Visual Designer


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9th February 2018

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City Of London

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£350 - £400

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Contract

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Role: Visual Designer

Duration: 5 months

Location: London

Job description

Our clients Global Creative Services/Enterprise Messaging team are seeking a user-obsessed, Visual Designer to help build their new marketing website platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong visual design background with thorough knowledge of both user-centered design and traditional design principles. Your primary focus will be to develop visually compelling user interfaces that fit within our design system WEL - Web Experience Language. You will work closely with the back-end and front-end development teams to create and bring ideas to life with the goal to constantly push creative boundaries and create truly impactful experiences for our customers.

Responsibilities

* This role will involve some maintenance type design work (managing design system files, clean up work and validation that things are developed to design specifications)

* Create exceptional customer experiences and visuals that reinforce our brand guidelines as well as meet business goals and requirements

* Work with WEL Product Manager to create guidelines to ensure that our WEL (Web Experience Language) is being used consistently across the business

* Collaborate with both internal and external design teams to build upon the core platform/design system for our marketing websites. This includes:

* Design comps/layouts with existing components

* Create new components or component variations

* Ensure that new components adhere to the design system and new patterns are only introduced when necessary

* Take designs created by other teams and problem solve on how to bring those designs into our design system

* Sit with our developers who are based in London and validate that designs are developed to specifications and give design approvals necessary to keep development moving forward.

* Iterate and improve designs based on analytics, testing and data

Basic Qualifications

* 5+ years of experience as a visual designer

* Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent professional experience required

* Experience designing for web and mobile

* Knowledge of typographic, design and branding principles

* Experience with a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator

* Online portfolio or design samples demonstrating visual design skills and relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

* Thorough knowledge of user-centered design principles and traditional design principles

* Excellent problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations of ever evolving platforms and technology

* Strong organization skills and pixel-perfect attention to detail

* Ability to maintain high design standards in a lean, fast-paced environment

* Ability to work with a global team across many time zones

* Strong project management skills and ability to work independently

* Ability to work cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders and development teams

* Experience with brand/identity development and design systems

Please include a digital portfolio with your resume.

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