Senior Digital Designer

Our clients tackle today’s challenging issues. They invite us to partner on their brands, websites, digital products, and interactive campaigns — projects that inspire people to take meaningful actions. Some of our clients include the Innocence Project, the Equal Justice Initiative, STOP Tobacco, Melinda French Gates, Echoing Green, and Define American.

About the Role

As a Senior Designer at Madeo with a focus on digital and web design, you are invited to play a leading role on high caliber large organizational websites for remarkable organizations and highly interactive microsites, campaigns, and brand projects. You have already worked in an agency setting or within a team across multiple client projects and are seeking an even more collaborative team to join. You enjoy working with content strategists, other designers, project managers, web developers, and client teams.

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates need to meet the below requirements to be considered for the role

• Relevant experience with high caliber client websites is a must for consideration. 
• Experienced in leading web design projects in a team setting.
• Confidence and experience in working directly with clients, speaking on behalf of the team and your work.
• Demonstrated interest in designing motion/interaction in web design work.
• Strong experience with creating client presentations that articulate and annotate details of a website project.
• Genuine interest in social impact and working with a wide range of progressive nonprofit organizations.

Valuable Experience

In addition to the minimum qualifications, demonstrated experience and interest in the following would be a plus:

• Graphic and brand identity design
• Managing other designers on projects or as a people manager
• Intersectional design and strategy work, such as UX design and information architecture

Core Range of Responsibilities

• At any given point, you would typically be working on 2 to 4 different client websites and campaign projects. On some projects, you will have a peer designer working with you as your project partner to advance collaboration.
• On any project, in addition to collaborating with other designers, you would also collaborate with one or two content strategists, a creative director, web developers and members of the client team.
• Projects typically start with a research and discovery phase. For website redesigns, this would include understanding the existing website, shared needs and behaviors, learning from user insights and stakeholder interviews, and independently researching peer sites to note opportunities. You would also participate in auditing the existing site and share recommendations for opportunities across UX, UI, visual design direction, and visual content. 
• Based on discovery insights and our collective recommendations, we typically move into a high-level design direction, which is incredibly collaborative, along with wireframing in partnership with the content strategist. 
• As designs become more defined, you would work on establishing the overall creative and design direction in collaboration with other designers and the creative director. In many of our projects, the website acts as a brand setting initiative and therefore interest in establishing typography, colors, and art direction in a website project setting is critical.
• You would be responsible for turning your designs into a UI Kit, the overall style guide of the website and its different patterns which would inform web development. You would also define interactions, transitions..etc. and based on your skills and interests you would collaborate directly with front-end web developers on execution.

Benefits

• A work culture that prioritizes collaboration, learning, and growth
• 100% remote work from home supported with occasional retreats and events
• Flexible and generous vacation and personal days in addition to national holidays
• 401k matching of up to 5% of your salary towards your retirement
• Discretionary annual 401k bonuses
• Charitable donation matching
• Medical insurance offered (health, vision, and dental)

Career Trajectory

Candidates may grow at Madeo in various career paths:

• Grow in design skills as a Senior Designer.
• Become an Associate Director of Design, if the role expands with more design management responsibilities across the discipline in addition to continuing to be a designer.
• Design Director, following successful growth as an Associate Director and with increased responsibilities in discipline management alongside design.

How to Apply

We invite you to learn more about our culture, projects, and approach and to spend time with our featured case studies. Please apply if you believe you are qualified for and interested in working on similar projects.

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