Job Description

Merkle is looking for an accomplished Sr. Visual Designer to join our Boston-based creative community. As a Sr. Visual Designer, you'll create designs that solve complex business and user problems using a human-centric approach. Reporting to the Creative Director, you will work daily with a team of visual designers, user experience designers, content strategists, and copywriters to establish design requirements and craft layouts and design system components while helping guide design assets from creation to development.

YOUR APPROACH

• You're collaborative and are open to feedback from others, no egos here
• You're process-driven and can pivot to other's ways of working easily
• You sweat the details and enjoy being in the weeds of the work
• You value the importance of over-communication 
• You're always willing to lend a hand to a teammate who needs direction or assistance
• You like to keep up with visual design trends, UI technologies, and design team workflows

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience or equivalent experience as a visual designer or product designer
• Background with UI composition, grid systems, typography color, iconography, use of photography
• Thorough communication and design rationale abilities 
• Experience with interaction design and usability/accessibility
• Proficiency and skills in design/prototyping software, such as Figma, Sketch, InVision and Zeplin
• Participation in creating and scaling design systems across responsive web and native apps
• Practice working with UX designers, business analysts, and front-end development teams
• Experience in Consumer Products, Retail, or Financial Services is a bonus
• Working knowledge of front-end architecture, motion graphics, and animation is a significant bonus

A PORTFOLIO ILLUSTRATING VISUAL DESIGN/UI EXAMPLES OF DIGITAL PRODUCTS, WEBSITES, AND SERVICES.

Additional Information

FOR INDIVIDUALS ASSIGNED TO AND/OR HIRED IN COLORADO, THE ANTICIPATED SALARY RANGE FOR THIS POSITION IS $70,000 - $90,000, WHICH IS BASED ON A WIDE RANGE OF FACTORS THAT INCLUDE RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND OTHER JOB-RELATED QUALIFICATIONS. PAY RANGES IN LOCATIONS OTHER THAN COLORADO MAY DIFFER BASED ON LABOR MARKET WAGE RATES IN THOSE LOCATIONS.  A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit https://dentsubenefitsplus.com/ 

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply. Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact recruiting@dentsuaegis.com if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.