Senior Interactive Designer
kargo - New York City, NY
posted 4 days ago
About the position
Kargo creates breakthrough cross-screen ad experiences for the world's leading brands and publishers. Every day, our 600+ employees bring the power of their creativity and diversity to radically raise the bar on what mobile, CTV, AI, social, and eCommerce can do to wow consumers and build businesses. Now 20 years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, Austin, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland. Humble brag: In 2024, Kargo was recognized as a Best Place to Work by Ad Age and Built In. Our Senior Interactive Ad Designer reports to the Associate Director of Ad Design and will design & animate custom, rich media, mobile ad experiences for Kargo's advertisers. An ideal candidate will be passionate, solution driven, flexible, and love creating beautiful & innovative digital advertising products.
Responsibilities
- Design & animate visually stunning and cutting-edge mobile advertising experiences for Kargo's advertising campaigns
- Work with Rich Media authoring tools to produce standards-compliant interactive ads
- Employ a user-centered design to create intuitive design solutions
- Collaborate with Client Service Managers through internal brainstorms & discussions to bring big ideas to life on the mobile screen
- Develop an understanding of responsive design across mobile devices
- Collaborate and review with design team to refine user interfaces for enhancing user experience
- Adhere to Kargo's ad unit best practice standards in all campaign output
- Proactively develop ongoing knowledge base of new technologies and products and identify needs and opportunities for additional advertising products
- Contribute to product ideation with mocks & prototypes of innovative ideas
- Design & execute pre-sale ad campaign mocks
- Lead and participate client brainstorms & creative meetings when requested
- Be a subject-matter expert-own a specific function based on the current needs of the organization-you'll be one of the go-to design resources for the West Coast team
- Act as a mentor and manager to lower level designers and help to promote their growth
- Execute on quick-turnaround design requests from other departments
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Portfolio featuring past work experience and relevant, user-centered design solutions
- Excellent visual design talent, with a pixel-level eye for detail
- Passion for innovation and user experience
- Ability to manage work autonomously, multi-task, and meet fast-evolving deadlines with a curiosity and passion for building rich, new ad experiences
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills; the ability to explain your design decisions clearly and persuasively
- Get it done attitude without compromising quality
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Experienced in animation
- Experience using Celtra Ad Builder is highly preferred
- Mobile advertising experience is highly preferred
- Comfortability with mobile advertising, mobile UI and UX design
- People management experience
- Desktop ads experience is a plus
Nice-to-haves
- Experience using Celtra Ad Builder
- Mobile advertising experience
- Desktop ads experience
