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User Sciences and Experience Research. Get it! USER

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Position Announcement: Senior Manager, User Sciences and Experience Research, IBM Almaden Research Center

The department of Computer Science (www.almaden.ibm.com/cs) at the IBM Almaden Research Center (www.almaden.ibm.com) seeks candidates for Senior Manager of the User Sciences and Experience Research (USER) group. Almaden’s USER group consists of 30 scientists and engineers. Current areas of research include activity-centric computing and collaborative work, new forms of interfaces and healthcare IT interaction, social and relationship-oriented systems, user interface development for large and complex data management systems, intelligent and social scripting interfaces, next-generation email systems, new content protection technologies, and new personal computer system security, backup, and restore techniques.

The Senior Manager must have the passion and leadership skills essential for maximum impact in industrial research. We aim to advance both IBM’s
future capabilities and markets as well as the scientific fields. Responsibilities include enhancing the department’s reputation, finding routes to market for research ideas and results, representing the department to the IBM company and its customers, advancing the department members’ careers, and motivating them to excel in their work. The successful candidate should have demonstrated success or potential in these areas. The ideal candidate would possess a deep understanding of the human-computer interaction research area.

Please contact search committee member Tom Moran and Shumin Zhai or other members of IBM Almaden at CHI 2007 or send an email to (tpmoran@us.ibm.com, zhai@us.ibm.com) if you are interested or would like to make a recommendation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

The IBM Research Division conducts scientific research and develops technologies and processes for use with IBM Products and customer applications. IBM Research has produced leading contributions to the technology underlying IBM’s product portfolio, as well as to the world of science and the entire IT industry. For more information go to www.ibm.com/research