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Job Description: Senior Usability Specialist
Job #: 6907-JS
Job Title: Senior Usability Specialist
Location: Natick MA
% Travel: None to Minimal
Area of Interest: Senior Usability Specialist
Job Summary
You will be responsible for leading user-centered design activities related to several MathWorks software applications. You will work with teams to understand their projects' user-centered design requirements, and then develop creative solutions for meeting those needs.
Responsibilities
Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on their projects' needs, goals and constraints.
Work closely with the team members to help them develop user profiles and create task lists.
Help them create paper prototypes, and review online prototypes developed by others.
Run usability tests, conduct interviews and site visits, organize surveys, and complete any other usability assessments you think are appropriate.
Help the developers' record and interpret the results, and you will be responsible for making sure that the project team understands what users' feedback means and how to transform that feedback into actionable goals.
Help the team decide what to do about feedback, and will provide input for design decisions based on that feedback.
Apply: email your resume to paurico@mathworks.com
Qualifications
BA or MA in cognitive psychology, human factors, or related field, or equivalent experience
4-8 years as a usability engineer in software development, with direct experience with a variety of usability methods
Strong leadership skills
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to balance needs of a large number of concurrent projects
Knowledge of MathWorks products a plus
Knowledge of Perforce a plus
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