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Description
Sears Holdings Management Corporation provides corporate services to Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) and its family of companies, including Sears Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Corporation. Sears Holdings Corporation is the nation's fourth largest broadline retailer with approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn and garden, home electronics and automotive repair and maintenance. Key proprietary brands include Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard, and a broad apparel offering, including such well-known labels as Lands' End, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, as well as the Apostrophe and Covington brands. It also has the Country Living collection, which is offered exclusively by Sears and Kmart. It also has Martha Stewart Everyday products, which are offered exclusively in the U.S. by Kmart. We are the nation's largest provider of home services, with more than 12 million service calls made annually. Sears Holdings Corporation operates through its subsidiaries, including Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Corporation. For more information, visit Sears Holdings' Web site at http://www.searsholdings.com.
Sears Holdings is seeking an experienced Principle User Experience Architect to join our User Experience Team. As a principal on the team, you will lead by example, mentor colleagues, and draw upon your proven leadership, collaboration and facilitation skills to lead design solution development. To do so, you will stay on top of industry best practices and not only absorb knowledge, but be a thought leader in your own right. You share your research, findings, analysis, and facilitate communication/collaboration sessions with all sorts of partners and stakeholders notably Merchants, Project Management, IT, and Product Management. Most importantly, you will establish the Sears Holdings portfolio of online properties as the preferred destination for our customers. These include: sears.com, kmart.com, mysears.com, mykmart.com, mygofer.com, and sears2go, kmart2go and mygofer2go mobile apps.
You will also help define design patterns and components and ensure compliance and consistent application across projects. And youll continue to publish and present material related to design thinking, UX best practices, methods and processes.
Requirements:
10 years of experience in interface design, usability training; minimum 3 years in E-Commerce
Must be market and customer insight driven
Follow retail industry trends and provide analysis to team
Rich Media
Community
Social Commerce
Cross-Channel Experiences
Understand and leverage
Business drivers
Cognitive processes
Experimental design
Rapid prototyping
Quantitative methods
Task analysis methods
Observational techniques
Usability testing
User interfaces
HCI standards and guidelines
Skills:
Build, cultivate, and maintain long-term relationships. Manage client expectations.
Translate business and technical requirements into rich engaging customer experiences.
Focus on developing tactical solutions and design systems.
Strong technical background.
Advanced knowledge of design and research tools, including Visio.
Familiar with creative/FED (front-end development) tools and constraints regarding presentation layers.
Strong communication skills (both verbal and written).
Meet or exceed client expectations consistent with business priorities.
Establish a course of action for self and others to accomplish specific goals.
Collaborate with others to accomplish goals/objectives.
Build/maintain constructive partnerships with UX, Business and IT.
Identify problems and pro-actively develop effective solutions.
Gladly take on multiple projects, and multi-component programs.
Expresses ideas precisely, persuasively and effectively; listen to and engages productively with team.
Able to negotiate design trade-offs and support design rationale.
Must be able to produce, and take the lead, when it comes to dynamic, effective presentations.
Expect to thoughtfully present your portfolio of work and evidence of deep knowledge in interactive projects focusing on developing tactical solutions and larger design systems.
A comprehensive and competitive benefit program is designed to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Benefits eligibility depends on employment classification, location, and other variables. Benefits offered include:
Medical and Dental Plans
Health Care and Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Accounts
Short and Long-Term Disability
Company Paid and Optional Life Insurance
Business Travel Insurance
Merchandise Discount
Adoption Assistance
Kmart Advantage Rx
ConSern Loans for Education
Worklife Solutions
Voluntary Benefits
Commuter Benefits
Sears Holdings Corporation Associate Stock Purchase Plan
401(k) Savings Plan
Vacation Time with Personal Days
National Holidays
Details:
Job Id:
71418BR
Posted / Updated:
1/29/2010 8:52:36 AM
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