Job Postings From Our Member Companies Title:
INTERACTION DESIGNER

Post Date
6/25/2015

Expiration Date
8/23/2015

Details:
The Interaction Designer will innovate and design ecommerce-driven functionality across Orvis’ digital properties. The successful individual will be able to produce annotated wireframes, rapid prototypes and requirements for optimizing the user experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile that is considered industry-leading.

Orvis Company associates take pride in our world-class service and products, treating customers, vendor partners, and each other with integrity and mutual respect. We work in a supportive, team-oriented environment, focusing on performance, continuous improvement, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. The Orvis Company and our associates are committed to giving back to our communities and protecting nature.

Company Interfaces:
The Interaction Designer will report to the Website Manager. Daily interfaces can be expected with the Digital Design, Merchandising, IT, Digital Marketing, and Social Media teams.

General Responsibilities:
• Create elegant conceptual solutions for everything from one-off landing pages to complex projects. Define development specifications based on these concepts, with strategies to test and iterate;
• Embrace design informed by data, usability studies, and business requirements, incorporating extensive best- practices research and competitive analysis into your process;
• Work with visual designers to negotiate a functional balance and ensure a smooth transition of design into development;
• Leverage existing CMS functionalities in innovative ways. Recommend new functionality opportunities;
• Help to prioritize deliverables aligning to short- and long-term ecommerce roadmaps;
• Lead user experience research and usability studies;
• Develops and evolves user experience principles and best practices.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in information design, human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, human factors or related field such as visual design;
• 5+ years’ experience as a digital interaction/UX designer;
• Demonstrated track record developing wireframes, rapid prototypes, process flow charts, experience maps, and functional specifications for desktop and mobile ecommerce experiences. Please provide a link to a portfolio;
• Hands-on HTML/CSS, JavaScript and jQuery experience;
• Experience developing and setting up usability and A/B tests;
• Very high level of comfort in working with developers on the website presentation layer to deliver new products and features;
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology;
• Experience with content management systems;
• Strong project management skills;
• Highly organized and detail oriented;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain and justify design decisions;
• Willingness to consider feedback from multiple teams within the company.

Comments:
About Orvis - www.orvis.com
In 1856, Charles Orvis founded the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, offering the finest fly fishing equipment, and priding himself on customer satisfaction and service. Today, along with our world famous fly-fishing gear, Orvis offers distinctive clothing, home furnishings, gifts, and dog products. Each item is rooted in our heritage of authenticity and the outdoors, and is backed with a no-questions-asked guarantee. As the longest-running mail order business in the United States, and with our flagship retail store located in the same Vermont village as the original store since 1856, we offer experience and knowledge that no other retail company can. Each day we strive to apply what we know and learn to bring our customers even better service and products tomorrow.

Orvis is headquartered in beautiful Southwestern Vermont with major operations in Roanoke, Virginia and the U.K. We firmly believe that the only way for Orvis to achieve its vision to be the most respected lifestyle brand in America, is to have a company culture that is supportive and inspiring to the individuals that will get us there.

Orvis offers competitive compensation commensurate with scope of responsibilities and experience required; plus a comprehensive benefits package including medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, 401K with a company match, generous Associate Discounts, and other excellent benefits.

To learn more and connect with Orvis, please visit us online www.orvis.com.

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Employer:
Orvis

Website:
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