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ELC Online | Digital Technology & Innovation Group
Digital Technology & Innovation Group
The Estée Lauder Companies has built an unrivaled portfolio of prestige beauty brands. Our products are sold in more than 150 countries and range from prestige to ultra-premium luxury brands such as Estée Lauder, Clinique, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Origins, Jo Malone, La Mer. The Digital Technology & Innovation Group (DTIG) is a division within Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) Online tasked with supporting the multi-channel digital needs of the ELC Brand Portfolio.
Position: Senior Interaction / User Interface (UI) Designer
DTIG seeks an inspired, enthusiastic, and experienced interaction designer to create best in class, innovative, web and mobile experiences for our brands. The ideal candidate lives and breathes interactive, has a passion for new technology and strong experience designing experiences in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams and multiple stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Design innovative web & mobile projects as well as native iOS & Android apps both e/m-commerce focused as well as content and education-focused.
- Collaborate with UX designers, Developers, Producers and other internal brand and marketing teams to deliver exceptional results ensuring the creative product meets strategic goals and brand expectations.
- Manage overall creative tasks and deliverables for multiple projects and brands.
- Present creative concepts and communicate functionality to brand stakeholders.
- Design intuitive site functionality, interaction, site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation for various websites, mobile sites, and apps.
- Collaboratively ideate on new project concepts with varying stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to understand, design & refine creative with a strong brand vision.
- Demonstrate solid project management skills to assist producers with work estimates and planning
Knowledge & Skills
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates your interaction design skills across a variety of platforms and categories, e.g. websites, mobile/tablet UI and apps, ecommerce sites for iOS, Android, and the web.
- Fluency with common design software (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Keynote) for the creation of Interaction Design artifacts and presentations
- Fluency with HTML5, Axure, Invision, Omnigraffle, Sketch for rapid prototyping purposes
- Knowledge of CMS, JavaScript, and CSS preferred.
- Self-starter, self-motivated, able to work independently and as part of a team, and can manage multiple projects.
- An enthusiasm for iterative prototyping as an essential part of the design process
- Passionate about understanding user and business/brand needs as a central element of your design vision
- Ability to work through complex workflows with whiteboards, flow charts, and wireframes; designing intuitive site functionality, interaction, site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation.
- Responsible, punctual, adept at meeting tight deadlines, collaborative, ego-free and is eager to give and receive constructive feedback; excellent problem solving skills and thorough attention to detail.
- Strong, clean visual design sense.
Experience
- 2-4 years of experience in web and mobile (preferably agency and interaction work, e-commerce experience a plus)
Education
- BFA/BS/BA or equivalent in Interaction, Graphic Design, Visual Communications, User Interface (UI) Design, Art, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), marketing or closely related field (or comparable work experience)
