Bilingual, 4+ years experience, Remote, Part-time
About Us
NetMidas is a software staffing company based in Cali, Colombia since 2007. We have worked with a broad range of clients including large multinationals (including Apple), startups, and international NGOs, as well as our own digital products.
Position Summary
As a Visual Designer, you will be a steward of our company brand while delivering exceptional design for teams across the business. Brand expression, fine-tuning, campaign exploration, and UI design are all key aspects of success.
Requirements
Must Haves:
- Strong ability to communicate in English (Professional English proficiency).
- Bachelor’s degree in Web Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, related degree, or equivalent work experience.
- 4+ years experience as a visual designer or in a similar capacity designing visuals for a corporate environment.
- Working proficiency in tools common to visual design (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite’s InDesign, Photoshop, Canva, Illustrator, etc.).
- Basic knowledge of modern design principles and tools, marketing strategies, and visual design software packages.
- contemporary design, technology trends, and brand expression techniques.
- design research, user experience design processes, principles, and methodologies.
- SDLC processes and at least one agile SDLC tool to manage work (e.g., JIRA).
- Approach design projects innovatively and to collaborate and create with other designers and project managers to bring innovation and experience to life for audiences of all types.
- Actively seek out and apply feedback to work in the spirit of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Effectively communicate, build relationships, and leverage influential skills to gather information in a busy environment.
- Confidently present designs in an inspiring and compelling way.
- Energize teams and advocate for your ideas.
- Adapt quickly to short timelines, changes in prioritization, and ambiguity in an agile work environment.
- Strong experience leading and communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process.
- Self-motivated, able to prioritize and manage workload, and meet critical project deadlines.
- Proficiency in keeping up to date on visual design technologies, techniques, and industry trends.
- Understand and be able to quickly adapt to the challenges and opportunities of designing for a marketplace business that has multiple sets of unique customers.
- Commitment to quality and attention to detail in all aspects of data integration and pipeline development.
- Demonstrated design research, visual and interaction design, and problem-solving skills.
- Expert collaboration, communication (both written and verbal), presentation, creativity, conflict resolution, ideation, and project management skills.
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with technology, software, and the Transportation industry
- Industry certification
You will:
- Design materials supporting the Design and Marketing teams.
- Be responsible for building campaigns and initiatives, contributing to conversion, and ensuring designs move the needle and impact experiences positively.
- Focus on creating and expanding design assets for marketing, and UI experiences while maintaining a strong design foundation, and collaborating with the larger Design and UX teams.
- Lead strategic and design brainstorming sessions and provide recommendations regarding visual strategies and content.
- Ensure visual strategies and content align with company and customer/client desired outcomes.
- Translate business requirements and engineering specifications into effective user interfaces.
- Assist in the design and development of style sheets and corporate style guides to maintain product design and UI standards.
- Consult with end-users and stakeholders on approaches to content based on goals for usage.
- Remain up to date on the latest design trends and work quickly and effectively to build and iterate on new designs.
- Create visual designs using a variety of tools that balance aesthetics with functionality.
- Develop or may lead the development of UI sketches, wireframes, and prototypes for desktop, tablet, and mobile phone sizes to show user and screen flow, navigation, and interaction detail.
- Create graphical assets and icons for use in user interface products and model graphic designs based on standards and branding.
- Create motion ideation around content creation tools in 2D and 3D.
- Perform 3D modeling and animation to evolve the audience experience given the immediate and long-term goals of the company.
- Define appropriate metrics including engagement, usability, conversion, and other analytics.
- Propose and influence others to experiment with new approaches to design and promote a test-and-learn environment.
- Determine changes required to improve the audience experience.
- Partner with teams across the company to generate, create, and present on-brand UI that drives measurable results.
- Create Trade Show, advertising design assets, PowerPoint Templates, and marketing assets.
- Work closely with teams, and stakeholders to provide design solutions that stay true to the goals of their brief and align with the company brand.
Compensation, Contract, Terms
- USD 26 per hour, paid monthly.
- Contract: Freelance (prestación de servicios) with our company in the US.
- Part time. 22 hours per week, in 9-5 East Coast hours, no overtime
- Start date: Jan 2024
Application process
- Send your CV to [email protected] with the subject ‘Senior UI Designer’ and a short text explaining your work history, capabilities, and interests.
- Then you will be invited to take a technical test and a series of interviews and evaluations.
- The interview process will be completed within 10 days of our first conversation!