Thursday, September 29, 2011

Product Manager - (US-NJ-Lyndhurst)


Product Manager - (US-NJ-Lyndhurst)

Compensation: 
$80K - $90K / Year
Minimum Education: 
Bachelors
Job Type: 
Full Time
Jobcode: 
VEFJA2

Lead new product initiatives and site improvements with existing product offerings. This role will significantly impact the experience of millions of users by introducing and enhancing features to use within our products and services. You will optimize the current product, while recommending and implementing enhancements based on competitive research, product metrics and company goals. This includes managing the process from research and conceptual design to planning and production. You will collaborate with key business partners, third party vendors, as well as with internal creative and development teams and business units. This is an opportunity to utilize your experience with web, social media and mobile apps to revolutionize how patients search, choose, rate, review and book an appointment with physicians and other care providers. 

Responsibilities 
Define and enhance product features and user experience to facilitate member engagement resulting in increased feature utilization, deeper engagement, viral product adoption and revenue generation. 
Drive strategic product roadmaps for products and services that guide the organization as well as our customers and partners. 
Acts as a “product” expert, advocate and evangelist for key product aspects and or initiatives for executive team, other internal teams as well as 3rd party partners. 
Track industry trends and monitor competitors’ product features and member engagement initiatives. Synthesize competitive intelligence to drive product decisions and influence product roadmaps. 
Documentation of business requirements, functional/development requirements, and use cases. Participate in the creation of wireframes, user flows and user experience requirements. 
Own feature and product creation process from concept to launch; and interact with creative services and development engineers to ensure completeness of the optimal user experience. 
Collaborate with all areas of the company on new products and product enhancements. 
Understand and maximize efficiencies in web site development and user experience. 
Evaluate site metrics and optimize creative and element placements in order to maximize desired results (traffic, actions, $). 
Meet or exceed management defined activity and revenue goals. 
Other duties as assigned by members of management. 

Qualifications & Skills 
· Bachelor’s degree plus at least 2 years experience managing product or strategy at web site. 
· Must be passionate about delivering exceptional products and have a passion for the details. As well as having a reputation for solving the nine dots problem. 
· Experience writing business and product/functional requirements for web and or mobile applications. 
· Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate product concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
· Excellent blend of technical, analytical, project management and communication skills. 
· Must be self-motivated and able to prioritize and work with a team. 
· Ability to work in an extremely fast paced and high-energy work environment 
· Ability to take initiative, juggle multiple priorities, troubleshoot and work well with other departments to meet deadlines. 
· Experience product managing a rich internet application, personalization content portal or health care website a plus. 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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UX Designer/Information Architect - (US-NJ-Lyndhurst)


UX Designer/Information Architect - (US-NJ-Lyndhurst)

Compensation: 
$80K - $100K / Year
Minimum Education: 
Bachelors
Job Type: 
Full Time
Jobcode: 
VEFJA1

This role will significantly impact the experience of millions of users by optimizing their ability to use our products and services. This includes managing the process from research and conceptual design and validation testing to planning and production for assigned site areas. This is an opportunity to utilize your experience with web, mobile web and mobile app platforms to revolutionize how patients search, choose, rate, review and book an appointment with physicians and other care providers. 

Job Responsibilities 
Develop products to facilitate user engagement resulting in increased traffic, repeat users, reviews and other important metrics. 
Directly influence audience growth for web and mobile products. 
Monitor and report on competitors user experience initiatives and introduce updated and emerging interface approaches. 
Build wire frames, business rules and functional requirements for development initiatives; and interact with creative services and development engineers to ensure completeness and quality of user experience. 
Direct user experience validation and testing of design concepts. 
Provide leadership on user experience best practices and guide the organization in adopting user centric design principals and techniques. 
Evaluate specific site metrics and optimize creative and element placement in order to maximize desired results (traffic, actions, $) 
Other duties as assigned by members of management. 

Competencies: 
Demonstrated ability to work with templates and content management systems, workflows, site architectures, and page template/wireframe formats. 
Use case and functional requirements development experience preferred. 
Experience leading and/or observing user research and usability testing and translating results into design decisions. 
Understanding of how Design impacts Development (and vice versa), along with a knack for constructing dynamic, interactive designs that are technically feasible/prudent 
Qualifications 

· Bachelor’s degree plus 3-5 years of experience developing online interactive products. 

· 2-3 years of experience managing information architecture and user experience at a content portal or rich internet application web site. 

· Skilled use of one or more of the various UX tools: Visio, Protoshare, Axure, Onimgraffle, etc 

· The ability to prototype in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and/or use prototype tools. 

· Must have a strong passion for information architecture & user experience and have a reputation for solving the nine dots problem. 

· Excellent blend of technical, analytical, documentation and communication skills. 

· Ability to work in an extremely fast paced and high-energy work environment 

· Ability to take initiative, juggle multiple priorities, troubleshoot and work well with other departments to meet deadlines. 

· An outstanding portfolio of past work experience of user-centered design solutions. Portfolio could contain: detailed page schematics, functional specifications, interaction flows, site maps, navigation systems, and wireframes. 

· HCI Degree and or past interactive design experience in a studio or agency a plus. 

· Experience defining a rich internet application, personalization content portal or health care website a plus. 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. 

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Peoplesoft HR Consultant - (US-NY-New York)


Peoplesoft HR Consultant - (US-NY-New York)

Minimum Education: 
Bachelors
Job Type: 
Full Time
Jobcode: 
TBAJA4

Peoplesoft HR Consultant who specializes in design that focuses on structures that are scalable for multiple group companies across America. Candidate should have around 7 years exp and come out of any industry though financial services is a plus. Need experience with enterprise wide design 


Please quote your best rate and email a resume in Word that makes it obvious how you match the specification 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. 

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