The Freelance Web Designer will be responsible for overseeing and executing the design and build of digital & interactive projects including landing pages and websites. The ideal candidate will make themselves available to provide prompt responses and swift actions for a high-value clients’ web properties. This role demands excellent design and communication skills, and someone who is comfortable directly engaging with the client to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
Essential Tasks
- Demonstrates comprehension of objectives for deliverables
- Participates in client discovery sessions, contributes to campaign/project requirements, and is able to offer rationale for solutions to guide client decision making
- Delivers quality, response-focused work, applying industry and platform-specific best-practices
- Possesses the ability to mentor others to help them meet campaign/project objectives in compliance with industry and platform best-practices
- Possesses advanced proficiency in the tools/platforms/processes required to complete design and build of web pages and microsites, including various digital assets such as animated components
- Ability to help troubleshoot for others
- Ability to work efficiently, practicing good time management skills to prioritize work and deliver within scope and allotted timeframe
- Ability to push the boundaries of design conventions to deliver conceptual and original solutions based on the medium and institutional brand
- Ability to guide/mentor others to deliver fresh solutions to drive conversions
- Other duties as assigned
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 4+ years of relevant professional experience required
- 2+ years of leading large-scale projects
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
- Excellent understanding of relevant tech including Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite, Google Suite, Microsoft Office, etc..
- Experience with Wordpress and 3rd party site-builder plugins (Elementor experience a plus)
- Familiarity with web-based task trackers such as Basecamp
- Experienced in HTML/CSS
- Strong communication skills
- Strategic thinking and problem solving abilities
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships fellow team members, employees, and management
- Strong organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and tools
- Proven ability to maintain a high standard of confidentiality
- Strong attention to detail as well as the ability to work collaboratively and independently.
- Proven self-motivation to take initiative, problem solve and master new tasks quickly