Careers

Web Designer

Naughty Dog is seeking an experienced Web Designer to join our award-winning team in Santa Monica, CA. You will be responsible for drawing concepts and wire framing our website layouts, creating the art assets and graphics for web and aspects of digital advertising, as well as helping develop and maintain an overall brand aesthetic for our company and our brands. Above all, we’re looking for someone who will design and guide the end-users through an online experience that is as intuitive as it is evocative and is highly functional at retaining end-user attention. Working in our web and community team, you will concept, create and maintain the online presence of Naughty Dog and its intellectual properties.

Responsibilities

• Design wireframes for website layout and user flow
• Create, develop and maintain all required art assets (call outs, icons, etc.)
• Rapidly iterate and develop solutions to online challenges while following game and art direction
• Establish web design workflow and drive best practices with an eye toward consistent design patterns, localization, and ease of maintenance.

Requirements

• Experience creating both large and small scale interactive and/or web projects including web applications and creative advertising campaigns (mobile, digital, social, experiential marketing)
• Excellent and proven graphic and information design background
• Strong usability design/test experience
• In-depth understanding of how the interactive medium is consumed and used by the general population
• Excellent, self-motivated communicator and collaborator who loves to work with strategists, programmers, designers, and other artists
• Expert with standard art tools of the trade (Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe CS)
• Strong analytic abilities. This position requires the ability to evaluate complex technical and user requirements to create practical solutions
• Burning desire to break the mold to push interfaces and web design in innovative directions
• Preferred: BS/MS/BFA/MFA preferred in a design or UX discipline (industrial, information architecture, interaction design, graphics) or demonstrated proficiency and experience in the field of software user experience/interaction design
• Preferred: 3+ years of experience with user interface design for video games, especially console titles
• Ability to prototype in Flash, After Effects, and/or HTML5 is a plus
• Submission of portfolio with previous web design work mandatory

Email your resume or contact us about this position here: jobs@naughtydog.com