Senior Web Designer
Hawke Media’s creative team is up to new ideas, and it starts with you! We are looking to bring on an enthusiastic, passionate and creative web designer. If you are versatile, self-motivated and thrive in a fast-paced “learn-by-doing” environment, then you'll find our atmosphere very exciting. You’ll be working on a variety of projects ranging from high-profile, mass scale clients to brand new start-ups looking to find their identity.
Join our multi-skilled team of designers who love to dabble in front-end CMS development, and help us grow as an integral part of our team. The Web Designer must have a diverse portfolio of design work showing strong ability to work with typography, layout, color, whitespace to create website the convert for e-commerce and B2B businesses. As well as a demonstrating the ability explain your design choices through you UX UI process from concept to execution. Experience with Shopify, Wordpress, and Webflow are a plus.
*This is not a full stack development role, and a designer background is required.
Responsibilities:
- Plan, wireframe, design, implement, and present to key stakeholder, websites from idea to execution
- Lead the design depart by bringing new design trends, and user experience practices to the forefront of your work and sharing those insights with the team
- Implement your designs that follow modern design trends, using templates as a foundation and HTML & CSS to make customizations
- Having a solution-oriented approach and dealing with ambiguity when working on more senior level website that require custom scopes, collaboration with multiple channels, and vendor
- Manage your own projects with a self-starter attitude, and communicate clearly with clients
- Ability to manage scope of work, and stick within said project’s determined scope
- Scope new incoming projects with Business Development team in order to ensure projects are accurately scope and priced
- Collaborate with other designers on designs including critiquing and workshopping ideas to mutual benefit
- Update and maintain existing websites, including content updates, visual enhancements, landing page creation
Skills & Experience:
- 1-2+ years of agency/in-house website/ecommerce design experience preferred
- Strong experience using prototyping software (e.g. Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch) to build custom website prototypes
- Experience working with Shopify, Wordpress, Webflow
- Proven experience of front-end design (HTML, CSS) including responsive design
- Proven experience with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Knowledge of e-commerce, B2B, and landing page best practices
- Strong design fundamentals including typographical and interactive skills that match with modern design trends and best practices
- A beautiful portfolio that shows strong website designs you’ve built while being able to communicate your design decisions
- Ability to interact, communicate and present ideas and receive creative directions and feedback
- Creative flair, versatility, conceptual/visual ability and originality
- High attention to detail, strong verbal and written communication
What Hawke Offers:
- A ridiculously awesome work environment - equal parts laid-back startup and motivated meritocracy
- An executive team that has scaled startups in the past and has every intention of continuing to scale Hawke Media into a dominant player in the digital marketing agency space
- Tons of training opportunities, including weekly education, book clubs, online courses, paid live courses, and over 130 skilled marketers to learn from/with
- Great opportunities to grow your technical skills and grow into a leader in the creative space
- 401K, Healthcare, Vision, Dental and unlimited PTO (we value performance and reward accordingly!)
