Web Designer for Visual Specialist

Omnigon is a team of digital strategists, artists and technologists working exclusively in digital content delivery in the sports, media and entertainment industries. Since its founding in 2008, Omnigon has established itself as a market leader, focused on helping clients achieve returns on the strategic, creative and technical investments they’ve made.

Omnigon is looking for an experienced professional who specializes in software development life cycle improvements to join their team.

The Web Designer – Visual Specialist will work closely with Omnigon’s web-development team to modify and create exquisite visual concepts for in-house projects. The Web Designer – Visual Specialist is responsible for documenting changes made in designs, presenting visual concepts to the development team, and identifying best practices to implement the solution. Finally, the Web Designer – Visual Specialist is also responsible for monitoring quality and providing feedback to satisfy project requirements.

• Ownership of the Omnigon Software Development Life Cycle. Oversees the product on the design side from beginning to end.
• Leadership of external developers combined with consensus based decision making on design implementation
• Documentation of business requirements in confluence.
• Create QA design tickets in Jira
• Understand project requirements, goals and objectives and translate them into visual designs
• Follow established creative frameworks of Omnigon to produce original designs
• Produce visual systems that follow Omnigon’s technical guidelines of what’s feasible within a particular software environment or framework
• Produce sample interaction models that demonstrates how visual presentation needs to take shape for software implementation

• 5+ years of visual design and computer science experience;
• Expert knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Javascript;
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Master’s degree is an asset;
• Experience using Opta raw data feed to collect data for visualizations;
• Expertise in web-designs, responsive designs, and mobile app designs;
• Experience with CSS, HTML, CMS (Wordpress, Drupal), JavaScript, JQuery, Visual Basics, Dephi, C++;
• Familiarity with UX/UI designs;
• Understands how to design intuitive site functionality, interaction, site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation;
• Strong conceptual thinker;
• Experience working in a professional services-based organization;
• Ability to update business requirements documents;
• Ability to communicate, and identify preferred workflow with the foreign studio development teams;
• Ability to update development tickets for QA;
• Strong communications skills;
• Fluency in a second language is an asset, but not a requirement of the position.