Interface Designer

Job Code: L365-770-09

 

About Live365:

The Live365 radio network reaches millions of listeners worldwide, offering greater breadth and depth of high-quality streaming music, talk, and audio than any other network. Featuring 260+ genres of music produced by 5,000+ broadcasters and music tastemakers from over 150 countries, the network boasts a roster of artists and radio producers ranging from the Atlanta Symphony, Pat Metheny, David Navarro, and Carlos Santana, to commercial and public radio stations, to individual DJs who program stations in every musical style. In short, Live365 is programmed by real people with a deep passion for music.

Live365's end-to-end broadcast platform empowers individuals and organizations alike by giving them a "voice" to reach audiences around the globe. Through easy-to-use tools and services as well as royalty coverage, anyone with a computer and Internet connection can create his or her own Internet radio station and reach a global audience with minimal cost and effort.

Led by a small, dedicated team of talented individuals, Live365 has succeeded in a highly competitive market thanks to a diversified business model that includes listener subscriptions, broadcasting subscriptions, and advertising revenues. Live365 has broadcast continuously since 1999, survived the .com collapse, and is expanding. Working for Live365 means having a voice in the company's decisions and a chance to have impacts on its performance. You will also be a part of a community that has a real mission-giving a voice to the individual and providing a venue for all kinds of music and audio content, not just "commercially viable" artists and genres.

Live365 is a founding board member of the Digital Media Association (DiMA), and a member of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS). Based in Silicon Valley, Live365 pays royalties to labels, artists, songwriters, and publishers through established royalty collection organizations including ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SoundExchange.

 

Responsibilities:

The responsibilities for this position include assisting the Director of Product Design in all facets of product management and development including market research, competitive analysis, spec writing, user choreography wireframes, concept testing, beta testing, launch, and post launch evaluation.

Some day-to-day activities would include:

  • Working with the product-line managers to understand target markets
  • Supporting new product development efforts for existing and proposed products and services through data analysis, market research, and competitive analyses
  • Developing a product vision to help accomplish company business objectives
  • Working with cross-functional teams from marketing, business development, engineering, QA, and technical support to refine the product vision
  • Documenting vision, scope and product requirements
  • Creating user-choreography wireframes/storyboards
  • Managing the product development process and coordinate meetings and decisions as needed
  • Assisting in developing prototypes and user interface designs
  • Running beta tests and gathering customer feedback
  • Prioritizing features, enhancements, bugs, and make trade-off decisions

 

Skills:
  • Strong experience designing and managing consumer-oriented as well as business-to-business products
  • Strong understanding Web design process and familiarity with Web 2.0 and current technologies (Mobile a plus)
  • Excellent communication, facilitation and project management skills
  • Ability to make sound product design decisions based on internal (business) and external (customer) requirements
  • Ability to understand customer experience and impact of user interface design
  • Ability to document vision and workflow clearly for web and development engineers
  • Ability to write technical specifications
  • Ability to create user-choreography wireframes and storyboards (PowerPoint, Illustrator, or similar)
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Team-oriented, willing to work hard

 

Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 2 years of user interface design/product management experience
  • Track record of successfully defining and managing consumer-oriented products throughout the entire product life cycle
  • Experience writing MRDs and PRDs
  • Experience creating user-choreography wireframes and storyboards
  • Experience successfully managing beta and QA releases
  • Experience in online music or entertainment is preferable
  • Engineering background/experience is a plus

 

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

 

Benefits:
  • 401(k)
  • Medical, dental, vision coverage
  • 3 weeks PTO
  • 10 Paid Holidays

Please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@live365.com or fax to (650) 345-7497. Please indicate the job title and job code in the subject line of your email or fax. Thank you.