Creative / Designer

Creative / Designer

Summary

The Digital Experience team at Sears Holdings Online Services is looking for a collaborative, team-oriented Creative Designer with at least three years of experience and a passion for style, creative and user-centric interaction design, and technology, to join our close-knit group of web professionals. Our team is a motivated group of cross-functional team members who work hard every day to improve the user experiences at Manage My Life, Sears PartsDirect, and other Sears Holdings Online Services sites. We work and play; there is no doubt about that. If you like to collaborate, push yourself, and challenge others —and have three years of, interaction and concept experience applied to web and application design, then we'd like to talk to you. There are a few specific requirements we're asking for besides experience and passion—so look at the list below. If you have all, or most, of these qualifications, we'd like to hear from you right away!

Responsibilities

  • Design compelling interactions and experiences with the target audiences' needs in mind
  • Work independently and collaboratively in an Agile environment
  • Conduct concept generation and modeling experiences
  • Design website audits and conduct design evaluation experiences
  • Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and teams
  • Manage, track, and plan creative projects
  • Mentor co-workers, including design inspiration
  • Optimize design concepts around HTML/CSS technologies
  • Identify design trends, tools, templates and techniques that would evolve the existing approaches of the digital experience and development groups
  • Work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams

Qualifications

  • Three years of experience in web interface and layout design
  • Strong design background
  • Advanced knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Intermediate understanding of HTML/CSS, with direct experience optimizing design concepts around these technologies
  • Flash experience a strong plus
  • Portfolio that displays an understanding of user-centered design (online, preferred)
  • Willingness to collaborate with information architects, copywriters, developers and others to produce a team-driven end product with a top-notch user experience
  • Attention to detail, while considering the big picture, too
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Self-motivated with a positive attitude
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects while meeting deadlines
  • Ability to prioritize
  • Experience with large-scale web sites or e-commerce sites preferred—we're looking for someone who has worked on complex web sites, not necessarily in retail
  • Design audit and evaluation experiences
  • Awareness and appreciation of current design trends, tools, templates and techniques that would evolve the existing approaches of the digital experience and development groups

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To apply

If you meet the qualifications listed for this position, please go here to apply and submit your resume.