Web Designer at Lan-x Africa Limited

Lan-x Africa is looking for a web designer who loves responsive and adaptive design principles and the technology behind them, enjoys working directly with customers and thrives in a highly collaborative environment.

Roles

• Designing, developing, and implementing user-friendly, professional, visually-pleasing websites and user-interfaces for web applications.
• Develop online graphics and assets.
• Work directly with customers from site kick off to launch.
• Communicating ideas through low and high-fidelity mock-ups
• Collaborating with team members, as needed, to ensure technical solutions are implemented to meet project requirements
• Creating and effectively arranging graphics, images and all other content into a creative, cohesive, functional, and visually-pleasing website utilizing best practices in User Interface/User Experience design.

Job Requirements

The ideal candidate is someone with a desire for continual learning and who possesses strong communication (oral and written), problem-solving, analytic, interpersonal skills, and is:

• Results-oriented
• Detail-oriented
• Accountable
• Adaptable
• Able to work effectively (independently and/or within teams) across functional areas in a collaborative environment
• Able to manage multiple tasks with competing timelines and deliverables

Technical Skills

• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS. jQuery and JavaScript, PHP and other web-based programming languages.
• Understanding of design principles.
• Strong understanding of web design principles and best practices.
• Understanding of website architecture and best practices.
• Understanding of responsive and adaptive design methods.
• Excellent written/verbal customer communication skills.
• Portfolio demonstrating graphic/web design work and technical expertise.
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop and Illustrator) is an added advantage.

Qualifications

• Degree in IT or related field is a plus.
• 2-3 years of experience in web development and design.