Senior Digital Designer

Title: Senior Digital Designer

Reports to: Senior Digital Art Director

Location: New York Office

Overview:

J.Crew seeks a super-creative highly motivated Senior Designer who can enhance design for J.Crew's digital channels - encompassing website, email, social and off-site marketing. The candidate should be a fountain of ideas and possess the skill set to transform the best ideas into wireframes and visual assets for a strong, succinct brand and customer experience. The candidate will have a strong rolodex of inspiration in the digital field. The candidate will join a team if Art Directors, Web developers, Designers, Content strategists and Writers of Brand Creative. You should be able to demonstrate, with a proven track record of taking projects from creative concept to final delivery. A team player is a must with the ability to multitask and pre-plan projects whilst concluding others.

What you'll be doing:

PRODUCE a wide range of innovative, user-focused solutions that are multi-faceted and incorporate all the elements of a great experience whist conforming to style guidelines. Generating on-brand, engaging shop-able content for the J.Crew website and its omni-channel touchpoints.

Take OWNERSHIP on projects including editorial features, responsive style arrays, emails, affiliates and site enhancements.

COMMUNICATE all necessary information effectively with relevant members of the team throughout the production process.

USE sophisticated and charming typography with an understanding of its relevance.

Be AWARE of trends and new ideas within fashion and business and social, and be able to interpret those into fantastic creative.

ADAPT to and meet stringent deadlines, quickly managing changing priorities.

ENHANCE user interfaces in collaboration with Art Directors and front-end developers. Bring content to life with unique, user friendly approaches.

ENSURE that work is produced to a high quality, with a consistent clear design, adhering to the J.Crew brand aesthetic. Maintaining and elevating brand positioning with quality design standards.

DEVELOP technical skills and stay abreast of software changes and developments in web technology.

SUPPORT the Sn.Digital Art Director, design colleagues and wider brand creative team.

INFLUENCE and guide a team Designers and Juniors.

EXECUTE and or guide still life photoshoots.

About you:

5+ years' experience in a high volume, deadline-driven environment: fashion and technology industry experience.

Proven depth of experience in design/digital represented by a portfolio of work.

Strong command of typography, layout, form and color.

Great proficiency in Photoshop, Indesign, Adobe CC, Responsive web design.

Firm understanding of web standards, cross-browser compatibility, and image optimization techniques. Knowledge of web technology's restrictions and opportunities.

Pro-active, ideas driven with bundles of initiative and follow through.

Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills, deadline driven.

Can do disposition.

J.Crew Group, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer

We are committed to affirmatively providing equal opportunity to all associates and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, legally protected physical or mental disability or any other basis protected under applicable law.