Web Designer

McKinley Marketing Partner's client is looking for a web designer to join their team. The designer will lead brainstorming sessions, generate mock-ups in Figma, and present prototypes to leadership.

This is a hybrid position, 3 days in office at their Hanover, MD location. Tuesdays and Thursdays must be in person.

Responsibilities

• Create content webpages, such as articles and success stories using templated structures and update existing pages across 27 websites
• Build customized designs and experiences through Figma for the website based on heavy research of competitors, using best practices for UI/UX including, mobile and responsive site design and present to leadership
• Assist in maintaining a component library within Figma
• Successfully coordinate projects across functional teams with strong project management skills
• Work with their translation vendor for translations across all their brands
• Manage the intake forms from the business for changes needed to the website
• Manage intake of web leads
• Maintain the site architecture document that houses all pages on the website
• Ability to size and source images for the website that’s on brand
• Test all webpages for accessibility and make recommendations on things to change as needed
• Gather reporting from GA4 and Sitecore to be able to tell a full story based on new designs and web pages
• Proactively research competitive landscapes to learn new tools, new skills and new aspects of marketing and design
• Collaborate with back-end web developers, Sitecore admins, graphic designers and copywriters

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in web design (or UI/UX), graphic design, communications, or a related field or 5+ years of experience
• Developed skills in organization and project management
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong design and typography skills
• A solid understanding of graphic design, web technologies and wireframing tools within Figma
• Understanding of web markup, including HTML
• Extensive capabilities in the Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Figma
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Understanding of Google Analytics