Design Lead (Web Focus)
About the role
A Design Lead at Madeo is a senior designer invited to lead the design of user experiences and visual design on high-caliber websites for remarkable mission-driven organizations. Responsibilities include designing interactive report microsites, editorial sites, large organizational websites, and improving brand design systems for the web. The role involves close collaboration with UX strategists, content strategists, other designers, web developers, and client teams.
Responsibilities
- Leading original web design for multiple clients
- Participating in UX decision-making on website projects, including evaluating options, identifying tradeoffs, and contributing informed recommendations alongside strategists
- Working directly with clients, presenting work, fielding feedback, and speaking on behalf of design decisions
- Collaborating with UX strategists, content strategists, other designers, web developers, and client teams
- Collaborating with one or two strategists, a creative director, motion and graphic designers, and members of the client team
- Understanding the existing site, user needs and behaviors, insights from stakeholder interviews, and independently researching peer sites to identify opportunities during the research and discovery phase
- Participating in auditing the existing site and sharing recommendations across UX, UI, visual design, and content
- Establishing the overall creative and UX/UI direction in collaboration with the broader team and the creative director
- Producing a UI Kit and the overall design system for the website, defining interactions and transitions, and collaborating directly with front-end developers on execution
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading original web design for multiple clients
- Experience actively participating in UX decision-making on website projects, including evaluating options, identifying tradeoffs, and contributing informed recommendations alongside strategists
- Confidence working directly with clients, presenting work, fielding feedback, and speaking on behalf of design decisions
- Genuine interest in social impact and working with a wide range of progressive nonprofit organizations
- Ability to work (10am-6pm) in EST hours is required
- Living and working within commuting distance to NYC is preferred for occasional get togethers, but not a must
Qualifications
- Minimum qualifications include experience across multiple client projects in an agency or team setting, along with a practiced ability to make and defend sound design and UX decisions
- Deep appreciation for visual and brand design, with a focus on web design
Skills
- Interaction design and motion within web projects
- Information architecture and content strategy collaboration
- Graphic and brand identity design alongside web projects
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance benefits offered
- 401k matching of up to 5% of your salary towards your retirement
- Discretionary annual bonuses, both regular and to your 401k
- Flexible vacation days in addition to national holidays and team-wide vacations
- 100% remote work from home supported with occasional retreats and events
- If in NYC: in-person design day workshops, team dinners, design talks
- 1 to 2 team-wide retreats per year
- A work culture that prioritizes collaboration, learning, and growth
- Charitable donation matching
Other Design Roles at Madeo
If this role resonates with you but you are looking for a part-time or contract arrangement rather than a full-time role, we'd still love to hear from you. Madeo is currently hiring Senior Designers on a part-time contract basis. You can find more information on our careers page.