Job Title: UI Designer
Location: North America - Foster City, CA
Department: Product Management
Reports To: Design Director
Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), is a leading digital lifestyle company offering consumer services and products that are a natural extension of today's digital way-of-life. Sling Media's product family includes the internationally acclaimed, Emmy award-winning Slingbox that allows consumers to watch and control their living room television shows at any time, from any location, using PCs, Macs, PDAs and smartphones and the revolutionary new SlingCatcher, a universal media player that seamlessly delivers broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content to the TV. Sling Media is also the company behind the video entertainment web site, Sling.com, offering consumers a wide variety of popular TV shows, movies and other entertainment free for viewing online or on the TV using SlingCatcher.
Position:
As UI Designer at Sling Media, you will inspire new consumer TV and Video experiences for the Television, Web and Mobile. You will bring strong Information Architecture (IA), keen visual/motion design, creative vision and a clear user-focused point of view to design key user interfaces. You will brainstorm, storyboard, wireframe, prototype and produce assets to support a variety of products and experiences. You will be measured by your product and expected to be relentless in pursuit of elegance, simplicity and innovation.
General Qualifications
- Extensive IA background; Ability to translate product requirements into user flows/wireframes and visual designs
- Strong visual design skills, typography and use of color
- Bachelor/Master’s degree in graphic arts, interaction design, or a design related field is required
- 4-6 years related work experience
Critical Competencies
- Proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash
- Proficient with Visio and/or Omni Graffle
- Proficient with After Effects, Solidworks, Alias, or Rhino3D is a bonus
- Attention to detail
- Clear communicator
- Independent/hard worker
- Team player
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
Applicant must provide portfolio of relevant design work
Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com (please reference requisition #316) |
