Usability Specialist

Company: The MathWorks, Inc.
Location: Natick, MA
Posted on: December 8, 2014

Job Description:

Working under the direction of Usability Senior Team Leader 3, will be

responsible for leading user-centered design activities related to MathWorks

products and/or Web applications; working with development teams to

understand their projects' user-centered design requirements, and developing

creative solutions for meeting those needs; making recommendations to team

members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about

users and design directions based on projects' needs, goals and constraints;

working closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain

points, developing user profiles and creating task lists; contributing to

requirements and design documents; helping the development team follow a

user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and

design innovative solutions to complex problems; collaborating on paper and

functional prototypes; running usability tests, conducting interviews and

site visits, organizing surveys, and performing other usability assessments;

and helping the team interpreting and understanding user feedback, and

providing input for design decisions based on that feedback.

Education and Experience:

Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Cognitive Psychology,

Applied Psychology, or Human Factors in Information Design and no

experience.

OR

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Cognitive Psychology,

Applied Psychology, or Human Factors in Information Design and five (5)

years of experience in job offered or five (5) years of experience in

usability engineering or function point analysis.

Special Requirements:

• Demonstrated expertise performing Function Point Analysis to analyze

and improve feature functionality.

• Demonstrated expertise performing data science research or data

science analysis, specifically developing and maintaining business

intelligence reports, including transformation of data into graphical

representation.

• Demonstrated expertise in user-centered design activities, including

conducting usability tests on software/web products and designing

intelligent user interfaces.

[Expertise may be gained during Graduate program.]

For the position listed above, interested candidates may search by job code

14033 for specific job details and requirements and apply online on the

Careers Page at www.mathworks.com/company/jobs

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