GUI Developer/Designer

The Company:
AvePoint, Inc. is a Jersey City, New Jersey, based enterprise software firm specializing in award winning infrastructure management solutions for the world’s most popular collaboration and content management platforms. The young company has experienced tremendous expansion in the past five years, with triple digit growth in both revenue and work force, and was recently ranked #96 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 – a list of the fastest growing technology firms in North America. With minority funding from Summit Partners, a software venture capital firm with $11 Billion in managed funds, AvePoint maintains one of the largest and most nimble research and development teams in the industry, and currently markets and sells its suite of software solutions through an expansive network of partners which includes IBM, NetApp, UNISYS, and Microsoft. AvePoint serves over five thousand enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies, via offices in Jersey City, San Jose, Chicago, Houston, and Washington D.C., USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; Munich, Germany; and Changchun, Dalian, China.

The Job:
AvePoint is currently seeking a creative Graphical User Interface (GUI) developer/designer. The GUI developer/designer maintains the knowledge of emerging technologies and serves as Product Development’s liaison to interdepartmental or interdivisional project initiatives. The successful candidate will design GUIs into visually compelling layouts with fluid navigation; adhere to enterprise GUI standards, and extend to business application requirements. This position also involves designing, prototyping and driving the implementation of screens for portals, or rich client interfaces.

Responsibilities for the position include, but are not limited to:
• Collaborate closely with a multi-disciplinary team of architects, product specialists, and development to help assess product requirements, create UI models, generate user task and interaction flows, document screen designs, and define user-interface interaction details
• Develop prototypes of designs, refining and changing them as needed, based on formal and informal usability tests
• Create flow charts of task flows and information architecture for the product features
• Establish a design pattern library to ensure consistency across the product
• Participate in the full lifecycle of product development, working with developers, testers, and product management
• Work closely with product management and marketing teams to understand the target-audience and market-place for new features

Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Design, Architecture, Product Design, or related field
• 3 to 5 years relevant development experience
• Strong skills with GUI design tools (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, or other comparable HTML editors, as well as Illustrator, PowerPoint, and other tools)
• Strong understanding of programming languages and development tools (including ASP, HTML, Java Script, Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation)
• Ability to create functional prototypes of web-based applications using Microsoft technologies
• Strong ability to intelligently analyze functional needs and collaborate with development and product management staff in order to design quality technical solutions
• Strong communication; analytical and interpersonal skills working with cross functional teams
• Familiarity with Sharepoint is a big plus
• Familiarity with usability testing methods

To learn more about AvePoint, please visit our web site at www.AvePoint.com