PowerReviews- Social Commerce Solutions Co.: UX/ UI Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA- Downtown
URL: www.powerreviews.com

Ready for a change in 2012?

 

PowerReviews is the leading provider of social commerce software-as-a-service solutions to global retailers and brands.  We are an innovative social commerce company committed to making end-to-end social solutions that are blazing a new trail for companies to market, sell, design and innovate their products.  The company's unique structured data approach to collecting, organizing, and analyzing user-generated content significantly boosts product sales and customer engagement.

 

We've got the Power and so should you!

 

Milestones:

• PowerReviews is on over 5500 client sites across 28 locales worldwide including Staples, Drugstore.com, Room & Board, ESPN, Quicksilver, and Jockey.
• Customer Reviews Solution Leader in the Internet Retailer Top 500 survey, AlwaysOn Top 100 SaaS award winner, JMP Hot 100 award winner and one of 90 Facebook preferred vendors.
• Venture capital backing from Four Rivers Group, Woodside Fund, Menlo Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
• Two patents since 2009 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Patent No. 7,930,363) relating to the method in which it delivers user-generated product reviews to websites globally.

 

UX/UI Engineer

As a member of our development team, you will work with our product managers and Agile engineering team to develop innovative designs for industry leading features for both our shopping solution and our consumer portal.

 

You must be comfortable taking ownership of projects and processes, and be able to work closely with business owners to drive projects from conception to completion. You should be able to develop functional prototypes to demonstrate concepts and to enable rapid iterative support for evaluative research.

 

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in launching successful interactive web sites/applications as a key member of a user experience team
• 3+ years experience developing code in CSS/XHTML and JavaScript
• A demonstrated depth of experience in CSS development and management
• Development skills in W3C DOM methods and properties
• Some experience with Adobe Photoshop
• Interaction design and wire-framing experience preferred
• Experience with javascript frameworks like YUI or jQuery
• Ability to develop complex javascript without a framework
• Ability to be self-motivated to deliver projects on time with minimal supervision
• Quick and eager learner who stays on top of internet technologies in related space
• Passion for designing user-centric interfaces

Please be prepared to supply portfolio of CSS, JavaScript and visual design examples and up to 3 references

 

The "nice-to-have stuff"...

• Basic knowledge of SEO
• Working knowledge of tools like git, shell/command line, apache/tomcat
• Experience with project management tools like Jira, Bugzilla

To apply: Please send resume to: sara.schrage@powerreviews.com