(Los Angeles / Anywhere)
Retail Travel Management Company Seeks Talented Web Designer
We are seeking a talented web designer with excellent design chops and expert knowledge of front end and back end development techniques.
You should love designing for the web and enjoy honing your craft to keeping up with best practices, design principals, web standards and know when to use the best method in any given project. You'll be responsible for designing and redesigning a series of travel sites, keeping them up to date with graphically captivating ads, banners and microsites, as well as developing and rolling out new features.
Most of our websites are built with and running on ExpressionEngine so experience with EE is a huge plus, however willingness and ability to learn it's ins and outs is a start. We also use a PHP API to display our offers, so knowledge in PHP programming is beneficial as well.
Our ideal candidate would have the following:
- Excellent graphic design and typographic skills.
- Excellent HTML and CSS knowledge
- Excellent organization and project management skills
- Proficiency in your preferred design tools such as Photoshop, Fireworks or Illustrator
- Ability to lead the design direction on a given project with layouts, typography, user interaction, etc.
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently without supervision
- Ability to work in a team and delegate tasks and projects
- In-depth knowledge of IE 7+ quirks and how to address them (yes, IE6 can die now)
- Experience with PHP a huge plus.
- Great communication skills
- Integrity
We are located in Los Angeles but you have the option of working remotely (preferably on the West Coast) or in our main office.
Job Perks: Work from home, competitive salary and great health benefits as well as the occasional 'hook-up' on vacations.
Apply: Please send us portfolio examples you feel best demonstrate your design and programming ability. Do not send your entire portfolio, but rather 1-4 examples of why you think your are the best person for this job. Send to 5898@jobs.authenticjobs.com
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