Job Announcement: Visual Designer

 Visual / UX Designer

We're looking for a talented visual and user experience designer to join our client’s growing design team and help take their widely used web application to the next level.  Our client is a well-funded dot-com company that has gained a lot of media attention since the day it was founded, and is widely recognized by creative communities.

This is an exciting time to join a small, entrepreneurial leadership and engineering team to take high-level ideas and transform them to live pixels, viewed by millions of online users and home design professionals around the world.

You must have:

·      Experience working on a large scale consumer web app/site

·      Diverse portfolio (that is NOT template based) of web design that demonstrates clean and modern aesthetic. Your work must show attention to detail and your ability to use great typography

·      Great CSS3 and JavaScript knowledge. Ability to sketch up a solid responsive website that engineers can use as a starting point

·      Solid foundation in UI and UX. Good understanding of latest web technologies and their limitations

·      Ability to make good on-the-fly product decisions with confidence

·      Ability to present confidently of what makes “good design” and a desire to simplify and streamline the world around you

·      Able to work under tight weekly deadlines and have fun with it

If you are interested, please send us your resume and online portfolio ASAP! michelle@kinetiCreative.com

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Interactive producer, 6-month project in San Bruno

Kinetic Creative (www.kinetiCreative.com) is hiring!

Interactive Producer

·      Manages and leads digital creative and production projects

·      Ensures the timely execution and delivery of creative projects

·      Communicates digital creative project progress across the organization

·      Coordinates cross-functional teams (marketing, site merchandising, design, copywriting, content management, etc.) in order to ensure completion of digital creative projects

·      Demonstrates up-to-date project management expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of project action plans

·      Provides expert advice and guidance to others on creative and production best practices; supports and aligns efforts to meet creative objectives, as well as meet customer and business needs

·      Enhances the productivity of the Marketing Creative team through process assessment, refinement and change management

Minimum Qualifications

·      Excellent soft skills (influencing and communication and leadership) and proven relationship-building skills

·      Thrives, excels and remains calm in an extremely fast-paced and high-volume production environment

·      4 years as a project manager, coordinator or in a related role.

·      3 years managing cross-functional teams.

·      2 years managing vendor contracts and relationships.

·      1 year in digital creative or related field.

·      1 year in retail environment.

·      Bachelor’s Degree

Additional Preferred Qualifications

·      Editorial/design production experience

If you are interested, please send us your resume ASAP! pei@kinetiCreative.com

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 production experience

NEW JOB: Sr. Designer (e-commerce), San Francisco, Temp to Full-Time position

A fantastic job opportunity for Mid. to Sr. level Designer!

If you are looking for stability and long term career growth, and meet the following qualifications, please send us your resume and portfolio ASAP for immediate consideration!

• Ability to sketch storyboards and thumbnails quickly and clearly
• Extensive proficiency in Flash, with a focus on superb motion design and animation, solid action scripting and strong Flash production skills
• A command of typography, color, composition, hierarchy
• Strong understanding of user-centered design and navigation structures.
• Solid knowledge of HTML and any other web related technologies and tools and how they relate to design.
• Research and explore best practices in online marketing design.
• Complete knowledge of PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, and any other web development tools (i.e., video and audio editing tools)
• Solid project management skills: able to work on multiple projects, re-prioritize as needed, and consistently deliver on time.
• 3 - 5 years of experience designing rich marketing interactive experience for the web with strong emphasis on Flash design/animation
• Retail/e-commerce background is preferred
• Some supervisory experience
• BA degree in Graphic Design, Interaction/Digital Design, or other Communications Design-related field preferred
• Proficiency with After Effects is a plus
• Agency background is a plus

This is a temporary position that will be converted to full-time after 3 to 6 months,  and you will work with a group of amazing Art Directors, Copy Manager, Manager of Production to determine the look and feel of various marketing projects (Web banners, integrated landing pages, etc.) within our client’s organization - a large retail corporation.

There will be unlimited career growth with this corporation that is going through major culture change that's focus on employees' well-being and work/life balance.

If you are interested, please send us your resume and portfolio ASAP! Amy@kinetiCreative.com
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