Location:  Menlo Park, CA or London, UK.

The opportunity:

Cogniance, a fast-growing Silicon Valley-based professional services software consultancy, is changing the way early-stage companies around the world turn great ideas into successful products.  We act as “intelligence multiplier” to venture-funded software companies and innovation labs by putting together high-caliber teams capable of handling complex user experience, design, and technical challenges inherent in new product development.  Since its founding in 2008 Cogniance has been a key driver of success of its many clients who have gone on to secure additional funding, get acquired, or go public through an IPO.

With offices in Menlo Park, London, Stuttgart and Kiev in Ukraine, Cogniance has grown an impressive 20% quarterly for the past ten calendar quarters.  We are looking for a world class Creative Director to lead our creative team, own product aesthetics and be in charge of Cogniance’s creative strategy.

This is where you come into the picture.

To take Cogniance’s creative team to the next level and make it the go to team for innovative, edgy and bold creative we are looking for an award-winning Creative Director with an extensive portfolio of original and breakthrough works for web and mobile, proven records of creating great user experience, experienced in building, leading and transforming creative teams.

What is it all about:

As Creative Director you will own Cogniance’s aesthetics and ensure that we deliver world class creative work. You will lead the team of Cogniance creative designers to provide superior creative to our clients and maintain ultimate oversight for Cogniance creative strategy.

You will be responsible for:

• Designing and providing oversight for the creative strategy, usability and design
• Define the creative direction for the different products (web and mobile)
• Provide the aesthetic vision and guidance/coaching to the creative design team
• Keep a close eye on design trends and new design areas
• Lead brainstorming sessions with the creative team to develop design concepts and strategies based on our customers’ needs
• Pitch concepts and mockups to all stakeholders
• Bring innovation, edginess, boldness into the products

Skills:

• Experience creating edgy conceptual design
• 10+ years experience at a world-class digital creative agency leading creative for world-known brands
• Portfolio of original and breakthrough work
• Awards in UI/UX/design competitions
• Design blog or design-related web project with decent audience
• Excellent understanding of composition, color, imagery, typography
• Understanding of mainstream graphics tools
• Decent sketch artist
• Interest in photography
• Story telling skills

Personal attributes:

• A positive attitude with a great personality
• Be successful in a highly dynamic environment
• Resourceful and Self-motivated
• Able to work on multiple projects in parallel
• Adapt to changing priorities without slowing down
• Be effective under tight deadlines and time pressure
• Attention to detail, human behavior and needs

Location and Communication

The position is located in Cogniance development office in Kyiv, Ukraine. Successful candidates will be engaged in core development activities closely cooperating in a team with software architects, designers and engineers.

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank rate, performance based salary review 2 times a year, annual bonus based on company revenue sharing program, extensive career plan, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance and the chance for international travel.  

If you are interested in this position, please send us detailed CV to cv@cogniance.com  matching the title of the opening in the subject line. Only successful candidates will be contacted for the interview.