Senior Designer with Development Skills

Job Description

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If you’re looking for an opportunity with an established well-known company, but like to work in a small, dynamic, highly collaborative start-up style environment, then you’ve come to the right place!

Description:

We are seeking a talented full-time, Sr. Designer/Front-end Developer to design and code anything that’s thrown your way. 

A primary portion of the position will be ongoing homepage and landing page A/B tests for various products including mortgages, autos, education, free credit, personal loans, and many more. With hundreds of thousands of page views each week, one successful new homepage or landing page test could generate millions in annual revenue. That’s right. That’s the power, exposure and potential success you could have in this position.  

You will work closely with the senior creative team, copywriters, and project managers to create and deliver compelling design and development solutions.

Responsibilities:

Conceive and design an array of original homepages, landing pages, and webpage elements for ongoing testing of several products, while adhering to the growing brand and style guidelines.

Front-end develop your designs to be pixel perfect, while pushing the envelope with the latest coding trends, tricks, subtle animations, etc.

Maintain web standards and keep up-to-date with new technologies and advertising trends and formats (i.e. site responsiveness, size restrictions, mobile, web video, etc.)

Along with landing and homepages, other requests will inevitably come your way including interactive info graphics, acquisition emails, digital tradeshow displays, etc. - or whatever else might interest you

Brainstorm, concept, and collaborate with the Creative Team

Responsible for helping grow and overall shape the LendingTree brand

Work with internal customers to determine project goals and deliverable timeframes. 

Qualifications

Our Ideal Candidate:

Is a graduate from a 4-year school with a graphic design degree (or close equivalent) and over 5 years experience, including web design and front-end development

Has a portfolio of stellar web design and development to share with us that demonstrates excellent design principles, and problem solving through visual communication

Has excellent interpersonal skills and significant experience working cross functionally – should be able to collaborate closely with Marketing and Product peers as a key creative partner

Can understand business objectives and proactively contribute both strategic and design ideas

Interested in the analytics associated with the creatives you produce and test, to improve designs by making small but significant changes

Is able to work in a fast-paced team environment and juggle multiple projects at once

Can funnel constructive criticism into new ideas

Produces quick and dirty concepts for review before driving full speed ahead

Professional Knowledge:

Expert knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite

Expert knowledge in graphic design, layout, hierarchy, etc.

Expert knowledgeable in HTML/CSS/Javascript

Able to create clean and concise code and images to keep page load times fast

Experience using more modern web technologies such as SCSS/LESS

Experience with GIT, and resolving code conflicts or versioning issues in a quick and clean manner

Additional Information

To apply please follow this link:

https://hire.jobvite.com/j?aj=obxg0fwI&s=SmartRecruiters

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.