The Spark Networks team is made up of energetic, innovative, self-starting individuals who thrive in a fast-moving, creative environment. We're an equal opportunity employer with a comprehensive employment package that includes competitive salaries, medical benefits, a 401k program, flex spending account and stock options. If you think your particular skills and experience would add to our team, we'd love to hear from you.
UI Designer/Web Developer
Beverly Hills, CA
The UI Designer/Web Developer is responsible for an assigned project’s “look and feel” and is expected to uphold the very best in design excellence. This person should fully immerse him/herself in the project’s subject matter and become the visual and audio experts in their own rights. Strong communication, typography, graphic, programming, and Flash animation skills are common Designer requirements.
The UI Designer/Web Developer, working very closely with the other key players, should become very familiar with the tone, emotion and attitude being conveyed by the client. He/she will work closely with the rest of the core team to brainstorm, articulate, and present Creative-art-design functional support, as directed, to other functions of the business in a timely and professional manner. He/she must keep current with developments in relevant fields, new technologies, competitive trends, and emerging research in selected fields.
Essential Functions:
He/she must assist conceptual development and design of all:
- User interfaces, interpreting interaction design elements from project management software and client communications, and the development and implementation of workable templates and navigational tools from design concepts through final production
- Work with creative designers to construct mock-ups for new web projects
- Work with engineering to map-out how the web page will interact with the back-end
- Be a proponent of clear and concise ASP.Net, HTML, and CSS
- Develop HTML, CSS, and ASP.Net for the websites
- Help define and support a long term strategy for HTML, images, CSS, and ASP.Net
Minimum Qualifications:
- 2+ year graphic design degree. (B.A. or B.F.A.) or some technical degree
- Minimum two years of development/design experience in Web Design
- Minimum two years of permanent employment in the interactive designer role
- Extensive experience writing HTML and CSS
- A good understanding of HTML doctypes
- Experience and knowledge in browser compatibility and HTML bug avoidance
- Experience and expert knowledge in Adobe Photoshop
- Experience and expert knowledge in ASP.Net, specifically control types and purposes
- An understanding of what ASP.Net controls render out to the browser
- Experience with templating and code re-use
- Experience and understanding of JavaScript
- An understanding of source control management from an end-user perspective
- SEO optimization understanding and knowledge
- Ability to produce quality work within tight timelines
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills
- Hand code in HTML
- Experienced Microsoft Windows User
- Strong understanding of .Net, .Net controls, .Net code behind, AJAX, Javascript, C# and HTML required; CSS, CSS2, Actionscript, ASP knowledge a plus
- Experienced VisualStudio.net and SourceSafe are a plus
Additional Comments:
The Creative/GUI Department of most new-media companies is responsible for a large portion of the company’s success. This is especially true when the company’s revenue stream is, in fact, derived from an internet or online product. The ability to visually satisfy the online end-user not only decreases the skepticism he/she may feel toward the company at first glance, it also invites them to interact with the product.
Three items are essential to the success of a web-based product: Good design, usability, and content. Any failure in presenting these items effectively to the end-user will result in fewer users, and lost revenue.
The position of Creative/GUI Department has been established to enhance the profitability of Spark Networks Limited by providing creative expertise and technical knowledge for the following:
- Ensuring excellence from creative conceptualization through development
- Creating company’s overall visual appearance of product(s)
- Seamlessly integrating all product promotional and branding messages
- Maintaining consistency of the original product in ancillary product(s)
- Executing final creative component deployment and delivery
- Synergizing content navigational structure and appearance into powerful user experiences
- Identity of the company on both corporate and end-user level
- Assisting with creative ideas to “incentivize” the customer
- Participating in the efficient coordination and management to meet/exceed the firm’s strategic and tactical product management, brand strategy, events and sales and marketing goals and objectives
Send all resumes via mail, email, or fax to:
Spark Networks
Attn: Human Resources
8383 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Fax: (323) 658-3001
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Spark Networks is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, disability, marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any other factor protected by law.