Web Designer

Company Description

M3 is the global leader in digital solutions in healthcare. We work with a range of sectors including healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and charities; services provided to these sectors include market research, medical education programs, promotional programs, clinical development, job recruitment and clinic appointment services. M3 has grown by more than 20% year-on-year for the past 15 years, achieving over 1 billion dollars in revenue annually.

Founded in 2000, with start-up investment capital from Sony, M3’s mission is to make use of the internet to increase, as much as possible, the number of people who can live longer and healthier lives, and to reduce, as much as possible, the amount of unnecessary medical costs. Key achievements of M3 Inc. include:

- Named in Fortune’s 2020 ‘Future 50’ list, ahead of Facebook and Amazon
- Ranked in Forbes’ 2020 Global 2000 list of the world’s largest public companies
- M3 is the only company incorporated after the year 2000 to be included in the Nikkei 225 Index
- Listed in Forbes’ ‘Asia’s 200 Best Over a Billion’ in 2019
- In 2020 M3 founded the ‘M3: Stop COVID-19 Fund’ and pledged one billion yen to support COVID-19 related initiatives

M3’s legacy lies in the power of trusted physician platforms. Around the world, M3 organizations leverage these highly engaged digital communities to deliver medical education, job placement, and market research, to improve global patient outcomes.

**About the Business Unit**:
NAS Recruitment Innovation empowers you to attract and engage quality talent with a strategic blend of targeted technology and expertise. Serving every major market across the U.S. and Canada, we’re consultative experts with more than six decades of experience and proven leadership in technology solutions, media buying and creative services.

**Job Description**:
**Business Unit Mission**:
The Web Designer’s mission is to develop and maintain customer websites that drive the digital services facet of the business utilizing a variety of frameworks including ASP.NET, JQuery, SASS, HTML, and CSS. You will be expected to be well versed in web compliance standards and practices and be aware of new browser abilities/limitations.

This individual will work closely with the Digital Services, and Engineering to help implementation, review, and deployment of the developed product.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
Including, but not limited to the following:

- Produce front-end code and visual comps to create a polished and highly functional user interface with a focus on usability and simplicity of design
- Collaborate with internal and external end users of software programs,, to determine user needs and adapt programming accordingly
- Ensure software operates ideally across a range of programs and platforms, including Microsoft and Apple products and various mobile operating systems
- Use graphic design software to create branding and logos and incorporate visual elements into programming with the goal of creating a streamlined design and a pleasant but visually simple user interface
- Conduct thorough testing of user interfaces in multiple platforms to ensure all designs render correctly and systems function properly, incorporating feedback from actual potential users as well as members of the design team
- Solve any design or usability issues that arise and anticipate potential future problems so they can be resolved before they impact users
- Have the ability to implement and maintain industry standards around documentation and coding style.

**Outcome(s)**:

- Improve implementation time by 40% or more. Defined as time from design approval to customer review and acceptance.

**Competencies**:

- Ability to communicate with fellow Web Designers and Digital Services effectively and accurately.
- Correct and broad understanding of technologies used in web development.
- Good time management skills and necessary discipline to work on multiple projects simultaneously and without a lot of supervision, with the additional challenge of full time remote work.

**Qualifications**:
**Education and Training Required**:
Bachelor’s degree of equivalent work experience in a computer science or graphic design related field.

**Minimum Experience**:
1 year of experience in a similar role working on web-based products.

**Knowledge, Skill, Ability**:

- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTMLS, CSS3 and CSS animation.
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
- Strong knowledge of aesthetics and design principles, including Responsive Web Design, and progressive enhancement/graceful degradation techniques.
- Proven UI experience.
- Familiarity with web accessibility standards a plus (WCAG 2.x).
- Ability to work independently, with mínimal supervision and guidance
- Proficient in static site generation libraries
- Experien