About Howcast

Howcast® empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. From (“How to Paint a Wall”), and (“How to Survive a Zombie Attack ”), Howcast streams tens of millions of videos every month across its multi-platform distribution network. With more than two million downloads across iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry phones, Howcast is the #1 mobile app for instructional content -- wherever you are.

In addition to creating a library of valuable how-to information, Howcast also offers an array of (“costom video solutions ”) for content providers, site publishers, and marketers. Launched in 2008, Howcast is led by a senior management team with backgrounds in traditional and new media, including alumni of Google, YouTube, Yahoo!, and NewsCorp, with offices in San Francisco and New York. To learn more, visit (“www.howcast.com”), and keep up with us on (“twitter”).

The Role

We are building products that provide a wide range of solutions, such as: building a high-traffic consumer destination site, making the creation of high-quality video more efficient, and building distribution and engagement via compelling and popular mobile applications. Among some of the things you will be responsible for:

• collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to design usable, innovative, and differentiating user interfaces
• leading new user interface designs through the full design and development cycle (including whiteboarding/brainstorming, wireframing, and delivering pixel-perfect designs)
• conceptualizing, articulating, and championing innovative design approaches and standards
• analyzing data that we get from our traffic base to propose and justify improvements to existing experiences.
Simply put, you will design and shape all of Howcast’s products.

What we’re looking for:

We are currently reviewing portfolios of qualified designers who can present a body of work that:

• exhibits stylistic breadth, pixel-perfect attention to detail, and balances beauty and innovation with usability
• displays a keen understanding of brands and branding, and how visual identity systems tie into the overall brand experience
• has a strong, demonstrated understanding for typography, color theory, and layout
• shows experience in working through complex design problems and providing sound strategic design solutions



Additionally, we are looking for candidates with the following:

• significant experience designing web-based products for consumer-oriented websites
• experience designing mobile applications for iOS
• thorough mastery of prototyping visual design concepts via Photoshop and Illustrator experience creating style and usability guidelines
• great team player who can act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, while making tradeoffs with team members to arrive at a better design
• an unhealthy obsession with design consistency across all of Howcast’s products
• ability to produce timely deliverables and manage multiple, shifting priorities
• a preoccupation with staying on top of -- and even ahead of -- web design trends and the latest techniques



Bonus points for:

• designing a website that attracts over 5M monthly unique users
• Android app design
• wildly popular iOS apps that live in the App Store
• flash animation and familiarity with ActionScript 2.0 or 3.0
• experience writing standards-compliant HTML markup, CSS, and Javascript



To Apply

Send resume with cover letter to jobs+ux@howcast.com.