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REMOTE Web Designer

Unicorn Wranglers
Full-time
Remote
United States

All qualified candidates: please provide links to portfolios and/or websites that demonstrate your prior work. These should be websites on which you personally contributed significant portions of the design (and/or development, if applicable).

We are looking for a UX-focused web designer who specializes in creating well-branded, visually impactful website wireframes and mockups. You will be responsible for planning and partially implementing the user experience for our clients’ websites.

This includes: planning user interactions, user animations, design, layout, user experience, site navigation, branding and overall frontend architecture for the website. Your creative work will serve as a visual aid to our clients and a blueprint for our website developers.


Responsibilities

  • Create visually appealing website wireframes / mockups
  • Sitemaps and site navigation maps
  • Provide detailed web animation and user interaction documentation for mockups
  • Insert and style content in content management systems such as WordPress
  • Create and modify graphics utilizing photo editing applications
  • Create and modify ads based on clients’ needs
  • Package and optimize image assets used in mockups for website developers
  • Audit design and user experience for a client’s website.


Requirements

  • 4+ years of web design experience
  • Demonstrable web design skills with a strong portfolio
  • Possession of creative flair, versatility, conceptual/visual ability and originality
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to interact, communicate and present ideas, as well as ability to take creative direction and critique
  • Knowledgeable of current industry-leading software and technologies (Sketch, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
  • Understanding of website user experience principles
  • Familiarity with content management systems (WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, etc.)
  • Ability to identify website conversion points and lead users to conversion with design.

Preferred Experience

  • Knowledge of front-end development languages (HTML5, CSS (SASS))
  • Previous experience working remotely
  • Previous agency experience