The Senior Information Architect (SIA) leads the project team during all phases of our user-centered design process. The SIA displays expertise in more than one user experience domain skill and applies this expertise to lead project teams and mentor other members of the user experience team.

Job Duties

• Leads analysis and ensures that work addresses key research questions and remains grounded in project/client objectives. Develops relevant representations (models) of experience, and constructs a meaningful overall user-centered story line.
• Leads content requirement, develops organizational and conceptual models and crafts high-level interaction. Creates voice and tone requirements and messaging strategy based on brand promise and experience research. Leads the development and manages content matrix. Scopes and manages content design level of effort on the project, Content Design schedule and timeline.
• Determines the structure, plan, and user experience of a project and leads the translation of experience research to design
• Leads the definition of functionality, navigation, interaction and architecture to ensure it reflects the research and modeling
• Translates business and user experience requirements into functional definitions and interface recommendations

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Advanced degree
• Minimum 5 years related work experience
• Excellent research and analysis skills
• Excellent problem-framing and argument-building skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills and the ability to present to a variety of audiences
• Ability to think creatively about business problems and to connect research insights to Internet-based solutions
• Excellent skills in concept development and design implementation
• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience in client management and business development

The senior information architect is a vital member on our collaborative user experience team and must be able to work in our offices in McLean, VA; therefore we are only interested in candidates in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Benefits

• Salary negotiable, commensurate with experience
• Competitive benefits including health, medical, vision, and dental
• Dynamic, energetic work environment with a proven industry leader