Freelance Visual Experience Designer
The ideal candidate gets to work in a high-collaboration, fast-paced, and result-driven environment. Applicants must have substantial experience informing designs through critical design thinking, and proven mastery over visual design principles and their application on a large-scale multi-device system.
Reporting to: Principal Product Designer
Experience: 5+ years
RemoteCritical selection criteria:
- Minimum 5 years of practical experience in visual designing following the user-centred design processes adhering to design principles, and human behaviour.
- Demonstrate expertise in VX strategy, high-fidelity interaction design.
- Rock-solid portfolio with Visual artefacts applying design thinking to B2B, B2E for web applications, and mobile devices.
- Exceptional story telling and stakeholder management skills.
You will work on:
- Innovate and deliver the visual experience by driving discussions and gaining strong insights into business goals, brand perception, product goals, and user expectations.
- Have exceptional attention to detail, create visual design strategies that represents the highest levels of quality (wow factor), efficiency, consistency, scalability, accessibility, following universal design principles.
- Execute and drive visual experiences for multiple projects working closely with the client, UX and UR experts.
- Present design decisions to the stakeholders that are backed up by strong experience and rationale.
- Create standards, style guides, and specification documents, that gets delivered to the customer. Coordinate with technology teams to bring designs to reality.
- Be highly proactive in managing communication at all levels, ensuring project deliverables are completed with high quality and delivered on time.
You will love the role if you have:
- 5+ years of experience in working successfully within interdisciplinary project teams and collaborating with business units, product managers, interaction designers, user researchers, content managers, and prototype engineers.
- Prefer candidates who hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree (BFA/MFA/BDes/Mdes/Applied Arts) in a visual design field, including graphic design, interaction design, illustration, Human-Computer Interaction or comparable design discipline.
- Proven mastery over visual design principles and their application on a large-scale multi-device system.
- Working knowledge of UCD methodology, information architecture, navigation models, and interaction design principles and how they impact visual experience design.
- Think high-level business as well as dive deep into a specific design challenge and come up with alternative solutions that are not only usable but also ‘wow’.
- Excellent interpersonal communication, management, negotiation, presentation and client relations skills. Ability to trigger business discussions with program managers, and CXOs.
- A clear and effective presentation style to inform and influence important design decisions and maintain credibility.
- Be organized showcase excellent time management skills and be highly detail-oriented.
