Careers

Interactive Art Director

We are looking for a Interactive Art Director to join our integrated advertising agency. If you are a passionate designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is interested in working with a team of creative partners to bring great ideas to life, we want to talk.

You should have extensive knowledge of and experience in information architecture and interactive design. You can work independently on assigned projects, or as a member of a project team. You are comfortable fulfilling layout assignments according to supplied strategic and creative direction from Art Directors. You will be entrusted to maintain the brand look, feel and experience across all assignments. You can juggle a high volume of work that requires collaboration. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential.

Job duites include:

• Create digital design concepts for websites, landing pages, microsites, email marketing, digital display ads, Flash media, mobile applications and style guides
• Provide general interactive technology and graphic design support for business development
• Create user experience (UX) for various major digital projects
• Develop storyboards and prototypes. Manipulate, resize and create custom images and graphics for the web

Qualifications include:

• 8 years experience working in Web Design, Web Development, Art, Advertising or other related field
• A keen design eye and ability to translate creative concepts into functional designs for interactive space
• An understanding of branding, brand development and creative concepting
• Extensive experience with user experience requirements, web navigation, web page layout, cross-platform issues, browser and platform compatibility and capability, animation, image compression, and size and speed issues
• The ability to produce production-ready, pixel-perfect graphics for the web and interactive media; basic understanding of video on the web
• A familiarity with web design/development processes, including process flow and agile development
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite and Omnigraffle, Axure, Visio or another UX software program.
• A passion for the latest technologies, standards and innovations in the web space
• Familiarity with web technologies such as HTML and tableless CSS layout, Javascript, ASP, coding for Facebook, HTML5, iOS, mobile design and Actionscript/Flash
• An ability to communicate clearly and effectively with team members and clients
• Organizational skills to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment within established timeframes
• Minimum 4 years working at ad agency (or similar environment)

Preferred but not required:

• Flash and HTML5 video Dynamically generated content
• Some knowledge of CMS systems (Drupl, Joomla, PageLime, WordPress)
• Graphic optimization skills for the web and mobile (sprites, image compression, vector image optimization)
• Create interactive elements using JavaScript and JavaScript libraries, preferably jQuery
• Build ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 timelines