Senior Digital Designer

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Janie and Jack is a design house with every kid at its heart—because individual style starts early. Each season we tell stories, some familiar and some new. Inspired by the places we go, the people we admire and all the unexpected stuff in between, our collections feature modern twists on classic fashion.

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Janie and Jack is looking for a Senior Digital Designer to join their team.

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You will work closely with the creative team to develop and produce the e-commerce website, email campaigns, social, and online marketing initiatives for Janie and Jack.

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What you’ll do:

• Translate business and marketing objectives into designs that are clear, compelling, visually exciting, easy to use and emotionally engaging.
• Produce design specifications, scenarios, and design prototypes.
• Initiate concepts and work independently and/or with creative director.
• Present multiple solutions per project.
• Manage timing and deliverables for project work.
• Must be able to handle a number of projects simultaneously.
• Work closely with copywriters and business partners to design original layouts on a tight schedule.
• Work with business, creative and copy teams to clarify objectives, revise creative and ensure accuracy for all projects.
• Actively participate and help drive the creative process by presenting well-developed creative solutions to meet the given objectives.
• Responsible for executing product line updates for all e-commerce website, as well as hand-coding HTML for emails and deploying them in an accurate and timely manner.
• Work with the email service provider to manage the day to day operations while resolving issues and refining processes for launching emails.
• Responsible for staying current on industry trends, while keeping all brands at the forefront for site/email design and best practices.
• Supervise and develop other designers and contractors while balancing personal workflow and priorities.
• Giving effective feedback to drive successful designs and design systems, while inspiring and enhancing the efforts of a creative team.

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What you’ll bring:

• BFA in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Visual Studies or other design-related field.
• 5-7 years of professional experience in web design or multimedia required. Online retail experience a plus.
• Strong graphic design, layout, typography, image manipulation, and color correction skills and have relevant experience with a lifestyle-oriented trend-setting brand.
• Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, HTML, flash and must be familiar with InDesign.
• Expert in ideas generation and collaboration with copy and photography creative partners.
• Must be detailed-oriented, well organized and able to thrive in deadline driven environment.
• Ability to apply user interface and interactive design best practices to projects.
• Strong communication skills.
• Solid experience with resizing, optimizing and slicing of graphics.
• Must be willing to be flexible in job duties and take on added responsibility when necessary.
• Ability to manage competing, high priority projects while identifying creative solutions quickly and to self-direct under ambiguous and changing circumstances.

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Why You’ll Love Working With Us

• The Product—so good, you’ll be using your employee discount more than you probably should.
• The People—ask anyone that works here…we have incredible people on our team.
• The Experience—you’ll enjoy a rewarding career at a respected children’s brand.

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This position is contract to hire, 40 hours per week.