Visual Designer

We are recruiting a Visual Designer to our fast growing team in Stockholm. Wexpect the successful candidate to have 3-5 years experience of delivering interface design solutions for various clients. The candidate has loved working in a collaborative team environment before, and has experience of interacting with multinational clients. A Visual Designer works on graphic design, branding and identity strategy, illustration, photography, diagrammatic expertise (information visualisation), iconography, user experience, demo/animation solution, to create world-class digital services across multiple platforms.

The visual Designer reports directly to the Visual Design Lead and Experience Design Director.

Key tasks and responsibilities
- Apply strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus on user needs and business goals
Participate at the early stages of project definition and proposition creation on multiple projects.
- Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite system complexity.
- Utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and implement design criteria, design guidelines.
- Work directly with customers and third-party partner to design end-to-end solution
- Work on digital branding and corporate identity strategy
- Produce UX and GUI concepting
- Produce personas, storyboards, scenarios, design prototypes, motion graphic solutions, transitions and demos created in Flash, 3D or similar software packages
- Effectively communicate and present research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually
- Work on photo shoots or similar events
- Collaborate effectively with remote team members, including designers, researchers, engineering, product management, marketing, and others
- Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary team that includes other designers, project management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers

Knowledge, skills and attributes
- 3-5 years in-depth knowledge and experience of user interface design with consumer applications, preferably mobile devices, rich web apps/site, interactive TV within the media, telecommunications, and broadband industries.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with customers, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research
- Working knowledge of design and prototyping tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flex, Visio.
- Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, etc)
- Creative problem-solver with the ability to work with a blank slate and inspire others
- Knowledge of web-based technologies and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions, including the capabilities and limitations of Web technologies Flex, Ajax, Flash, DHTML, CSS, scripting, and various other technologies a plus
- Strong knowledge of design process and project management
- Ability to cope with stress
- Strong influencing, negotiation and communication skills in English and preferable in Swedish as well (written, verbal, presentation)
- Must be organised, analytical, and dynamic
- Bachelor degree in a design-related discipline
- A passion for design and people