Lead Designer

Job Description

Who We Are:

Wunderman Thompson Mobile (Formerly POSSIBLE Mobile) builds native apps for mobile devices in iOS, Android, and connected devices including Apple TV, Chromecast and Android TV.

We are trusted by and have long lasting relationships with our clients including renowned brands like JetBlue, PGA Tour, Hasbro and Tuner Sports.

More than development, our team partners with our customers providing strategy, consulting, and business analytics from start to ship to ensure each app performs well and meets user needs.

Founded in 2008 as one of the first mobile consulting shops, we pride ourselves on continually being cutting-edge and place a high priority on staying in the forefront of technology.

We are the mobile strategy, user experience, design, and development capabilities division of Wunderman Thompson, a creative, data and technology agency, part of the WPP portfolio.

By nature, we are visionaries, innovators and pioneers in the mobile space. We are built to inspire growth for our clients with breakthrough creativity that helps our clients succeed. If that describes you too, then by all means, get in touch—we’d love to work with you.

Who are we looking for:

The Lead Designer will own creative deliverables on projects from discovery to production. Independently implement primary design direction that incorporate best practices in native mobile design and technology for more than one client/project at a time. In this role as a Lead Designer, you would lead a team of designers from concept to asset delivery for native mobile environments. You will need to have design experience with native platforms such as Android, iOS, and Connected Devices. The Lead Designer should be passionate about and ready to evangelize, native mobile best practices to clients and team members.

What you'll do:

• Create and lead original strategy and design from concepts
• Be able to direct those efforts in others through to project completion
• Lead and set standards with multiple approaches of mobile strategy to solve client problems, meet KPI's and generate original visual direction

What you'll need:

• Be able to concept and collaborate on strategy ideas, user testing, project timelines, budgets and user experience
• Experiment with multiple approaches to mobile strategy in order to achieve user and client goals
• Demonstrate mastery of layout, typography, mobile technology and standards, and new creative arenas as they emerge
• Demonstrate competence with design programs such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch
• Understand technical possibilities, technical workflows, and technical limitations of app development, with an emphasis on UX and UI
• Have a general understanding of platform constraints as they affect mobile design and emerging technologies

Nice additions:

• Native mobile design experience
• Experience with After Effects, Sketch, XD
• Prototyping
• Gathering User Research and Conducting User Testing
• Generating digital design systems
• 3D modeling experience
• Motion design experience

Wunderman Thompson Mobile is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.

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