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Freelance Senior Visual Designer - Chicago

The Charles NYC

Freelance Senior Visual Designer - Chicago

New York, NY
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    As an in-house Freelance Senior Visual Designer at The Charles, you'll bring experience with large-scale projects in e-commerce, responsive design and production to our team, contributing to the development of project concepts and executing deliverables quickly and competently.

     

    Responsibilities

    — Developing compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives.

    — Contributing to the creation of design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.

    — Designing user experience storyboards, interactive page layouts, and site grids.

    — Constructing clean and organized creative deliverables that adhere to style guidelines.

    — Effectively participating in brainstorms and other idea-generating team sessions.

    — Guiding junior and mid-level designers to help them successfully execute their duties and to grow into world-class designers.

    — Support the Creative Director and Associate Creative Director and work closely with creative leadership to drive departmental objectives and client projects forward.

     

    Essential Skills | Experience Requirements

    — Bachelor degree is required.

    — Minimum of 3 years design and digital work experience, at least 1 of these in an agency environment.

    — A strong portfolio demonstrating a passion for design and skill in visual design across platforms.

    — A strong background in creative problem solving, strategic brainstorming, creative execution and production.

    — A strong understanding of interactive design, user interface design and communication design best practices.

    — An expert understanding of the fundamentals of information architecture, hierarchy, typography and layout.

    — Ability to think, respond and design quickly, maintaining attention to detail on multiple projects simultaneously.

    — Excellent organizational skills; an ability to multi-task and work efficiently under pressure with careful attention to detail.

    — The ability to both work autonomously and as part of a team, collaborating across disciplines and levels of experience.

    — A solid working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, Keynote, and familiarity After Effects (or another animation platform in order to quickly animate designs).