JOB TITLE     :  Usability Engineer
JOB LOCATION  :  Mountain View, California

USABILITY ENGINEER
-Web Financial Services
-Business Products and Online Services
     
Contribute creative user interface design ideas from a 
usability design perspective; translate field or lab 
collected customer data into innovative UI design solutions 
which address users' needs.  As a key player in definition 
and design phases, work with Project and Product Managers 
to develop plans for usability research activities for 
products in the business unit.  Plan and conduct priority 
usability research with teams, analyze data and share 
results to spark focused redesign efforts.  Be available to 
consult on the design of other usability research.  Provide 
prototyping support as needed.  Provide input for strategic, 
cross-product research plans and projects.  Help identify 
and implement software UI design solutions for breakthrough 
usability and improved user satisfaction.
     
Participate as a team member focused on the usability design 
perspective and customer data collection and evaluation 
activities.  Contribute design ideas to feature prototyping 
efforts and consult on general user interface design with 
teams in the business unit.
     
Lead efforts to translate customer data into innovative, 
usable feature and interface designs.  Contribute to 
prototyping efforts, as needed by the teams.  Consult on 
software user interface design issues; perform periodic 
reviews of UI for interaction and model consistency within 
and across a family of products with the same target 
audience.  Conduct priority usability research and report 
results as agreed to in the Usability Research Plan.
Consult with teams on the design of other usability 
research projects in the business unit.
     
Qualifications:

* Minimum 3 years of human factors engineering, software 
  interface design experience required, as a member of 
  development teams; consumer market software design/
  development experience necessary.     
* Excellent communication and organization skills; 
  knowledge of statistics.
* Proven interview and observation skills; experience in 
  survey design and administration, user needs analysis 
  and prototype and usability testing.
* Visual Basic, Hypercard or other prototype software 
  experience desired.
* Web UI design and/or financial or small business accounting 
  experience desired.
* Advanced degree in psychology, usability or human factors 
  engineering--minimum masters degree or explicit course work 
  in experimental or field research methods for software 
  usability design.
     
Respond to:
     
Intuit, Inc.
Attn: Mary Kay Miller
P.O. Box 7850, MS 1858 
Mountain View, CA  94039-7850

Fax:  415/944-2700
Phone: 415-944/6574
E-mail: Intuit Careers@intuit.com
     
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