Description
Position: Graphic Designer
Type: Contract- 6 months
Location: Mountain View, CA 94043
Our client is seeking a Graphic Designer for a 6 month contract in Mountain View, CA. In this role, you will work closely with engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the product cycle. The ideal candidate will be a critical thinker with a good design sense, a strong user experience background, and an eye for making things better.
Client Description: Take this opportunity to consider joining one of the world's most successful organizations! They focus on innovation and smart business practices, and as they continue to grow, they are committed to retaining a small-company feel.
Responsibilities:
- Helping to define the user model and user interface for new and existing products and features
- Developing high level and/or detailed flows, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Gauging the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change
Requirements:
- Fluency in best practices for user-centered interface and interaction design
- A strong portfolio or work samples showcasing UX prowess, creativity, and depth of thought
- A clean design aesthetic, and a natural propensity towards simplification over complication
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex, often abstract, design concepts clearly and persuasively to both designers and non-designers
- Strong conceptual skills and attention to detail; a knack for interpreting loosely structured ideas and synthesizing/evolving them into a clean, cohesive, and captivating UX vision
- A keen acumen for user experience design and how visual design influences UI & interaction design (and vice versa)
- A strong sense of product ownership; thinking beyond the design itself to ensure the most optimal user-centric intersection between design, technology, business, and content
- DA general knowledge of how design impacts engineering and vice versa, along with a knack for constructing dynamic, interactive designs that are technically feasible/prudent
For immediate consideration please contact Tim Pape.
Synergis is a woman-owned company that serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years. For more information about Synergis, please visit the company website.
Synergis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.