Position Description
We are seeking to hire a web designer on a part-time or freelance basis to provide supplemental support to our team on several current projects. This person would create new designs, extend existing websites along the lines of their current design themes, and create images/graphics for items like banner ads.
Our team’s resources are in high-demand, and we are looking for someone who is able to start right away to supplement our team. Our work is for blue chips and early adopter firms so are projects have a lot of opportunity for learning.
This is a great position to work with a fantastic team (remote work/ telecommuting is fine) on a part-time basis. We are fine hiring an independent contractor/ freelancer for this position, on a contract or hourly basis.
As for your design abilities, we are looking for someone who is well-versed in Web 2.0 techniques and aesthetics. Be familiar with Photoshop (of course), as well as the process of slicing image files for implementation into pages by our developers. Experience with Flash, Illustrator, and CSS are also preferred. Your portfolio should speak for itself, in showcasing your talents as state-of-the-art, creative, and highly-engaging.
Roles/ Tasks
*Design webpages, graphics, edit images, and improve interfaces/layouts for client websites
*Work with our developers to prepare your designs for HTML/CSS implementation
*Work with our marketers to create graphical content and Flash animations for ads
*Work with our team to optimize user experience (UX), site content, increase user satisfaction, boost usability and client ROI
Skills
*Expert-level Photoshop for Web Design, Image/ Graphic creation for Web
*Expert with CSS strongly preferred
*Familiarity with Illustrator, vector-based graphic design and illustration strongly preferred
*Familiarity with user experience (UX) optimization and testing strongly preferred
*Familiarity with Drupal strongly preferred
Include the following with your email:
*Brief note describing your applicability and interest in this position.
*Up-to-date résumé
*Examples of design work. We will only review applications with portfolio examples (either URLs or image files are fine). Your designs should speak for themselves.
*OPTIONAL: Contact information of three references for your design work. If you are more comfortable, these can be provided following an interview.
From there, we will review your application and, if you present like a good fit, we’ll arrange an interview for next steps. We are looking for someone with availability as soon as possible. We are hiring immediately.
- Location: Boston / Virtual
- Telecommuting is ok.
- This is a part-time job.
- This is a contract job.
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
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