Location: New York
The Economist.com User Experience team is a small team of seasoned practitioners and leaders responsible for creating a world-class online experience for the leading global news analysis site with a sophisticated, demanding and international audience. The team contributes to an ambitious new online strategy with experience planning and customer insights, and executes on the strategy with information architecture, interaction design and visual design, in close collaboration with technical and marketing teams.
The Interactive Art director will collaborate with the senior experience architect on leading the redesign of Economist.com. The role will be responsible for creative direction and hands-on design work, drive conceptual and visual development, develop interaction and design patterns for Economist.com's user experience guidelines, and lead and inspire a team of in-house and contract designers who are responsible for designing the core site and products as well as support the sales and marketing team.
We are looking for a strong, experienced interactive designer who is ready to take the leap to a next level in their career. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years experience designing major websites in an interactive agency or client-side, at least 2 years working for a major publisher, will have superior design skills and have successfully presented ideas to executive management as well as lead and inspire designers.
The Interactive Art Director works with information architects, editorial and product teams to understand business goals and with designers and developers to guide the prototyping and implementation process. Projects include Web sites, applications, products and services for other delivery platforms. This position may require travel once a quarter.
Requirements:
The Economist Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
If you would like to be considered for this challenging position, please submit your letter of interest (Salary Requirements a must) and resume to jobsny@economist.com or:
The Economist Group
Human Resources
111 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019