HSBC招聘多名UCD工作人员
发布: 2007-7-07 10:42 | 作者: 网络转载 | 来源: UPA中国 | 查看: 228次
Company: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
Position: Various Hong Kong based positionsinHSBC User Centered Design (UCD) team
Application method:For further details, please refer to the HSBC Hong Kong website.
Closing Date: 9 Jan, 2007
We have multiple exciting positions for those who have a passion for user experience to join our team in Hong Kong.
Manager - User Centered Design(Ref: HTSA/UCD/001/UPACN)
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will lead the efforts of theUser Centered Design (UCD)team in IT Department to promote and support the end users’ goals by consulting with business units, design teams, and development teams on estimates, project plans, and resources for e-commence and staff-facing application projects. You will manage UCD staff activities and professional development to provide highest level of service towards development of interactive products and services, set human factors and creative direction for all products and services and ensure a unified sense of quality, optimal user experience and aesthetics. Specifically, you will:
- Market UCD roles and its processes to business units, project managers and development teams
- Define and develop the process and delivery of user research principles, prototype testing standards, information architecture standards and browser-based brand and implementation standards
- Promote opportunities for business units, project teams, and developers to increase knowledge and acceptance of UCD activities and processes
- Represent UCD in key strategy meetings
- Create and facilitate team goals for staff development
- Develop deliverables, timelines and resource estimates for release and maintenance projects
- Maintain allocation, forecasting, and reporting spreadsheets for tracking purposes
- Manage team budgets and expenses and foster the effective selection, development and reward of subordinates while contributing to initiatives supporting HSBC’s diversity programmes
Requirements
- Master’s degree in human-computer interaction, library and information science, interactive/multimedia, graphic design, computer science or equivalent preferred; bachelor’s degree holders with demonstrable experience will also be considered
- At least five years’ experience in user experience, information architecture or interactive/multimedia design management
- At least five years’ experience conceptualising and creating user processes and interface designs for high-traffic, dynamic websites with a focus on e-commerce design
- Strategic and tactical mindset with the ability to decipher and blend user research data, brand standards, business requirements and competitive analysis findings into real site-building tactics
- Able to multitask, managing and prioritising team workflow against project budgets and timelines in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Strong sense of user experience, aesthetics and technical quality
- Passion for UCD principles with an understanding of human factors, usability heuristics and methodologies, industry best practices, and social research methods
- Able to foster collaboration and mediate different parties, and to critique teams in a sensitive and encouraging manner if appropriate
- Demonstrable samples of site documentation for both project and administrative work
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with proficiency in spoken and written English, fluency in Cantonese or Mandarin is an advantage
- Willingness and flexibility to travel
- Knowledge of cross-cultural and multilingual design and experience in content management will be an advantage
Senior User Interface Designer (Ref: HTSA/UCD/002/UPACN)
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will use your research and design skills to discover, understand, promote and visually communicate the goals of end users while balancing the needs of the business and the brand. Specifically, you will:
· Participate in research (field observations, contextual interviewing, usability testing, competitive analyses) to uncover user and business needs and define the visual context of various projects
· Evaluate and translate research findings into actionable insights and user interface improvements
· Lobby for refinements to business requirements if they conflict with user needs
· Create site architecture documentation (interaction models; information structuring, navigation, labelling, and search systems) and translate visual experiences to offer insight into technological impact
· Design effective, intuitive and aesthetically pleasing user interface mock-ups with one or more diagramming and design tools (Visio, Adobe Photoshop, or equivalent)
· Partner with User Researchers and Web Production Engineers to communicate research and design results to business and other clients
· Create materials for usability testing, including paper prototypes, electronic click-through prototypes and live system testing
· Keep abreast of current trends in technology, design, e-business, marketing and financial services to identify opportunities to enhance the experience design of interactive products and services
· Act as creative lead and manage complex projects, including creative scheduling, deliverables, quality control, art direction, and marketing of User Interface Design services
· Foster a collaborative and creative work environment by sharing critiques and participating in project and team brainstorming sessions
· Provide design direction and act as a leader to User Interface Designers
