WEB DESIGNER / ART DIRECTOR
Location: US, DC, Washington
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Art/Creative
Company profile: Interactive Strategies is a boutique digital agency whose strength lies in understanding the complex relationship that exists between strategy, design, content, usability, technology and marketing. By addressing each of these areas equally, we create meaningful web experiences that provide a measurable return for our clients. Each principal at Interactive Strategies comes from a large agency background where they helped shape online strategies for leading firms, including First USA/Bank One, DuPont, Accenture, Bacardi, Budget/Avis, Royal Caribbean, Ford and more. Now working together, each member of Interactive Strategies’ team is committed to providing superior client service and attention to detail.
Description: At Interactive Strategies, we're known for our deep strategic thinking and creating comprehensive web experiences than span across channels (web, mobile and social). We're always seeking to innovate -- not just for the sake of innovation, but to elevate the user experience and help our clients meet their important goals.We have some very exciting projects on the horizon and are looking add an experienced UI/UX Web Designer or Art Director to our design team.QUALITIES YOU POSSESSCreative. You come with imagination and fresh ideas; you create works of art that inspire and engage.Strategic. You deliver more than just great design; you craft elegant user experiences that meet our clients’ important goals.Innovative. You push boundaries and implement innovative techniques.Well-spoken. You can eloquently present your designs to clients and stand behind your ideas.Passionate. You love what you do and are looking to work on a team with that same passion.Curious. You’re constantly seeking out new techniques and approaches to advance your skills.Friendly. You’re a people person who enjoys collaborating and works well with others.YOUR SKILLSYou have been doing this for several years and can hit the ground running.You maintain your own website portfolio with a large collection of inspiring work samples.You have the ability to design in a variety of styles, and execute unique-yet-functional solutions to websites’ most common problems.You can create elegant mobile, responsive designs for phone and tablet sites.ANYTHING ELSE?In addition to your stellar design skills, we’d love for you to be great at something else. It doesn’t matter what; the important thing is that you can demonstrate that you are multi-dimensional.For example:Maybe you are also an information architect, great with OmniGraffle or Visio.Perhaps you are also a front-end developer that stays on top of all the latest techniques and technologies with HTML5, CSS3, etc.Maybe you can stand a site up on the back-end, working with Drupal or Wordpress, as well as PHP and MySQL.Heck, you might even be a great flash developer or a brilliant illustrator.WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM BEING ON OUR DESIGN TEAM?Our design team is highly integrated in our process. From day one, designers attend project kick-off meetings and are instrumental in developing the user experience. They are actually expected to interact and engage with clients to sell their designs and shape the feedback.Our goal is to constantly innovate. Many of our projects involve creating new types of user interactions for things that haven't quite been done before. This means moving into responsive and mobile design.Our designs are intended to help elevate our clients brands and be highly engaging -- while at the same time providing the best possible user experience. Both great design and great usability should happilily co-exist.WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM I.S.?Interactive Strategies is a collaborative, creative and fun place to work. We are more than just colleagues; we call each other “peeps” because we work together and stick together on projects and beyond. We’re looking for a new peep to join our team, offering a position where you will shine, your ideas will flourish and your career path is up to you. 
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