We're Hiring:Full-time Website Designer

Update: This position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!

Job Description

You'll be working in a fast-moving, three-person design shop in the heart of Chicago's design district, River North. Expect to handle multiple projects throughout the day, practice web design from sketches and research through design, development, and deployment. You'll manage multiple client relationships. We use an agile, iterative style of design and development; expect rapid revisions and design rounds from pen-and-ink sketches to completed web pages.

Web Design

Your design skills, from Photoshop to HTML markup, will be most important. Our house design style is business oriented, modern, and fresh. We're always pushing our skills and limits: we look forward to working with someone like-minded. You must have a clear understanding of typography on the web. You know the difference between an x-height and a cap height, and a pixel from a pica.

xHTML/CSS Design & Production

The web designer will be marking down layered PSD mockups into web standard xHTML/CSS documents. All markup is hand crafted: we don't use Dreamweaver in our shop, so you must read HTML, and possibly prefer to do so.

Content Wrangling

You'll be working with client documents, evaluating, organizing, and designing page content as needed. You'll be maintaining and revising existing client sites as well.

Experience Requirements

A strong liberal arts background is required: language skills are essential. Experience with hand coded HTML is required. You'll be marking up and designing in CSS--a clear understanding of the CSS box model is required, as is a desire to push your CSS skills.

Strong familiarity with Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash is required. We're mostly a Macintosh shop; you should be comfortable on either platform. You must provide three examples of your own web design work, three references, pay history, and a link to your portfolio site. Interested? Email us at info@neotericdesign.com

Note this position is on location only: contractors, recruiters, hold your fire.