Senior Designer

Freelance Senior Designer

About

This role involves developing breakthrough creative concepts for interactive web-based marketing initiatives and product launches. You will work closely with creative and technical teams to deliver elegant design solutions for client homepages and other platforms, maintaining strong brand principles and systematic design rationale.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
• Design mood boards, storyboards, interactive page layouts, site grids, interface demos, photo retouching, and animated GIFs.
• Create original designs aligned with project goals, creative direction, and standards.
• Craft story-driven campaigns across multiple mediums.
• Distill complex asks into clear, elegant, and focused messaging.
• Create simple prototypes to convey preferred states, motion, and behaviors for interactive concepts.
• Collaborate with Art Directors, ACDs, and the project team to explore concepts and iterate on design layouts.
• Anticipate and solve potential design challenges.
• Build and maintain team rapport with the creative team, technology, account managers, producers, and the client.
• Visualize and verbalize ideas clearly to the team and the client.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant interactive design experience.
• Strong design portfolio demonstrating 2+ years of design and interactive work.
• Highly proficient in formal design elements: typography, layout, balance, hierarchy, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, and unity.
• Expert-level proficiency in Sketch and Photoshop, including intelligent file organization.
• Solid working knowledge of Mac OS, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Understanding of the strengths and limitations of Flash, After Effects, QuickTime, Director, and ImageReady.
• Understanding of front-end web and mobile development, including HTML, CSS, iOS, and other technologies.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across internal teams and with both creative and technical audiences.
• Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced creative workplace and deliver quality design at high volume in tight timeframes.
• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
• Ability to articulate creative ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Reliable judgment to recognize when work may be off track and initiative to collaborate with others to find solutions.
• Diligent, flexible, resourceful, and independent with a strong work ethic.
• Developed and diverse communication skills.