Lead Web Designer

In this role, you will lead the development of engaging web and interactive experiences for Localytics, in particular managing our corporate web site and our helping drive our overall brand identity. The ideal candidate must possess an advanced understanding of web technology and project management skills to manage our web entities and digital assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the planning, creation and implementation of our web experience for our core web site and other digital assets
• Interact closely with stakeholders across the entire company to plan and deliver customer-driven web experiences
• Help drive our over overall brand identity across all online and offline meda
• Leverage your graphic design skills to help create customer-facing materials
• Interact with external design and web agencies to create a unified web experience

Requirements

• Ideal candidate has 3-5 years of web and graphic design experience ideally in B2B technology marketing
• High-energy, creative problem solver with an extroverted, entrepreneurial attitude. Enthusiastic personality, self-starter with a proven ability to multi-task and work under pressure without a lot of supervision.
• Strong design portfolio demonstrating original designs with attention to detail
• Good knowledge of HTML & CSS
• Basic understanding of jQuery / JavaScript
• Experience working with content management systems, ideally WordPress and customizing themes, including knowledge of web fonts, typographical concepts and image optimization
• Ability to translate mockups into functional HTML/CSS
• Understanding of Responsive Design
• Experience with Adobe Products (Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, and/or InDesign)
• Understanding of basic design concepts (spacing, sizing, flat design vs. shaded vs. realistic, denoting hierarchy of visual importance, etc.) and color concepts
• Basic understanding of user-centered design (how to define user stories, user goals, identify common tasks, build simple UIs)
• Strong communicator: written, verbal (one-on-one and group); ability to write and/or edit copy where necessary

Additional Information

• Reports to: Director, Content Strategy
• Department: Marketing
• Location: Boston, MA
• Education: Bachelor degree required

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