Designer - Digital Media
A+E Networks
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The Designer for mobile and emerging platforms will be integral to the creative process and play a pivotal role in the design and innovation of our applications that are shaping the television/video industry. This position will work side-by-side with diverse product team members (on brands such as A&E, History and Lifetime) to produce beautiful, compelling and innovative products that span across digital platforms and include executions on tablet and smartphone, as well as emerging platforms such as Apple TV, Xbox, Roku, and whatever comes next.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in producing cutting edge visual/interface design for mobile applications along with strong typographic skills. In addition to visual design principles, the candidate should be familiar with user-centered design methodologies and usability best practices.
The ideal candidate will have excellent problem-solving skills, understand constraints quickly, and be able to create intuitive, optimized, and brand-consistent mobile experiences that connect people and entertainment brands across A E's portfolio of networks.
-Effectively communicate and collaborate with design team as well as other disciplines and product team members across the digital media team to understand design/UX strategies, business needs, requirements, goals, and metrics, as well as unique brand differentiators during discovery, pre-production, and production phases.
-Attend design team meetings, work within Scrum framework and attend sprint planning meetings, daily scrum meetings (stand-ups), sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
-Create user flows, prototypes, and translate complex ideas into elegant and intuitive visual interface designs with compelling, delightful and intuitive interactions.
-Work with design team and cross-functional team members to fully understand project's creative concept, scope and requirements in order to deliver user flows and intuitive interface design using applications within Adobe Creative Suite as well as preferred prototyping tools.
-Provide guidance and assets throughout entire product design and development process to ensure a stellar final product, complete with intended design solutions and user interactions, is the end result.
-Remain current with the latest technology, design trends, usability, and developments in mobile and emerging platforms in order to explore and experiment with the future of A E's mobile/emerging product interfaces.
Required Experience:
-Strong portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual and graphic design skills via intuitive and engaging UI design with a simple clean style and a pixel-level attention to detail.
-Have a strong design point of view and understanding of fundamental design principles, typography, layout, grid systems, hierarchy, color, and composition.
-Proven understanding of interaction design concepts.
-Understand principles of website, mobile and digital design in general.
-Understanding of mobile design issues, including cross-platform compatibility.
-Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and prototyping tools.
-Ability to iterate quickly and work within an Agile/Scrum framework.
-Skilled at masking and image manipulations.
-Knowledge of user experience best practices for mobile devices.
-3 years of experience in designing and prototyping for mobile and over-the-top (OTT) applications.
-Passion for bringing innovative new products to market.
-Ability to take creative direction and work independently, as well as collaboratively, in a fast paced team environment.
-Strong communication stills: verbal, written, and interpersonal.
-Excellent team player with a positive attitude?.
-Self-motivated with enthusiasm to constantly learn and grow with latest design trends and technologies.
Desired Experience:
-Working knowledge of HTML/CSS and content management systems with strong desire to learn? is desirable.
-Entertainment industry experience a plus.
Required Education:
BA/BS in Graphic Design, Communication Design, Information Design, Interaction Design, or design related field.