Interactive Designer

The Interactive Designer is responsible for ideating and designing digital advertisements for both pre-sale proposals and sold campaigns in a fast-paced environment. They will pride themselves on creating meaningful, high-quality designs and creating engaging and attention-grabbing ad units across various digital placements. 

The Interactive Designer has a solid design foundation and a good understanding of HTML and CS. JS and Greensock skills will be highly regarded.

Fluency in spoken and written English is a prerequisite for this role. This position requires the need to communicate effectively with Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and US-based clients and colleagues.

This role will require some availability outside of standard office hours to align with international time zones.

Note: This position offers the opportunity for remote work or 'work from home' as there isn't a nearby office. However, GumGum is excited to only consider applicants residing in the local area listed in the job description for business needs including some or all of the following: client interaction, team interaction, timezone, etc.

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What You'll Achieve

• Primary responsibilities
  • Design and create a range of digital advertisements, predominantly across mobile and desktop placements.
  • Create appealing pre-sale proposal mockup advertisements, utilizing best design practices to help drive business.
  • Design innovative and effective creative solutions with minimal direction, assets and/or when faced with time constraints.
  • Exhibit agility and collaboration skills, working alongside key stakeholders to find effective solutions when challenges arise.
  • Ideate functionalities, UX and components that feed into capturing user attention.
  • Strong communication and time management skills.
  • Design and create for different regions such as Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and North America
• Secondary responsibilities
  • Have an eagerness to develop HTML, CSS, JS and Greensock skills in order to effectively support more technical aspects of the role.

Skills You'll Bring

• BFA, Bootcamp, Trade School degree, or other similar background in graphic design, web design, interactive design or related discipline with some focus on web development technologies.
• 2+ years of design experience with a design studio, agency, or digital media company
• Strong written and spoken English is required; Must be able to communicate effectively in English for all aspects of the role
• 2+ years graphic design or similar
  • A clean commercial design aesthetic with good typography
  • Advanced selection skillset in Photoshop
• Understands of the core principles of animation 
• Proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite. Have a good working knowledge of:
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe inDesign
  • Adobe Media Encoder
• Useful applications and skills to know but not essential
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe XD
  • Code editing software such as Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code
  • HTML, CSS, JS and Greensock
  • Illustration and photo-retouching skillset
• The ability to be creative within a design brief and operate effectively under tight deadlines
• Imaginative and quick thinker
• Works well under pressure
• Thrives when presented with complex problems to be solved
• Clear communicator
• Strong time management skills
• Enthusiastic about design and animation
• Organized self-starter with proactive attitude
• Good attention to detail 
• A team-player with positive attitude
• Eagerness to learn all things creative, digital and advertising
• Adept at managing recurring tasks

What We Offer

• Learn about our benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits. If you'd like additional information, your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process!