Senior-Lead Visual Experience Designer

Founded in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, Paragon has been delighting our clients' customers with award-winning digital experiences and cutting-edge technology since 2006. Today, we are a nationwide team with employees located coast to coast, and we are looking for an experienced Visual Experience Designer.

Paragon is a Virtual First company and this position does allow for remote work on a full-time basis.

Job Description :

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Visual Designer who possesses a strong background in visual design and user experience design. As the Lead Visual Designer, you will be responsible for leading the visual design efforts and ensuring a seamless and delightful user experience across multiple platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and guide the design process from concept to execution.

Responsibilities :

• Lead the creative and visual design strategy and execution, ensuring consistency and high-quality visual design across all digital platforms and products.
• Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to define design requirements, goals, and user needs.
• Ability to think strategically and extend existing brand identity systems into new visual concepts and digital experiences.
• Conduct user research and gather insights to inform the visual design process, ensuring a user-centered approach.
• Conceptualize visual aesthetics across a range of creative styles using mood boards, style tiles, etc.
• Be a visual storyteller who uses imagery to communicate experience-driven concepts and solutions as compelling stories.
• Utilize visual systems and taxonomies to improve the user experience and product usability.
• Create visually stunning and intuitive designs, including user interfaces, layouts, icons, typography, and graphics, that align with brand guidelines and project objectives.
• Develop and maintain design guidelines, style guides, and pattern libraries to ensure consistency and scalability of the visual design system.
• Prototype and create interactive mockups to demonstrate the user experience and gather feedback for iterative design improvements.
• Produce interaction flows and user interface deliverables, including annotated wireframe mockups, functional prototypes, storyboards, flow diagrams, etc.
• Participate in customer research and usability testing activities.
• Collaborate with a team of visual designers, providing guidance, feedback, and support to foster their professional growth.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure the accurate implementation of the visual design and smooth user interactions.
• Participate in the full design and development cycle to ensure that creative innovations in user-centered design are faithfully delivered to our clients.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging design tools, and technologies to continuously enhance the design process and deliver innovative solutions.
• Advocate for user-centered design principles and promote a design-thinking culture within the organization.

Requirements :

What we offer :

At Paragon, you'll play an integral role in helping some of the world's leading companies envision, execute, and evolve their most complex digital objectives. We pride ourselves on blending human-centered design and strategy with modern platforms and technology - like API-driven, headless CMS architecture - to build digital experiences that make people think, feel and act. No matter what part of the customer experience you're helping to enhance in your role - from research and strategy to design and development- you'll feel valued as part of our Virtual-first yet cohesive, winning team culture.

In addition to our collaborative, creative work environment, we offer a full benefits package which includes :