Sr. Digital Designer

About the role

J.Crew seeks a super-creative highly motivated Senior Digital Designer who can enhance design for J.Crew’s digital channels - encompassing website, email, social and off-site marketing. The candidate should be a fountain of ideas and possess the skill set to transform the best ideas into wireframes and visual assets for a strong, succinct brand and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Produce a wide range of innovative, user-focused solutions that are multi-faceted and incorporate all the elements of a great experience whilst conforming to style guidelines.
• Generate on-brand, engaging shop-able content for the J.Crew website and its omni-channel touchpoints.
• Take ownership on projects including editorial features, responsive style arrays, emails, affiliates and site enhancements.
• Communicate all necessary information effectively with relevant members of the team throughout the production process.
• Use sophisticated and charming typography with an understanding of its relevance.
• Be aware of trends and new ideas within fashion and business and social, and be able to interpret those into fantastic creative.
• Adapt to and meet stringent deadlines, quickly managing changing priorities.
• Enhance user interfaces in collaboration with Art Directors and front-end developers.
• Bring content to life with unique, user friendly approaches.
• Ensure that work is produced to a high quality, with a consistent clear design, adhering to the J.Crew brand aesthetic.
• Maintain and elevate brand positioning with quality design standards.
• Develop technical skills and stay abreast of software changes and developments in web technology.
• Support the Senior Digital Art Director, design colleagues and wider brand creative team.
• Influence and guide a team of Designers and Juniors.
• Execute and/or guide still life photoshoots.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in a high volume, deadline-driven environment: fashion and technology industry experience.
• Proven depth of experience in design/digital represented by a portfolio of work.
• Strong command of typography,