Arena Careers

Why work at Wide Eye?

• Work on meaningful causes, campaigns, and organizations
• Opportunities to work with a highly-creative, award-winning team
• Potential for growth in the role and within the company
• Competitive salaries & benefits
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid sabbatical starting at 6 years of service
• Work from home
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Potential to participate in the company 401k and profit-sharing plans
• Annual professional development budget

Responsibilities

Strategy & User Experience (50%)

• Contributes to and leads the development of strategy deliverables including workshops, briefs, personas, and audience, and user engagement strategies.
• Designs clear user experiences by creating sitemaps, wireframes, and prototypes that are informed by user experience best practices, brand and content strategy, and audience needs.
• Collaborates with the Engineering team to create user-centered experiences that are achievable, accessible, and scalable.

Design & Production (40%)

• Produces mockups, supplementary components, style tiles, developer handoff materials, and style guide documentation for client websites and product sites.
• Works in partnership with Project Management and Engineering teams to oversee the final execution and delivery of digital deliverables, conduct quality assurance testing, and ensure that they support all user-facing needs and goals.
• Leads design deliverables on interactive projects and digital design system projects from start to finish—developing a clear design vision for a project, and communicating concepts and ideas to clients.

Secondary Responsibilities (10%)

• Seeks opportunities to streamline and document our internal design process.
• Provides occasional project guidance and advice to more junior designers and helps them hone their craft, presentation abilities, communication skills and strategic understanding.
• Contributes to case studies and Wide Eye social media.
• Exemplifies user-centric design culture, values, and principles for the broader Wide Eye team and pushes the company forward in overall trends in technology and design.

Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years experience in interactive and digital design
• Strategic thinker as it relates to digital content strategy, content architecture, product design, websites, and user experiences
• Healthy understanding of nonprofit organizations and campaigns
• Demonstrated ability to turn data and insights into unique, creative solutions
• Demonstrated ability to manage large content architectures with complex and content-rich websites and/or digital products
• Experience collaborating directly with engineers to build websites and/or digital products
• Strong knowledge of graphic design principles, scaling design systems, layout, responsive design, and UI best practices
• Expert-level knowledge of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Ability to perform in a fast paced and high-impact work environment
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present work to executives and larger groups

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of CSS, front-end preprocessors, and frameworks
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Experience with WordPress theme-ing

Annual salary: $75K-$110K plus benefits