Senior Visual Interaction Designer – Aquent Staffing – San Diego, CA

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Our client, an experience design agency specializing in UX, is looking for a Sr. Visual Interaction Designer with the passion to solve complex business problems through objective-based design. The Sr. Visual Interaction Designer’s job is to create beautiful and compelling interactive experiences, and is responsible for the full lifecycle of design. In this role, you will be ideating with the project team, developing original usability and design concepts, and participating in presentations to clients. This position requires a solid understanding of intuitive site functionality, site architecture, user interfaces and navigation. In addition to project work, we need someone who is a great communicator, team player, tactful diplomat and a skilled client partner all rolled into one.

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Client Description

Our client

• Has a retainer model so there is cash flow and a balance of client work.
• Has a culture where employees are more than just co-workers, they are friends. There are many out-of-office group events!
• Offers a “Betterment Bonus” of $1,500 to use to better yourself.
• Takes off early on every First Friday to do something fun as a group…go to the beach, go to museums, etc.

THEIR clients must be

1. Design minded (value design)

2. Have a good product/service that is impactful, it must be interesting and have an effect on people.

3. Their product/concept must be viable and they must have funding (work with a lot of start ups)

4. They hire good people and work with good people (no A-Holes!)

Required Qualifications

The Best Candidate will…

• Have significant experience creating highly-effective and beautiful user-focused interfaces across a variety of environments (mobile, web apps, dashboards, e-commerce, etc.)
• Lives, breathes, and sleeps the web. Every day, all day. You have to want to talk and think about it non-stop at the slightest provocation. You want to leave your mark on the evolution of the Web.
• Creates stunning visual design with a focus on micro interactions. You love details!
• Bends the Adobe Creative Suite to your will (particularly Photoshop, XD and Illustrator)
• Is a human newsfeed for all your friends. You’re always first to know of the latest news and trends. After all, your daily RSS feed is filled with the latest from FastCo, Medium, TechCrunch, Wired, The Next Web, and Smashing Magazine.
• Design and XD are your bread and butter. You get the big picture, but you understand that design is an iterative process and the beauty is in the details, micro interactions. As such, there shouldn’t be any blank stares when words like “agile” and “emotional design” are mentioned.
• Speaks in animated GIFs and internet memes. We come to work in sunglasses, shorts, and fuzzy animal slippers. End of story.
• Has experience planning and executing both redesigns as well as new-concept design projects, from start to finish.
• Has the ability to see and communicate your ideas to clients and the team.
• Design is well thought out, purposeful and has intent.