- Fundamental understanding of responsive UI/UX, especially calibrated for iOS apps, direct response marketing landing pages and sites with excellent conversion rates. Beautiful aesthetics are not always winners in our business.
- Expert using Adobe Creative Cloud tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator to create and edit optimized bitmap and vector assets.
- Proficiency with HTML5 and CSS.
- An understanding of WordPress and its theming schema, and Jamstack such as Gatsby for React.
- Ancillary scripting skills are ideal.
- Experience using Xcode and Git, and managing your projects in a CI/CD workflow.
- Extensive knowledge avoiding quirks with desktop and mobile browsers, email apps, and operating systems: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android, et al.
- Fluent in speaking and writing in US English.
Must be available online until at least Noon Pacific Time, UTC -8/+1
Tightrope Interactive, a close team of marketing experts who have been working together for more than a decade, are seeking a freelance (minimum of 40 hours per week) graphic designer with at least 2 years of digital design and front end development (HTML/CSS/JS) experience to work with our teams in California, New York and Eastern Europe.
This role is an opportunity to use your creative skills for online advertising and marketing projects that require proficiency with responsive UI/UX design for mobile apps and DSP web production workflows. You should have immaculate attention to detail and use clear, communicative design and code to deliver well-structured and highly engaging end-user experiences.
You should also have keen time management skills, and the ability to meet production goals based on weekly sprints. Effective collaboration with our creative, product and marketing teams, and the ability to quickly iterate in an agile project management environment is vital for success in this role.
Contract (Minimum 40 Hours Per Week)
Hourly compensation is based on experience.
About Tightrope Interactive
Tightrope Interactive develops and markets world class products including WebExtensions that generate type-in search queries, web-based subscription services such as PDF manipulation and faxing, and freemium mobile apps available in the App Store. We are far-reaching and diversified in our approach with office locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York Mid-Hudson Valley.
Our mission is not only to drive business for our clients, but to also nurture and celebrate the people who make Tightrope so special. We embrace diversity and support a work/life balance. Working here requires a healthy blend of passion, commitment, flexibility and teamwork. Check us out online at TightropeInteractive.com.
Think you have what it takes? We’d love to hear from you!
How To Apply
Please submit a link to your portfolio, resume, and a brief cover letter that describes why you’d be a good fit with Tightrope. Applications with missing or obviously canned cover letters will be ignored. Tip: Your portfolio should demonstrate your proficiency with responsive web and mobile design, and direct response marketing.
No agencies or recruiters please.
,[Design projects that include high performance: smartphone and tablet app interfaces, responsive websites, microsites, landing pages, App Store assets, display ads, email marketing templates, and sales collateral., Collaborate with stakeholders on project requirements; provide Scrum story point estimates with a consistent track record., Quickly flowchart, wireframe, and mockup projects as needed; ideally, in Figma., Create and integrate optimized images, HTML, CSS, and JS/ES assets; utilize CDN’s and basic web services., Use Xcode Instruments and browser profiling tools to optimize performance and diagnose problems., Multitask effectively between new projects, and the ownership of your past projects., Collect quantitative and qualitative learnings to share and apply to future projects.] Requirements: Photoshop, UI, CSS, HTML, Wireframing, JavaScript, Git, Prototyping, Visual design, Cascading Style Sheets, HyperText Markup Language, iOS, Illustrator, HTML5, Windows, macOS, Figma, REST, React, Angular, SQL, Android, Gatsby, Xcode, WordPress Tools: Tracker, Confluence, GIT, Agile, Scrum. Additionally: Small teams, Flat structure.
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