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Visual Designer
at WhaleSkark Media in Austin, TX
WhaleShark Media was founded in 2007 and is the world's leading marketplace for coupons and deals. The company's websites connect consumers seeking savings with discounts from more than 100,000 top merchants, stores and retailers.
If you have visited any of WhaleShark’s many web properties, such as www.RetailMeNot.com, http://www.VoucherCodes.co.uk, www.Deals.com, www.Deals2Buy.com, www.CheapStingyBargains.com, www.CouponSeven.com and www.CouponShare.com, you’ll be familiar with what we do. WhaleShark Media’s mission is to help consumers save money and enjoy a hassle-free discount shopping experience.
You will be joining a fast-growing start-up with more than 100 million unique visitors who shop our deals sites every year.
Our culture is smart, collaborative and motivated. Our people are passionate about driving the business from vision to implementation to delivery, with measureable results.
Role:
WhaleShark Media is looking for a passionate visual designer, who will play a pivotal role in defining our online user experience, look, feel, brand identity and style.
The Visual Designer will work with a cross-functional team including Product, UX and Engineering to create and evolve the suite of RetailMeNot products and marketing initiatives. The position requires a laser-like customer focus, a passion for simple, well executed design and a solid understanding of online and mobile user experience.
The ideal candidate will possess:
• Significant experience with visual web design, with a consumer Internet company or web design consulting firm/agency.
• A tangible, well-grounded sense of interactive design with respect to creating simple, elegant, aesthetically pleasing interfaces based on usability principles while balancing these principles with a commercial orientation.
• A comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technology and best practices, with an awareness of implications on user-centered design.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the look and feel exploration, conceptual and visual development, and final execution of design directions for RetailMeNot.com
• Integrate company branding into a cohesive web environment
• Set style guide and visual design direction
• Ensure designs follow visual standards as well as enhance user experience
• Oversee design development as well as graphic production
• Oversee the creative design and execution of marketing initiatives alongside product launches
• Advise and recommend to the SVP, Product on design direction and provide solutions for product design projects
• Provide structure and recommendations in the process of developing market leading designs
• Work with a cross-functional team to design a world-class user experience online and on mobile by translating product requirements into engaging design concepts and simple interaction models
• Concept intuitive designs that promote usability and optimize the user experience of our products and features
• Work with the cross-functional team to A/B test design variations to optimize the KPIs important to the business
• Initiate, drive and present design study results and make actionable research-based recommendations to inform future work
Requirements:
• 3-5 years creative experience in consumer web design with emphasis on user experience and branding
• Expert knowledge of tools and applications such as Adobe Creative Suite, Flash and CSS/HTML
• Understands the importance of web site performance and is motivated to design for extreme optimization and UX
• Well versed in design fundamentals including composition, color theory, typography, concept development and motion design
• Understands information architecture, user interface essentials, interaction design, brand image management and style guide creation
• Strong knowledge of user-interface and information architecture principles and how to design web sites with complex information or functionality
• A deep understanding of how basic design principles are applied to the web
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; equally at ease speaking with development teams or executives when articulating and advocating design concepts and rationale
• Proven ability to deliver high quality designs to customers/stakeholders in a collaborative environment
• Willing to work extended hours to meet deadlines when required
• Must be detail oriented
• Must be able to work independently and build strong relationships with functional team partners
• Strong interest in creating simple intuitive design concepts
• Expert HTML/Photoshop skills; Ajax/Flash/Flex proficiency a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field a plus
We offer competitive salaries, employee stock options and benefits and an opportunity to be an integral part of a company that eagerly pursues disruption in its space to continue to drive innovation and lead the competition.
If you are interested in our Visual Designer role, To respond, send a resume and portfolio (links to both are fine) to BDigby@whalesharkmedia.com.
If you have visited any of WhaleShark’s many web properties, such as www.RetailMeNot.com, http://www.VoucherCodes.co.uk, www.Deals.com, www.Deals2Buy.com, www.CheapStingyBargains.com, www.CouponSeven.com and www.CouponShare.com, you’ll be familiar with what we do. WhaleShark Media’s mission is to help consumers save money and enjoy a hassle-free discount shopping experience.
You will be joining a fast-growing start-up with more than 100 million unique visitors who shop our deals sites every year.
Our culture is smart, collaborative and motivated. Our people are passionate about driving the business from vision to implementation to delivery, with measureable results.
Role:
WhaleShark Media is looking for a passionate visual designer, who will play a pivotal role in defining our online user experience, look, feel, brand identity and style.
The Visual Designer will work with a cross-functional team including Product, UX and Engineering to create and evolve the suite of RetailMeNot products and marketing initiatives. The position requires a laser-like customer focus, a passion for simple, well executed design and a solid understanding of online and mobile user experience.
The ideal candidate will possess:
• Significant experience with visual web design, with a consumer Internet company or web design consulting firm/agency.
• A tangible, well-grounded sense of interactive design with respect to creating simple, elegant, aesthetically pleasing interfaces based on usability principles while balancing these principles with a commercial orientation.
• A comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technology and best practices, with an awareness of implications on user-centered design.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the look and feel exploration, conceptual and visual development, and final execution of design directions for RetailMeNot.com
• Integrate company branding into a cohesive web environment
• Set style guide and visual design direction
• Ensure designs follow visual standards as well as enhance user experience
• Oversee design development as well as graphic production
• Oversee the creative design and execution of marketing initiatives alongside product launches
• Advise and recommend to the SVP, Product on design direction and provide solutions for product design projects
• Provide structure and recommendations in the process of developing market leading designs
• Work with a cross-functional team to design a world-class user experience online and on mobile by translating product requirements into engaging design concepts and simple interaction models
• Concept intuitive designs that promote usability and optimize the user experience of our products and features
• Work with the cross-functional team to A/B test design variations to optimize the KPIs important to the business
• Initiate, drive and present design study results and make actionable research-based recommendations to inform future work
Requirements:
• 3-5 years creative experience in consumer web design with emphasis on user experience and branding
• Expert knowledge of tools and applications such as Adobe Creative Suite, Flash and CSS/HTML
• Understands the importance of web site performance and is motivated to design for extreme optimization and UX
• Well versed in design fundamentals including composition, color theory, typography, concept development and motion design
• Understands information architecture, user interface essentials, interaction design, brand image management and style guide creation
• Strong knowledge of user-interface and information architecture principles and how to design web sites with complex information or functionality
• A deep understanding of how basic design principles are applied to the web
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; equally at ease speaking with development teams or executives when articulating and advocating design concepts and rationale
• Proven ability to deliver high quality designs to customers/stakeholders in a collaborative environment
• Willing to work extended hours to meet deadlines when required
• Must be detail oriented
• Must be able to work independently and build strong relationships with functional team partners
• Strong interest in creating simple intuitive design concepts
• Expert HTML/Photoshop skills; Ajax/Flash/Flex proficiency a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field a plus
We offer competitive salaries, employee stock options and benefits and an opportunity to be an integral part of a company that eagerly pursues disruption in its space to continue to drive innovation and lead the competition.
If you are interested in our Visual Designer role, To respond, send a resume and portfolio (links to both are fine) to BDigby@whalesharkmedia.com.
Published on 30-09-2011