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Art Director
Visa Inc.
Foster City, CA, United States
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Job Description
The global Visa.com team is looking for an Art Director to create global content for Visa.com. You love design and technical constraints, and relish in ways to work through and around them. In this role, you will lead by example, working closely with a copywriter and a UX designer within our existing design system to create mockups for Visa sponsorships, products, and other services on Visa.com. You will own our Sketch design toolkit, keeping it updated and crispy clean for everyone to use. You will work with internal Visa groups who own global content, regional teams who oversee local Visa.com websites, our own internal creative resources within the Global Visa.com team, and occasionally external agencies. You will educate these parties as to why they can't have their own design system, iconography and/or bespoke functions, leaving each meeting as BFFs. You'll use Sketch to produce polished layouts, Illustrator to create new icons and illustrations, and Photoshop for resizing and optimization. The pages you create will be translated and distributed to over 160 Visa.comwebsites and published in 57 different languages. This position reports to the Creative Director.
Qualifications
Key responsibilities
• You will provide design and production support to UX and Creative Directors
• You will deliver and optimize production assets; document specifications
• QA website pages and platform enhancements
• Work with and maintain our component and pattern library
• You will design pages against wireframes and user stories for platform enhancements
• You will push creativity, challenge established thinking, and discover new ways of solving problems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (UX, copywriting, fellow visual designers, marketing owners, product managers) to create compelling visual designs
• You will work closely with creative directors, content authors, web developers and engineers to deliver the final product
Qualification + Skills
• 5 - 8 years professional experience
• You have a sense of humor, great collaborator and ability to herd cats with a cattle prod
• No cry babies—you won't always get your way
• You have prior experience working within scalable component-based design systems for mobile and web
• Deep understanding of platform and device requirements such as form factors, screen resolutions, pixel density and aspect ratios
• You have prior experience working with engineering, content authoring teams and business stakeholders
• You demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You are able to compromise when necessary but also know when to hold your ground
• An impressive portfolio which demonstrates design system thinking or just mind-blowing eye candy
Additional Information
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.