[Sigia-l] [JOB] UI Visual Designer to 150k - New York City

[OSJ]

This is a full time, on-site, salaried UI Visual Designer position located
in New York City paying 110,000 to 150,000 per year depending on experience
+ benefits. No telecommuting allowed. US Citizens or Green Card holders only
please. Local candidates preferred. Full job/client details shared with
qualified applicants. 

Our client is disrupting the global luxury industry by showcasing a new
lifestyle-product each day, hand selected by celebrity curators. Life is
crazy enough, so we’re helping people cut through the noise to bring them a
host of fashion, food, beauty, accessories, home décor, travel, and tech. 

Have you worked on/for luxury, high-end brands, in fashion or travel? In
this sector, if you've worked on e-com or retail experiences, or long-form
magazine editorial deliverables, and email, landing page and micro-site
designs. We want to hear from you if you can check off 2 or more of the
above. 

Responsibilities: 

* Own and design flows, experiences, storyboards and mockups of our UI
system from our consumer-facing site, our vendor-facing portal, and
marketing that are elegantly simple, consistent and scalable to accommodate
future features 
* Research to uncover best- or common-practices, analogous studies to work
out and validate designs 
* Work iteratively with the UX Architect, our Sr. Art Director, Product
Managers, and Engineering to nurture concepts and features from idea to
final product 
* Your turnaround time will be in terms of half-days for quick fixes to days
for research to weeks for larger scale projects. You will be busy 
* Be part of our build and QA process, working with our engineers and
product managers to push products live 
* Do it all over again, to improve features and products based on real-world
usage and business goals 
* Flesh-out, evolve and mature our current v1.0 visual and interaction
language and patterns, for at-a-glance understanding and overall joy 
* Passionate about icons that are restrained for recognizability, yet
distinct enough to convey our brand 
* Provide pixel-perfect production quality assets to front-end developers 

Requirements:

* 6+ years out of design school, 3+ years UI experience on e-comm, app and
marketing UI, in agency environments, or something close 
* You always put yourself in the users shoes, brains and heart, and can
easily imagine motivating them on their worst day 
* You know to get out from behind the desk and watch how the real world
accomplishes analogous tasks, or are motivated to engage in a product or
experience 
* You're good being the glue between Product and Engineering, translating
product ideas into concepts and designs that work 
* Detail-oriented and committed to creating great experiences, knowing
details and nuances matter, because you love shipping beautiful products 
* You're part UI, part Visual Designer, part Hollywood FX designer, part
Product Designer, and pure Magician, and you will balance feedback and
requirements from an equal number of stakeholders (marketing, content,
editorial, merchandizing, art and product) 
* Solves problems from an underlying sense of structure and metaphor to
guide decisions and promote site-wide consistency 
* Understanding of responsive design 
* Proficient in Illustrator, Photoshop and pen/paper/scissors prototyping
when necessary 
* Keeps sharp by keeping up with emerging trends, common practices in
design, tech and even high end fashion 
* Organized and able to share your ideas visually and verbally 

If you are interested in this job, please submit your resume, portfolio and
salary requirements to opensourcestaffing|AT|gmail.com 

Thank you, 
Beauregard Gould 
opensourcestaffing|AT|gmail.com 
http://osjobs.wordpress.com