Overview:

Designers at Storm Brain lead the design process from conception to completion for client work including identity, collateral, web, and campaign design. S/he will collaborate with stakeholders internally and externally to execute multiple projects simultaneously. In all his/her work, the Designer will ensure strategic, bold, thoughtful, and detail-oriented user experience design that solves client challenges to meet business outcomes.

Essential Functions:

Strategy and Collaboration

• Contribute to discovering and creating strategic solutions to client design challenges with a commitment to the underlying “why”
• Actively find solutions to design implementation within clients’ projects.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with other team members (i.e. developers, and content strategists) to achieve exceptional project outcomes.
• Clearly and confidently articulate your ideas and concepts to team members and clients.
• Solicit regular feedback to ensure the design strategy is aligned with other project stakeholders.
• Contribute to the creation of processes and procedures to increase productivity for the design workflow at Storm Brain as a whole.

Conceptualize and Produce Design Solutions

• Manage assigned design tasks and projects from start to finish, ensuring successful project completion against deadlines. This includes design, presentation of design, assignment of design to the development team and Q/A of that interactive design during implementation/launch.
• Approach projects and concept development with strategic creative thinking.
• Provide thoughtful design solutions after a thorough analysis of the problem and the audience you’re designing for.
• Translate client requests into functional, original design, ensuring quality and brand consistency along the way.
• Create highly effective and beautiful designs across a variety of media (including, but not limited to, web and interactive, print, mixed media, etc.)
• Leverage a strong understanding of use-cases, user flows, and information architecture through to all stages of design development and execution.
• Plan and execute re-designs as well as new-concept design projects from start to finish.
• Prioritize work on multiple projects while staying organized, meticulous, and motivated.

Always be Learning

• Know the current design landscape and be aware of new trends and technologies.
• Maintain working knowledge and proficiency of all relevant design technologies (including but not limited to Figma, Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, InDesign, and Edge Suite)
• Take initiative in learning and growing as a designer and as a team member.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of interactive/digital agencies or visual design experience/equivalent work experience.
• Passion for creating clean, usable designs that are compelling to users and must understand and be able to identify great designs appropriate for each client
• Excellent UX/UI design skills with a strong focus on typography and design
• Expert with industry-standard design software packages (Figma, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, and Sketch).
• Familiarity with HTML and CSS (Front-end development is a plus)
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven experience building brand systems (identity and/or web).
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively as well as independently.
• Excellent listening skills, with the ability to understand the needs of the client and the intended audience.
• Flexibility with schedule to meet client commitments.

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State Laws.

All job requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an “at-will” basis.