Senior Interactive Media Designer - Conchango

Company Information
Established in 1991, Conchango has been voted Europe's Number 1 Web Design Agency for 2006 (http://www.conchango.com/Web/Shared/Documents/forrester%20website%20design.pdf ) and has an impressive list of blue chip and international brand clients including M&S, Tesco, Boots, HMV, Lloyds TSB, Bank of Ireland, Kensington Mortgages, Chevron, Virgin Mobile and Virgin Atlantic to name a few. Conchango provides clients with competitive advantage by helping them improve business results through innovative use of technology.
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Job Summary

If you are currently working for a top 20 Interactive Agency in a lead design role we want to hear from you.

As a senior designer at Conchango you would be trusted to lead or be a leading part of a digital project. We are looking for someone to join us at this exciting time, who can use their creative expertise and career experience to pioneer dynamic design solutions and who will complement our existing design team.

This role provides the opportunity to work in a fast moving, creative and challenging environment with some great and well known brands. This person will typically be working as part of a multi-skilled team including project management, user experience experts, strategic and technical teams.

This job is about designing and offering design direction for multi-platform applications in interactive media, including web, kiosk, mobile and PC, for audiences that include both consumers & business users.

You will be happy to take on challenging design projects that require you to look hard and long at how the design solution will meet user needs whilst at the same time stretching you creatively.

You'll be asked to take on design challenges for entirely new technology platforms and using entirely new usage paradigms, you'll be given the tools and expected to stay up to date with the latest interactive design techniques and technologies.

In addition to delivering projects you will also play a key part in developing new business, and you will be asked from time to time to lead pitch processes and generate concepts and other creative presentation materials to develop business with new clients.

Duties and Responsibilities

* Generating mood and concept work in a time-challenged situation that meets the tough demands of users and technology.
* Creating compelling digital design solutions that inspire users and meet business goals.
* Communicating effectively at a high level in client organisations, able to produce and present work on your own.
* Excellent presentation skills, able to lead the pitching process from a creative perspective and own our creative response in bid situations.
* A clear understanding of user-centred design and the process involved, including: persona development, wireframing, user journeys or scenario work, interface design and navigation - and be able to discuss and interpret to client where necessary.
* Ability to lead and mentor more junior members of our team and our freelancers to help them create the best design work and create successful and integrated experiences.
* Maintaining regular contact with other divisions including front and back end developers on a specific project when required to ensure a consistent approach to the design style and branding of the division's interactive output.
* Design expertise and direction into proposals and presentations.


Essential Qualifications and Experience

* Formal background & qualifications (Degree and or Masters) in one or more of the following;
o Graphic Design
o Interactive Media Design
o Multimedia - specialising in design
* A deep understanding of branding and marketing
* A detailed understanding of the principles, techniques and legislation associated with accessibility of interactive media
* An excellent understanding of the technology required to build digital interactive solutions and experiences
* An understanding and ability to run the creative process within a team environment
* Ability to take a brief and direct others when required

Desirable Skills

* Experience in the Retail, CPG, Financial Services or Energy market
* Knowledge of one or more of the following:
o High degree of competence in Adobe graphic design products
o Flash - ActionScript
o 3D - formal understanding and practical experience in developing 3D models in mainstream 3D packages
o Understanding and/or experience of general AJAX technologies - DHTML / Javascript / CSS
o Ability and commitment to training, mentoring and working with other designers

Required Competencies

* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with people from all disciplines, both within and outside the Interactive Media team.
* To be able to establish rapport and good working relationships with clients.
* Ability and willingness to learn new technologies.
* Effective negotiation and management skills.
* Ability to demonstrate strong problem solving skills.
* Ability to contribute to writing briefs.
* Team player - and "can-do" attitude.
* Ability to multi-task and prioritise work.
* Travel throughout the UK is an integral part of the job as you will be working on customer sites during elements of each project.