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User Experience and Visual Designer at Aardvark in San Francisco, CA
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Todd Chapin
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Oct 21, 2009 08:13 PDT
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User Experience and Visual Designer at Aardvark in San Francisco, CA
Aardvark: User Experience and Visual Designer
Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: http://www.vark.com
Aardvark (www.vark.com) was founded in 2007 by top engineers and
entrepreneurs from Google, Yahoo, and other major Valley tech
companies. Their goal is to provide access to the knowledge, wisdom,
and experience of your extended network in realtime.
With Aardvark, there=E2=80=99s nothing to download or install: you just sen=
d
Aardvark a question through a channel you already use (IM, email,
Twitter, etc.) =E2=80=94 like you do when talking to a friend. Aardvark
figures out who might be able to answer, and asks on your behalf,
getting you answers from your network within minutes.
We=E2=80=99ve been written about in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbe=
s,
and Wired and continue to lead in the Social Search space. We are well
funded by August Capital and are proud to have over a dozen well-known
technology leaders as individual investors =E2=80=93 including Marc Andrees=
en,
Deep Nishar, Sean Fanning, Barney Pell, Jeff Hammerbacher and others.
User Experience Designer
Aardvark is looking for an exceptionally good User Experience designer
to join our development team. Specialists need not apply: we=E2=80=99re
looking for someone who has mastered multiple design-related
skillsets, from wireframes to visual design to usability tests and
HTML and CSS coding. This is a diverse range of skills =E2=80=94 we=E2=80=
=99re looking
for someone truly talented who is passionate about great software with
A-plus usability and polish. You will be working closely with the
leaders of the company to build ambitious functionality that will
define Social Search on the web. We have a killer technical team of
about 20 people, and we=E2=80=99re moving extremely quickly: in the past fe=
w
months we=E2=80=99ve launched a new web interface with dozens of new featur=
es,
an iPhone App, IM and Twitter interfaces, and lots more =E2=80=94 and we on=
ly
plan on accelerating from here.
Required skills:
- Visual design for the web (for applications, not just brochureware)
- Wireframing and user flow design for web interfaces
Highly preferred:
- Startup Experience
- Experience with usability testing and basic user research
- Front-end coding in HTML and CSS
Pluses:
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
- Academic training in design
- Experience designing a successful consumer-facing web product with
millions of users
Please send your portfolio to review along with your resume.
To apply:
Browse the open positions below then send an email with your resume,
CV or portfolio to: care-@aardvarkteam.com.
http://vark.com/jobs
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