Interactive Designer (Beverly)

Feb. 8, 2012

Boston, MA

Confidential

Interactive Designer

We're seeking a talented and motivated full time Designer who is a wizard at interactive design and will drive the creative across our business. As a Designer, your task is to create inspirational interactive experiences for our tween girl audience and their parents. You will also provide intuitive creative concepts, execute designs, and collaborate with project team members to translate the strategy is resulting in a user centric solution. The candidate should have a strong sense of design whimsy and the ability to apply our brand to multiple media. The Designer will also have offline creative responsibilities for marketing collateral and maintaining a consistent message across all our channels. In addition to technical and design skills, the candidate must be self motivated, flexible, have the ability to multi-task and clearly communicate to peers and management in a fast paced start-up environment. Experiencing designing for tween girls is a plus, but not required

Responsibilities

Concepts for website and online advertising needs

Create compelling graphic layouts based on defined requirements

Ability to take in requirements and offer alternate paths to design success

Execute various aspects of production including scanning, digital retouching, image editing, special effects, file manipulation and layout

Design and development of web pages, graphics, multimedia, and email templates

Offline marketing materials, including direct mail, PR materials, etc.

Required Skills:

Minimum of 3 years of web design experience is required

Solid knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, (Adobe Creative Suite)

Practical experience in development of HTML & CSS

Apparel graphic design a bonus

Flash and ActionScript are an added bonus

Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and business environments

Experience working with Copywriters and external designers

Seasoned working under tight deadlines without taking your eye off feature relevance and quality

Detail oriented

Strong comfort level working with PCs and MACs

About FashionPlaytes

FashionPlaytes, Inc., (www.FashionPlaytes.com), is the design-it-yourself fashion destination for girls 5-12 years. We're a small, dynamic and well-funded startup that is redefining how girls interact around fashion. You will have the opportunity to define marketing campaigns in a game-changing business, with an integral role on our small team. This is a fun, hands-on, resume-building experience.

FashionPlaytes has been featured in the CBS Early Show, Redbook, Family Circle and other publications and our young designers have appeared on television segments nationwide showcasing their creations. FashionPlaytes was named a Hot 100 E-Retailer in 2011 by Internet Retailer and received a 2010 Mom's Choice Award for outstanding online product.

Contract to possible full-time position.