Creative and User Experience Director for Digital Books (Midtown)
Vook is recruiting for an exceptional Creative and User Experience Director to join our team. As the leader in the digital publishing arena, this presents a great opportunity for someone interested in getting in on the ground floor of a company focused on leading the development in the exciting, fast moving area of digital publishing.
A successful Creative and User Experience Director is an innovative designer, a decisive product owner, a confident manager, a helpful mentor, a team player, and a skilled client partner all rolled into one. The Creative and User Experience Director will help shape the Creative department, manage and mentor the team, and play a major role in business development.
A key task for the Creative and User Experience Director will be the creation of a variety of templates for Vooks in-house publishing engine that will allow Vook to produce innovative and great looking digital books without hands on design for each title. Creating these templates will require an understanding of the marketplace the titles will serve, an understanding of what users want in a digital book, and an emphasis on keeping design clean, simple and practical without adding over the top bells and whistles. Another key responsibility will be developing and designing the UI/UX for the in house publishing platform that generates the templated content.
Vook is a small company and every employee is expected to execute tasks and not simply manage others to execution. Hands on work is required, not just directional oversight.
Location
New York, New York
Job Responsibilities
Establish creative direction for Vooks entire line of products
Supervise and inspire the creative team
In conjunction with the Chief Product Officer, develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and that advance our products and brand strategy
Perform consumer needs analysis, market sizing, and competitive analysis to determine how the user experience and design will address key consumer opportunities
Champion the consumers online experience, with a keen eye on developing a superior and differentiated user experience
Manage and provide quality control for multiple projects from concept through completion
Work to create templates for Vooks in house technology platform to provide a scope of design choices for different types of digital books
Work with Vooks in house publishing platform MotherVook to design and create its UI/UX
Partner with our Product Management and Technology teams throughout the creative, build and implementation phases to ensure high quality, on time releases that balances consumer and business needs.
Champion principles of usability and user-centered design
Collaborate with the cross functional team to create project scopes, schedules, and road maps
Analyze and articulate emerging trends in design and user experience.
What Were Looking For
Passion for building great innovative digital products and a strong aptitude for user experience and business strategy
Desire to produce the best experiences in the industry hands-down
Startup management experience a plus
Full understanding of how to apply the methodologies of interaction design and research to website and product development
A strong working knowledge of experience design, brand development, interactive commerce and creative process
Knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography & limitations of applications and devices; must have the ability to storyboard or translate ideas to designers and develop innovative motion graphics solutions
A mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, communication skills, and diplomacy that will allow you to rapidly earn the respect of internal team, partners, and customers
Minimum 5-7 years consumer facing digital creative or user experience creating interfaces, large scale websites, or applications; digital publishing a plus
Hand-on experience generating concepts, wireframes, designs, style guides and working with project team (clients, business owners, Technology) to deliver
Experience creating complete product/feature specification documents
Solution and team oriented with the ability to build trust and influence others
Self-motivated, able to proactively work toward a goal independently without significant oversight
Energetic with a strong work ethic and drive to succeed
Engaging presentation style
Solid writing and visual communication skills
Familiarity with usability heuristics and relevant HCI literature
Knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, AfterEffects and other tools for generating wireframes and behavior specifications
- Compensation: Competitive salary and benefits
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