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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Interactive Designer

Posted by: Towns Square Media

Posted date: 2011-Aug-15

Location: NY

Townsquare Media, LLC is a local media and entertainment company that owns and operates radio, digital and live event properties. The Company specializes in creating and distributing original entertainment, music and lifestyle content. Its assets include 165 radio stations and companion websites in 35 small to mid-sized markets, over 200 live music and non-music events.

And we're looking for Interactive Designers to join our team.

Our designers combine imagination, creativity, and technical ability to create edgy designs for over 200 brands. You'll balance form and function to push the limits of what can be done on the web and work on anything from design themes to detailed interfaces. As a member of the creative team, you'll be working directly with award-winning creative directors, art directors, copywriters, and user experience designers. In addition to producing beautiful, user-friendly designs for our stations, fresh ideas encouraged. We seek a designer with super clean design skills, strong comprehension of usability and UI best practices, impeccable taste, thorough attention to detail, and an ability to clearly and completely articulate visual design solutions.

You'll be working on projects that including the reproduction of ideas set out by the Art and Creative Directors, website themes, icons, and some UI. You must have an unparalleled attention to detail

Responsibilities

Collaborate with art directors and creative directors to create websites, apps, and microsites
Work with our art directors and development teams to translate the designs into reality
Accurate and quick graphic production and batch processing
Visual/graphic production across multiple online products, landing pages, application UI, Web UI, and email campaigns
Stay up to date with trends and techniques in web typography, form and interaction design, layout design, and mobile apps
Manage multiple concurrent design tracks

Requirements

Unparalleled attention to detail
Impeccable sensitivity to color theory, typography, priority and balance
Minimum 2 years relevant experience as a web designer
Ability to work faithfully to existing visual style guidelines when necessary
Heavy lifting - accurate and quick graphic production and batch processing
An impressive online portfolio full of interactive work
Strong knowledge of design principles, typography, and color theory
Excellent understanding of and experience with interface, mobile, and user-centered design
Expert in Adobe Photoshop.
Preferential - A strong understanding of HTML and CSS.
Experience developing designs off of wire-framing
The ability to handle tight deadlines
The motivation to stay on the forefront of new technologies and a willingness to grow
A passionate curiosity about the internet, pop culture, apps and technology trends.
Demonstrated ability to identify, prioritize, and execute tasks to meet critical project deadlines
You must be authorized to work in the U.S. full time at our office in New York, NY
Discipline and strong ability to work independently required.