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Senior Information Architect
at Beach in Los Angeles
About Beachbody
Beachbody was founded in 1998 by Carl Daikeler and Jon Congdon. The company is based in Santa Monica, California, and is the creator of the nation’s most popular in-home fitness and weight loss solutions including P90X®, Insanity®, Brazil Butt Lift®, Slim in 6®, Turbo Jam®, Hip Hop Abs®, and Power 90® among many others. Beachbody programs combine challenging DVD-based workouts with easy-to-follow diet guidelines, nutritional supplements (including its breakthrough health shake called Shakeology®, AKA “The Healthiest Meal of the Day”), and an unparalleled customer service and peer-support system. In fact, Beachbody has expanded this support system through Team Beachbody.com, which includes a network of thousands of independent “Coach” distributors as well as a dynamic online support and fitness community. The company’s beauty business includes brands Timeless Secret™ and DermExclusive™. The corporate mission is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy healthy, fulfilling lives.
About the Job
The Senior Information Architect will be responsible for the UI architecture and interaction flow of existing and new functionality, relentlessly seeking and advocating highest convenience and ease of use to our customers. He or she will take the brand and aesthetics of the user experience to the next level on Beachbody.com’s websites and mobile applications, around the world, and shape how we offer member benefits on other websites. The IA will be collaborating with a number of different groups, gaining exposure to a variety of different designers. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fast-paced, creative and demanding team among product managers and developers, and takes pride in any challenges small or large, from optimizing a single-line message on a page or creating an entire customer experience from scratch.
Tasks & Activities
Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback and usability study findings.
Work with multidisciplinary teams to create smart, innovative online solutions for our clients.
Provide data driven insights into customer behavior and an actionable plan for meeting user needs online.
Champion process and methodology as well as research and evangelize the latest tools, best practices and trends that relate to the field.
Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes.
Take a holistic approach to interaction design across the site – developing and maintaining interaction standards.
Effectively and convincingly prepare design recommendations driven from competitive research, industry best practices, user research, and web analytics.
Outline the user experience of new features and play a key role in helping define corresponding feature requirements.
Evangelize User Centered Design to create designs that provide best in class user experiences.
Rapidly develop user flows, wireframes, superior visual mock-ups, detailed high fidelity schematics, final design assets and functional specifications.
Conduct heuristic reviews of website and constituent interactions.
Generate project requirements definition by leading client working sessions, reviewing the competitive landscape, and participating in creative brainstorming sessions with the project team.
Define functionality, content, navigation, and interaction models through page level wireframes, site-maps, use cases, and functional requirements documentation.
Produce site- and competitive-analysis documentation.
Contribute to the development of content/data models, nomenclature and taxonomies.
Requirements
BS degree in design or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
Experience designing for the web and web based devices.
Best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
Experience setting up usability studies.
A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered and brand design.
Experience with a variety of design tools such as Visio, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash.
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.
Beachbody, LLC offers a highly competitive salary, benefits, bonus potential, and the opportunity for you to help us achieve our mission which is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy a healthy, fulfilling life. Beachbody, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Beachbody was founded in 1998 by Carl Daikeler and Jon Congdon. The company is based in Santa Monica, California, and is the creator of the nation’s most popular in-home fitness and weight loss solutions including P90X®, Insanity®, Brazil Butt Lift®, Slim in 6®, Turbo Jam®, Hip Hop Abs®, and Power 90® among many others. Beachbody programs combine challenging DVD-based workouts with easy-to-follow diet guidelines, nutritional supplements (including its breakthrough health shake called Shakeology®, AKA “The Healthiest Meal of the Day”), and an unparalleled customer service and peer-support system. In fact, Beachbody has expanded this support system through Team Beachbody.com, which includes a network of thousands of independent “Coach” distributors as well as a dynamic online support and fitness community. The company’s beauty business includes brands Timeless Secret™ and DermExclusive™. The corporate mission is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy healthy, fulfilling lives.
About the Job
The Senior Information Architect will be responsible for the UI architecture and interaction flow of existing and new functionality, relentlessly seeking and advocating highest convenience and ease of use to our customers. He or she will take the brand and aesthetics of the user experience to the next level on Beachbody.com’s websites and mobile applications, around the world, and shape how we offer member benefits on other websites. The IA will be collaborating with a number of different groups, gaining exposure to a variety of different designers. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fast-paced, creative and demanding team among product managers and developers, and takes pride in any challenges small or large, from optimizing a single-line message on a page or creating an entire customer experience from scratch.
Tasks & Activities
Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback and usability study findings.
Work with multidisciplinary teams to create smart, innovative online solutions for our clients.
Provide data driven insights into customer behavior and an actionable plan for meeting user needs online.
Champion process and methodology as well as research and evangelize the latest tools, best practices and trends that relate to the field.
Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes.
Take a holistic approach to interaction design across the site – developing and maintaining interaction standards.
Effectively and convincingly prepare design recommendations driven from competitive research, industry best practices, user research, and web analytics.
Outline the user experience of new features and play a key role in helping define corresponding feature requirements.
Evangelize User Centered Design to create designs that provide best in class user experiences.
Rapidly develop user flows, wireframes, superior visual mock-ups, detailed high fidelity schematics, final design assets and functional specifications.
Conduct heuristic reviews of website and constituent interactions.
Generate project requirements definition by leading client working sessions, reviewing the competitive landscape, and participating in creative brainstorming sessions with the project team.
Define functionality, content, navigation, and interaction models through page level wireframes, site-maps, use cases, and functional requirements documentation.
Produce site- and competitive-analysis documentation.
Contribute to the development of content/data models, nomenclature and taxonomies.
Requirements
BS degree in design or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
Experience designing for the web and web based devices.
Best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
Experience setting up usability studies.
A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating user-centered and brand design.
Experience with a variety of design tools such as Visio, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash.
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.
Beachbody, LLC offers a highly competitive salary, benefits, bonus potential, and the opportunity for you to help us achieve our mission which is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy a healthy, fulfilling life. Beachbody, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Published on 14-06-2011