Junior Information Architect

Job Title:

Jr. Information Architect

Job Summary:

Information Architects at SapientNitro are responsible for the navigation, organization, interaction design, and business/user process engineering for leading-edge Web solutions, software, and mobile devices/applications. You will apply usercentered design methods to translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into world-class user experiences for leading companies. We look for people who are passionate about what they do, and thrive working with other smart people to solve the toughest design challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Assess existing sites/properties for usefulness, usability, visual design, content, and branding (with guidance andoversight).

- Lead participatory design/user testing sessions (with oversight and direction).

- Identify and document meaningful patterns from the findings; provide recommendations to the client/internal teambased on findings.

- Utilize low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity prototypes across the different stages of the design.

- Prepare, conduct, and analyze behavioral in-context research events (with guidance and oversight).

- Analyze, synthesize, and organize research data into meaningful themes, categories, and visually compellingframeworks and behavioral models.

- Identify opportunities to create business value and improve the user experience, based on user research; organizeopportunities into visually compelling matrices or maps.

- Execute participatory requirements gathering sessions and participate in debrief sessions (with guidance andoversight); create feature lists from sessions.

- Develop personas/segmentations based on research findings (with guidance and oversight).

- Create engaging scenarios and develop frameworks describing key aspects of a proposed experience, and how itreconciles business and user needs.

- Create visually compelling representations of the solution's high-level interaction, navigation, and organization design(i.e., concept models).

- Develop visual representations of the organizational structure, hierarchy, and relationships of screens in a site (i.e., site maps) as well as the interactions between the user and the functional modules in the solution (with guidance and

oversight).

- Develop screen details (i.e., wireframes) depicting all elements on a unique screen type, including the content,functional, and navigation specifications (with guidance and oversight).

Experience Guidelines:

- Less than 1 year of work experience excluding internship experience

- Internship experience in a consulting firm or agency a plus

- Candidates must be versed in user-centered design methods and techniques.

- Proficient to expert in: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio, Microsoft Office.

- Excellent analytical and process-oriented skills.

- Excellent verbal and written skills.