Portal UI Designer / Engineer

About Akamai If you use the Internet for anything – to check sports scores, book a hotel, track an order, or watch a movie trailer online – you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. We play a critical role in getting content from providers to consumers by using our computational and network power to transform the chaotic Internet into a predictable, scalable, and secure business platform for more than 2,000 enterprises. Akamai is “The Trusted Choice for Online Business.” The EdgeControl Management Center is Akamai’s Portal – it provides our customers, channel partners, and internal staff visibility and control over Akamai’s network and services. Through EdgeControl our customers get a global picture of how the Akamai system and the Internet are behaving, can fine-tune the behavior of their web properties, access information about Akamai’s Internet services and interact with Akamai’s support team. We are seeking and experienced UI Designer/Engineer with a background in designing and prototyping information-rich user interfaces for complex domains in a fast-pasted environment. You will be involved in every step of the development process to ensure a useful and usable web-based product - developing requirements, early prototyping, reviewing designs with stakeholders, and developing the final HTML / CSS / Javascript. Experience with JSP / JSF / Ajax is desireable. The ideal individual for this position is creative, independent, driven, a team player, and has great passion for designing a great user experience. You will be leading and involved in user interview/research to understand the underlying UI issues, information architecture, optimize task flow, look and feel, build prototypes, and conduct usability testing. You will be web UI expert who is aware of market trends and the latest Web 2.0 technologies. Responsibilities: * Researching and prioritizing user needs and requirements. * Designing UI that supports users’ goals and behaviors. * Conducting usability testing on the design. * Communicate research/testing finding, pros and cons of design logic to stakeholders. * UI consultations. * Advocate concepts and ideas from users’ perspective among stakeholders. * Develop the HTML / CSS / JavaScript used throughout EdgeControl. * Enhance and maintain the EdgeControl style sheet and style-related JavaScript files. * Work directly with developers to solve HTML / CSS / JavaScript issues. * Ensure that the EdgeControl look & feel matches the Akamai brand * Minimum of 5 years in UI design / development * Knowledge of current UI design best practice. * Ability to work with stakeholders from different departments carrying different perspectives and considerations. * Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills; ability to organize and present information on screen and verbally with a team * Ability to create simple, clear and elegant UI for complex applications to increase communication efficiency and enhance user experience. * Expert HTML, CSS skills. Good understanding of JavaScript. AJAX experiences a plus. * Visual design skills a plus. * Attention to detail * Demonstrated portfolio of work required. Contact us! If you're excited by Akamai and all that we can offer you, please apply to the link below. Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer (M/F/D/V) that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. If interested, please apply online at http://track.jobviper.com/ViewJob.asp?id=493168-3-863 Company: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Location: US-CA-San MateoJob Category: IT/Software DevelopmentCareer Level: Experienced (Non-Manager) Company: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Reference Code: 2070a