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I am helping OpenColony look for an Interaction Design Manager. Do you know of anyone who fits the bill? This is a great gig. Here is the job description:

We seek an interaction design manager with agile design and technology experience, a leader with vision and the ability to execute and productize their ideas. Can you make an impact in a smart, culturally diverse environment? Do you enjoy dynamic interactions, services and systems? If you have been successful at integrating interaction design into an agile development environment, this is an opportunity to significantly impact our organization’s products and product development processes. You can make an impact on the overall culture and processes here. If you care about being socially responsible and working for justice, we share your values. Sound good? Then email us: contact@opencolony.com

Responsibilities
• Participate in cross‐disciplinary round table discussions.
• Design for rapid product and service development in global, innovative Web Product and Services Company.
• Help hire, manage and develop a team of product‐specific interaction designers with strong programming and rapid prototyping skills in San Francisco and Bangalore.
• Help hire and introduce a graphic designer to organization in order to design across products and services offerings.
• Design and Deliver flexible, consistent, collaborative interaction guidelines/tools for products and services organizations.
• Provide vision and leadership for Studios and Professional Services teams.
• Interact with the customers and in‐house stakeholders to conduct Customer Research (contextual inquiry, interviews, exploratory sketching, card sorting, etc) and effectively translate it into actionable experiences
• Design and build solutions for complex applications, including analysis of workflow, creation of Lo and Hi‐Fi wireframes and functional prototypes for content‐driven web sites and applications
• Manage workflow and deliverables for the Interaction design team.
• Impact existing products and services offerings as well and new product and service offerings in the pipeline.

Qualifications
• 7‐10 years interaction design experience.
• Demonstrable experience designing and implementing flexible customer experiences and products.
• Experience hiring, training and managing interaction designers.
• Experience managing or peer‐peer with technical, design and UXD functions.
• Demonstrable technical and interaction design innovation experience.
• Degree in human computer interaction, digital arts, social science or computer science.
• Rapid prototyping and coding experience in HTML/CSS and JavaScript a must.
• Business Strategy and Organizational Design Experience a plus.
• UXD, Research and Visual Design experience a major plus.
• International management experience and/or experience managing teams in different countries a must. Multiple languages a plus.
• Excellent communication, collaborative and presentation skills.
• Portfolio of work to demonstrate conceptual, research and implementation processes and skills.
• Expert in interaction design and industry best practices.
• Experience in client facing role in an agency, management consultancy or professional services firm a plus.
• Passion for complex web applications, process and system design.
• Strong attention to detail.
Sound good? Then email us: contact@opencolony.com