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kgbweb is an agile, 19-person team that functions as an incubated start-up funded by a larger organization. What are we working on? It’s kind of a secret (still doing R&D) but we can tell you that it’s focused on completely changing the way we find, consume, share, and manage content on the web today. We are focused on 2 main points: (1) the growing importance of the real-time web and the concurrent need to reduce the noise, (2) a strong desire to deliver a better overall experience with a lot less effort required from our users.

Our office is extremely open and collegiate, and we are committed to letting ideas thrive above all else. We’re a very eclectic bunch of characters, but we all share a common commitment to taking whatever we do, fun or work, to the max. Some words that have been used to describe us are: passionate, fun, funny, innovative, contrarian, automagical, brilliant, academic, whimsical, and most importantly respectful. If you fit 3 or more of those descriptions, you might just have some of that magic we’re looking for.

As a UI/Web Designer you will be a core member of our User Experience group, a small team of highly-talented wizards responsible for the entire aesthetic and interactivity of our site. We expect you to push the limits of technology and visual design. With so much to get done, every member of the team is encouraged to participate in all areas of the group. We expect this to excite our candidates and find that the right candidates often make great contributions outside their area of focus.

Responsibilities

• Direct responsibility for development of extremely usable and engaging visual designs from conceptualization to implementation
• Create all aspects of the visual design from the site-level down to the feature level
• Create UI designs, mock-ups, prototypes, design specifications, guidelines, and screen flows
• Work closely with Senior Interaction Designer to execute on overall UX

• Work closely with product and technology groups to achieve alignment on all elements of visual design and their implementation

Experience Guidelines (some of this should apply to you)

• Must have worked worked on user centered visual design for a minimum of 2-3 significant digital consumer products such as web/mobile sites, applications, software. (Experience primarily with branding and advertising is not relevant experience)
• BA/BS from a 4 year school in a related field
• Strong foundation in information architecture and user interaction methods
• Solid demonstrable design experience with wireframes, data flows, and mockups
• Strong use and understanding of current typographical, graphical, navigational, and web standards best practices
• Extremely detail oriented down to pixel-perfect implementation
• Platform independent skills in Photoshop, Illustrator and other Adobe products
• Highly skilled and familiar with: DHTML / JavaScript / AJAX / CSS / XHTML / XML
• Ability to clearly communicate ideas, decisions, and reasoning to a non-technical audience

• Proven ownership of a full Visual Design project

We would be very happy if you have

• MA/PhD in related field
• Experience at an institution similar to the MIT Media Lab
• Have experience working at an Internet company, content provider, or web start-up
• Programming knowledge and an understanding of development practices

• Deep desire to produce groundbreaking experiences for the Web