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Design Director

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Hot Studio is a leading experience design company with offices in San Francisco and New York. Dedicated to creating elegant solutions for complex design challenges, we collaborate with business leaders, innovative organizations, and emerging companies to create breakthrough products and services that have global reach and local impact. Our clients include Cisco, Dow Jones, Warner Music Group, Palm, Gap, eBay, Zinio, Ancestry.com, SFMOMA, and California Academy of Sciences.

The ideal Design Director candidate is an independent and innovative thinker, has excellent visual design skills, and has a deep understanding of interaction design and knowledge of technical possibility.



Responsibilities

• Participate, oversee, and lead visual design efforts on projects

• Empower, inspire, and support the design team to think innovatively

• Participate and collaborate with project teams on research and strategic development

• Work collaboratively with peers, clients, vendors, contractors and other team members; lead and participate in working sessions and critiques

• Create multiple visual design concepts within a set period of time

• Work with the Creative Director and design team to create concepts and ideas that are astute and elegant, which serve human understanding and meet human needs

• Work with the front-end technology team to create technology-enabled design solutions and prototypes

• Support the development of a creative environment that inspires innovation

• Understand technical requirements and work with the user experience team and developers to translate schematics into fully designed pages

• Create and deliver strong visual design solutions that are based on knowledge of development options. This includes accounting for the behaviors of all design elements (rollover states, animation, etc.)

• Serve as a spokesperson for Hot Studio, through networking, speaking at conferences within and outside the design community



Required Skills & Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s in Industrial Design, Graphic Design or related, plus five years experience in interactive design

• Experience must reflect portfolio of successful interactive design projects completed for large enterprise or other brand-sensitive clients

• Experience and expertise must include: visual design, interactive and GUI design and knowledge of related technologies (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) and design considerations (audience types, branding, business and technical requirements)

• Strong understanding of user-centered design, motion graphics, brand identity, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash

• Experience presenting design proposals and in the complete design cycle



Please apply online at www.hotstudio.com/jobs