Visual Designer

Visual Designer

Visual Designers play an important role on our User Experience (UX) team, creating the visual expression of Yodle's properties including websites, functional web applications and mobile applications. Visual Designers collaborate openly with other members of the UX discipline, including Interaction Designers, Content Strategists, and Front-End Developers, as well as Product Managers, Technical Developers, and QA.

Great candidates for this role are enthusiastic about creating a visual design system for our entire range of properties. How do we use typography to communicate hierarchy of information? How do we use color to depict our brand and draw users' attention to certain elements? How do common elements across all Yodle websites and applications help shape our users' experience with Yodle?

Strong Visual Designers think not only about the way things look, but also how they work. In the case of designing a web application, they understand modern front-end web technologies like HTML 5 and CSS3 and how these tools can be used to improve the UX. In the case of designing a mobile experience, they think about the physical device at hand and how everything from aspect ratio to gesture-based inputs can affect the quality of the design solution. There are a million things to think about, and Visual Designers love to explore them.

Responsibilities
* Creating visual design deliverables such as concept sketches, layouts, and specifications
* Conducting effective meetings with project stakeholders to understand project requirements
* Collaborating effectively with UX team members, as well as other project stakeholders
* Establishing and documenting visual design standards for common usage across all Yodle applications

Qualifications
* Demonstrable experience designing marketing websites, web applications, and/or mobile experiences
* Strong portfolio of work showing a range of design styles
* Clear examples of work that show a design system - consistent use of templates, grid, typography, iconography, color, etc.
* Expert-level skill in Adobe CS5 for Mac OS
* Secondary UX skills in Interaction Design or Front-End Development are desired
* Experience with content management systems a plus
* Bachelor's degree in graphic design or a related field is preferred
* Experience creating visual design solutions for websites and/or web applications - mobile experience a plus

Benefits
* Competitive Pay - We know you're valuable.
* Great Work Environment - We keep things interesting.
* Health/Vision/Dental - We've got you covered.
* 401(k) Plans - Save for your future long after Yodle.
* 3 Weeks Vacation - Go get as tan as you like.
* Flex Accounts - Everyone likes saving money!
* Gym Membership - Work out for less.
* Free Food - Enjoy our fully stocked kitchen.
* Collaboration - Give and take within a smart team.

 

Date: 8/23/2012
Department: Product and Marketing
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Country: USA, State: New York, City: New York, Company: Yodle.