Job Summary:
We’re looking for a Senior Web Designer to run the look and feel of our website, http://www.createspace.com.
The ideal candidate will have superb grasp of space, color, typography and imagery, and the coding skills to bring their designs to completion. Please include a link to your portfolio when applying! We want to see for your design skills, coding skills as well as user interface design.
Tired of contract work? This position is a full-time, permanent part of an all-star team located in beautiful Scotts Valley, CA, a reverse commute from Silicon Valley. We offer challenging, innovative work in a collaborative atmosphere where creative people thrive as well as competitive pay with benefits.
CreateSpace, part of the Amazon Group of Companies, is a rapidly growing business, supplying make-on-demand selection of book, CD and DVD for various retail channels. Books, DVD’s and CD’s are made when customers order them eliminating inventory and keeping them perpetually in-stock for customers to purchase.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Use design software to create mockups and html prototypes for new features
• Build/Code static and dynamic pages from these mockups and additional specifications
• Design and produce optimized, web-ready graphics
• Create and manage CSS styles and CSS frameworks
• Ensure customer-facing new features meet style requirements
• Create code for front-end behaviors with Dynamic HTML
• Cross-browser test and troubleshoot site presentation
• Optimize pages to be read by both humans and search-engine spiders by using clear, semantic markup
Knowledge and Experience Required:
• 4+ years of experience years experience in front-end web development
• Exceptional pixel-perfect graphic design and typography
• Browser rendering and cross-browser knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of image processing and web optimization
• Building for Search Engine Optimization
• Experience working with CVS or other concurrent versioning software
Skills and Abilities Required:
• Expert with a major design application (Fireworks or Photoshop)
• Expert XHTML/CSS for cross-browser rendering
• User Interface design and diagramming
• JavaScript to add behaviors to otherwise static pages
• Extraordinary attention to detail
• Semantic coding with CSS/XHTML
• Working with/around dynamic code (Java JSP, PHP)
• Multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment