Digital Visual Designer
New York, NY
Job Overview
Yodle is looking for a thoughtful and talented digital designer to join our in-house team. This individual will design website templates for Yodle customers in a wide range of industries. These templated sites require a thoughtful approach, as they will be used by local businesses who may provide their own logos, photos, and other assets. Therefore, the design system must be strong enough to maintain aesthetic and structural standards while supporting customer-specific variations. Most importantly, these sites are expected to convert visitors into leads for Yodle customers.
To succeed in this role, you must have range as a visual designer as you’ll be designing for customers in various industries. You must demonstrate a polished and professional design aesthetic in your work. You must demonstrate the ability to think systematically about creating modular design systems. You will need to show an understanding of technical considerations, such as designing for a content management system. And you must be effective in collaborating with interaction designers, front-end developers and other user experience professionals.
Responsibilities
• Design new templates and template variations according to assigned schedule
• Establish and document visual design standards that will guide the design of all future Yodle customer sites
• Collaborate with other Yodle team members, including interaction designers, front-end developers, product managers, etc.—in creating effective website templates
• Analyze and apply learnings from website performance reports to ensure constant improvement in template design
• Communicate effectively with departments, team members and other project related groups to ensure project objectives are understood and consistently met, communicating project status and recommending adjustments to plan
Qualifications
• Experience designing websites and/or digital applications
• Must have expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• Undergraduate degree graphic design or related field
• Ability to multitask and work on many open tasks in a single day under tight deadlines
• Experience in search engine optimization, design for direct response, A/B and multivariable testing
• Experience in interaction design (e.g., wireframes, sitemaps) a plus
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS a plus
Benefits
• Competitive base
• Tuition assistance
• Health/Dental benefits, 401 (K) plan
• Great work environment - we have fun!
• Accessible and open-minded leadership
• Opportunity to work with smart people and learn a lot about one of the fastest growing industries
About Yodle
Yodle is a Bessemer ventures funded company in the midst of a major national roll out that will grow our client base dramatically over the next several years. We provide search-engine advertising and online lead generation services to small businesses. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. We provide local businesses with a simple way to cost-effectively acquire more customers by advertising on the major search engines including: Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and MSN.
Local Search is considered the new frontier in paid search marketing, the fastest growing area of both technology and advertising and the key driver of Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Over $100 billion is spent on local advertising in the U.S alone. $3 billion of that has already transitioned online. A significant opening exists to devise, build, and capitalize on this opportunity within the next 2-4 years.
Yodle Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate based on age, gender, religion, disability, marital status, race and also adheres to laws relating to non-discrimination on the basis of national origin and citizenship status.
