Retail Website Graphic Designer

Our client's home delivery service in Seattle offers unique selection and incredible convenience to customers. Customers can order fresh produce, locally-sourced meat and seafood, dry goods, and non-grocery items, and then schedule their desired home delivery from the client's fleet of trucks. We're looking for an energetic, innovative, and customer-obsessed visual Web Designer with a background in retail websites to join this team.

We need a highly motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic person with a sense of humor and a sharp mind who works well under pressure and can thrive in an atmosphere of rapid development. Candidate must be comfortable working within existing style conventions and creating new ones where none exist. Must be able to work collaboratively as well as independently, bringing high standards and well-informed ideas to the table.

Successful candidates will provide a strong portfolio and demonstrate excellent web interface and visual design skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Collaborate with other designers as well as product management, development, and business teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, on-brand graphic solutions to build a superior customer experience.
- Produce sketches, graphics, templates, layouts, themes, typography, and visual standards for merchandising or promotions across the retail web process.
- Provide and manage design documentation, style guides, and specifications.
- Proactively manage own time and deadlines.
- Partner with marketing team to create relevant assets for site merchandising, banner ads, email campaigns, etc.
- Handle photography selection and photo editing/retouching.

WHAT YOU BRING

- Strong visual design aesthetic with a bias for simplification
- Capacity for creating fun, functional designs and layouts that are scalable and reusable
- Obsession with anticipating and advocating customer needs
- Strong foundation in user experience, technology, and business communication and the ability to present ideas eloquently and concisely
- Proven ability to work cross-team, lead the design process, and synthesize feedback and input from stakeholders
- Unwavering attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership
- Relentless desire for innovation, balanced by business needs and customer expectations
- Ability to quickly turn around detailed comps/mockups in an iterative environment
- Ability to work directly with highly technical teams and handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- At least one year experience in designing for retail web sites
- Design degree and/or 4-year college degree preferred
- Online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating excellent web interface and visual design skills
- Proficiency in the standard tools of the design trade, eg PhotoShop, Fireworks, Visio, Omnigraffle, Illustrator, Dreamweaver
- Fluency in English with a proven track record of presenting to business stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Strong portfolio work and interest in typography, including emerging standards such as webfonts
- HTML/CSS proficiency and standards knowledge as applies to presentation layer work (eg responsive layouts, rendered graphics vs. CSS techniques, etc.)
- Proofreading or copywriting experience
- Passion for design, web technologies, industry standards and trends