Vook: Creative and User Experience Director for Digital Books
Location: New York, NY
URL: http://vook.com
Overview
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 Vook’s digital book technology creation 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 Vook’s 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 Vook’s in house
technology platform to provide a scope of design choices for different
types of digital books - Work with Vook’s 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 We’re 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
To apply: Interested parties can contact Vook at matthew@vook.tv
