Overview
We’re looking for a visual designer to work with our advertising, marketing, and user interface teams. This person will work within the design team developing conceptual designs to share with business partners, designing visual assets for advertisers, business development and marketing teams, as well as contributing to the user interface of the main Digg site and associated sites.
Responsibilities
Take responsibility for developing all visual materials for our advertising, business development and marketing teams.
When pitching ideas to partners, we often require realistic comps that express ideas in a way the partner will understand. This designer must be able to take and translate feedback into further explorative concepts.
Examples of projects include advertising and sponsorships, visual prototypes of Digg integrations into other sites, graphic design to support events and presentations, and marketing efforts that appear on Digg and partner sites.
Projects will often result in static visual materials, but may also include semi- functioning html/css examples and print materials.
Assist the marketing team in designing convincing presentations.
Contribute design concepts for the main Digg site and other sites we manage, such as the weblog and Digg Labs. This work will largely focus on incorporating partner material and marketing objectives into the site, but may include broader feature development responsibilities.
Independently manage many concurrent projects.
Experience
Demonstrated strength in effectively working with external and internal clients on advertising and marketing projects.
4+ years experience in a design-specific role with pertinent work to the job description.
Strong communication skills and able to present ideas effectively to internal and external groups.
Experience translating advertising and marketing objectives into effective visual concepts and executions.
Creative problem solving abilities that balance great user experience with partner objectives and feedback.
CSS and XHTML skills as well as thorough knowledge of web standards.
Experience with Flash a plus (not required)
Experience with Subversion, PHP, and Javascript a plus (not required)
Interactive agency or position in interactive creative department at a company a major plus
A strong portfolio of work with an accompanying description of its strengths and its weaknesses