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Jr Web Designer
Cornerstone Brands
Atlanta, GA, United States
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Headquartered in exciting Atlanta, Georgia, Ballard Designs is a dynamic, fast-growing marketer of globally inspired home furnishings and accessories. We are a tight-knit, entrepreneurial team of smart, dedicated professionals who are passionate about what we do. If you are energetic, success-driven, and ready to make a real impact, we need to meet you. Right now, we are looking for a Jr. Web Designer
Ballard Designs is part of Cornerstone Brands, a family of leading home and apparel brands including Frontgate, Garnet Hill, Grandin Road and Improvements.
We are seeking a results oriented professional to join our Internet Marketing Creative team as a Jr. Web Designer. A successful candidate for the position of Web Designer must contain the knowledge and skills to be responsible for the following.
Job Description
• Design, create and maintain web page templates, site content, graphics and email templates for the Creative and Marketing Departments.
• Have strong typographic, color and layout skills and an understanding of how these basic design principles are applied to the web.
• Have conceptual and creative skills with experience in copy/design integration and interactive interface design.
• Have an understanding of user interface and information architecture principles and familiarity with usability principles.
• Be well versed in Photoshop, Illustrator and XHTML/CSS with a broad understanding of current web and browser-related issues.
• Have a strong interest in web technologies, standards, design tools and trends as well as an understanding of the practical benefits and limitations of web technologies (such as Flash and HTML).
• Ability to create web pages in HTML without use of WYSIWYG editor.
• Maintain site appearance by developing and enforcing content and display standards.
• Able to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines in a production-oriented environment, professionally and proactively completing assignments.
• Must be comfortable following direction and implementing changes based on constructive criticism and be able to balance great design with meeting short deadlines.
• Possess outstanding verbal communication skills, self-motivation, attention to detail, passion for web design, desire to keep learning and a drive to produce great work on a consistent basis.
• Able to work closely with other visual designers and copywriters.
Requirements:
• 1-2 years experience in web or graphic design.
• Highly proficient in design software such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Experience with minor photo retouching in Photoshop.
• Proficient in HTML, SASS, CSS, Bootstrap and Dreamweaver.
• Knowledge of mobile web design, app design, HTML5 or JQuery is a plus.
• Experience working with CMS such as Wordpress, Concrete 5, Joomla, etc.
• Experience working on consumer facing transactional or ecommerce oriented sites a plus.