Mobile User Interface Designer

Who are we?

We’re a start-up in Downtown San Francisco building social media mobile applications already used by thousands of users.

Please click on View Profile under our logo to see more about Seesmic.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for a lead designer for our Mobile applications team. Your number one priority will be to keep the user experience of our applications beautiful and seamless, across the different mobile platforms we support. You will be directing the visual appearance of all new features and enhancements of our mobile apps, with a strong
focus on simplicity and usability, from vision to final look & feel. This includes initiating, suggesting and spearheading UI re-factorings for a cleaner and more intuitive user experience.

We will only consider someone who has experience with and is passionate about mobile devices and applications, creative, able to work independently, and handle several high priority projects at once in a fast-paced team environment. Your ability to be creative and
resourceful in problem solving is important in this position.

Responsibilities

- Research user requirements
- Create detailed specifications for the engineering team to implement
- Support the engineering team during the implementation of your specifications
- Create design patterns and UI style guidelines
- Test usability of the user interface after implementation
- Articulate concepts and ideas through low and high-fidelity prototypes

Comprehensive package (including benefits) to be determined based on experience

Seesmic is the gateway to all your social services, no matter what platform you’re on at any moment. With several products covering desktop, web and mobile, Seesmic helps you build your community and manage your online presence.

Seesmic opened its doors on October 1st 2007 as a video conversation site. Founder Loic Le Meur hosted a daily show titled Seesmic du Jour where he showed the life of a CEO in a silicon valley startup.

In April of 2008, Seesmic acquired Twhirl, a desktop Twitter client with the intentions of integrating Seesmic video content with Twitter. Through progressive iterations of Twhirl, the opportunity to build communities through solely sharing video content expanded to enabling users to build their community through other social networks.

In March of 2009, Seesmic launched a scalable new product called Seesmic Desktop, which integrates both Twitter and Facebook. Seesmic Desktop has also integrated several tools and services from URL shorteners to image-sharing services. Seesmic Desktop allows you to manage several Twitter accounts, build groups (Userlists), create saved searches and utilize an anti-spam tool. This fully integrated tool, described as a “Bloomberg of Social Media”, Seesmic Desktop now allows users to help “Build Your Community,” which is currently Seesmic’s tagline.

In July of 2009, Seesmic launched the preview version of Seesmic Web, a web based version that allows you to: manage your Twitter stream in a Gmail-like interface; save your Twitter searches synchronized with your Twitter account; and hold threaded conversations in your direct messages (DM’s). Because it is browser-based, Seesmic Web allows you to manage your community in any web platform.

In April of 2010, Seesmic launched a preview release of Seesmic Desktop 2 (SD2). Based on Silverlight 4's powerful development platform, SD2 supports a plugin environment which lets you customize the client to fit your needs. Within the new platform, every feature, tool and social service (including Twitter and Facebook) can be integrated as a "plugin" within the application, which opens the platform to allow for complete social support. Included in the SD2 preview release was Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Social Wok and a number of cool features.

In May of 2010, Seesmic released its first generation of the iPhone app -featured in the App Store - allowing users to update and view multiple social networks in one efficient and powerful application customized to your needs. Seesmic also offers a Blackberry and an Android app, which is one of Gizmodo's top 10 Best android apps.

As a startup, life at the Seesmic office is always great, exciting and very fast paced. You can find a combination of employees from different background and cultures in the office, but depending on conferences or events, some may be out for a few days although online most of the time!

The Seesmic team is very talented and energetic, and each of us play a key role in the present - and the future - of the company. We thrive on diversity, collaboration, and team spirit.