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Job Title
Accenture User Experience Analyst - Chicago (Location Negotiable)
Location
Chicago, IL
Listing Date
May 04, 2008
Reference Number
359948
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Not Disclosed
Experience Requirements
None Given
Accenture
Recruiter Accenture
Company Web Site
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Job Title: Accenture User Experience Analyst - Chicago (Location Negotiable)
Company Name: Accenture
Required Technical Skills:
Application Architecture & Integration
Job Description:
Showcase your GUI Design skills with Accenture’s Fortune 500 clients
Organization: Systems Integration & Technology – Global Delivery Excellence – User Experience
Location: Multiple
Travel: 100% (Monday – Friday)
Systems Integration and Technology (SI&T) offers a full range of global delivery services—from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.
Our SI&T consultants can expect to:
- work with cutting edge technology
- deliver high-quality solutions across multiple industries
- work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope
- receive continuous training
- gain rapid career progression
The mission of the Global Delivery Excellence group is to support value creation by helping Accenture engagements improve productivity, quality and predictability of solution delivery.
Job Description
User Experience Analysts will assist the application design team with gathering functional and user requirements, creating user profiles and scenarios, planning and executing focus groups, user interviews and JAD sessions. Assist with designing information architecture, user interface, and execution of usability tests. Develop UI prototypes, and document user interface design standards and guidelines. This role requires a comprehensive understanding of UI technologies and user-centered design concepts.
Responsibilities
- Conduct front end analysis, interviewing, focus groups, requirements gatheriing
- Use storyboarding, user scenario development, high-level use case definition, user and task analysis, to capture and develop user requirements and integrate elements into user interaction designs.
- Create, evaluate, and modify high and low-fidelity prototypes to support development process. Facilitate iterative testing of prototypes.
- Design highly usable interfaces for multiple channels — Internet, handheld PDA, tablet PC, and touch screen kiosks, etc.
- Design and develop usability plans
- Plan, coordinate, and facilitate usability tests
- Provide recommendations based on test results
- Provide heuristic analysis of existing user interfaces
- Optimize processes with user-centered design concepts
- Lead training classes on usability, interface design, and information architecture
- Research usability issues as they apply to Internet, handheld PDA, tablet PC, and touch screen kiosks
- Promote user centered design principles throughout the organization
- Serve as a resource of human factors based knowledge and design
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- 2 years experience in User Interface Design and/or Graphical Design
Additional Preferred Skill Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to incorporate user-centered design principles into the architecture and design of user interfaces
- Proficient with HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript and working knowledge of other popular Web technologies
- Proficient with Adobe PhotoShop
- Demonstrate written and oral communications skills and the ability to articulate ideas effectively
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong communication and conceptual skills
- Proficient at project management skills (e.g. project planning and estimating)
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines
- Ability to meet travel requirement (100% - Monday-Friday)
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
**Please note you will be re-directed to JobServe to submit your resume
About Accenture:
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The main reason people choose a career at Accenture is because of the work we do. With many of the word’s leading companies as our clients—including 91 of the Fortune Global 100, two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world—every project we undertake is helping shape the future of business, government and society.
Another reason to join Accenture is because our people enjoy working here. Join Accenture and you will work in a dynamic environment, teaming with motivated people that make ideas happen. We have an extremely diverse workforce, but are united by a common culture. We promote an inclusive, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where people use teamwork, respect and trust to achieve goals.
You’ll find the flexibility that helps you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. And you’ll have access to a renowned training program throughout your career to support your career development and stay at the top of your game. We offer around 80 more training hours than our competitors—in 2006 alone we invested nearly $700 million in training and provided an average of 75 hours of training per person.
With 152,000 employees in 49 countries, we bring together the unique experiences and perspectives of a diverse workforce to help clients become high-performance businesses. In other words, we help them become more successful in every part of their business, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. This includes helping them identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, and deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently.
The sheer scale of our technology capabilities and client engagements differentiates what we do from most other companies. Many of our clients are global organizations, so we build systems that operate across several countries and even continents—creating the digital infrastructure of business today. We know better than most how to mobilize the right people, skills, alliances, and technologies to deliver innovation and results that create high-performance businesses.
Visit our website to learn more about Accenture and all of our career opportunities.www.uscareers.accenture.com
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