Visual Designer - Digital and UI

Visual Designer (Digital + UI)

San Francisco, CA 94103

Employment Type: Contract

Job Category: Experience Design

Is job remote?: Yes

Location: Remote
Duration: 7 months
Pay: ~$62.00/hr, DOE
 
The Planet Group is looking for a Visual Designer to join our well-known lifestyle brand technology client on a 7-month contract. This is a full-time, 40 hour per week role working a remote schedule.

The Visual Designer will craft beautiful experiences for the Client's global educational website. 

Responsibilities:   

• Lead the design for the website.
• Design new layouts with current page components and improve existing layouts.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design inspiring web and editorial content.
• Think and design laterally across key communications channels.
• Design at a systems level, where components can be re-used and built to scale, optimized across different screen sizes and devices.
• Single-handedly develop pixel-perfected graphic assets and images.
• Develop new content enablement educational templates and promotion assets to be used for scaled education, leveraging existing brand guidelines.
• Iterate quickly and communicate ideas across various levels of fidelity, with the ability to receive feedback constructively as well as provide feedback to others’ work.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners (Marketing, Engineering and Product Design), as well as within the Content Enablement team.
• Prototype out ideas within Figma for new concepts.
• Manage and prioritize multiple projects at once.

Visual Designer Qualifications:   

• 4+ years of industry experience.
• A portfolio showcasing strong digital and UI work and the parts you delivered.
• Experience with Figma, Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, and an understanding of Content Management Systems is a must.
• After Effects is a plus but not required.
• Strong editorial design skills.
• An eye for photography selection and combining imagery.
• Demonstrable experience in concepting and delivering complex design solutions.
• Exceptional attention to detail. You master craft, composition, imagery, typography, iconography and color.
• Talent for articulating ideas and for finding simple, impactful ways to explain complex topics.
• Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills.
• Experience working quickly and efficiently.
• On top of current cultural trends.