We are hiring a seasoned user experience designer to create user experiences for the Songbird desktop client and the songbirdnest.com web site. You are ideally an interaction designer who enjoys implementation of your ideas as much you enjoy generating them.
Responsibilities:
- Design natural, intuitive, and visually appealing user interfaces for Songbird and songbirdnest.com
- Implement the front-end of these experiences using XUL, XHTML, CSS, JS, and Ruby on Rails.
- Interface with our web developers and client developers to implement the back-end of user experiences for Songbird and songbirdnest.com
Minimum skills:
- 5+ years user experience design on web applications (not websites) and desktop applications
- Educated in Design, HCI, and usability (or ability to display formal understanding of theory and practices)
- Prototyping skills using paper, Flash, etc.
- The ability to define problems and solutions individually and with teams
- Ability to create graphical elements: icons, widgets, windowing and borders, data layout
- Hardcore CSS/HTML/Javascript
- Fluent with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Preferred skills:
- XUL/CSS
- Ruby on Rails
- Experience with developing and running usability testing
- Rapid visualization skills
- Drawing and Painting
Availability: Full-time, Part-time or Consultant
Location: You are preferably located near San Francisco. However, you may work from anywhere in the world if you are willing to nest here for an incubation period of approximately one month.
Compensation: Competitive and commensurate with capability, initiative, and experience.
Contact: If you have the eggs to join us, send your resume and a cover email with the subject "Your Name - User Experience Designer - via Songbirdnest" to jobs@songbirdnest.com. Please include links to your work, especially code samples. Here's some good advice from Joel Spolsky on Getting Your Resume Read.
About Songbird
Would you like to...
- Develop Songbird, the most kickass desktop application since Firefox?
- Be paid to build an open source + cross-platform media player?
- Work in our warm, bright and airy loft in San Francisco?
Pioneers of the Inevitable is a well-funded software startup comprised of elite Web browser and media player developers who are building the Songbird Web player. Our team's previous hatchlings include Winamp, the AOL Media Player and the Yahoo Music Engine.
Our mission is to foster innovation and choice in digital media and we're hiring a few highly-qualified heads to join us.
What is Songbird?
Songbird is the world's last desktop media player: it is open source, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and supports user-contributed extensions because it is built on the same Mozilla platform as Firefox.
Songbird is the world's first Web player: Songbird plays music and movies from the Web, shares playlists across the 'net, and automatically synchronizes your music to the online locker of your choice. What would you like Songbird to do?
Go ahead, take a test flight. Download Songbird, check the source code and watch the screencast.
