Job Description :
Job Title: Sr. Visual Designer Client: APPLE Location: Palo alto, CA. Duration: Long Term Job Description: Responsibilities: As a Sr. Visual Designer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to conceive and support design work for innovative software products. Day to day tasks will include leading new visual design explorations, creating visual design mock-ups, creating mood boards, and working with product managers, UX and interaction designers to understand requirements. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. Basic Requirements: Minimum 8 years working as Software UI Visual designer. Experience in leading visual design development, shipping products, and developing strong visual design concept work. Expert knowledge of visual, typographic, grid system, and interaction design disciplines and principles. Skills in motion, illustration, and concept creation/visualization strongly desired. Sophisticated design, layout, and typographic skills. Excellent sense of colour, scale, harmony, balance, and use of negative space. A demonstrated proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite graphics and Sketch applications. Familiarity with user-centred design principles, methodologies, and user research. An online portfolio revealing thought process and an ability to rapidly generate creative ideas, with samples of original graphic or visual design work. Preferred requirements: Experienced as UI/Visual designer for 8 - 10 years of designing UI for consumer facing digital products Ability to create design mock-ups at high quality with fast turnaround, and ability to iterate quickly to visualize and evolve visual design solutions. Need to be receptive to constructive criticism, and be able to internalize and make design revisions based on feedback from design leaders and design colleagues. The ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously and multi-task in an agile environment. Ability to distil complex concepts and then quickly turn around rigorous flows and mock-ups reflecting a range of simple, elegant, and technically-feasible options. Lead other visual and collaborate with interaction designers to create supporting UX designs. Create detailed print documentation and specifications of user experience concepts and visual design specifications. Work closely with Software team to support prototyping activities with visual design mock-ups/assets, to capture and resolve bugs, including resolution of UX Design inconsistencies, incorrect or missing graphic resources, etc. Be prepared quickly to grow into increased responsibility and autonomy as you demonstrate skills and reliability. Strong communication skills. Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously Aptitude and cultural fit to inspire and collaborate within the multidisciplinary team (see Desired Characteristics for more detail Required experience or education: Based on experience, background and candidate fit / desired characteristics. Bachelors or Masters in Graphic Design, Visual Design, User Interface Design, Architecture Design, Video Game Design or an equivalent design degree