Sr. Web Designer

The McGraw-Hill Companies is driving the education, financial services, and business information markets through leading brands such as McGraw-Hill Education, Standard & Poor's, BusinessWeek, J.D. Power and Associates, Platts, McGraw-Hill Construction, Aviation Week, and McGraw-Hill Broadcasting. We are committed to a new digital evolution, a far-reaching global impact, and developing and retaining the talent needed for us to achieve these goals.At The McGraw-Hill Companies, our diverse range of resources—human resources— allows us to impact capital markets and economies worldwide.In fact, it is the distinct combination of talents, experiences, backgrounds, ideas, and opinions of each employee that makes our business success possible. And it is how we will build on your potential both personally and professionally. If you strive to impact the lives of countless individuals everywhere, begin by adding your unique perspective to ours. Job Description The McGraw-Hill Companies is driving the education, financial services, and business information markets through leading brands such as McGraw-Hill Education, Standard & Poor's and Business Week. McGraw-Hill Education addresses virtually every aspect of the education market from pre-K through professional learning. Using traditional materials, online learning and multimedia tools, we empower the growth of teachers, professionals and students of all ages.  McGraw-Hill Higher Education, (MHHE) is a leading provider of print and electronic materials serving the college market, publishing instructional materials including textbooks, lab manuals, study guides, testing materials, software and multimedia products.  Technology is having a transformative effect on teaching and learning in higher education.  Learning solely from classroom lectures and textbooks is quickly disappearing.  McGraw-Hill is aggressively investing in “course critical” digital solutions that will set the standard in this emerging learning environment.  It is time to bring education into the 21st century f you want to help architect this revolution, join us now.  The Digital Products Group has an outstanding opportunity for a Web Designer to join us based in New York, NY.  The Web Designer will collaborate with the product, usability and editorial staff to follow projects through to their successful completion, including assisting with concept development, design, layout, and code as necessary.  Responsibilities: Develop design aesthetic for product portfolio ensuring all digital products have similar design approach. Visualize product concepts using detailed mockups and prototypes. Define the overall ‘look and feel’ of product user-interfaces including production of interface elements and other graphic assets. Translate business requirements into appropriate and successful user-interface designs and presenting solutions to key product sponsors and stakeholders. Act as user advocate throughout user experience design process. Conduct competitive assessments and user experience audits. Define and produce comprehensive style guide documentation for complex web applications. Translate wireframes into high-fidelity screen mockups and prototypes. Create innovative methods of visualization of financial/investment data. BFA/BA 3+ years of relevant experience as a creative and innovative web designer Proven mastery of visual design principles as they apply to web user interfaces and practical knowledge of user centered design methodologies Must have a working knowledge of information architecture and interaction design principles Thorough knowledge of the creative process— particularly practical implementation, in order to effectively gauge workloads and deadline expectations In-depth knowledge of one or more current web markup or scripting languages: XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax. Proficiency in HTML as well as at least one web authoring software: Dreamweaver, FrontPage, GoLive Extensive experience with at least one desktop publishing/imaging application in each of the following categories: Photo Editing (Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro) Drawing (Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Corel Draw) Page Layout (Adobe InDesign) Presentation (MS PowerPoint) Multimedia (Macromedia Director, Flash, streaming audio and video) Others (Adobe Distiller/Exchange, GifBuilder, GifConverter, 3ds Max, etc.) Experience with managing website content. Strong background with one of the following operating systems and familiarity with the others: Windows, Mac, UNIX. Understanding of dynamic or active web content and the use of Perl, C/C++, CGI, and/or SQL. Working knowledge of networking technologies, including security and encryption on the internet, and basic networking concepts. Copyright 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies. Subject to Terms of Use. Read our Privacy Noticeonline. We are an equal opportunity employer.