Gisou Haircare is Hiring a Senior Digital Designer (Amsterdam)

In your role as a digital designer, your day-to-day tasks will consist of collaborating with other teams to define requirements, iterate on design solutions, and contribute expertise for various digital products.

One of the key aspects of your role is leading and creating digital assets for a wide range of platforms, as websites and apps, social media, display advertising and eCommerce.

About the company

Gisou is born out of a passion for bees, haircare and natural beauty. Based on a six-generation beekeeping heritage, each Gisou product is inspired by and made with the finest, sustainably sourced ingredients from our very own Mirsalehi Bee Garden. With this method, our founder Negin and her father continue the family tradition of beekeeping. Our hair care and complexion products harness the transformative benefits of Mirsalehi Honey and rich botanical sources, selected to enhance ones natural beauty.

We are committed to a bee-friendly & sustainable production method that puts the Mirsalehi Honey Bees first, not only for the sake of the bees, but the greater ecosystem as well. In the upcoming years, we intend to continue to develop high-quality honey infused beauty products as we develop a globally renowned label and raise awareness about the importance of a healthy bee population.

We have been experiencing double digital growth YoY and have established ourselves as a leading hair care line across our global retailers such as Sephora, Selfridges, Mecca, and Harrods. We are currently available in over 40 countries and are on an explosive journey of growth as we launch in new markets, open additional channels and focus on building our team internationally.

REQUIREMENTS

A minimum of 5 years experience in the design thinking process, agile development, and lean startup methodologies within an e-commerce environment
UI/UX experience
Experience working directly with developers to implement designs
Expertise with tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite.
Working knowledge of CSS and HTML
Photo and video editing expertise.
Strong knowledge of current digital design best practices and web production
techniques
Experience with user-centered design, rapid prototyping, and user testing
Experience creating digital assets for a variety of target audiences
Strong portfolio showing the breadth of digital design capabilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

Designing digital assets, testing them, and optimizing them based on their performance
Staying up to date on industry trends and the latest digital design software
Participate in design discussions and give feedback during planning and strategy meetings
Quickly translate ideas into sketches, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes
Iterate new designs based on user feedbacks
Create website assets from hero design to web animations
Create email designs for CRM programs and coordinate the creation of email templates in HTML
Design and develop homepages, landing pages, and email concepts
Create and execute concepts for digital advertising
Research industry trends to present ideas and concepts for timely digital innovation

BENEFITS + PERKS

The opportunity to be part of an ambitious, fun and dynamic team, with a pleasant informal and international working atmosphere and regular team activities and drinks. You will be working 4 days a week from our stunning office in the centre of Amsterdam, and have the possibility to work one day from home if you like. Lunch, drinks and snacks in the office are being provided every day.

Our team's wellbeing is super important to us, therefore we offer fitness membership via Onefit, and mental health support via OpenUp to all our employees. Gisou is a fast growing and disruptive beauty company that offers huge opportunities for personal development and growth.

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