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Senior Information Architect / User Experience Designer  

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Description:
As a Senior Information Architect / User Experience Designer, you will define and create innovative online experiences for market-leading legal research and practice management applications.
 
You will be part of the New Product Development UX team, which plays an integral role in the design, research, and implementation of web and mobile solutions across the legal industry. This role will suit a creative problem solver, looking to work with a talented team in a fast-paced, agile environment.
 
 
At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
 
Experience

  • 5+ years experience as an information architect, user experience designer, or interaction designer
  • Portfolio of work
  • Significant experience developing interface mockups, annotated wireframes,and design specifications
  • History of defining application functionality and creating interfaces in the absence of business requirements
  • Demonstrated ability to document complex designs

Required Knowledge and Skills

  • Significant experience documenting user interfaces with Visio or similar tools
  • Familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS design capabilities
  • Solid understanding of principles of information organization and user interface design
  • Thorough understanding of established user interface standards as well as cutting-edge design conventions and interactions
  • Knowledge of fundamental design principles and disciplines that affect typography, color use, animation, composition, use of space, distribution of information, etc.
  • Excellent written, oral, and visual communication skills
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize
  • Ability to communicate design concepts effectively, build consensus, and justify decisions

Scope of Influence

  • Collaborate with User Experience team to design elegant user interfaces and rich user experiences
  • Interact with and provide direction to technology, content, and product development teams
  • Influence and cooperate with other departments to ensure consistency and quality across the platform
  • Present concepts and designs to senior management

Preferred Education, Experience, and Capabilities

  • Degree in information science, information design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related fields
  • Visual design experience
  • Prototyping skills
  • Experience designing for iOS and other mobile platforms

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 55,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
 
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