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Our people ultimately determine LDS' success. Since 1990, LDS has developed a reputation for hiring people who are at the top of their respective fields, noted for their knowledge and thirst for learning more.
At LDS, we look for people that perform and inspire with:
- Professionalism
- Passion for ever-changing technologies
- Innovation, both technically and creatively
- Collaboration, among ourselves and with clients.
Our people are encouraged and enabled to expand their knowledge and grow their careers, surrounded by some of the sharpest minds in the industry and working on engagements that dramatically improve the way corporations in the world conduct their business.
LDS continues to grow and needs people with the knowledge and creativity to make a difference. If you meet these requirements, are ready to challenge your career, review the list of immediate openings below and submit your resume to recruiter@lds.com!
LDS provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. Travel to client sites, tradeshows and/or sales prospect locations may be required.
Who will this role appeal to?
Are you a seasoned consultant who...
- Is involved, as a project team leader, in championing the user perspective, from vision, strategy, and project execution?
- Takes pride in proposing and delivering designs -- often across multiple engagements -- that are innovative and implementable?
- Excels in advising and counseling clients on the user experience best practices in support of the overall business objectives?
- Wants to further develop innovative user experience methods, tools, intellectual capital and reusable assets that improve operational excellence and efficiency?
- Excels when working in a collaborative team environment, consulting with world-class organizations, and helping to lead the UX industry by being the best?
Then you have come to the right place, the "logical" place for your best career move!
Scope of this position
- This position is responsible for providing thought leadership and strategy within the User Experience practice as well as establishing long-term partner relationships with LDS clients.
- In preparing for this role, the candidate will have worked in a consulting environment for a minimum of seven years.
- The role requires an in-depth knowledge of user experience solutions as part of an overall business strategy in the B2E environment.
- This position reports to the Director, User Experience from a discipline perspective and to the Executive Sponsor from an engagement perspective.
Job Requirements
Technical Requirements:
- Consult with existing clients and support the acquisition of new clients by promoting the value of user research and information architecture in project and business development contexts.
- Lead and grow existing client relationships and account teams.
- Facilitate subject matter interviews and other structured information gathering sessions with executives and senior management in Global 1000 firms.
- Produce detailed user experience strategy documents in support of enterprise and process portal initiatives.
- Demonstrate success in developing user experience strategies and managing complex projects.
- Ability to innovate and structure complex solutions within the context of web and portal development.
- Proficiency with modeling processes, scenarios, business and workflow knowledge, functional requirements and design specifications
- Knowledge of enablers and constraints of technologies for web and portal development.
- Support business development initiatives through speaking engagements, webinars, and thought leadership collateral.
Consulting Requirements:
- Exceptional communication skills with executive and C-level constituents; presentation, facilitation, oral, written, listening and conflict resolution.
- Enthusiastic about assuming responsibility and accountability.
- Flair for evaluating alternatives and deciding on a plan of action.
- Adept at critical and creative thinking.
- Leadership abilities, across the client enterprise and in a multiple project environment, which influences clients, team members, and key stakeholders.
- Expert in planning and management of detail project plans and diverse teams.
- Experience with knowledge management, business transformation and change management.
Education:
- Master's degree -- Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Behavioral or Social Sciences, or related field preferred.
- Ph.D. a plus!
Location: Morristown, NJ or New York City
Travel: Travel to client sites expected (approximately 30%), trade shows and sales prospects as needed.
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Who will this role appeal to?
Are you a seasoned consultant who...
- Enjoys employing all aspects of the user experience -- from telling the user's story, to architecting the design to assessing adoption in post-launch?
- Wants to work for a company whose marketplace differentiator is its emphasis on the user experience from strategy through implementation?
- Has in-depth experience, knowledge and skills in user experience and a desire to create powerful, customized solutions for the Global 1000?
- Is committed to designing and developing innovative, effective solutions for complex business problems at the intersection of people, process and technology?
- Excels when working in a collaborative team environment, consulting with world-class organizations, and helping to lead the UX industry by being the best?
Then you have come to the right place, the "logical" place for your best career move!
Scope of this position
- This position will carry out user research and perform user analysis to create solution design, deployment, adoption planning and assessment.
- In preparing for this role, the candidate will have worked as a consultant for a minimum of five years within corporate environments.
- The role requires you to engage in projects are large, complex B2E applications and solutions and the user experience value proposition.
- The position reports to the Director, User Experience from a discipline perspective and the Project Manager from an engagement perspective.
Job Requirements
Technical Requirements:
- Apply focused user research, modeling and assessment techniques to discover and analyze business and user requirements.
- Use iterative design techniques to translate findings into a solid solution model, information architecture, and design.
- Plan and execute a range of user assessment methods and tools including contextual inquiries, iterative design based on user feedback, heuristic analysis, and participatory design exercises.
- Design and test low and high fidelity technology solution prototypes.
- Plan and execute assessment strategies to measure solution adoption in the form of desired behavioral and attitudinal outcomes: scenario analysis and survey design.
- Consult with clients, team members, stakeholders and internal leadership.
- Continuously improve on user experience methods, tools, intellectual capital and reusable assets that improve our methodology and sustain our competitive advantage.
Consulting Requirements:
- Assume responsibility, accountability.
- Think critically and creatively.
- Have exceptional communication skills: presentation, facilitation, oral, written, listening and conflict resolution.
- Organize and lead teams in accordance with established project initiatives and be able to quickly evaluate alternatives.
