Work With 4ourth Mobile

Do you have the skills, interest and attitude to help 4ourth Mobile provide services to our clients? Read through, see if you agree (and have the skills) and maybe we can work together.

Philosophy

Open Needs

UX Designers

Multiple positions open and to be contracted starting in next few months. At this time, all positions are UX generalist, including IA, IxD, UI, VizD and some research. There may or may not be BAs, marketing graphics, or writers; UX has to work directly with developers to do this all. You will work with other UX team members, and assisted in understanding the industry, business, systems, and alredy-established UX design standards.

There are projects currently running and which will start soon, on the web, for mobile apps, and more.

Embedded and Industrial Systems UX Designer

Similar to the general UX designer, but also different. You will be the on-site representative for Corporate UX and 4ourth Mobile at this business unit office, and will regularly meet with project teams, work in engineering labs, and synch with remote UX designers to design solutions for websites, mobile apps, and machinery control panels for industrial and residential generators are related power systems.

There will also be an effort in 2016 to create standards for machine and electrical switchgear controls, both pushbutton and touchscreen control panels, as well as controls on app- and web-based remotes.

Desktop App Designer

Those who build and use Windows desktop apps are jealous of our good looking websites and mobile apps. First, we need to build standards for them, ideally with Windows Universal principles in mind; our users will increasingly be working with mobile devices, and mobile Windows Pro tablets and we want to exploit that. This is not (mostly) typical enterprise intranet stuff, but industrial and engineering tools for manufacturing, analysis and design. There are hundreds of these applications at this client, so much need for it. Position is expected but not yet contracted with client; you can help write the SOW and help define the role and results.

Usability Researcher/Assistant

We focus on products used in unusual places so do almost entirely ethnographic methods. Research is irregular, no more than about once a month now, so this is not a full-time job. Roles needed include planning, scheduling, test moderator, note taker. Fine with outsourcing tasks if you have a team at hand already.

Front End Developers

Requirements TBD, but if you are good at working with the UX team, interpreting standards, like to work with components and believe mobile is as important as desktop, give me a call.

Terms

4ourth Mobile gets contracts with clients to perform work, based on a rate and hours. For most of the above needs, you are not an employee, but an independent subcontractor of ours, performing work for hire.

Rate, and most everything, is negotiable.