Sr Visual Designer

Digital Operative, a an award-winning digital agency is looking for a Visual Designer to join our in-house team that is responsible for creating both beautiful and useful interfaces for brands in Outdoors, Active Lifestyle, Food, Endurance Sports, Fashion and CPG. You’ll be working alongside an experienced team of Strategists, UX, Marketers and Developers who are passionate about producing exceptional work. Our design methodology is user-centric and is more device agnostic than ever. We pride ourselves on creating solutions for our clients that balance Brand Storytelling & Selling. This is your chance to be part of an exciting and passionate team of DOers.

The Visual Designer will not only be passionate about producing great work, but also be a contributor to the design community. We’re looking for someone who isn’t afraid of collaboration with technology, marketing and strategist types. We are searching for a candidate who blends the best of design principles and branding into every project. Excellent eye for design, imaginative, well-organized, good-natured, flexible and passionate, you bring an advanced understanding of visual design, typography, composition and color theory. Besides a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Multi-Media Design (or a related field), you have the following:

Qualifications:
Minimum 3 + years design experience preferably in a digital agency, digital branding or ecommerce firm

Expert skills in Adobe Creative Suite and advanced command of standard design and layout applications (e.g. PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign) and HTML and style sheets

Strong understanding of user interface principles and usability practices

Strong understanding of current web standards and best practices

Excellent written and oral communication

Excellent interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, a sense of humor and the ability to thrive in a collaborative agency environment with multi-disciplinary teams.

Experience working one on one with clients, ability to communicate and present design concepts effectively

Self-motivated and ability to hit deadlines

Continuous thirst for creative experiences and knowledge that can be translated back to DO and keeps your ideas and perspective fresh

**applications submitted without a portfolio, website, blog etc will not be considered!

Responsibilities and skills required:
K nowledge HTML, CSS, Flash and/or Javascript

Experience with mobile and tablet user interfaces for iPhone and Android as well responsive web design

Ability to create and design mood boards, concept sketches, presentation decks or storyboards as needed

Expert at concepting with demonstrated competent knowledge of client’s business objectives, brand, consumer and competitive landscape to be able to articulate meaningful design ideas.

Understands the creative direction set forth for each project and develops work that supports that direction.

Ability to articulate creative concepts both internally and externally

Solid understanding of the digital landscape, especially ecommerce websites, immersive and personalized online experiences, online campaigns, social media and mobile.

Able to and contribute and maintain style guides/online design libraries to accompany final deliverables.

Researches and reviews suitable illustrations, photography or stock photos and sound.

Ability to work respectfully and collaboratively with other project team members, with a clear understanding of how a project team operates, their responsibilities throughout a project

Strong Digital Design Portfolio

Nice to haves:

• experience creating logos, branding, motion graphics and/or video