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Title: Senior User Interface Architect
Department: Engineering

TO APPLY: Please submit your resume online

http://jobvite.com/m?3daYWfw1

YuMe is seeking a hands-on Senior User Interface Architect with exceptional technical, organization, and communication skills. This position is located in our Redwood City, CA office.

Responsibilities:
• Work with the Architecture, Marketing, Management and Development teams to create UI technology strategy.
• Work to understand requirements and disparate technologies currently in use and drive them towards convergence.
• Work with the Architecture and Development teams to define a migration roadmap for the proposed UI strategy.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Marketing, Management, and Development to design interface behavior and brand consistency across all products and services.
• Be the user’s advocate across all design, re-design and development efforts — but be able to balance cost and business goals with your passion.
• Re-work existing and establish new UI style guidelines and evangelize and rationalize the guidance you create.
• Work with Product Management and Development Groups to create new UI designs for applications.
• Work with Development Groups to evaluate existing application UIs and recommend usability improvement recommendations.
• Assist in the creation of process and technology selection to ensure appropriate testing of application UIs.
• Gather requirements, research and recommend processes, software, or other tools to increase overall UI quality and usability in support of business objectives. Work closely with the testing team to design intelligent testing strategies.
• Conceptualize software requirements based on both external and internal inputs.
• Apply and tailor best practices in software processes and quality to achieve fast cycle time development.
• Ability to work with teams spread across time zones.

Qualifications:
• BS in Computer Science or technical degree (MS in Computer Science preferred)
• A minimum of 10+ years in software development, design, and architecture.
• Must be a hands-on contributor who will be implementing the proposed architecture & design.
• Solid understanding of software design methodologies.
• Expert understanding of user interface design methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing UI for web applications.
• Experience in development of widgets.
• Must have multi-browser feature development experience
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, XML, Struts, and Java experience is required
• Familiarity with Flash/Flex is a major plus.
• Excellent and proven communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to work well with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are crucial.