[Sigia-l] [JOB] Interactive Web Designer, NYC | 60-75k

[Beau Gould]

The Interactive Web Designer will be responsible for design and
development of HTML pages and content layout for website, advertising
banners and landing pages. This person would work closely with the
marketing, editorial, and product management teams. A strong design
background and experience will allow the Interactive Web Designer to
create high level mockups of user interfaces and interactions. Our
client will provide an opportunity to showcase creativity, leadership
skills, strong work ethic and passion for web design. The candidate will
bring a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge in
order to improve the usability and attractiveness of web-based
resources. 

This role will be split between two major initiatives: 50% of the role
will be future product enhancements, redesigns, and improvements over
current web experiences. The remaining 50% will be to manage day-to-day
business needs for graphic requests and banner creation. 

Job Responsibilities: 
* Conceptualize and create intuitive, engaging, and brand-consistent
user interfaces. 
* Function as the key designer for digital projects, banners, creating
wireframes, concept mockups and creating a compelling visual design that
supports the product requirements. 
* Provide thought-leadership on web design best practices and
next-generation digital trends while maintaining a user-centered design
focus. 
* Oversees the visual design of our e-news products. 
* Design of interactive materials, such as Flash products, layouts and
animated sequences. 
* Ability to take direction and complete tasks quickly and efficiently. 
* Work effectively with marketing, editors and other creative/production
team members. 
* Participate and collaborate in concept development and design ideation
with business managers to help define an online creative strategy. 
* Provide design thought leadership to the company. 
* Creating and effectively arranging graphics, images and all other
content into a creative, cohesive and visually-stimulating end-user
experience. 
* Overseeing the maintenance of design standards, guidelines and best
practices. 
* Handling all requests for web-ready images. This includes optimizing
and repurposing existing images for the web and creating any other
images requested of the team. 
* Help build brand identity, advise on marketing strategies, and provide
overall web design support on a variety of projects. 

The ideal candidate will possess: 
* 3-5 years experience with web and/or interactive design, preferably at
a major (high traffic) public web site. 
* Familiarity with Web 2.0 best-practices with supporting portfolio. 
* A solid understanding of typography, color, composition, hierarchy and
how these elements work together to design solutions. 
* Exceptional conceptual thinker, able to create innovative designs that
meet specific target audience, client, technology and product
requirements. 
* Able to create front-end prototypes and mock ups. 
* Deadline-oriented, flexible, organized and able to handle multiple
priorities. 
* Experience designing web applications, with a solid understanding of
information design, user-interface best practices, and the constraints
of designing for online products. 
* Thorough knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash &
Dreamweaver. 
* Strong understanding of HTML and CSS. 
* Basic understanding of JavaScript and PHP. 
* Ability to execute projects accurately and quickly. 
* Excellent communication skills. 
 
To be considered, please submit your resume and/or portfolio along with
your salary requirements to bg @ capitalmarketsp.com 

Beau Gould  
Executive Advisor 
Capital Markets Placement 
718-598-1411 
bg @ capitalmarketsp.com