Creative Web/UI Developer

Job Description
Cayan is looking for a Creative Web/UI Developer to join its Creative team! Please see job description below for the requirements. To apply for this position, please submit your resume to Colleen Prois cprois@cayan.com Please include a link to your portfolio.

IDEATION/COLLABORATION:

• Primary Cayan Interactive subject matter expert on the Creative team, providing leadership, brand direction, and creative oversight to marketing, creative, and other business partners on best practices for all website redesign updates and interactive marketing initiatives.
• Develop overall website usability, functionality, and design; including navigation, taxonomy, sitemap, and content optimization to increase time spent on site.
• Partner with copywriting, print design team, and marketing partners to provide strategic brainstorming and integrated campaign development for customers.
• Participate and collaborate in concept development and design ideation with business managers, and the marketing design team to help define an online creative strategy.
• Present and communicate proposed solutions clearly, diplomatically, and confidently.

DESIGN/UX :

• Lead visual and interactive designer for Cayan, responsible for creating engaging, user-friendly rich media and interactive experiences across all lines of business.
• Conceptualize and create intuitive, engaging, and brand-consistent campaigns for use in digital (web, email, landing pages, display) experiences.
• Overall email design and development – oversee template design and usability to optimization open and click through rate.
• Create designs that adhere to Cayan.com brand standards and style guides while leveraging best practices, industry trends and inspirational works.
• Communicate and sell design solutions to senior management and teammates, including engineers, product managers, partners, etc.

DEVELOPMENT/EXECUTION:

• Creation of strategic documentation, site maps, wireframes and usability testing for a full-site redesign.
• Ensure responsive designs reflow successfully across all platform types, work closely with engineers to maintain the integrity of the user experience.
• Responsible for coding and CMS integration, as well as the day-to-day management of web properties in Kentico, Marketo and Drupal.
• Manage work to strategy, scope and deadlines in fast-paced agile environment.
• Design and test email marketing campaigns, relying on best practices to achieve consistent user experience across various desktop and web email clients and platforms, creating branded templates for Marketo
• Create, update, maintain, and administer multiple websites using HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, and Flash.
• Understand browser compatibility issues, web standards and mobile web standards.
• Develop design standards and build HTML emails/invitations/newsletters.
• Analyze performance of web traffic and provide regular recommendations on enhancing conversion and campaign effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience designing compelling websites, emails, and landing pages at an agency or in-house corporation
• Proactive and deadline driven with ability to be highly team-oriented
• Experience with landing page development for Marketo or other marketing automation platforms
• Hands-on experience with CMS administration (preferably Kentico)
• Proficient in Adobe Photoshop , Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, and Acrobat
  
• Strong working knowledge of HTML5 with CSS3 skills
• Well-versed in design best practices, web standards, analytics, and technologies, and able to respond to user experience ( UX ) feedback
• Familiarity with JavaScript , jQuery , and Twitter Bootstrap framework
• Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, Communication, Web Design, Interactive Media, or related field from 4-year college or university preferred