- Exhibit project leadership that effects influence with clients, team members, stakeholders and LDS leadership for successful outcomes.
Education:
- Minimum -- B.S. degree in Human-Computer Interaction.
- Masters degree preferred in Human-Computer Interaction, behavioral and social sciences, interaction design, or related field.
Location: Morristown, NJ or New York City
Travel: Travel to client sites expected (approximately 30%), trade shows and sales prospects as needed.
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Who will this role appeal to?
Are you you a seasoned consultant who...
- Understands the value of creating a portal strategy that is aligned with the client's strategic business objectives?
- Is astute in navigating and negotiating consensus among business leaders who influence successful outcomes?
- Takes pride in engagement ownership and accountability -- across the client enterprise and in a multiple project environment?
- Provides thought leadership, innovation and management, as well as, determines the best practices necessary for resolving complex business issues?
- Wants to create portal solutions leveraging the best practices of integrating user interface, business functionality and technical solution design perspectives?
- Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment, consulting with world-class organizations, and creating industry leadership by being the best?
Then you have come to the right place, the "logical" place for your best career move!
Scope of this position
- This position is responsible for providing thought leadership and strategy in portal analysis and design as well as establishing long-term partner relationships with LDS clients.
- In preparing for this position, the candidate will have worked in a consulting environment for a minimum of 7 - 10 years.
- The role requires in-depth knowledge of enterprise portal solutions and their business value proposition.
- This position reports to the VP, Analysis & Design from a discipline perspective and the Executive Sponsor from an engagement perspective.
Job Requirements
Technical Requirements:
- Consult with the client to establish the portal strategy, vision and governing principles for the client environment.
- Formulate client readiness assessments around technology, organizations and people.
- Facilitate executive and subject matter interviews and other structured information gathering sessions to provide structure to ill-defined and complex problems.
- Has documented success with developing a portal business strategy and managing complex transformation projects.
- Propose and deliver designs, across multiple releases, which can be implemented within constraints of time, budget, technology and client/LDS processes.
- Create and formulate frameworks and tools, designing solutions in accordance with the client's governing principles.
- Provide optimal analysis, business and functional modeling, and portal design articulation that will deliver the value promised to the client as designs are implemented.
- Deal comfortably with model processes, scenarios, business and workflow knowledge, functional requirements and design specifications.
Consulting Requirements:
- Exceptional communication skills with executive and C-level constituents; presentation, facilitation, oral, written, listening and conflict resolution.
- Enthusiastic about assuming responsibility and accountability.
- Flair for evaluating alternatives and deciding on a plan of action.
- Adept at critical and creative thinking.
- Leadership abilities, across the client enterprise and in a multiple project environment, which influences clients, team members, and key stakeholders.
- Expert in planning and management of detail project plans and diverse teams.
- Experience with knowledge management, business transformation and change management.
Education:
- Master's degree -- MBA, Computer Science, Psychology or related field.
Location: Morristown, NJ or New York City
Travel: Travel to client sites expected (approximately 30%), trade shows and sales prospects as needed.
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Who will this role appeal to?
Are you you an experienced consultant who...
- Can envision and design communication strategies that align with business objectives?
- Knows that delivering high quality employee and corporate communications can transform the way companies and their employees do business?
- Enjoys being "hands-on," providing creative communication that optimizes content to maximize its effectiveness in the online medium?
- Is excited by delivering communications solutions designed to help people work smarter and make better business decisions?
- Is inspired by working in a collaborative environment, consulting with world-class organizations, and helping to lead the portal industry by being the best?
Then you have come to the right place, the "logical" place for your best career move!
Scope of this position
- This position is responsible for developing, defining and implementing communication strategies and tactical deliverables for our client offerings.
- In preparing for this position, the candidate will have worked as a consultant for a minimum of 5 - 7 years
- The role requires knowledge of enterprise portals, intranet, and/or extranet solutions and their value proposition
- The position reports to the Director of Communications from a discipline perspective and the Project Manager from an engagement perspective.
Job Requirements
- Develop and define communications strategy for our client offerings
- Envision and design communications approaches that achieve business objectives, establish editorial style, placement and use of content throughout solution, create a personalization approach, etc.
- Define informational structure of enterprise portal and other e-business solutions, based on high-level business objectives, user needs and analysis of existing Web / portal / communications assets
- Collaborate with usability, business analysis and visual design disciplines to develop intuitive user interface that fulfills user needs and business objectives, with an eye towards optimal leveraging of content
- Create all content needed for solution, from section headings to system instructions to comprehensive business process wrappers
- Interface with the client throughout the project to present, review and update all content-related materials
- Support communication needs within LDS: advise/mentor communication team members as necessary; provide consultation as needed to other LDS staff; provide content/editorial support for marketing and other LDS projects, as needed
Consulting Requirements:
- Assume responsibility, accountability
- Think critically and creatively
- Display exceptional communication skills: presentation, facilitation, oral, written, listening and conflict resolution.
- Organize and lead teams in accordance with established project initiatives and be able to quickly evaluate alternatives
- Provide project leadership that effects influence with clients, team members, stakeholders and LDS leadership for successful outcomes.
Education:
- Minimum -- B.S. degree in English, Communications or related field.
- Masters degree preferred.
Location: Morristown, NJ or New York City
Travel: Travel to client sites expected (approximately 30%), trade shows and sales prospects as needed.
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