Job Details: Information Architect
| Job Title: | Information Architect |
| Job ID: | IA |
| Company: | cooking.com |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | competitive |
| Date Posted: | Jul-24-08 |
GET YOUR CAREER COOKING
Strategy-Minded INFORMATION ARCHITECT for Leading Cooking Destination
Cooking.com offers opportunities for growth and a dynamic work environment. 25% of our employees were promoted in 2007!
Cooking.com is reinventing itself, and we're looking to fill a key strategic position on our product development team. The Information Architect at Cooking.com will be much more than a creator of wireframes, sitemaps and UI. The Information Architect will help set company-wide strategies and standards and will own major projects from planning to sitemaps, wireframes, process flows and functional specifications down to the smallest detail. In addition, the Information Architect will work across Cooking.com properties, including FoodNetworkStore.com, StarbuckStore.com and more.
Cooking.com provides a competitive compensation package that includes strong benefit options. Full-time employees are eligible for immediate health coverage, 15 days of paid time off, 12 paid holidays, company-paid life and disability insurance, health club discounts, flexible spending program, 401(k) plan, paid parking, discount on Cooking.com merchandise, and other perks:
- 35% employee discount at cooking.com (45% during November)
- Free standard shipping for employee purchases (5 per year)
- Free quarterly car wash
- Eight free movie tickets per calendar year
- $20 birthday gift card
- Carpool subsidy
- Much more!
Duties:
Contribute to and understand business objectives and requirements as well as user and production needs and translate them into interface and functional solutions. Advocate for end user while maximizing business objectives.
Contribute to and understand business objectives and requirements as well as user and production needs and translate them into interface and functional solutions. Advocate for end user while maximizing business objectives.
Analyze user data to identify target users/segments/personas and to improve usability, conversion and other business goals.
Be a leader in setting and adhering to project calendars, scope and phasing.
Propose innovative concepts in keeping with project scope and strategic positioning.
Develop IA solutions, including cross-site standards, navigation solutions and data taxonomies as well as production tool needs and interfaces.
Communicate and coordinate IA solutions with technical and non-technical participants
Author and own IA / UE deliverables, including site maps, wireframes/schematics, process flows, extremely detailed functional specifications, business rules and more.
Be a self-driven project manager, sometimes for concurrent initiatives.
When possible or desirable, lead user validation and/or usability testing sessions, evaluate results and present actionable recommendations
Participate in or lead QA efforts, as needed
Special projects as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 3 years' experience developing detailed information architecture, functionality and user-related strategies, documents and business rules for large-scale, software-intensive, b-to-c Web sites/projects
- Hands-on participation in e-commerce, social network or mass entertainment interfaces, software or content documentation/specification/development projects
- Experience with data-intense, database-driven sites
- Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
- Experience performing user experience study activities such as traffic/path analysis preferred
- Experience carding/paper prototyping, concept testing, usability testing, etc. preferred
- Experience as the lead IA on at least one project strongly preferred
- Love of and experience with cooking or cookware strongly preferred
TO APPLY EMAIL RESUME TO:
jobs@cooking.com
with INFORMATION ARCHITECT in the subject line
Founded in 1998 and located in Santa Monica, CA, with 110 employees. Cooking.com offers its customers access to over 90,000 products for the kitchen as well as recipes, menus, articles and a growing library of user-generated cooking content and online tools.
We have a dedicated team filled with passion and drive for being the leading Internet marketplace for the kitchen while creating a dynamic and fun work environment.
Cooking.com is the leading online marketplace for the kitchen, operating seven uniquely branded websites:
www.cooking.com
www.foodnetworkstore.com
www.StarbucksStore.com
www.pillsburystore.com
www.bettycrockerstore.com
www.cooking.com/rachelray
www.cooking.com/rachaelrayshow
www.cooking.com/gourmetcatalog
Keywords:
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TO APPLY EMAIL RESUME TO:
jobs@cooking.com
with INFORMATION ARCHITECT in the subject line
| Location: [rss] | US-CA-Santa Monica |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
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| Contact Email: | jobs@cooking.com |
| URL: | http://www.cooking.com/guestassist/gajobs.asp |
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