Flickr Is Hiring a Designer

Kellan shamed me into elaborating on this post. Flickr is hiring a designer, and based on my brief time here it is a great place to be. It's fun, crazy, full of brits the great thing is that we get to work on a product that millions of people love.

Let me know if you know any good peeps.

Senior Visual Designer: Yahoo! Inc

Flickr revolutionized photo sharing with its launch in 2004. Its innovative approach to how people store, share, sort and search for photos has attracted millions of users and influenced the way the current generation of web-based products and services are developed. Flickr's vision is to be the 'eyes of the world', enabling the sharing and discovery of what people see around the globe, from friends and family to group collaboration to breaking news. Flickr was acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005, and remains a separate brand.

The Flickr team is star-studded but prides itself on teamwork, technically capable but operates in a product- and user-driven paradigm and is profoundly driven to take Flickr as far beyond where we are now as the web in 2005 is beyond the web in 1995. We have a privileged position inside of Yahoo! and a mandate to change the world (and the company). This will be a job that you love and are proud of for your entire life.

Every week, millions of users visit Flickr.com and millions more access Flickr through API-based applications, photos posted to blogs and other third party sites and services. It's a complex and quickly growing application and ecosystem and design is at the heart of it.

We have a track record of innovation to build on and a strong desire to radically improve Flickr, both for new users & casual visitors as well as the power users who form the core of the community. There's a huge and tremendously long list of new features, programs and technologies set to come online this year. If you've ever wanted to have a big impact, this is it.

Some key attributes of successful candidates will be:

• Ability to quickly understand the constraints of a design problem and identify the tradeoffs; the ability to communicate those tradeoffs to fellow decision makers
• Strong empathic skills: you should be able to understand how and why an interface succeeds or fails and spot problems in layout, architecture, flow, copy or presentation before they go into production
• Strong visual design skills (layout, hierarchy, typography, color theory, patterns) and a fanatical attention to detail down to the pixel
• Ability to include stakeholders in project discussions and successfully incorporate/address their feedback
• A good all-rounder, informed by deep thought and consideration into the philosophical and practical considerations that make great design
• Demonstrated experience and proven track record in application/software design
• BA or MA in Graphic Design, Digital Media Design or Visual Arts.
• At least 5+ year's experience as key member of a design team participating in the complete product development lifecycle of a web product.
• At least 2+ years experience leading large design efforts and coordinating project teams of 3 or more members
• Solid understanding of user-centered design principles with the ability to address complex design problems and provide sound design solutions.


Some key responsibilities of the position:

• Work with the business and community teams to create visual designs that address business, brand, market, and user requirements
• Participate and collaborate in concept development and design ideation
• Create page layouts/UIs, color palettes, typography, iconography and user interface elements, while monitoring design consistency across all projects
• Work directly with Web Development and (Software) Engineering on design solutions that align with the design vision and user needs
• Work with the larger development team to address on-going design bugs
• Communicate your design thinking in a way that works for all the parties involved (engineers, product managers, partners,etc.) through appropriately detailed specifications and reviews
• Contribution to product design process and priority decisions
• Ensuring Flickr is both usable and powerful, simple when it needs to be, and delights its users with attention to detail and a prescient forethought to their needs
• Push the boundaries of what's possible on the web to create better experiences for users

Bonus:
Academic background in human factors/ergonomics, cognitive science, psychology or HCI
Strong interaction design skills
Design experience in mobile or desktop software
Experience creating or maintaining interface guidelines in a software ecosystem environment