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Senior Web Designer
Zurich Insurance Group
Woodland Hills, CA, United States
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We seek a self-directed individual who has a positive and professional attitude and can demonstrate proven management skills with a dedication to excellence, to join our team as a Sr. Web Designer (USFEB14 - Web Design Sr Specialist).
The successful applicant should have excellent communication skills, as well as strong project management, analytical and problem solving skills. The position is internal customer facing as the candidate will work with various levels of management; hence soft skills such as communication, organization, and presentation are extremely important.
Job Summary
Responsible for the creation of and administration of interactive website pages on the Internet. Balances experience in usability and information architecture with graphic design. Responsible for front-end page design - from the gathering of business requirements through the site integration, while working in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
The candidate will be responsible for all materials created and posted on the agent facing portal that serves our +15K agents and various levels of the field management team. This includes production work: creating, editing, testing, and implementing web and social business content. The Sr. Web Designer will ensure all materials and content are created within the brand guidelines and adhere to company policies and usability standards. The Sr. Web Designer will also ensure all requests are properly completed and delivered on-time. The candidate must have good communication skills to lead meetings and discussions with project stakeholders.
Essential Job Functions
• Responsible for developing, executing and managing all online web content in conjunction with our business partners (marketing team, products team, corporate communications, and others).
• Responsible for completing wireframes/comps for new functional projects.
• Responsible for training business units on our content management tool, project intake tool, Dreamweaver and use of other web technology.
• Available to help triage assignments, establish due dates, and follow-up with team members to meet due dates.
• Available to handle after hours and weekend emergency postings based on established ETA.
• Supervises assigned personnel.
• Researches, consults with clients and creates interactive website pages, forms, security documentation and procedures, database interfaces, and visual image consistency.
• Initiates, develops and implements short and long-term plans for the retrieval of information to and from the website, database utilization and management, website interfaces to business databases, progressive website improvement, and improvement of user interactive website capabilities.
• Develops and implements website scripting and programming, cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility, reporting procedures.
• Analysis, diagnoses, and provides solutions to website opportunities and functional problems.
• Provides personal, web-based, and phone consultation help desk services to clients and site users.
• Provides technical website problem solving and consultation to meet the needs of the users consistently and effectively.
• Manages and maintains the Internet and Intranet web servers, including uploading of pages, the integration of page content, application compatibility, messaging transfers and the establishing of page links throughout the Internet and Intranet systems.
• Manages and monitors the effectiveness of website links, service providers, application and database utilization, security directories, and project assignments.
• Establishes and manages website user standards, services and expectations.
• Reports on assignment implementation status.
• Directs Internet service providers and internal service providers to accomplish objectives; solves website problems, and develops solutions to provide user friendly website interaction.
Physical Actions
Required job duties are essentially sedentary work consisting of occasional walking, standing and lifting and/or carrying 20 lbs. Maximum, bending, talking, hearing, some cleaning and driving.
Physical Environment
Required job duties are normally performed in a climate controlled office environment.
Education Requirements
Four Year Degree and or related experience in web design.
Experience Requirements
• 3-5 years system development and information technology analysis and implementation experience. Programming and web application integration experience. Successful proven track record in project planning, project analysis, project management and developing cross-departmental project implementation.
• 3+ years of commercial web design/development experience. Must have proven experience on scalable web applications.
◦ Demonstrated proficiency with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Animation, Graphic Design, Web Design.
◦ Demonstrated proficiency in Graphical tools: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Microsoft Office, Javascript, Visio.
◦ Excellent grasp of Adobe Photoshop
◦ Flash Animation skills (Ability to modify/update actionscript)
◦ Image Retouching (Basic skin, wire removal, photoshop manipulations)
◦ Masking (Removing backgrounds with clean edges)
◦ Designing website banners and images
Preferred Skills and Abilities
• 3+ years of commercial web design/development experience. Proven experience on scalable web applications.
◦ Demonstrated proficiency with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Animation, Graphic Design, Web Design.
◦ Demonstrated proficiency in Graphical tools: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Microsoft Office, Javascript, Visio.
◦ Excellent grasp of Adobe Photoshop.
◦ Flash Animation skills (Ability to modify/update actionscript).
◦ Image Retouching (Basic skin, wire removal, photoshop manipulations).
◦ Masking (Removing backgrounds with clean edges).
◦ Designing website banners and images.
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