Senior Digital Designer, Saks Fifth Avenue

Job Description

Company Description

Hudson’s Bay Company is one of the fastest-growing department store retailers in the world.  In North America, HBC’s leading banners include Hudson’s Bay, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, Gilt, Saks OFF 5TH, Find @ Lord & Taylor, and Home Outfitters. In Europe, HBC’s banners include GALERIA Kaufhof (the largest department store group in Germany), Galeria INNO (Belgium’s only department store group), and Sportarena. At HBC we are a company of adventurers who explore uncharted territory, challenge convention, and work with imagination and fun.  

 

Reporting Relationship: Digital Design Manager

 

Major Responsibilities:

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The Senior Digital Designer develops on-brand solutions for Saks weekly digital marketing communications. The solutions developed by the Senior Digital Designer should visually express the tone of the brand and specific business/usability needs, creative/project briefs and brand/visual style guide standards.

 

Role responsibilities include:

·         Explore trends and competitive landscape and incorporate appropriate use of color, type, tone and editorial style/ standards into digital designs

·         Assist Digital Design Manager in developing and communicating brand/visual style guidelines and standards

·         Collaborate with various business partners to create and produce compelling digital solutions that:

-         leverage and utilize appropriate interactive functionality

-         align with all requirements and business objectives outlined in project initiation documentation

-         are delivered with brand compliance

-         consider customer/merchandise differences that may impact visual strategies

Qualifications

Requirements:

·         Bachelor of Fine Arts degree required with emphasis on interactive design, graphic design or communications – Master’s degree a plus

·         5+ years of Digital design experience in:

-        initiating and creating interactive solutions based on existing strategies, concepts, templates and brand guidelines

-        collaborating and communicating with design partners

·         Superior knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite

·         Presentation abilities – able to communicate design concepts clearly and effectively

·         Understanding of components, cycle times, production and distribution requirements of digital creative deliverables

·         Strong communication, organizational and people skills

·         Strong project and time-management skills – able to balance and prioritize workload and adjust to shifting business needs/priorities

·         Excellent design sense and ability to articulate design strategy to business partners and design team