Jersey City
9 Months
Job Description:
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Participate in strategy and brainstorm sessions to understand user Behaviour, needs, and pain points including clients, to provide creative input, help articulate their vision, and define goals.
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Manage the schedule and update changes to “static” copy to ensure consistency with changes to the PA brand.
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Contribute wireframes, user flows, interaction prototypes, and other design specification materials. Work closely with developers to turn your designs into real products, prototype designs using wireframes & low-fidelity mockups. You’ll wireframe and prototype designs that address the project goals while staying within the requirements.
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Design compelling web, app, and email experiences. You’ll partner with our department managers to select a direction from the prototypes you create and then you’ll turn it into a high-fidelity design that you can hand off to the developer.
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Maintain brand consistency across all the agency’s portals (apps, websites, emails) and adhere to design guidelines.
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Plan and conduct usability testing sessions to gather user feedback and validate design decisions. Make necessary adjustments to improve usability.
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Partner with a front-end developer to bring your designs to life. You’ll work directly with a front-end developer to convert your designs into HTML, CSS, and Java script.
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Ability to design attractive, useable web pages and application UX mockups in Illustrator, Sketch, or the program of your choice.
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Experience wireframing & iterating on designs based on user feedback.
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Experience working with JavaScript, HTML, & CSS is helpful but not required.
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Design beautiful user interfaces, with a focus on native mobile.
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Promote best practices in UI, UX, and interaction design.
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Ensure brand consistency.
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Ability to execute against the current corporate design standards.
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Comfortable working in a dynamic, agile team-based environment.
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Collaboration and communication skills with the management, agile, creative, production and technical team members.
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Skills creating look and feel explorations sketches and mood boards, high and low fidelity mockups, and design work presentations.
Requirements:
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5+ years of experience in front-end-web development, web-based design and publishing, in a design studio or agency environment.
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Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, Master of Sketch and the Creative Suite, or MFA in graphic design, and 3 years professional experience.
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Experience in client services strongly preferred.
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Ability to explain and sell design decisions to clients and stakeholders.
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Experience building interactive and /or dynamic applications.
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A track record of consistently great work, and a portfolio to prove it.
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Proficient in Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign).
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Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch.
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Knowledge of HTML, mobile-first design/responsive web design. After Effects or motion design a plus.
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Ability to create wireframes and sitemaps.
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Ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, and prioritize your time based on team needs.
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On set photoshoot experience, knowledge of photography, and retouching a plus.
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Expertise in mobile responsive design / building responsive email templates.
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Strong UX and design sensibilities, and a desire to sweat the small stuff.
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Technical background with expertise in engineering principles and design patterns.
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Passionate about writing clean, modern, maintainable & highly performant code.
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Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems. Have a positive, collaborative, and solution-oriented approach.
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Experience with working in an Agile team.
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Experience with Typescript is a plus.