Senior User Interface Designer
Description
Overview:
Join our innovative Creative Lab to help design
and maintain the brand, as well as conceptualize the direction of key
campaigns. You’ll work directly with UX specialists and developers to
deliver amazing design that is clean, creative and polished to further
evolve the Esri brand.
Our
Creative Lab is a small, stealth team of designers, writers, and
strategists, working closely with the Executive Creative Director. Our
job is to help promote Esri’s solutions, maps, apps, and incredible
geochicness around the world. We love bold ideas, big ideas, fun ideas,
smart ideas, and even challenging ideas. In other words, we love ideas.
Period.
Responsibilities
- Design highly innovative, refined web solutions from wireframes and creative briefs that are on target with the objectives.
- Collaborate
with marketing managers, developers, writers, and interactive teams to
develop groundbreaking design across a portfolio of Esri products
- Serve
as a brand steward, ensuring a consistency of site appearance via use
of style guides, style sheets and enforcement of established standards
and best practices
- Manage a large body of work in a fast-paced environment
- Stay up to date with new web design trends and technologies
- Serve as a resource and mentor to other members of the design team
Requirements:
- Bachelors of Fine Arts in graphic design, or a related design
discipline, with 7 to 10 years relevant experience specializing in
visual design for the web
- Killer online portfolio showcasing visual design for websites, mobile apps, microsites, landing pages, and e-blasts
- Excellent
ability to solve problems conceptually in collaboration with the entire
interactive team, including writers, user experience designers, and
developers
- Solid knowledge of the requirements of the creative
process including typical time and resources needed to produce with
efficiency quality work on time, and to specification
- Master level skills with design software, including, but not limited to Photoshop and Illustrator
- Outstanding written and communication skills to ensure internal clients and colleagues understand status of interactive projects
- Ability to lead and direct the design of an interactive project, from concept through to code
- Exceptional ability to present and “sell” creative ideas to influence decisions
- Extremely
well organized, able to think beyond what is asked for, and able to
multi-task projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced, often
evolving environment (even if it’s always sunny outside)
- Experience in responsive design is a BIG plus
Recommended qualifications
- Be personally motivated, a progressive thinker, and an all-around team player
- Keen knowledge of design trends
- Belief that all ideas are good (or at least worth considering)
Portfolio Submission
Please
include a link to your online portfolio or samples of your recent work.
Applications will not be considered complete without this.
BONUS POINTS: Tell us what inspires you—books, websites, movies, people, etc.
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