Contract
Remote
Posted 7 years ago

ABOUT THE POSITION

Hi-Res Creative is seeking a WordPress designer/developer to help produce and maintain custom, top-tier WordPress sites at a high-growth, quality driven, and entrepreneurial company. Ideal candidates will have a passion for building innovative, user-friendly responsive website experiences, help conceptualize and develop digital communications and rich media including, but not limited to banners, microsites, landing pages, email campaigns and applications. You will work on websites from conception to completion and interface internally with E-Commerce, to expand, maintain and design our WordPress sites and advance the overall platform. You should be skilled at project management, client communication, and website development and design, including designing and executing markup (HTML/CSS).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and build best-in-class landing promo pages and microsites
Work hard to ensure designs are technologically sound
Optimize websites to ensure they render consistently in cross-browser environments, with SEO best practice principles
Build and maintain WordPress themes optimized for mobile and tablet devices.
Customize base WordPress themes
Create and update reusable code libraries to streamline the development cycle
Document processes and code in a clear, comprehensive and organized manner
Provide input to help improve site usability, interface design, architecture, layout and content
Provide support for the ongoing maintenance of existing website
Collaborate to help improve the customer experience and increase conversion
Report, track and fix website bugs

JOB REQUIREMENTS

2+ years of professional experience in web design
Knowledge of the best practices and limitations of web design (layout widths, typography, image optimization, etc.)
Capable of taking Photoshop artwork and executing into HTML and CSS
Experience with dynamic or database driven websites, also known as Content Management Systems (CMS), including extensive knowledge of WordPress
Familiarity with PHP and JavaScript
Up to date with new CSS3 and HTML5 techniques
Extensive experience with responsive and mobile design techniques
Experience de-bugging cross browser issues and troubleshooting development complications
Experience with Photoshop and Illustrator
Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
Experience creating WordPress PHP & HTML templates