Why work at Wide Eye?

• Work on meaningful causes, campaigns, and organizations
• Opportunities to work with a highly-creative, award-winning team
• Potential for growth in the role and within the company
• Competitive salaries & benefits
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sabbatical starting at 6 years of service
• Work from home
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Potential to participate in the company 401k and profit-sharing plans
• Annual professional development budget

Responsibilities

Strategy & UX (50%)

• Contributes to and leads the development of strategy deliverables including workshops, briefs, personas, and audience, and brand engagement strategies.
• Contributes to and leads user research, tree tests, usability tests, and surveys.
• Designs clear user experiences by creating sitemaps, wireframes, and prototypes that are informed by user experience best practices, brand and content strategy, and audience needs.
• Collaborates with the Engineering team to create user-centered experiences that are achievable, accessible, and scalable.

Design & Production (40%)

• Creatively lead interactive projects and digital design system projects from start to finish—developing a clear design vision for a project, and communicating concepts and ideas to clients.
• Produce web mockups, style treatments, inner page designs, supplementary components, and project documentation for interactive client projects.
• Provides project guidance and advice to more junior designers and helps them hone their craft, presentation abilities, communication skills and strategic understanding.
• Work in partnership with Project Management and Engineers teams to oversee the final execution and delivery of digital deliverables, quality assurance, and ensure that they support all user-facing needs and goals.
• Push the company forward on overall trends in technology and design.
• Perform trainings with clients, as needed.
• Occasionally design and manage client brand assets (logos, style tiles, style guides, illustrations, email templates, social media graphics and online ads)

Secondary Responsibilities (10%)

• Seek opportunities for innovation, and to streamline and document our internal design process.
• Collaboratively with Creative Director(s), introduce new solutions to streamline our design process (including collaborations with third-party content strategists, researchers, and illustrators).
• Oversee and approve creative work produced by more junior designers and/or freelancers, providing guidance on design direction and process.
• Ability to manage a designer
• Contribute to case studies and Wide Eye social media.
• Exemplify user-centric design culture, values, and principles for the broader Wide Eye team.

Experience / Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years experience in interactive and digital brand design
• Strategic thinker as it relates to digital content strategy, content architecture, product design, websites, and user experiences
• Healthy understanding of nonprofit organizations and campaigns
• Ability to concept and create compelling and scalable design systems
• Demonstrated ability to turn data & insights into unique, creative solutions
• Demonstrated ability to lead and direct design thinking for a wide range of digital products
• Demonstrated ability to manage large content architectures with complex and content-rich websites and/or digital products
• Experience collaborating directly with engineers to build websites and/or digital products
• Knowledge of identity design, layout, and brand principles and techniques
• Strong team leadership skills
• Strong knowledge of responsive design and mobile UI
• Expert-level knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Ability to perform in a fast paced and high-impact work environment
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present work to executives and larger groups
• Highly-creative and resourceful
• Passion and pride in your work

Bonus Points

• Interest in progressive politics and progressive causes
• Knowledge of CSS, front-end preprocessors, and frameworks
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Experience with WordPress theme-ing

Annual salary: $95K-$120K plus benefits