Senior Visual Designer, Contract

As a Senior Designer, crafting creative concepts that translate visually is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team player—matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. In addition to creativity, keen attention to detail makes your work stellar.

In this role, you’ll design intuitive, system-driven experiences that scale across web and mobile, while pushing the boundaries of interaction and visual design. You’ll define long-term product strategy and contribute to the platform foundation that supports multiple customer journeys across a consumer design team.

This is a contract, hybrid role in our Calgary office.

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You Will:

• Design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.

• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.

• Manage projects with limited input from an Art Director.

• Guide and direct up to four designers with thorough delegation, follow-up, and mentorship.

• Rationalize solutions to project teams and clients.

• Balance creative with client business requirements.

• Design mood boards, storyboards, interactive page layouts, site grids and interface demos, photo retouches and enhancements, and animated GIFs.

• Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.

• Build and maintain a rapport with creative team, account managers, and project managers.

• Visualize and verbalize ideas to team and client.

You Have:

• 5+ years education and experience in design and interactive.

• Strong design portfolio across consumer mobile and web experiences.

• Developed and diverse communication skills.

• Ability to articulate creative ideas.

• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.

• A solid working knowledge of the latest versions of Mac OS, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

• Understanding of the strengths and limitations of After Effects, QuickTime, Director, and ImageReady, as well as information architecture and hierarchy.

• Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the Web.

• Illustration in both electronic and traditional media.

• Motion graphics experience for the Web and video a plus.