PayPorte.com is a fully owned Nigerian e-Commerce company that ranks amongst the top 10 most patronized e-Commerce sites in Nigeria. We are into online/offline retail, selling items ranging from male/female fashion, electronics and also home appliances.
Working Hours: 8am – 6pm Monday to Fridays. Saturday work is based on business needs
Attractive salary package based on experience.
Job Summary:
Working as a part of a chain with copywriters, photographers, web developers and marketing specialists to take briefs and develop ideas for campaigns. Creation of consistently new and unique concepts, illustrations and designs for both offline and online projects.
Job Description
In your role as a visual designer, your day-to-day tasks will consist of creating visually engaging, innovative and functional designs, and occasionally, interfaces for mobile and Web products. Your ability to bring your vision and concepts to life will not only be welcomed but celebrated.
One of the key aspects of your role is a thorough understanding of the right balance between business, design and our customers and serving our brand’s purpose, business missions and customer needs.
Responsibilities
As our visual designer, your responsibilities will include areas of design such as typography, iconography, colour, space and texture. You will use your knowledge, expertise and skills in all these fields to help our users successfully navigate and become comfortable with our brand, and our products and services.
More responsibilities in detail:
- Present the digital material/ user-interface visually so that information is easy to read, easy to understand and easy to find.
- Prepare work by gathering information and materials.
- Generate clear ideas, concepts and designs of creative assets from beginning to end.
- Work collaboratively with other designers to ensure a consistent, integrated brand perception and user-experience.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes other designers, software engineers, product managers in order to create simple, easy-to-use software.
- Translate business requirements, user needs, technical requirements into designs that are visually enticing, easy to use, and emotionally engaging.
- Staying in the loop and on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in visual design field.
- Interpreting storyboards to tell visual stories that support learning.
- Develop creative concepts for visual graphic illustrations and contents for web, mobile devices as well as print and electronic media
- Create strong visual concepts that effectively inspire, inform, captivate and communicate with viewers and consumers
- Develop the overall layout and production design for various applications such as for advertisements, brochures, magazines, packaging and t-shirts
- Image editing and skin retouching
- Creative direction for photo shoot, photography insights
- Brand management and identity awareness
- Identifying newer models in design and graphic representation to help promote the brand
- Video editing, fame animation and motion graphics
- UI/UX design and web support.
Experience:
- Proven competence in graphic design and use of image processing software
- Good knowledge of the online marketplace and the e-commerce industry
- Excellent IT skills
- Work experience in an e-commerce setting is preferable.
- Frame animation and motion graphics capabilities
- UI/UX design and web appreciation is a plus
- Video editing capacity is a plus
Requirements
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in designing brand identities, communication materials, grid systems, editorial layouts and applications for web, desktop and mobile.
- The ability to refine other people’s ideas and come up with new ones to create a highly designed visual experience.
- Well organized, responsible and dedicated, with the ability to work on multiple projects and deliver refined design in a short time.
- Self-learning, able to learn new tools quickly and work in a fast evolving environment.
- Proven ability delivering high quality designs to customers.
- Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator/CorelDRAW, Indesign and Sketch.
Behavioural Competencies:
- A good team player
- High level of commitment to duty, and discipline
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrable ability to put customer interests first
- An unquestionable level of integrity
Send cv and portfolio to careers@payporte.com