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).