Web Experience Designer

The Web Experience Designer role is hands-on and creates graphic prototypes of site experiences and web-based applications and isn't shy of production support when necessary. While always keeping mindful the implications his/her designs have on technical development, the position will design visual human experiences utilizing user-centered design principles. The position will help shape corporate standards and will have a talent for consistently delivering strong creative concepts that meet specific goals as defined by internal customers. This role will support incremental changes and multiple iterations of designs to meet project needs. Must be intimately familiar with the design process and capable of justifying design approaches with strong backing. The position will interface with product owners, web developers and programmers to implement designs.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- B.A., B.FA. Or B.S. in Graphic Design or related field with 5+ years in professional design/web experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Strong portfolio of successful, large-scale web design projects
- Ability to translate ideas and ambiguous creative briefs into strong visual concepts for the Web and SAAS based products
- Brokers differences and conflict well
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment - agency background a plus
- Creative and strategic thinking skills
- Experience developing innovative, intuitive creative concepts and user workflows
- Strong presentation skills and ability to sell creative concepts
- Background in creating visual designs that meet cross browser compatibility targets, and understands technical implications of creative concepts
- Strong skills in chopping creative designs into optimized site graphics for Web Designers to build in HTML
- Expert background in the creative process including needs analysis and requirements gathering to site mapping, wire framing and creative development
- Strong focus on the user and passionate about the customer experience and usability
- Adapt quickly and effectively to changing requirements
- High level of self-motivation, innovation and imagination.
- Strong sense of teamwork and cooperation in a multi-state team environment

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED ON THE FOLLOWING:

- Adobe suite of design applications, including PhotoShop, Illustrator
- Cross-browser compatibility, primarily with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Safari, Firefox, Chrome
- Knowledge of XHTML, CSS, XML
- Experience with application design, wireframing, experience flows, and information architecture
- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
- Usability testing and persona development
- Adobe Acrobat Writer
- Macromedia
- Silverlight, Action Script and JavaScript a plus

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

- Work closely with product owners, web developers, writers, internal customers, and on occasion executive management to develop complete and creative interactive solutions.
- Creative Web design and implement corporate standards, type selections and visual treatments.
- Interpret changes to brand position into compelling creative concepts.
- Accountable for quality of design, strategic accuracy, and adherence to company goals.
- Stay abreast of industry trends in design philosophy and new tools and technologies.
- Create and pitch strong creative concepts.
- Communicate your vision and be able to defend your designs - you've should have a good reason why you picked a color, a font, an image, a layout - and not be hesitant to express your opinion, preference or recommendation.