Web Designer

Job Description Summary The Web Designer in Strategic Marketing and Communications—Chapman’s centralized marketing department— is responsible for understanding Chapman’s digital user experience and creating effective web designs, layouts, and components. You will be a part of the Marketing and Digital team whose overall goal is to develop beautiful, functional, accessible and marketing effective web environments and media. This job is both designer and coder. We are looking for someone who is comfortable diving into code and making styling changes on the fly, as well as designing beautiful web pages and bringing those designs to life. Your role on this team is to be a visual architect, creating the vision and executing on it with a team of other developers and marketers. Responsibilities include designing and presenting assets, making front end styling changes to provide a consistent and pleasant visual experience, and optimizing the user’s journey with thoughtful and data driven design choices. You will be tasked with enhancing our existing web environments as well as creating new designs as the needs arise based on data, user feedback and university priorities.This position is in person in Orange, CA. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the office 3-5 days a week. Responsibilities Design and Optimize Marketing Web Products

• Create wireframes, lo-fi prototypes, and final designs for Chapman’s marketing web products.
• Create visually appealing and functional webpages while simultaneously keeping best practices in mind (breakpoints, flow patterns, load times, responsive design, space limitations, accessibility, etc.)
• Make front-end code changes to ensure a consistent, smooth, and pleasant user experience.
• Implement responsive web design using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other frontend libraries and frameworks.
• Debug, test, and refine front-end code to enhance functionality, performance, and accessibility.
• Work in conjunction with a team of in-house developers by providing detailed design mockups and communicating ideas effectively.
• Adhere to brand guidelines and find visual solutions for digital assets that work in unison with other graphic designs.
• Understand the user behaviors of our target audiences to identify and design appropriate UI solutions.
• Work with management to determine project priorities and timelines.
• Act as the web team’s UX / UI design expert at meetings by providing relevant answers and educating other constituents and stakeholders.

Analyze Feedback and Troubleshoot Web Design

Other duties as assigned Required Qualifications

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