Senior Visual Designer

**Show the world what you can do.**

The Senior Visual Designer is a master of her/his design craft, and is responsible for the execution of complex visual design deliverables and under the Visual Design Lead supervision, leads the successful implementation of design solutions for marketing/communication campaigns and digital experiences that benefit people and clients. By creating design deliverables and solutions that align strategic direction and user needs, providing support and guidance to other team members, having passion for design and keeping high standards, the Senior Visual Designer plays a key role on project success, client satisfaction and strengthening our creative culture.

**In this role you will**:

- Designs solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives in a highly collaborative environment.
- Creates storyboards, mood-boards, initial visual concepts, design layouts, functional design solutions, site grids and UI demos to lead design project development.
- Leads visual design projects with Design Lead supervision in at least 5 of the following areas: UX, UI, Print, Marketing Campaign, Social Media, Motion and Illustration.
- Understands, analyses, and responds to client briefs and requests.
- Works closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
- Provides reliable quality assurance on all creative deliverables. Anticipates issues and flags situations that might impact quality or delivery success.
- Actively participates in strategic brainstorming, design thinking and collaboration sessions, and creative brief development.
- Thinks creatively and justifies concepts to clients and team members.
- Understands and applies the design thinking cycle to projects when is appropriate.
- Balances strategic development with client objectives.
- Builds and maintains a rapport with XD team members, project managers and other disciplines key team members.
- Stays up to date with recent design trends and new technologies.
- Drives design inspiration and learning among team members.

**What are we looking for? Besides a great attitude,**

**You should have**:

- Ideally English Proficiency (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation)
- 4+ yrs. experience in advertising agencies, digital agencies, design agencies, and/or startups.
- Strong design portfolio including pieces for international clients.
- Experience in at least 3 of these areas: print, visual design, UX/UI, digital marketing, social media, illustration and motion areas, preferably for international clients and global brands.
- Solid understanding of interactivity and animation principles and best practices.
- Solid understanding of visual design principles, trends, systems and structures.
- Solid understanding of UX principles, trends and theory.
- Understanding of digital marketing, online advertising and business strategy concepts.
- Experience creating user interfaces for digital products.
- Extensive knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch, Adobe XD (or any other UI design tool), Invision.
- Knowledge of Creative Suite, Keynote, PowerPoint, After Effects, Animate, HTML5 animation, Zeplin, Abstract, Principle.
- Understanding of productivity and remote collaboration tools: MS Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, Jira, Trello, Slack, Zoom, Acrobat, Drive, Box, Paper, Evernote.
- Knowledge of design systems frameworks such as Material Design and Human Interface Guidelines.
- Understanding of CMS and frameworks such as: Bootstrap, Foundation, Wordpress, AEM or any others.
- Comfortable on the iOS environment.

**It’s a plus if you have**:

- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Design Advertising Design or related field or equivalent experience in advertising and digital agencies or startups.
- Any certification, course, or training on UX, UI, visual design, design systems, marketing campaigns, business, and design thinking.

**Competencies to be successful in this role**:

- Attention to Detail
- Nimble Learning
- Manages complexity
- Drives results
- Communicates effectively
- Takes Ownership