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Design Director

Permanent contract
Carouge
Salary: Not specified
Starting date: September 02, 2020
Occasional remote
Experience: > 10 years

BuzzBrothers
BuzzBrothers

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With expertise in design, technology and customer experience, our design team of visual designers, UX designers, and developers, aim to create beautiful and efficient brand experiences.
And now we’re looking for you, a Design Director, to help push our expertise even further, and challenge our design output through a deep expertise in UI design and UX applied to interfaces.

What you will be doing:

  • Lead UI Design on major projects, with other designers or by yourself
  • Lead UI Design on AR, VR and innovative digital interfaces
  • Review the work of Art Directors and Designers, and coach them for improvement
  • Drive the software skills of our designers up, and introducing better tools if need be
  • Create interfaces, design patterns, prototypes, and design systems
  • Collaborate with UX, other designers, and development team members to ensure products look and work as intended.
  • Act as an escalation point for the Design team across multiple projects/account
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams to create innovative solutions
  • Confidently present work to all levels of internal and client teams
  • Drive the vision and growth of the digital design discipline (reporting to both the Executive Creative Director and the Head of UX)

Qualities we’re loking for:

  • Extensive experience in interaction design or interface design (10+ years)
  • Deep expertise in Interface UX best practices, responsive layouts, web fonts,
  • Good knowledge of web development principles and constraints applied to interface design: responsive behaviors, grids, loading time issues, major CSS techniques, SVG…
  • A compelling portfolio of distinctive work that spans mutliple categories, including responsive experiences, mobile-first websites and e-commerce platforms.
  • Some leadership and mentorship experience
  • Great communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Expertise in Photoshop, Sketch, XD, or other interface design software
  • Fluency in both English (for the work) and French (for the team building)
  • Enthusiasm about sharing your hard-earned digital knowledge.
  • Addiction to mountains, snow, cheese, sports, your kids, chocolate, lakes, or any combination thereof!
  • EU citizenship, or holding a Swiss work permit.

Does this look like you? We’d love to hear more!

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