Description
Job Description
As Graphic Web Designer within Web Design team, you are responsible of creating and updating the interface of the company websites, their graphical content and other electronic communication.
You work in a team with other Web Designers for who you have a coaching role, and report to the Design Team Manager. You also work closely with internal and external partners specialized in Web design and electronic communication.
Your tasks are divided into four areas:
Daily design tasks:
*Checking completeness of briefings sent to you about design creation and updates;
*Critical analysing of briefings;
*Estimating mandays;
*Defining graphical recommendations (identity, typography, colors, composition, pictures, etc.) to be shared with internal partners;
*Designing creative proposals within deadlines set;
*Strictly controlling quality before publishing web pages in production.
Project development:
*Understanding of business requierements;
*Brainstorming in close collaboration with Creative expert, CMS expert, Web Designer and Design Team Manager;
*Translating the strategies and concepts in creative and innovative layout, making sure they comply with branding rules and CMS constraints;
*Sketching graphical briefings to be sent to internal partners (Web designers) and/or external partners (Web and Communication agencies);
*Designing creative proposals within deadlines set;
*Following up these projects, internally or externally (in agency), according to the methodologies used within the company and the Design Team.
Coaching:
*Following up team's members projects, being able to provide constructive, specific and intelligible feedback about work.
Expertise:
*Participating to the list of design business specifications for the medium and long-term Web design projects in close collaboration with Design Team Manager;
*Monitoring of websites pages and drawing up graphical improvement recommendation.
*Managing the collaboration with internal and external experts in the following fields:
oWeb design
oWeb portal management
oWeb publishing
oWeb usability and ergonomics;
oWeb metrics;
oIT
Skills/Profile
You must have:
*diploma in artistic or multimedia school;
*minimum of four years of experience in the web design field;
*high creativity;
*proven experience with Web Design tools (Fireworks, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash);
*knowledge of HTML;
*familiarity with CMS use
*usability and ergonomics approach;
*languages: Dutch, French and English.
You are an expert in, at least, four of the fields below, and want to improve your knowledge about the others:
*Identity development;
*Typography;
*Color management;
*Page composition;
*Photography;
*Web design trends;
*Web usability and ergonomics.
Personality/Values
*You are passionate about the possibilities offered by the Internet, of which you are an experienced daily user who stays abreast of the latest innovations;
*You are branding minded and able to respect guidelines;
*You are creative and able to sublimate branding guidelines in their web adaptation;
*You are meticulous and a stickler for detail and quality;
*You spontaneously adopt an approach which takes into account the end-user's experience;
*You enjoy working in a team;
*You speak with impact and promote collaboration;
*You are used to respect project management methodology;
*You are stress-resistant.