Digital Designer

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The Digital Designer will be responsible for providing high quality design across all digital services. With the majority of our audience now on mobiles and tablets this will be the primary design environment but it will also include web, especially responsive sites, and potentially apps. As Digital Designer you will be hands-on working closely with developers and also contribute to functional aspects of a range of projects.

The Designer will have HTML and CSS skills of the highest order. You will have strong knowledge of the supporting technologies, such as browser testing and ideally including Less, and a range of development skills will be a bonus.

Tasks as Digital Designer will include range of publishing oriented activities including design and management of email and newsletter communications, picture editing and graphic design. Many will require a strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud or similar.

You will need to demonstrate a strong commercial focus. Your core objective will be to help The List build on its position as the leading guide to what’s on for the UK and use the infrastructure that has been created to extend the business into new activities and areas.

User experience will be at the core of everything you do and you will bring a relentless focus on maximising value to our users, advertisers and sponsors. You will maintain a global outlook in terms of your thinking and ambition will be to make our products market leading in whatever category we choose to operate in.

At all times yourself and the wider team will be asked to contribute ideas and suggestions on how to bring additional value to the business through the innovative adoption of new technology or business models.

Responsibilities of the Digital Designer Post

- Deliver the design aspects involved in the inception, development and delivery of new List products and the maintenance and enhancement of existing services

- Provide strong advertising and sponsorship design services to List prospects and clients

- Support the broader sales and business development activities to help delivery of a range of commercial opportunities especially advertising

- Utilise information architecture and user focused methodologies in UX design decisions

- Optimise performance: commercially as well as technically

- Good knowledge of search engine optimisation, analytics and tracking

- Establish quality control, accessibility and adherence to standards (current and emerging)

- Be able to multi-task, prioritise and work to deadline under pressure

- Assist with other aspects of the Company’s work as required

Objectives of the Digital Designer Post

- To ensure the continuing high quality of the products and services provided

- To ensure usability and the overall user experience of our products are the key focus

- Developing ideas and introduce the team to new technologies and opportunities

- Ensure services achieve the highest standards of accessibility

- Maximise usage, traffic and revenue

Reporting Structure

This Digital Designer post reports to the team leader who co-ordinates and monitors the workload.

Each year a formal appraisal procedure is undertaken with your manager.

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Reference number for Digital Designer: OLR09577