Sr Designer - Front End Engineering - Market America Inc

Market America a Global Product Brokerage and Internet Marketing company that specializes in One-to-One Marketing, is seeking a Sr Designer - Front End Engineering for our IT Team.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Designer, you will work collaboratively to inspire and mentor, leading other designers in producing highly creative designs and concepts in various digital formats to meet strategic marketing goals and campaigns. An in-depth knowledge of graphic design and communication in digital media is essential to this role, including experience in communicating design direction, understanding digital marketing trends and best practices as they apply to digital media.

The ideal candidate will be expected to have a strong understanding and demonstrable experience in design, layout, typography, branding and the ability to convert concepts into functional deliverables using semantic, compliance-based markup that makes it all work. Turn design into functioning code. Experience in user interface design (UI) and an understanding of user experience (UX) core concepts preferred. Ideal candidate would have experience providing art direction in a collaborative manner and facilitating tasks leading to the teams success.

Please note: an extensive online portfolio of past and current work is required to apply for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes strategists, designers, content strategists, business analysts, project managers, marketers, and developers to deliver a polished final product.

• Creates standards-compliant, cross-browser-compatible representations of approved designs with accuracy.

• Creates original page layouts and designs and creates additional pages and sites stylistically to accurately reflect other approved pages/sites.

• Collaborates with User Experience and Design teams to effectively create, maintain, implement, and enforce style guides, standards, reusable templates, and best practices for client-side coding.

• Develops rapid prototypes or experimental versions of new concepts or products.

• Provide functional code for web deployment

• Monitors trends and new technologies to evaluate for possible adoption.

• Collaborates with internal Business Analysts, Business Owners, as an integral part of our Marketing and Creative departments on short- and long-term projects.

• Maintains a quality user interface focus to achieve standards in user experience design

Skills

• Proficiency in UI Design, JavaScript, HTML and CSS absolutely required
• Familiarity with Java, database technologies (SQL), model-view-controller architecture and implementation, and REST services is highly desirable
• Above moderate levels of English speaking, writing, and reading comprehension; active listening; critical thinking; problem solving; analysis; programming; troubleshooting; leadership; and judgment
• Understanding of secure coding practices and web security
• Ability to develop responsive web applications.
• Passionate about high-quality, high-performing web experiences.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors’ degree in Graphic Design or Interactive Media

• Ten or more years of experience in graphic design with emphasis in digital media

• Or combination of equivalent experience, education, and training.
• Proficiency in MS Office Products, Adobe Creative Suite, UI tools (Figma, Sketch, XD)
• High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted strategic projects in conjunction with day-to-day tactical activities
• Ability to get along and work with diverse personalities; tactful, mature, flexible
• Prioritizes and models good communication skills; follows up, timely responses, proactive and positive in approach
• Above moderate to high levels in reading comprehension, writing, and speaking in English; active listening; attention to detail

Market America offers competitive salary and generous benefits, including health, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan with company match, and an on-site health clinic.

Qualified candidates should apply online. This position will work remotely based from either our Monterey CA or Greensboro NC offices. Sorry, we are not able to sponsor for this position.

Market America is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Market America | SHOP.COM is changing the way people shop and changing the economic paradigm so anyone can become financially independent by creating their own economy and converting their spending into earning with the Shopping Annuity®.

ABOUT MARKET AMERICA, INC. & SHOP.COM

Market America Worldwide | SHOP.COM is a global e-commerce and digital marketing company that specializes in one-to-one marketing and is the creator of the Shopping Annuity . Its mission is to provide a robust business system for entrepreneurs, while providing consumers a better way to shop. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, and with eight sites around the globe, including the U.S., Market America Worldwide was founded in 1992 by Founder, Chairman & CEO JR Ridinger. Through the company's primary, award-winning shopping website, SHOP.COM, consumers have access to millions of products, including Market America Worldwide exclusive brands and thousands of top retail brands. Further, SHOP.COM ranks 19th in Newsweek magazine's 2021 Best Online Shops, No. 52 in Digital Commerce 360's (formerly Internet Retailer) 2021 Top 1,000 Online Marketplaces, No. 79 in Digital Commerce 360's 2021 Top 1,000 Online Retailers and No. 11 in the 2021 Digital Commerce 360 Primary Merchandise Category Top 500. The company is also a two-time winner of the Better Business Bureau's Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics and was ranked No. 15 in The Business North Carolina Top 125 Private Companies for 2021. By combining Market America Worldwide's entrepreneurial business model with SHOP.COM's powerful comparative shopping engine, Cashback program, Hot Deals, ShopBuddy®, Express Pay checkout, social shopping integration and countless other features, the company has become the ultimate online shopping destination.

For more information about Market America Worldwide: MarketAmerica.com

For more information on SHOP.COM, please visit: SHOP.COM