You are a visual designer with many years experience creating, clean, creative, USABLE designs... And you like working next to the beach. You should have experience (or at least a strong interest) in User Experience Design, Interaction Design, User Experience Research and other aspects of a complete UXD shop. Financial Services and/or e-commerce experience is a plus.
Our clients are mainly Fortune 500 firms with design needs spanning complex online applications, website redesigns and digital marketing materials. We are small shop, but we compete against the big kids - Cooper, Hot, Frog, AKQA and Digitas are a few of the usual suspects. Our projects are high profile and span all digital media - the web, extranets, mobile devices, iPads... You will be creating user interface designs for web applications, e-commerce web sites, software applications, and mobile applications.
We're looking for a senior designer that doesn't mind rolling up his/her sleeves and getting dirty in the digital trenches. Our process involves a creative collaboration where all team members get involved. We discuss. We argue. We whiteboard. We throw ideas out and say start over. Then we get it right, and push it out and our clients get a great design.
If you are a freelancer used to doing the pitch, figuring out the timing, doing the comps, and then handing off production files - perfecto! If you like working in a collaborative environment where you can be involved in all aspects of the design process — fantastic! We can use you. If you have been at a giant agency for 10 years, and are used to having interns fetch your coffee and junior designers clean up your sloppy comps, pass.
We are particularly looking for people who are equally comfortable working Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and have some Omnigraffle experience.
Desired Skills & Experience
- A minimum 8 years of interactive/visual design experience with client-facing applications
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite 5
- Background in Graphic/Interaction/Information Design, or related fields
- Experience with Omnigraffle, Flash, HTML/ CSS a BIG plus
- Fluent in best practices for web-based and mobile design
- Ability to self-manage tasks and accurately scope project involvement, then effectively communicate to internal teams and clients
- Portfolio demonstrating creative conceptual and visual design talents
- Inability to whine or say "I can't..."
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Spring Studio is a growing experience design firm located in downtown San Francisco. We design great products by partnering with great companies; ideating, collaborating and iterating to produce solutions that users love.
Our clients span a variety of industries including entertainment, technology, healthcare, and financial services. Engagements range from defining minimal viable products for funded start-ups to designing complex transactional platforms for Fortune 500 firms.
Our experience designers work closely with researchers, visual designers, and developers. In most cases, the experience design discipline leads our engagements.
ABOUT YOU
- Passion for design and delivering high quality solutions
- Positive and inclusive approach to interacting with a team
- Grounded, experienced and a little irreverent; you are talented but you don’t take yourself too seriously
- Desire to share knowledge and mentor other team members and the larger UX community
- Ability to lead projects from immersion and planning through product definition and design delivery
- Comfortable communicating and selling work to internal and client teams
DESIRED EXPERIENCE
- We are looking for senior and lead designers with 5+ years of experience for both contract and full-time positions
- Fluent in best practices as well as technologies for web-based and mobile design
- Experience in financial services is a huge plus
- A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience
WHY SPRING
We know as a talented UX designer that you could go anywhere, so why consider Spring?
- We are a boutique agency with a passion for UX and a growing list of awesome clients
- We are large enough to win exciting projects, but small enough that every individual makes a difference
- Flat structure & autonomous environment that provides flexibility support when you need it
- No egos. (Except for the creative director, which is practically unavoidable)
- Our downtown San Francisco Office has a stunning view of the Bay Bridge
WHAT NOW
If you are interested in joining the team, send a cover letter telling us why you think you would be a good match, a copy of your resume (or link), and a link to your online portfolio to jobs@springstudio.com, or send your resume below.
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Spring Studio is looking for a senior user experience researcher with domain knowledge in financial services and investing. As part of our team, you'll develop methodologies and conduct a variety of types of research: evaluative research and usability tests, generative research to uncover new customer needs, etc. Some projects will be tightly integrated with design initiatives, while others will be standalone.
Spring Studio is a boutique user experience design consultancy with offices in San Francisco and New York City (coming soon). We design applications, complex web sites and interactive marketing materials, with a strong focus on the Financial Services sector. Our top clients include a large investment firm, a large bank, an ETF company, and a large credit card company. We have a user-centered design approach, and believe that research is an integral part of creating solutions that truly meet user needs.
Because of our focus on drawing design insights from research activities, the ideal candidate will have expertise in both user research and user experience design. We're also looking for experience and interest in financial services, strong communication skills, and passion for bringing an understanding of customers to the development of satisfying design solutions.
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