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Lead Visual Designer - Fulltime

Job title: Lead Visual Designer - Fulltime
Contract type: Full-time
Discipline:
Remote: No
Reference: 402257
Contact name: Melanie Kreiter

Job description

Our healthcare client, located in Chicago, is looking to add a Lead Visual Designer to their growing digital team on a fulltime basis! This role is set to start ASAP. 

In this role, you will help create useful and desirable web and mobile applications for the design systems. As a  Visual Design Lead you lead, consult, or manage multiple user experience as well as work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized business domains.

The Lead Visual Designer will: 

  • Work with interaction designers and user interface developers to design the visual aspects of product user interfaces
  • Contribute to a visual and interaction design system used across software products
  • Communicate designs via wireframes, prototypes, guidelines, specifications, presentations and discussion
  • Participate in discussions relative to the future direction of design and user experience for the industrial internet of things
  • Participate in team discussions about current user experience design projects
  • Research and evaluate emerging design, technology, industry, and market trends

The Lead Visual Designer Must Have/Be: 

  • Very strong visual design skills for software & digital
  • Experience, preferably extensive experience, contributing to & creating, as well as using enterprise design systems
  • Very high attention to design detail (visual & interaction)
  • Experience leading and managing the work on large design projects & leading, reviewing work of more junior designers
  • Some agency/ consulting work preferred but not required
  • A bare minimum of 5+ years exp, 8-10 preferred
  • Understands brand but definitely has software & web exp
  • Amazing design portfolio
  • Professional presence, demeanor & communications
  • Leverages typography, color, layout, composition and materiality to create visual interface designs that clearly and effectively express product capabilities and behaviors, as well as business and product brand values.
  • Develops visual language studies that explore multiple approaches to the overall aesthetic of a product, with regard to brand and experience values and underlying product capability and behavior.
  • Creates visual design specifications and documentation that provide detailed instructions for developers regarding typography, spacing, color and other aspects of a product's user interface.
  • Creates multiple variations to a single design component to explore how different treatments meet design requirements and brand/experience goals.
  • Explains and defends design decisions to other members of the project team including developers, product managers, marketers and other designers.
  • Constructively participates in critiques of own design ideas and those of others.
  • Designs new components to contribute to design systems, documents intended usage.
  • Develops visual language studies that explore multiple approaches to the overall aesthetic of a product, with regard to brand and experience values and underlying product capability and behavior.
  • Skilled in standard design tools (Adobe CC, OmniGraffle, Sketch), hand drawing and visual communication, familiar with time-based and interactive prototyping tools (Hype, Adobe Edge, Keynote).
  • Understands the implications of digital display and software technologies and for visual interface design.

*Business Demeanor:

  • Demonstrates knowledge of business products, key processes, suppliers, customers and market/competitors. Understands the competitive landscape, regulatory marketing, etc.
  • Creates artifacts to facilitate shared understanding of business benefit for stakeholders.
  • Works to create an understanding of how individual people and things fit within larger structures (like systems or organizations), as well as the relationships between parts of a system and the system as a whole.

If you are interested in and qualified for this opportunity, please forward your resume and portfolio today!

 

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