Matador Jobs

UI/UX Designer for Leading-Edge Travel Media Publisher

MatadorNetwork.com — the web’s leading independent travel publisher — seeks a part-time UI/UX designer in the Vancouver area.

We’re in need of a designer primarily to lead website and mobile-app design, as well as tackle logo and branding projects and the odd print need like business cards.

We’re a small creative team of web designers and filmmakers, who develop and maintain Matador’s cutting-edge aesthetic. In short, we create stunningly beautiful web pages, mobile applications, videos, logo treatments and much more. Here at Matador, design is critical to our success and we take our visual composition very seriously. We believe strongly that design is what sets us apart from our many competitors — we expect you to understand that and bring that understanding to our first conversation.

Matador Network is a fully distributed company, however several key members of the development team are located here in Vancouver. This position will be a remote position with a weekly, in-person meeting with the dev team.

Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience designing for websites and mobile applications. We will consider new grads who possess a strong student portfolio. We value skills and creativity over experience.
• Instantly understand and interpret the Matador design aesthetic.
• Crazy good communication skills and responsiveness: Successful Matadorians promptly respond to emails, attend all regular in-person and virtual meetings and can clearly convey their ideas, thoughts and beliefs through email and web conference.
• Know and love the full product set in the Adobe Creative Cloud (formerly Creative Suite), including but not limited to PhotoShop, Lightbox, InDesign.
• Reside in the Vancouver area and be available to spend 1 day/week to meet with the development team.
• You don’t have to know the code behind web design, but you do have to ensure that the development team successfully implements your wireframes and executes your overall creative concept. If you do have coding experience that’s a bonus!

This is a part-time, independent contractor position with huge opportunity for skills growth. We’re looking for a commitment of 10-15 hours/week, but the workload will fluctuate somewhat. Hourly pay depends on experience. Will consider new college graduates.

Please send email with resume, three references and portfolio to jobs@matadornetwork.com. Please put “DESIGNER” in the subject line.