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CREDO Mobile / Working Assets (San Francisco, CA)

Design Director, CREDO Mobile
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We are looking for a Design Director with Web experience to drive visual interaction design as well as other multi-channel marketing initiatives. This is a hands-on position for someone who is already a manager although still stays hands-on with design work. These are exciting times at CREDO Mobile—you’ll be joining a dynamic and collaborative team of individuals working for a company that makes the world a better place.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee the design of all Web and print communications.
• Lead visual graphical design of website UI experience and page components that optimize different site objectives via vigorous A/B testing
• Drive and manage rapidly changing creative to leverage news cycle in connecting prospective customers to our progressive product offerings while keeping the marginal cost of creative low.
• Manage and mentor small design team, and collaborate with editorial director, to consistently develop on-brand, high-impact work on time.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and perspective when solving design issues.
• Search out best design practices for visual interaction design.

EXPERIENCE

• 5-8 years experience with visual interaction design and management with additional background in creative strategy and print communications. • Proven experience working on e-commerce sites, preferably large-scale, dynamically driven ones.
• Demonstrated experience creating synergy out of distinct and sometimes competing goals such as progressive social change AND mobile service.
• Experience in user-centered design.
• Experience executing across multiple marketing vehicles (Web, email and direct mail)
• Experience designing creative for mobile/telecom products, social responsibility sector, and/or cross-sell marketing preferable.
• Knowledge of Adobe CS3 programs, specifically InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Professional, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, CSS and some JavaScript.
• Thorough understanding of brand positioning, messaging strategy and strategic design.
• Strong leadership and presentation skills with clear point of view.
• Collaboration with different departments to create designs for specific projects.

DESIRED QUALITIES • You understand design rules inside and out, and when it’s appropriate to break them. You’re interested in blazing trails and establishing practices that make sense for the truly unique environment at CREDO. • You have the ability to interpret needs, objectives, and direction from multiple sources of input (you speak “geek” and “marketing-ese” fluently).

• You have the ability to produce multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• You like working closely with developers and consider production of clean code a badge of honor.
• You have progressive activism/volunteer experience, and more than an academic understanding of our customer demographic.
• You must be willing to dump your iPhone to work for social change

How to apply

Submit a cover letter/resume to

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with subject line: “Design Director/SmashingMag” explaining interest in CREDO's social mission, resume and salary history.