Who: Webtrends
Position: Creative Director
Where: Seattle
What: Webtrends is looking for a talented Creative Director to join the Digital Intelligence Lab to help design and develop data visualization solutions that enable customers to understand the effectiveness of their digital presence.
The Creative Director position merges creative design and art direction to provide strategic guidance for clients and internal design resources. This includes developing compelling concepts for visualizing data, and establishing a methodology to ensure an efficient creative process. A qualified candidate must have fundamental understanding of the creative aesthetic, and the ability to design and/or implement across a variety of platforms and frameworks.
Ultimately, the Creative Director for the Digital Intelligence Lab is responsible for all aspects of the presentation layer design including creative strategy, UI/UX design, and management of creative resources to enable successful delivery of creative concepts.
Responsibilities:
- Design strategy for interactive projects, including but not limited to: input on the user experience, presentation layer requirements, and creative deliverables.
- Lead internal brainstorms with well-reasoned insights and executable concepts through inspiration, sketches and mock-ups.
- Develop wireframes and GUI designs for interactive projects that span mobile, tablet, web and large-scale installation.
- Ideally have some experience coding the execution of complex designs and interactions that reflect the creative and art direction provided within the established technical framework.
- Produce interim deliverables such as style guide components, technical specifications, browser and market analysis, prototypes, proofs of concept, etc.
- Be able to take initiative to research and learn emerging design trends and technologies.
Required Skills/Education:
- 5+ years of experience as an Art Director or Lead Designer for a digital agency and/or brand.
- Some experience hand-coding HTML(5), CSS(3) and other UI technologies.
- Highly proficient with Adobe Creative Suite.
- Design experience must be blended with a proven track record of interactive excellence including, but not limited to: wire-framing, user experience design and developing full-scale color comps.
- Proven ability to manage and execute against multiple projects, and work efficiently against tight deadlines; ability to stay on the edge of the latest technologies and trends in the interactive space.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with clients as a trusted advisor.
- Experience leading a team of highly creative design resources.
- Incumbent must pass background check
Desired Skills:
- Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to and create design specifications during implementation.
- Conceptual thinker who can navigate experimentation with control, visual problem solving, visual communication and visual narrative development.
- Able to leverage feedback from multiple stakeholders and arrive at effective design solutions.
- Must be ready to balance client’s goals and constraints with creative desires and opportunities.
- Works well as a team member on large accounts, understanding how a team operates and what is expected of the various roles on the project.
- Ideal candidates will also have effective writing skills for business and technical documents as they relate to creative work.
- Solution-oriented, proactive, and team spirited.
- Strong attention to detail.
Contact: Apply online
