Company: SONY Electronics

Location: San Diego, CA

Description:

Every day, Sony products enliven the senses-from the clear rhythm of music to the brilliant picture of HDTV. As a consumer, you buy our latest products. But as a Sony Engineer, you'll create them. As part of our team, you'll be surrounded by the most brilliant minds in the business, collaborating and working with technologies that most people don't even know exist. Every day, you'll generate ideas, develop solutions and build things no one else has built before. Even better, you get to do all this for one of the world's most innovative companies-Sony Electronics. What's not to like?

The VAIO division has an opening for a Lead User Interface Developer specializing in User Interface Architecture/Development, whose responsibilities include:

• Leading the development of user interfaces for Sony VAIO software to be released in many countries around the world
• Creating software that is attractive, useful, and usable, to provide a world-class user experience
• Creating user experiences that engender confidence, trust, and customer satisfaction
• Creating and executing the development plan
• Eliciting real user requirements and helping to ensure that the products fit their customers' needs
• Creating prototypes and writing user experience specifications that set clear goals for product implementation
• Leading a team in the successful implementation of the user interface and applying development expertise to create high-quality code
• Collaborating with other teams, such as the graphical design, quality assurance, and documentation groups
• Driving innovation
• Providing sustainable, and patentable, product differentiation and a competitive advantage
• Contributing creativity to both product and process innovation
• Developing visual and interaction design patterns that are reusable in other software product lines
• Typical Input:
• High-level Vision/Philosophy/Mission Statement
• Target Users/Customers
• Business/Marketing Considerations
• HW Specification (if decided)
• High Priority Functionality/Use Cases/Requirements
• Flows and Navigation Maps
• Wireframes/Blueprints/Storyboards
• Schedule Information
• Typical Deliverables:
• Clear Written Specifications
• Prototypes/Mockups
• Production quality code
Qualifications:
• Must be an expert developing desktop application user interfaces using C#
• Expertise using WPF/XAML is strongly preferred
• Expertise prototyping user interfaces using other technologies is a plus (Expression Blend, Visio, HTML/CSS, Flash, Silverlight, etc.)
• Must display solid understanding, proven experience, and evangelism in the principles of:
• User-centric Design
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Interface and Interaction Design
• Usability Engineering
• Information Architecture
• Visual Design
• 10+ years of hands-on experience and a deep understanding of consumer-oriented, high-tech products
• Masters or PhD in a related fields is preferable
• Persuasive, with strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Must be able to present a detailed portfolio

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