Creative Director, Job Board  Role: Creative Director (1743)
Client: Major Job Board
Location: New York, NY
Type: Direct Hire
Overview:
The Hired Guns are seeking a Creative Director for our client, a major job board. Your design style is elegant, sophisticated, efficient, with a distinct point of view. You have designed for large-scale sites and/or software. And you are a naturally talented inspirational leader who will motivate and inspire the design team and the company as a whole.
Gun Profile:
To be seriously considered for this gig, you must have an outstanding portfolio working on well-known brands and major content and/or commerce experiences. Your designs must lead users through transaction paths that work in an intuitive fashion. Your portfolio demonstrates a command of industry-standard design tools and a track record of creating clear and useable – yet still beautiful – site interfaces. You’ve got a modern, clean aesthetic. You’re a risk-taker, an opinion-maker and an innovator.
And you’re no pixel pusher! You’re a critical thinker who stands up for your ideas. You think about problems holistically, and yet still synthesize ideas quickly. Information Architecture experience and training are a must. Hard skills with Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks), Flash, Ajax, HTML5, and CSS are nice to have, but what’s more imporatnt is that you understand web development technologies – their power as well as their limitations. Your team won’t be required to code, but you should know how far the technologies can be pushed (and push you will!).
You’re an inspiring mentor and manager to junior designers and a key player in the client-facing team, so great communication skills and impressive leadership abilities are a must. You’re a terrific collaborator, confident in your own talents while cognizant of the key roles played by others on the team.
Nitty-Gritty:
The number one requirement for this job is that you be a designer who has built large and complex products in the past. They could be large-scale e-commerce or social networking sites or even software. Your super power is that you can visualize massive amounts of data into a digestable human scale. You are a designer who lives for “flow” – you absolutely know how to move a user elegantly through a process. The ideal candidate will have designed a site from scratch or handled a massive relaunch. Constant evolution is inherent in your style.
In this role, you will translate wireframes and other requirements documents into first-class user experience designs. You and your team will also design functional user interfaces for all online properties and products. You will enforce and evolve the style guide. About 20% of your time will be dedicated to concepting and executing creative for the marketing department, including online DM campaigns, e-newsletters, Flash banners, and offline collateral. You will be the design lead, but you are very much expected to get your hands dirty and do some design yourself. You will be reporting to the head of UX, so fantastic IA skills are a must.
This company is hard-driving, filled with the kids who were top of their class. That means we need a real design visionary with similar initiative and incredibly high standards. Moreover, we want a fresh eye and boundless energy – somebody who can sit down and actively brainstorm to improve the product and move the needle aesthetically with features and functions.
Inside Skinny:
From your future boss: “This industry is incredibly challenging – the depths and complexities are interesting. And great design will help job seekers navigate emotional nuances in an important way. At the company, you will find a real drive and energy to succeed. And there is still a lot of room to shine and be a star. We reward innovation, drive and initiative.”
How to Apply:
Send your cover letter and resume to boardcreativedirector@thehiredguns.com. Be sure we get a link to your online portfolio. And it better rock.
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