Creative Director Needed in Beijing
Company Brief:
D**** is the world's leading B2B online trading marketplace for China wholesale products, serving the world's small and medium sized businesses since 2004. We are backed by investors KPCB, JAFCO and Warburg Pincus helping us make online trade simple.
Job Title: Creative Director
Date:October 2103
Supervisory Responsibility:Yes
Department:Buyer Marketing
Your Role:
You are a seasoned, big thinking Web and print creative leader who can help steward and extend creative work developed at D*****. You thrive on determining the overarching creative and functional goals of a project and driving and managing user experience within the context of marketing promotions, category features, marketing campaigns or a brand framework. You are a leader who can align, motivate, and communicate with a great group of creative resources, but also driven to roll up your sleeves to make great work yourself. You will play a critical creative leadership role within the buyer marketing team, while also owning the D***** overall visual experience.
Responsibilities:
• Oversee and guide all marketing design and video production, while ensuring assets meet brand standards and delivery deadlines.
• Conceive, plan, and execute on a strategy to improve efficiency and scalability of creatives.
• Provide multiple cutting-edge design leadership for all online/offline creative projects.
• Contribute to the evolution and strategy of design policies and practices as applied to the implementation of standards, color, typography, iconography and visual expressions of the brand.
• Adapt creative styles as needed while maintaining established creative, technical, and brand standards universally.
• Design and develop online marketing creative including Web sites, microsites, landing pages, email templates, banner ads, Flash demos, and more.
• Create an unsurpassed user and visual experience in the B2B transaction marketplace industry, applying user-centered design processes to develop actionable user flows, wireframes, components, layouts, and design
• Lead initiatives to accumulate photography and videography assets focused on real life customers and their experiences to leverage in future design projects.
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Requirements:
• Strong, demonstrated understanding of user-centered interaction design methodology and Web technology
• Expert creative and design skills as they apply to typography, color, layout/composition, perspective and imagery
• Ability to work on Mac and PC platform
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, InDesign, Quark and Acrobat
• Proficiency in Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, and AJAX
• Knowledge of Web standards and cross-browser issues
• Experience optimizing Web page design for performance/conversion and search engine rankings
• Familiarity with Agile development processes a plus
• Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus while providing and accepting constructive criticism
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once under simultaneous deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or design theory prefered
• 5-7 years' experience in Web and print design
• eCommerce UED/design/UX experience highly preferred
• Portfolio of online/offline creative
• Required: Professional fluency (speaking, reading, and writing) in Chinese (Mandarin).
• Required: Professional fluency (speaking, reading, and writing) in English.