Job Description
Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a
culture of inclusion
for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Junior Web Designer
As a web designer in the Creative Studio, you’ll work closely with internal team members (writers, designers, and UI/UX designers) and stakeholders across the company (marketing, product and sales, thought leaders) to produce a wide variety of online content.
Finally, you have a growth mindset. You’re passionate about skill development, continual learning, and maximizing every opportunity to push yourself and those around you.
Necessary skills
- Web design
- Ability to liaise with external web development agencies
- Quickly translate ideas and concepts into online designs
- Work with other web specialists, including web developers, graphic designers and UI/UX teams.
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Hands on experience with markup languages a plus
- Interpret Mastercard brand guidelines successfully across all designs, from fonts, colors and styles to UI patterns
- Display creative curiosity by seeking out new design techniques, learning new interaction design software and maintaining cutting edge industry knowledge
- Able to manage workload in a fast-paced studio environment
Business skills
- Collaborate with and serve as a strategic partner to internal team and stakeholders across the company
- Partner teams as required to connect dots for effective storytelling across digital ecosystem
- Understand the business goals and marketing strategies of our stakeholders
- Work effectively with others to identify challenges and opportunities and use creative and strategic thinking to generate solutions
- Work close with web development teams to oversee the smooth implementation of newly designed content
- Manage creative requirements, expectations, and deadlines for all projects
Workstyle
- A quick learner with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced team environment
- Ability to work effectively from home/remotely as required
- Passionate problem solver with a love of design
- Test, learn and evolve websites to bring in line with current trends
- Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with a positive “get stuff done” mindset
- Possess a growth mindset and a willingness to give and receive feedback
- Collaborative and respectful of diverse perspectives and other creative skill sets
Required experience
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communication or related discipline
- Experience as a web developer, or UX/UI designer in a corporate or agency environment preferred
- Knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite and content management systems
- Bonus points for experience with, Springboot framework, SQL, NodeJS, Ceros, Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android) or tools related to front end development.
- Experience with project management software
COVID-1+ Considerations
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
