Design (50%)
• Work with Senior Designers, Creative Managers, IA, UIW, Site and business owner(s) to conceptualize and execute designs that will advance the company’s merchandising, business, marketing, or branding objectives.
• Will mostly take direction from design lead(s); but will learn how to work as a design lead to explore and create successful designs.
• Refresh/update existing designs, working within existing templates and conventions but also exploring new solutions.
2. Production (40%)
• Specifications for HTML and consultations with Producers and HTML team to implement designs.
3. Other and QA (10%)
• Provide insight and participate in user test plans. Attend user-testing.
• Provide visual QA comments to and consultation with HTML, Engineering, and PM teams prior to launch.
• Ensure that pages match design spec.
• Aware of competitor best practices.
Minimum Qualifications
1) Competencies: Skills, knowledge, & abilities
Functional Competencies:
• A command of typography, color, composition, hierarchy, and an understanding of how to balance these design elements with user testing research to develop optimal user interface design solutions.
• Work with design templates to create and maintain a scalable and consistent web site.
• Consistently adhere to team processes and standards; contribute ideas for improvement.
• Create accurate, clear specifications for HTML.
• Work quickly and efficiently without sacrificing a consistently high level of attention to detail.
• Act as an advocate for the customer, and has a strong understanding of user-centered design and navigation structures.
• Understand the Wal-Mart brand and the importance of on-brand design, and is able to develop projects and concepts that are on-brand.
• Produce multiple concepts for a project, and is able to discern and articulate which ideas are most valid and worth pursuing. The number, quality, and variety of concepts is expected to increase as responsibility increases.
• Edit own work, to show best efforts.
• Solid knowledge of the constraints of web site design.
• Extensive experience with Illustrator and PhotoShop. Experience with HTML, Quark or InDesign, Office Suite, and Acrobat preferred (moved from Experience section)
Interpersonal Competencies:
• Strong project management skills: able to work on multiple projects, reprioritize as needed, and consistently deliver on time.
• Escalate issues appropriately to manager and project team.
• Learn how to set project schedules and estimate/manage own time accurately and effectively.
• Flexible, organized, and able to recommend priorities or escalate.
• Demonstrate willingness to contribute to the team.
• Understand the value of other Creative and cross-functional disciplines and how they work with design.
• Collaborate successfully within the design team, creative team, and across the company.
• Actively seek out feedback from manager and peers; improve own performance based on that feedback.
