User Experience Designer
Full-time
Palo Alto, CA Relocation assistance offeredUser Experience Designer - Job Description
About Tesla:
Tesla's goal is to produce a full range of electric cars, from sports cars to mass-market vehicles – relentlessly driving down the cost of electric vehicles. It is currently the only U.S. automaker that builds and sells highway-capable EVs in serial production. Palo Alto, California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs and EV powertrain components. Tesla has delivered more than 1,600 Roadsters to customers in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific Region. Model S, the first premium sedan to be built from the ground up as an electric vehicle, goes on the market in mid-2012.
The Role:
As a Tesla user experience designer you will be working with the team responsible for creating simple yet compelling experiences for our in-store and online customers. Your background will be a blend of visual design, information architecture, and interaction design, able to pour these talents into a seamless experience that changes how people think about cars.
This is a blended, jack-of-all trades role. You’ll be challenged to take requirements from multiple stakeholders and coalesce them into visual designs through all the intermediary stages between. You welcome the challenges and growth that this opportunity provides.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the lead user experience designer in translating requirements into beautiful concepts and highly-usable experiences for web, mobile, iPad, and in-store touchscreen kiosks
- Create artifacts as needed, rather than by process, including mental models, flows, storyboards, wireframes, compositions, and assets
- Partner with marketing and communications to express and educate on the experience of owning an electric car
Requirements:
- Proven experience (i.e., portfolio) in creating compelling user experiences that include information architecture artifacts and visual design
- Comfort understanding and communicating high-technology concepts in simple, easy-to-understand visuals
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize requests, communicate with stakeholders, and meet expected milestones
- Experience working with Adobe Creative Suite and Omnigraffle tools
Desired:
- Prior experience with multimedia, motion-graphics, or video
- Experience designing for touchscreen devices (mobile, iPad, kiosk)
Note: Please include resume and link to portfolio