Web Designer (Internet Booking Engine)

Come Join The Team That Is Transforming The Travel Industry!

How did ITA Software become the leading software innovator in the airline industry? With great technology and great people! Every individual in our fast-growing company has a substantial impact on ITA Software's success. As we continue to greatly increase our staff, we are looking for talented people who thrive in a culture that is socially relaxed, yet hard-working and technically superlative.

ITA Software is looking for a top-notch web designer to help us build the next generation of airline web sites. Our Internet Booking Engine (IBE) will allow airlines to quickly deploy and integrate with our QPX low-fare search engine as well as their existing reservation system. New user interfaces will help consumers navigate the complex processes of finding, purchasing, and changing air travel.

We are looking for a web designer with expertise in developing elegant, usable and highly interactive web sites. Please submit a portfolio of some of your work or a link to web sites that you have developed as part of your application.


Responsibilities:
• Design the look and feel of the IBE web pages
• Design style sheets, graphics, buttons, controls etc. for the IBE web pages.
• Identify and analyze business and usability requirements for an airline web site, possibly in several different languages and targeting different locales.

Qualifications:
Most or all of the following:
• Web page design and development using HTML and CSS.
• Some experience with Javascript would be a plus.
• Graphic design, online or print.
• Exceptional attention to detail.

Knowledge and Skills:
• Experience in creating large, interactive web sites.
• Demonstrate exceptional design skills; take full responsibility for all phases of web site development and be comfortable with agile software development methodologies.
• Should be highly self-directed, a strong individual contributor, and a strong team player.


About ITA Software, Inc.:
ITA Software (www.itasoftware.com) is a leader in providing innovative information technology for the airline industry. ITA developed the industry’s most comprehensive airfare shopping system, which is used by leading travel companies including Aeroplan, Alaska Airlines, Alitalia, Continental Airlines, US Airways, Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz, Sidestep and others. ITA is currently building a completely new next-generation passenger reservation system with launch partner Air Canada. In 2007, ITA was named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal; received the Silver Economic Impact award from the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development; awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Vertical Market Software and received Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 award. Profitable for many years, ITA Software closed $100 million in equity financing in 2006 - noted as one the largest venture deals to be completed in the New England area over the past five years. ITA Software was founded by computer scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today the company employs over 400 employees and is based in Cambridge, Mass.

Location:
This position is for a full-time employee in Kendall Square, Cambridge. We are conveniently located near the Kendall Square T stop on the Red Line and provide free employee parking at the Kendall Square Cinema garage. No agencies please.

Benefits:
ITA Software offers a competitive salary, stock options, and a generous benefits package, which includes 100% paid monthly premiums for you and your family for medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance! ITA’s employees also take advantage of a commuter benefit (free parking or T-pass), tuition reimbursement, and professional development. For a complete list of benefits please visit http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/l_benefits.html?catid=3