Open Badges Visual Designer Full-time

Mozilla Open Badges is looking for a talented visual designer to create beautiful and functional interfaces as well as marketing assets. You will work directly with developers and the design team to create assets and deliverables for desktop and mobile properties.
As an experienced visual designer you can think strategically and deliver pixel-level detail. You understand how to create a sense of visual consistency across products and platforms. You are comfortable weaving established visual language and style together to to create a coherent product and working within a cross functional, distributed team.

Responsibilities:

Creating icons, assets, designs, mockups and specs for a range of features.
Producing pixel-perfect deliverables and assets.
Creating and establishing meaningful and memorable design metaphors.
Collaborating with other designers and engineers to ensure a great user experience from design to implementation.
Designing assets that extend our brand for marketing and communications channels.

Position Details:

This is a full-time contract position with the potential to grow into a full-time employment position.
The visual designer will report to the Open Badges Creative Lead, Jess Klein.

Key Qualifications:

A passion for designing excellent products for humans.
At least three years of professional visual design experience.
Ability to rapidly conceive, visualize and iterate design solutions in a collaborative, distributed environment.
Familiarity and experience with modern web technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript) .
Comfort with producing work for print publication.
Proficient with the tools of the trade (we use Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq, etc).
Strong design portfolio.

Pluses:

Multi-disciplinary, always-learning mind set.
Interaction design experience.
Motion graphics capabilities.

Upcoming Projects:

Openbadges.org
Badgekit.org