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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.