Interaction Designer at Tapjoy in San Francisco, CA

About Tapjoy

Tapjoy is a mobile advertising and monetization platform whose unique Mobile Value Exchange™ model allows users to select personalized advertisements with which to engage for virtual currency or premium content.  Tapjoy helps unlock mobile joy by empowering more than 460 million mobile users who choose to watch videos, subscribe to services, install applications and participate in other types of advertisements in exchange for virtual currency they can use in their favorite apps. Tapjoy’s turnkey in-app advertising platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users and monetize their applications, while its powerful advertising marketplace lets brand advertisers reach a global mobile audience spanning more than 10,000 applications. Tapjoy is backed by top-tier investors including J.P.Morgan Asset Management, Rho Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, InterWest Partners and D.E. Shaw Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, London and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.tapjoy.com.

Technologies we use-

Our philosophy is to “get stuff done”, and the tools we use reflect that.  We use Agile development practices, iterating quickly on features and deploying them as soon as they are ready, often multiple times per day.  We leverage many open source tools and cloud-based solutions, including:

• Ruby on Rails (Apache/Passenger)
• Amazon Web Services
  • EC2
  • RDS (MySQL)
  • SimpleDB (NoSQL)
  • Elasticache (Memcached)
  • S3
  • ELB/Auto-scaling
  • SQS
  • Cloudfront
• Hadoop/Hive/Hue
• Mahout
• Vertica
• Git/Github
• Haml/jQuery/jQTouch/Webkit Transitions
• Syslog-ng

Interaction Designer

We are growing our design team and continue to hire Jr, mid-level, and Sr Designers. Our design team is a nimble and highly talented collaborative group. The ideal candidate is passionate about designing products the right way for the people who use them. The candidate is also good at empathizing with the user, understanding complex systems, and can solve problems at all levels – from the big picture to the nuts and bolts.

Roles and responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, and information architecture
• Deliver user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications
• Come armed with a seemingly endless supply of solution ideas for problems at hand for Tapjoy’s various web and mobile products
• Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, product managers, and software developers

Skill set and experience

• Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology
• Be able to discover, understand, and communicate the business requirements of Tapjoy, the emotional desires of our customers, and the context in which these two come together
• Have the ability to convey ideas to product stakeholders
• Can multitask and keep a zen-like state of mind in a busy environment
• Have the drive to learn everyday
• Love to have fun, love to work and know how to balance that out
• BA or Masters degree in Human Factors, Interaction Design, Cognitive Psychology or related field.

Perks of working for Tapjoy...

• Awesome coworkers
• Great work / life balance
• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• 2 delicious beers on tap
• Equipped with the latest MacBook Airs & Pros, Cinema Displays and iOS/Android Phones/Tablet
• Tens of millions of people see our work and use our products worldwide
• Top of the line hardware
• Free lunch!
• Group off-sites and outings
• A very relaxed, comfortable and friendly work environment
• Beer pong on Fridays!

If you feel that you can contribute to the growing Tapjoy team please send a:

• Resume
• LinkedIn/Twitter/Personal Website/blog/etc
• Which popular website do you think has terrible UX and why
• Which popular website do you think has amazing UX and why