Posted on 23 November 2011

SENIOR FORM / LANDING PAGE DESIGNER

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Budget: $100 to $500

We are a high volume, exclusive online marketing firm that’s looking for great freelance designers to join our team. 
We architect and design user experiences for the web, and believe that design makes a difference. You'll work on exciting and challenging projects both for internally owned properties and external clients.  
You’ll work with our team on UI/UX strategy and designs for dozens of new projects. Many of our projects are in the online advertising and lead generation space working with some of the largest advertisers in our industry. You’ll be creating unique properties designed for conversion.
Technical Qualifications

  • You have specific skills in the layout and design of forms and landing pages for highest conversion.
  • You have experience working with A/B and Multi Variate testing programs and can analyze and tweak designs based on the resulting data.
  • You have significant experience creating effective UX/UI designs across a broad variety of goal-driven environments.
  • Adobe Creative Suite is your playground (particularly Photoshop and Illustrator).
  • You have a solid understanding of product, user engagement and brand strategies.
  • You understand and can build use cases and user flows.
  • You've created style guides and have worked on logo design and branding.
  • You have an understanding of marketing design and designing for conversion
  • You know how to make a developer a friend or foe purely by design.
  • Typography excites you.

Experience Qualifications
  • You have 4 or more years of experience working with web graphics in the marketing industry.
  • Your design is well thought out, purposeful and has intent.
  • A "creative brief" is not just fancy underwear to you.
  • You have experience planning and executing both redesign and new-concept design projects, from start to finish.
  • You are familiar with analytics and have experience with design refinement for conversions.
  • You know that a 40% increase in conversion on a design, doesn’t have to mean the design converts anywhere near 40%.

Availability Qualifications
  • You have experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • You work well with short time-frames and can turn around a landing page design from start to final in a couple to few days.
  • You understand urgency and can adjust your schedule accordingly to accommodate rush projects.

Bonus Qualifications
  • You have experience design and marketing email / banner creative
  • You’ve worked with 37signal’s project management tool BaseCamp, and are familiar with what a SPRINT board and task management is.

About You
  • You are passionate about creating great user experiences and design for the web.
  • You look at the web, and constantly see areas where improved design could increase conversion.
  • You have excellent communication skills, and are detail oriented.
  • You have a great sense of humor.
  • You're good at communicating your designs and design intent to others.
  • Brochure websites are boring to you.
  • You can work and play well with others, but can also work well alone.

How to Join our Team (please read carefully!)
  • A resume or short email with the reasons why you’re the best person to join our team based on our above requested qualifications.
  • A link to your online portfolio with your best work (your portfolio should be linked to URLs).
  • Live links to the 3 forms/landing page designs that you're most proud of.