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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