Company: Aardvark
Type: Full-time Job
Location: San Francisco, CA
URL: www.vark.com
Aardvark (www.vark.com) was founded in 2007 by top engineers and entrepreneurs from Google, Yahoo, and other major Valley tech companies. Their goal is to provide access to the knowledge, wisdom, and experience of your extended network in realtime.
With Aardvark, there’s nothing to download or install: you just send Aardvark a question through a channel you already use (IM, email, Twitter, etc.) -- like you do when talking to a friend. Aardvark figures out who might be able to answer, and asks on your behalf, getting you answers from your network within minutes.
We’ve been written about in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Wired and continue to lead in the Social Search space. We are well funded by August Capital and are proud to have over a dozen well-known technology leaders as individual investors – including Marc Andreesen, Deep Nishar, Sean Fanning, Barney Pell, Jeff Hammerbacher and others.
User Experience Designer
Aardvark is looking for an exceptionally good User Experience designer to join our development team. Specialists need not apply: we're looking for someone who has mastered multiple design-related skillsets, from wireframes to visual design to usability tests and HTML and CSS coding. This is a diverse range of skills -- we're looking for someone truly talented who is passionate about great software with A-plus usability and polish. You will be working closely with the leaders of the company to build ambitious functionality that will define Social Search on the web. We have a killer technical team of about 20 people, and we're moving extremely quickly: in the past few months we've launched a new web interface with dozens of new features, an iPhone App, IM and Twitter interfaces, and lots more -- and we only plan on accelerating from here.
Required skills:
- Visual design for the web (for applications, not just brochureware)
- Wireframing and user flow design for web interfaces
Highly preferred:
- Startup Experience
- Experience with usability testing and basic user research
- Front-end coding in HTML and CSS
Pluses:
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
- Academic training in design
- Experience designing a successful consumer-facing web product with millions of users
To Apply:
To apply, please email your portfolio and resume to careers+204A@aardvarkteam.com and make sure your name is in the subject line of the email.
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