Careers
Web / UI Designer
Design Department
ContactBased in Chico California, Design By Humans is a global ecommerce powerhouse with artwork created from over 15,000 diverse artists from over 180 countries around the world. In collaboration with our global network of artists and our new print on demand technology, Design By Humans is trailblazing a path for exponential growth with groundbreaking initiatives currently launching in Spring 2015. We are a unique team with a combination of top talent in ecommerce and operations and with ownership connections in licensing and the entertainment industry.
The local in-house Web/UI Designer will be responsible for creating graphically pleasing intuitive websites and user interfaces for Design By Humans, marketing campaigns, and other multi-media initiatives. The Web UI/Designer will be well versed on user interface principles and will be required to craft mockups based on knowledge and creative vision given by management. Using these core principles, the Web/UI designer will develop proper industry standard production code to bring the mockups to reality. Creative direction will be provided, but vision and execution is left for your inspired mind.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Work as a creative team to craft a world-class user experience
- Translate product requirements into engaging web/ui concepts
- Conceptualize and create intuitive, forward thinking, and brand-consistent websites and website functionality for Design By Humans initiatives
- Collaborate in concept development with managers and the web team to help define an online creative strategy
- Compose brand-consistent graphics for social media campaigns, mass mailers, website banners, and assets for search engine marketing campaigns
- Develop elegant HTML and CSS of finalized concepts
- High level knowledge of JavaScript, PHP, CSS, SVN, and MySQL to integrate with finalized concepts
- Create interactive prototypes using Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
This position requires that you have expert understanding and experience with:
- Standard design tools (e.g. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator)
- An interest in understanding and designing for markets around the world
- Proficiency using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create interactive prototypes, other prototyping skills
- Standard design UI principles
- Front end languages such as JQUERY, SASS, SMARTY, TWIG, BOOTSTRAP
- Using fonts with css to create scalable site icons
- Mobile UI experience is a plus
We'd like to meet you if you:
- Share the same obsession that we have for Design by Humans
- A passion for design, from high-level concept to pixel-level detail
- A desire to listen, learn, and grow professionally and personally
- Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing
- Work well independently and as part of a team
- Are able to set priorities and solve problems efficiently
Please send portfolio URL(s) as well as your resume.
This position is located beautiful downtown Chico, Ca which just made Outside Magazine's Best Towns list for 2011 coming in 15th of 19 great places in the country to live because of its recreational opportunities. A competitive salary will be offered commensurate with experience.
Contact Jeff Sierra at [email protected] with any questions or to submit a resume.