Freelance Senior Designer Digital

Profile

As a Freelance Senior Designer, crafting creative concepts that translate visually is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team player—matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. In addition to creativity, keen attention to detail makes your work stellar. Also, you want to keep learning, but you want leadership experience, too. Good news—you’ll have mentorship from an Art Director to help you grow, and you’ll manage a small team of designers, as well.

You will:

Design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.

Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.

Manage projects with limited input from an Art Director.

Guide and direct up to four designers with thorough delegation, follow-up, and mentorship.

Rationalize solutions to project teams and clients.

Balance creative with client business requirements.

Design mood boards, storyboards, interactive page layouts, site grids and interface demos, photo retouches and enhancements, and animated GIFs.

Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.

Build and maintain a rapport with creative team, account managers, and project managers.

Visualize and verbalize ideas to team and client.

You have:

2 years experience in design and interactive.

Strong design portfolio.

Developed and diverse communication skills.

Ability to articulate creative ideas.

Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.

A solid working knowledge of the latest versions of Mac OS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and Figma

An understanding of the strengths and limitations of After Effects, QuickTime, Director, and ImageReady, as well as information architecture and hierarchy.

Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the Web.

Illustration in both electronic and traditional media.

Motion graphics experience for the Web and video a plus.

The

hourly

range for this role, based in California, is generally

$80.00 to $85.00 USD

and we continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets. Hourly rates are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include, but aren’t limited to, a candidate’s experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position.

For current CM employees, tenure will also be a consideration.

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, on-boarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In effort to do so, we’d like to establish the ask that you plan to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning

Improve collaboration and team relationship.

Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

CM Liquid Talent is still an option for roles approved to be 100% remote.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to

accommodations@criticalmass.com

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com

and

us.greenhouse-mail.io

We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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Company info

Critical Mass Inc
Website : http://www.criticalmass.com