The Interactive Web Designer will be responsible for design and development of HTML pages and content layout for website, advertising banners and landing pages. This person would work closely with the marketing, editorial, and product management teams. A strong design background and experience will allow the Interactive Web Designer to create high level mockups of user interfaces and interactions. Our client will provide an opportunity to showcase creativity, leadership skills, strong work ethic and passion for web design. The candidate will bring a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge in order to improve the usability and attractiveness of web-based resources.
This role will be split between two major initiatives: 50% of the role will be future product enhancements, redesigns, and improvements over current web experiences. The remaining 50% will be to manage day-to-day business needs for graphic requests and banner creation. Job Responsibilities: * Conceptualize and create intuitive, engaging, and brand-consistent user interfaces. * Function as the key designer for digital projects, banners, creating wireframes, concept mockups and creating a compelling visual design that supports the product requirements. * Provide thought-leadership on web design best practices and next-generation digital trends while maintaining a user-centered design focus. * Oversees the visual design of our e-news products. * Design of interactive materials, such as Flash products, layouts and animated sequences. * Ability to take direction and complete tasks quickly and efficiently. * Work effectively with marketing, editors and other creative/production team members. * Participate and collaborate in concept development and design ideation with business managers to help define an online creative strategy. * Provide design thought leadership to the company. * Creating and effectively arranging graphics, images and all other content into a creative, cohesive and visually-stimulating end-user experience. * Overseeing the maintenance of design standards, guidelines and best practices. * Handling all requests for web-ready images. This includes optimizing and repurposing existing images for the web and creating any other images requested of the team. * Help build brand identity, advise on marketing strategies, and provide overall web design support on a variety of projects. The ideal candidate will possess: * 3-5 years experience with web and/or interactive design, preferably at a major (high traffic) public web site. * Familiarity with Web 2.0 best-practices with supporting portfolio. * A solid understanding of typography, color, composition, hierarchy and how these elements work together to design solutions. * Exceptional conceptual thinker, able to create innovative designs that meet specific target audience, client, technology and product requirements. * Able to create front-end prototypes and mock ups. * Deadline-oriented, flexible, organized and able to handle multiple priorities. * Experience designing web applications, with a solid understanding of information design, user-interface best practices, and the constraints of designing for online products. * Thorough knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash & Dreamweaver. * Strong understanding of HTML and CSS. * Basic understanding of JavaScript and PHP. * Ability to execute projects accurately and quickly. * Excellent communication skills. To be considered, please submit your resume and/or portfolio along with your salary requirements to bg @ capitalmarketsp.com Beau Gould Executive Advisor Capital Markets Placement 718-598-1411 bg @ capitalmarketsp.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-JOB--Interactive-Web-Designer%2C-NYC-%7C-60-75k-tp20074991p20074991.html Sent from the ixda.org - discussion list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
