Visual Designer

Requisition ID: 47287

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. In an increasingly digital world, the company is driving purposeful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and Yummly. In 2020, the company reported approximately $19 billion in annual sales, 78,000 employees and 57 manufacturing and technology research centers.

Whirlpool Corporation is consistently recognized by FORTUNE as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies. Our values are the driving force behind everything we do. Integrity, Respect, Inclusion & Diversity, One Whirlpool, and Spirit of Winning propel our teams to excellence. Get to know us and see what it's like to be part of a company that is in constant pursuit of improving life at home.

This role in summary

At Whirlpool we believe in having people as our central focus, both our users and our employees. Our User Experience team takes pride in having a pulse check on what our users really want while riding the waves of emerging technologies. As a team member, you will be crafting experiences that will make the lives of millions of consumers around the globe a whole lot easier and delightful right in their homes! You will be able to craft personalities for the various brands under Whirlpool through typography, color, iconography, imagery, motion, and concepts of universal design. If you are excited about orchestrating such experiences, hopefully, you are able to check off most of these requirements for the role.

Your responsibilities will include

• Create compelling, inspiring, and unique digital designs for Whirlpool-connected home appliances and services.
• Work closely with the UX designers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional global stakeholders to understand requirements and co-create thoughtful solutions.
• Converting UX wireframes into high-fidelity mockups, and pixel-perfect visual designs and assets.
• Create, maintain and apply UI best practices to drive innovation and ensure visual design solutions are highly scalable across multiple applications.
• Advocate for user-centered design while having a vision for a now-near-far roadmap of implementation.
• Contribute to the development of our Design Systems for the different brands to create amazing user experiences.
• Work with the development team to provide guidance and validate the implementation.
• Audit early software builds to ensure the team’s vision is being properly applied.
• Foster the future: Actively seek and share digital inspiration (creative, technology, general digital trends).
• Maintain a portfolio highlighting multiple projects and your direct contributions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design
• 3+ years of experience in Motion Design
• Experience collaborating with a cross-functional team throughout the design process.
• Experience in design basics including Typography, Color Theory, and Layout across different platforms and modalities
• Experience utilizing the digital design tools including Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Abstract, Zeplin, as well as a strong understanding of Android and IOS
• Communicating and influencing product design strategy experience

Preferred skills and experiences

• Master's degree in Design, Digital Art, Multimedia Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• Ability to give personality to brands by crafting the appropriate visual design elements.
• Knowledge of atomic design and the ability to construct and manage design systems.
• Skills in communicating and influencing visual design strategy.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for multiple platforms and modalities.

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