AllBusiness.com, a leading small business web site, is looking for a senior designer comfortable working at a fast pace on many different types of projects. This person must be motivated and detail oriented. Qualified candidates should have 5+ years of web site design experience, in particular with dynamically generated web sites. This person must also possess the ability to creatively envision and articulate the user experience and possess the core skills of information architecture, and user-centered design. The candidate must be able to solicit and gather objectives and requirements and develop web system development artifacts such as user needs assessments, navigational structures and flow, wire frames, and typical IA / UE deliverables.
This individual must be able to take direction and work across departments with mid- to senior-level business managers. In addition, the candidate should be comfortable presenting to business executives.
The Sr. Designer will be an expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. He or she will be comfortable driving the design direction and collaborating with product managers and programmers to create the best possible creative concepts and solutions. Candidates should have a minimum of 5+ years' experience working in a design capacity at a web agency, software company, or other web-based business.
This is a 4-5 month contract that could develop into a full time position.
Responsibilities
• Designs and implements solutions within the context of high-level design, business, and user requirements and constraints based on business and functional requirements, audience needs, and tasks.
• Creates and delivers design layouts, production-ready art, specifications, and other deliverables as necessary to engineering and production teams.
• Develops creative solutions for a wide range of projects across a broad range of media including web, print, and interactive media.
• Establishes “look and feel,” navigation schemes, and layouts for everything interactive: web, banners, popups, landing pages, email campaigns, etc.
• Responsible for overall creative quality.
• Develops design and style guidelines.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in fine arts or graphic design.
• Familiarity with the technological abilities and limitations of dynamically generated web sites.
• Prior experience in the design and development of large, content-heavy websites.
• Familiarity with CMS applications and the ability to understand and translate technical requirements into effective design solutions.
• Excellent communications skills and organized.
• Hands-on experience developing designs for the web with a minimum of 5 years experience working in a design capacity at a web agency, software company, or other web-based business.
• Familiarity with HCI.
• Extensive knowledge of web design fundamentals including user-centered design, information design, visual design, and industry UI standards; must have knowledge of current usability standards and online best user experience practices.
• Understanding of user research, web metrics, and software/web processes.
• Expert hands-on knowledge of design and web production tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, CSS).
• Solid understanding of typography, photography, and illustration.
• Expertise in several of the following areas: advertising, collateral, identity, interactive design, direct marketing/e-marketing.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, estimate/manage time accurately and effectively, and consistently meet deadlines.
About AllBusiness.com
AllBusiness.com (www.AllBusiness.com) operates one of the premier sites on the Web for small businesses. The site has received critical acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Business 2.0, Fortune, and other publications as one of the best business sites on the Web. The site provides quality information, products, services, and solutions to small and growing businesses. Through the AllBusiness Web site, entrepreneurs, businesses, consultants, and business professionals are able to access a comprehensive set of information, directories, tools, forms, and services to start and grow a business, solve business problems, raise capital, enhance sales and marketing, obtain strategic advice, comparison shop, obtain discounts and leverage the business community. AllBusinesss.com is backed by one of the largest venture capital funds in the country and is conveniently headquartered in San Bruno, minutes from the San Francisco airport. Find out more at www.AllBusiness.com.
Send cover letters, resumes and a link to your portfolio via email:
jobsq1_2006@allbusiness.com
In the subject line, please write: "SR Des Contract - CL"
No calls please!
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