Job opening - Director of User Experience at Tapjoy (San Francisco, CA)

Director of User Experience at Tapjoy

About Us:

Tapjoy is a mobile value exchange platform, driving personalized app discovery for consumers, customer acquisition and engagement for app and brand advertisers, and rich monetization for innovative developers.  The Tapjoy network spans over 20,000 apps and 800 million global consumers on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.  Tapjoy is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in 15 cities across the U.S., Asia and Europe.  Investors include InterWest Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, D.E. Shaw Ventures, Rho Ventures and J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

Responsibilities:

Tapjoys Director of User Experience will lead the organizations user experience and user interface product design efforts.  Tapjoy reaches over 100 million monthly active mobile users across the globe and is committed to incorporating elegant, fun, engagi! ng, and thoughtful design throughout all aspects of the user experiences we produce.  This role will be responsible for reinforcing our consumer-first perspective across design, product, engineering and commercial teams.

Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Owning overall design philosophy and advocating a consumer-first perspective throughout the organization
• Managing a user experience team of interaction designers, visual designers and usability engineers, including recruiting and mentorship
• Working hands-on to mold the design of our comprehensive product set
• Guiding the creation and documentation of UI templates, prototypes, site maps, wireframes, etc.
• Testing UI/UX alternatives and leveraging results of user feedback
• Successful integration of usability "best practices" with the product development process
• Driving thought leadership ! and design experimentation through the broader team

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from a leading university
• Graduate degree in Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science or similar field preferred
• 5-10+ years of experience in UI/UX, design or creative services, especially in the Internet / mobile / advertising markets
• Experience with mobile app and/or mobile web design is a must have
• Proven track record of innovative and intuitive customer-centric product designs
• Experience designing enterprise products with complex business logic is a plus
• Strong organizational & analytical skills
• Excellent communications skills, demonstrating the ability to speak with both technical and lay audiences across different levels of understanding
• Strong written skills and attention to detail
• Ability to grasp technical concepts, business goals, and the user experience, and optimize results given resource co! nstraints
• Proven ability to manage a team

So...why would you want to work for Tapjoy?

• We are a small company doing very big things in a dynamic market
• We have an amazingly talented team that believes in one another and in the experiences were delivering for mobile consumers
• We value innate intelligence, the curiosity to learn more, and the ability to solve problems - and we provide a ton of autonomy in which to do succeed
• We provide everyone with the tools they need to be successful, from new MacBooks, Cinema Displays and iPadsto expensed lunches everyday (who can excel on a brown-bag lunch???)
• We are a fun-loving bunch and have a built a culture to match!

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