cognitive science, or information processing.
  • Experience in user-centered design of web and rich-client applications.

Equivalent Essential

  • Associate's degree, plus 2 years of the stated essential experience; or HS(GED) education, plus 4 years of the stated essential experience.

Additional

  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills.
  • Ability to actively and enthusiastically collaborate with team members.

Preferences

  • Graduate degree in cognitive, experimental, or human factors psychology; cognitive science, or information processing.
  • Knowledge of the Business Intelligence domain.
  • Ability to develop and maintain a strong work ethic, deep desire to learn, and an enthusiastic approach.

Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.

Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.

How to Apply

Applications accepted online only at: http://www.sas.com/jobs/USjobs/search.html. All other forms of application may not be considered. Please refer to job# 07002206 when applying online.

Received: 09-Aug-07

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