Job Description

ROLE:                             User Experience Designer

REPORTS TO:                 Head of User Experience

LOCATION:                     Feltham, Middlesex

HRS:                               9.00am to 5.30pm / Monday to Friday

THE COMPANY:

Perform is the world leader at broadcasting and commercialising sport in digital media. Through industry leading production, technical and commercial solutions, Perform maximises the returns for sports associations, rights holders, football clubs, content publishers, bookmakers, media groups, mobile operators and broadcasters around the world.

We currently stream over 15,000 live events each year and has developed over 240 web, video broadband and mobile sites for clients including the ATP, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, FIBA, FEI, PSA, FLi and Chelsea FC, that serve over 17 million monthly unique users. In October 2009, Perform made sports broadcasting history by streaming the first England football match exclusively live over the internet to over 500,000 viewers - believed to be the largest live internet pay to view sports stream in the world.

Perform also owns and operates ePlayer - the leading global sports VOD network - which currently streams 40 million on demand sports clips every month through major publisher group websites. Perform employs 345 staff and has offices in central London, Holland, Italy, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, India and the USA.

SUMMARY:

As a UX Designer you are responsible for designing the user experience of highly usable and accessible websites and applications. You'll be working on some of the most innovative and exciting projects within the sports and entertainment arena across a huge number of clients such as EMI, Football League & Sony WTA.

You will define and organise content; create functional specifications in the form of screenflows, sitemaps, state transition diagrams, annotated wireframes and interactive prototypes. You will have a solid understanding of the principles of user-

centered design, experience of working on CMS template driven websites and are prepared to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

You should have some experience of usability testing methods and should be up to date on web technology and accessibility issues..

You will be required to gather requirements and run user groups and then analyse and implement the research results. You should; be eager to produce work which wins awards, be extremely organised and an enthusiastic, creative thinker.

PROFILE:

Our preferred candidate has:

 A bachelor's degree in a design related field or equivalent experience, along with knowledge of interaction design, usability, accessibility, and information architecture.

 3 years experience

 a functional and analytical skill set and is capable of translating complex requirements as well as marketing, client and user needs into elegant, creative, sophisticated and usable solutions

 experience with developing Rich Internet Applications using AJAX, Flash, HTML 5

 used software Axure RP, Visio, Word and Photoshop extensively

 used artefacts like screenflows/sitemaps, wireframes, personas and scenarios extensively

 experience with organizing, driving and analyzing usability tests

 strong interpersonal communication, presentation and explanation skills

If you are the right person for the job you will be rewarded with:

• A competitive salary + health care + pension options.

• A fun, dynamic and challenging work environment.

• The opportunity to work on some of the most innovative and exciting global sports and entertainments sites.

If interested please send this information:

• Your CV including examples of your work.

• Anything that would make us interested in you as a person.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

IF SELECTED FOR INTERVIEW, YOU MUST BE ELIGIBLE TO WORK IN THE UK

UNFORTUNATELY WE WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE REQUIRE. IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM US WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF YOUR APPLICATION, YOU MAY ASSUME THAT YOU HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.