Junior Web Designer

NextGuest Digital is an award-winning, full-service digital marketing agency and consulting firm working with leading hotel brands and hotel companies throughout the world. We have built an excellent team of top industry professionals, and enjoy a fun and friendly work environment. Our services include full-service digital marketing: display/banner advertising, banner retargeting, website design and development, email marketing, social media, mobile marketing, direct response online advertising, as well as website design and digital technology application development.

Once in a lifetime opportunity to become an industry digital and web design expert!

NextGuest Digital is expanding its team of talented professionals by adding a high energy Junior Web Designer to our New York office to focus on designing HTML5 banners, as well as emails, Facebook tabs, and other social media collateral. As a Junior Designer at NextGuest Digital, you’ll work with the Associate Art Director and Design Director to create marketing designs that follow brand guidelines for hospitality clients, ranging from small boutique hotels, to larger multi-property hotels. You’ll work in a fast-paced environment, maintaining high design quality.

We offer comfortable boutique business environment with an emphasis on results while retaining work/life balance. Provides excellent opportunities to build responsibilities and grow with company. Position based in Midtown Manhattan, New York.

Responsibilities of a Jr. Web Designer include:

Design new HTML5 banners and update existing templates for both desktop and mobile
Design email promotions and email newsletters
Design Facebook custom tabs and Twitter custom backgrounds
Design website icons, promo tiles, buttons
Professional web photography re-touching and color correction
Maintain high design quality; ensuring that site visual content is consistent

Requirements:

College degree is required, preferably in Design, Computer Art, Digital Design or something similar
1-3 years of relevant work experience
Experience in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop and Illustrator)
Proficiency in Sketch and Google Web Designer
Experience designing display banners, email campaigns, website marketing promotions, image editing, etc
Strong sense of design, layout, typography and branding for the web
Expert knowledge of current web design trends and techniques
Clear understanding of information architecture, Illustration skills a plus
Understanding of web standards/web browser capabilities and ability to create cross-browser and cross-platform compliant pages, and web technologies: HTML, CSS, JQUERY, Javascript, PHP, etc
Experience with social media and mobile websites a plus
Familiar with OS X operating systems
Excited to iterate through design concepts to yield the best graphic solution
Ability to work with pre-existing assets to match look and feel for new features, as well as create new assets and design concepts from scratch
Knowledge of hospitality and travel industry and technology/marketing solutions a plus