Update 4/4/08:
View jobs on LinkedIn: Interaction Designer, Senior IxD, Lead IxD

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In the role you’ll design direct your team on their projects from inception to launch enabling them to best meet their user needs and business goals. As we evolve from a mostly static user interface on eBay to more rich and interactive experiences you should champion new front-end technologies (e.g. AJAX, Adobe Flex, MS Silverlight) and broaden the innovation possibilities for our user experiences.

You should identify and implement process improvements and design methodologies that would make the design group more efficient and effective. We expect you to mentor the designers on your team with the goal of enhancing their abilities and helping them achieve a fulfilling career path. Finally, we’re looking for someone who is active in the design community and who is looking to maintain or expand the current role they’re playing thru talks, conferences, and networking.

Contact me if you’d like more information.

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While Congress continues to try and protect our native workforce with legistration that severly limits the issuing of H-1B visas, I’m afraid it is not having the desired effect. From my perspective on the design industry, there are not enough workers in the US (or at least California) to fill the open positions. Therefore this law is protecting no-one.

The reality is that I have to find a way to get the work done on my team, I have no choice but to try and expand the amount of work I outsource to vendors offshore. Therefore no only is the work is no longer being done in the US but Congress is also not collecting payroll taxes on that work (since it is paid via expense money to an offshore company).

The restrictive H-1B laws seem to be a lose-lose situation for the US.

Update 8/22/07: The NY Times today ran a great story on how the best solution to the “reverse brain drain” is to grant high-tech workers permanent visas (or green cards).

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As you can tell from the above chart, the demand for Interaction Designers has actually reached an all time high since I started tracking this in 2003 at 113 open positions in March 2007. The shear number of open positions means that the supply is unable to meet the demand–causing designers to move between companies but no real progress.

Therefore if you’re a great designer and have always wanted to move to California, let me know… or contact any of the many firms seeking people like you. As a design community, I’d love to meet this demand and show the world what can be accomplished.

Update 4/19: David on Signal vs. Noise spotted a similar rise in competition for talent. His take on it is based on the rise of Recruiting Spam, which I frankly am also growing annoyed with as well.

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By joining our design team you’re sure to learn from some of the best in the industry.

Here’s what I’m looking for:

• 2 User Experience / UI Managers - One to head up the search team and another to head up the bidding, buying, and communications team. I’m seeking people with experience leading design teams.
• 5 4 UI Designers - Various levels from Associate to Senior who can join the Finding team focused on multi-faceted finding, interactive browse metaphors, and My eBay.
• 2 Visual Designers - Focused on our search products.
• 1 Content Manager - Focused on our search products.
• 1 Prototyper - Focused on our search products.
• Finally there are lots of other positions open across the wider UED team including a Principal Designer role.

Feel free to apply for any of these positions on eBaycareers.com. Also if you are studying design at a leading university, I’m open to inquires for summer internships.

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Here’s what I’m looking for:

• Sr. Information Architect / UI Designer
• UI Designer - Browsing and Search Experience
• UI Designer - Shopping Tools
• UI Designer - Bidding and Buying Process
• Manager, UI Design

Also within UED are following open roles:

• Sr. Manager, UI Design
• Principal UI Designer
• Lead UI Designer
• Sr. UI Designer | #2
• Principal Creative Designer
• Sr. Creative Designer
• Lead Quantitative User Researcher
• Sr. Content Manager
• Sr. Software Engineer
• Software Engineer

Update 4/25/07: See current positions open  or check eBaycareers.com

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You will design how eBay captures and structures seller metadata in a way that fits the mental model of our buyers. This includes eBay defined facets as well as seller created tags and values. A successful system will be well adopted by sellers and provide an engaging and relevant refinement mechnism for shoppers.

Job Requirements (on eBaycareers.com)

If you or someone you know fits the bill let me know.

Update 4/25/07: See current positions open 

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• eBay’s search engine and results page (how to guide our 168 million shoppers to 20 million items that change each week)
• eBay’s community-based content platform (e.g. Review & Guides)
• eBay’s Homepage and other Landing Pages

Update 3/28/06: I’ve filled these two positions but contact me if you’re still interested in design at eBay as we can always make room for the right person.

Update 4/25/07: See current positions open 

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I realized that the weekly BayCHI Job Bank email that I’ve received the past few years would be a great place to start. In graphing the jobs located in the Bay Area, you’ll notice an interesting trend (see graph below).

You’ll see that there is a sustained demand for UI Designers and User Experience Researchers that over the past year has gone unmet, creating scarcity.

Assuming this market is efficient we should see two things happen: increased wages offered by firms seeking to attract talent and over the long term an increase in supply (new employees enter the regional market).

Once again, I believe the firms over the next few years that can attract and retain top talent will be successful in achieving their business goals.

Update 4/25/07: I’m hiring, check my current open positions 

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