The New York office of Hedgeye Risk Management is hiring a Digital Designer.
Our Digital Designer creates compelling, original designs for everything ranging from interactive platforms (iPad, iPhone, websites, software applications, etc.) to occasional marketing materials (presentations, ad campaigns, etc.) . The Digital Designer is able to translate business requirements, user needs, and technical capabilities into designs that are visually exciting, easy to use, and emotionally engaging.
Responsibilities
- Participate in product ideation and conceptual development.
- Create visual designs that effectively communicate product function and brand identity, including the design and production of screen layouts, color palettes, typography, user interface elements, and icons.
- Design motion graphics and animation effects.
- Produce wireframes, design specifications, storyboards, scenarios, and design prototypes.
- Successfully communicate conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale, both verbally and visually.
- Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes creative leads, other designers, project management, business and brand strategists, and software developers.
Challenges:
- Working with tight deadlines & strong requirements
- Rapid & constant change
- Working with highly technical content
- Design as a collaboration activity among team, not in a silo
- Must be detail oriented & able to keep multiple requirements in sync
Required:
- Strong Design skills including but not limited to: logo design, color theory, typography, composition, grids, layout
- Strong portfolio, preferably multivariate (packaging, print, web)
- Be able to explain & defend design decisions. (IE. I used this color because …)
- Experience with wireframes & rapid prototyping.
- Working knowledge of how to design with/for web standards
- Working knowledge of Adobe Graphic design packages, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign etc.
- Interest in information architecture, Marketing, UX, HCI.
- Eagerness to learn
- Self-motivated, speedy, well-organized
- Flexible and team-oriented
Pluses (in order):
- Practicing personal Kaizen
- Contributions/memberships to sites like Forrst, sitepoint.com, 99designs, sortfolio & the likes.
- Understand the elements of effective interactive design
- A blog/website showing passion for the art & science of graphic design and showing his point of view.
- Expert understanding of CSS, HTML, Javascript & the semantic web
- Successful experience launching Web-based projects
- Working knowledge of audio & video editing software.
Please include an url with your online portfolio.
ABOUT HEDGEYE RISK MANAGEMENT
Hedgeye Risk Management is the leading real-time research firm. Focused exclusively on generating and delivering actionable investment ideas, the firm combines quantitative, bottoms-up and macro analysis with an emphasis on timing. The Hedgeye team features some of the world’s most regarded research analysts, united around a vision of independent, un-compromised real-time investment research as a service. We measure ourselves on our core values: Transparency, Accountability, and Trust.
Contact: Mick Malisic <mick@hedgeye.com>