Visual Designer
Responsibilities:
- Establish the look, feel, and size for various brand, marketing, and merchandising asset campaigns across web, touch, and mobile
- Work within brand guidelines to create layouts that reinforce the Groupon brand style and voice through its visual touchpoints
- In addition to standard asset types, design logos, icons, illustrations, infographics, and data visualizations
- Work with a global asset library and workflow system to source images and follow a production schedule
- Juggle multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations
- Brainstorm and develop clear ideas, concepts, and designs from inception through production
- Work collaboratively with other designers and copywriters to ensure a consistent, integrated brand perception and user experience
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, marketing managers, and merchandising business lines to create a simple, branded UX
- Translate client business requirements, user needs, and technical requirements into designs that are visually enticing, easy to use, and emotionally engaging
- Stay in the loop and on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in visual design field
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 2+ years relevant design experience
- Design experience for websites and ecommerce digital advertising preferred A solid foundation in typography, layout, and design
- Good eye for photography and be able to select photography for campaigns
- Excellent visual, written, and verbal communication skills, along with presentation and negotiation skills
- A penchant for details and organization, including the ability to prioritize tasks, communicate progress, and meet deadlines
- The ability to effectively take direction and work both collaboratively and autonomously
- Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator; additional experience with Sketch and HTML preferred
Applying
When applying, please include your resume, cover letter, and portfolio. If we set up an interview, you’ll present a minimum of 3 relevant projects. You’ll provide insight into your design process and include any materials you have a deep passion for. We want to meet the whole person, not just your professional work.
Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.