Visual Designer

The Job

We’re looking for a visual designer with solid skills in graphic design and an excellent eye for typography, clean layout, purposeful color, and refined style. You must have a deep appreciation for simple, sleek, usable interfaces. Therefore, you must think strategically while executing with great attention to detail. You must have the ability to successfully collaborate with other designers, project managers, and engineers to develop innovative, user-friendly products designed to enhance our clients’ abilities to succeed. The ideal candidate for this position possesses a solid understanding of user-centered design principles, absolute comfort working with HTML and CSS, excellent visual design skills, great technical know-how, and proven expertise in designing for the web.

Absolute Requirements (no exceptions):

Minimum 3 years experience designing web-based products as a key member of a design team.
True leader, charismatic, communicator
Able to successfully articulate concepts/design rationale, all within a user-centered design process.
Able to work boldly with a strong development team, presenting ideas/designs effectively.
Must be self-motivated, able to manage competing priorities, and meet critical project deadlines.
Effective problem solver, able to come up with creative solutions and entertain alternative solutions.
Fluent in HTML and CSS with full knowledge of associated capabilities/ limitations.
Comfortable working with basic JavaScript
Comfortable working with source control systems such as SVN
Use Adobe Photoshop in your sleep

To be considered for this position, you will be required to:

1. Read this entire posting for without the following knowledge, your submission will not contain the necessary information and will thus, be deleted.
2. Provide a set of design mockups that shows your iterations for the progressive design of a web application.
3. Provide an accompanying explanation of how the design was conceptualized and the transitions undertaken to reach the final mockup.

Job Location

May reside anywhere in the U.S.

Type of Work

Contract-to-hire

Salary

Commensurate with Experience

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