Web Designer / Graphic Artist Job Vacancy at Gloo.ng

Web Designer / Graphic Artist Job Vacancy at Gloo.ng

Company Profile:

Looking for a job? You most definitely won't find that at Gloo.ng. But you will find a career--and a calling!

A career at Gloo.ng offers you a chance to make a difference in your life and the lives of people in your nation, Nigeria. We help our associates realize their dreams by creating opportunities for them to discover and fulfill their personal and professional vision within the context of our corporate vision. Our people have made laser-beam focus on customer satisfaction their calling in life. What is yours? Come and discover it-or fulfill it-with us! Our True North is to do to supermarket shopping in Nigeria what Amazon did to book shopping in the US.

Gloo.ng is recruiting to fill the position of:

Position: Web Designer / Graphic Artist

Location: Lagos

Basic Duties

• Routinely update and maintenance of web presence through the company’s social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.
• Create advertising materials such as direct mail pieces, semi-permanent merchandising, ads, and sales collateral that will correctly represent the brand
• Designs promotional pieces with consistency and on-point marketing message
• Utilize graphic layouts to consistently represent the company’s brand and offerings
• Responsible for presenting new creative and design ideas/concepts.
• Work with the needs of internal clients in creation of corporate identity, events, branding, sales and corporate marketing material fulfillment
• Manipulate/update digital photos for web use
• Assists with the production and proofing of all materials
• Creates copy and technical detail for all products
• Optimizes websites for search engine marketing and paid-per-click advertising campaigns
• Empower associates with professional and user friendly graphic tools.
• Ensure synergies between campaign messages and designs.

• Maintain and refresh the web presence of our ecommerce website.
• Routinely update the site with information about our products/services, pricing, company news, promotions and new products
• Maintain consistency of company branding and messages on the website and digital marketing assets.
• Monitor quality of visual and written content on website and social media and online marketing platforms.
• Design promotional online retail merchandising materials.
• Use knowledge of current graphic design software to produce graphic art and visual materials for promotions, advertisements, packaging, and informative / instructional material.
• Creates brand awareness through the use of web, print and social media.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of web design best practices pertaining to e-commerce including defining site objectives, understanding target-audience goals and driving conversions and user acquisition.
• Pro-active self-starter and independent thinker with ability to be creative, flexible, and detail-oriented under daily deadlines with multiple projects.
• Remains abreast of technological advances in the field and be able to identify areas of use in the organization
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills required.
• Strong work ethic with being self motivated and self starting.
• Positive, optimistic attitude.
• Ability to successfully work in a team environment and collaborate on projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Desire to have fun while working in an environment of intelligent, highly motivated people.

• Proficient use of Adobe Design Suite, HTML, CSS, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Microsoft Word & Excel.
• Possess strong sense of concept development, in addition to communication, research, problem-solving and presentation skills.
• Able to collaborate with teams to plan, analyze, organize and execute assigned projects.
• Outstanding web graphic design skills.
• Previous experience with a content management system preferred.
• Knowledge of Javascript and PHP is preferred.

Deadline
25th March, 2014.

Method of Application
If you are interested in becoming a part of our Rock Star Team and in running with The Vision, please send your resume as a .pdf file attachment to: careers@gloo.ng quoting the vacancy you are applying for as the subject title of the email