Ecommerce Production Designer

A brand is the cumulative experiences of your customers’ with every interaction across every touch point. Caring about awards means caring primarily about how it looks. Caring about the customer experience means caring about how it works. Every part of the Hero process and team was built with a singular focus on building customer experiences that work.

As an Ecommerce Production Designer, you will be working in a team of Web Design professionals with a passion for elegant, forward-thinking, modern design. HERO takes design seriously and believes that designers have a significant voice at the table in defining any successful digital initiative. As a team member, you will be collaborating with client services; project management, strategy and engineering to develop original design concepts, and guide projects from concept to launch. You will start on a specific client project, onsite at client's headquarter in the South San Francisco Bay Area (Shuttle provided). We are open to both longer term contractors and direct hires.

• Develop innovative visual designs, screen layouts, navigation systems, user interface elements, typography and color palettes
• Create clean, effective design solutions for simple or complex user tasks
• Work in an agile, rapid development and prototyping environment where effective communication is paramount
• Lead and collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams, provide art direction to other designers and work with producers and technologists to implement designs into technology

• 5+ years professional experience designing outstanding responsive websites
• Ability to create clean, effective and innovative visual design systems across devices and media types
• Strong up to date body of work and online portfolio (this is a must-have) that is impressive on immediate impression
• Expert knowledge in UI principles, graphic design principles, and web standards
• Experience designing transaction flows
• Purchase flow optimization a plus
• Retail or consumer electronic experience a plusAbility to work well cross functionally and make appropriate trade-offs to meet time constraints
• Experience in leading and collaborating with interdisciplinary project teams, providing support to other designers, and working with engineers to implement designs into technology
• Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience and desire to work within a fast-paced, iterative development environment; experience with - Agile a strong plus.
• Fluency in Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks and a solid knowledge of HTML/CSS and prototyping tools.
• Degree in graphic design, human-computer interaction, interaction design, or other relevant experience
• US Work Permit required.
• Ability to work at client's site in South Bay