Full-time(Falls Church, VA) Viget Labs is a full-service web consulting and development firm headquartered in Falls Church, VA with an office in Durham, NC.  We've been at it since 1999 and have earned a solid reputation as a rare firm that does both great design and development work when building award-winning web sites.  We work with early-stage web start-ups (e.g, Squidoo, Odeo, RateItAll, and a few we can't talk about yet), as well as mature businesses (e.g., Choice Hotels and Sodexo) and non-profits (e.g., National Geographic, PBS, EarthEcho). In between projects, we share our opinions and write about our methods on our design blog.Our Web Designers:

• Are multi-faceted creatures who walk the line between design aesthetics and the user experience while ALWAYS considering accessibility, usability, and web standards.

• Seamlessly interact with developers to ensure proper implementation,

• Are not boring.  (In fact, they’re ridiculously talented AND sociable.)

• Create awe-inspiring designs for web sites, email campaigns, and web apps.

• Don’t regurgitate old designs and “tweak” them to make a “new” design.

• Masterfully translate functional requirements and wireframes into simple UIs.

• See endless possibilities on a blank canvas and don’t need much design direction to create functional masterpieces.

• Are wizards in HTML, XHTML, and CSS; they demonstrate exceptional coding quality and scalable CSS/HTML.

• Are proficient with Photoshop and other design software and preferably have experience with Flash, ActionScripting, JavaScript; libraries such as Scriptaculous, Protype, or JQuery; and/or server-side code such as PHP or Ruby on Rails.

 
To be considered to work at Viget Labs, you should exhibit these characteristics too.You must also:

• Have at least three years of professional, post-collegiate experience under your belt.

• Have a BFA, MFA or equivalent work experience.

 Job Perks: Viget covers 100% employee and spouse medical, dental, and vision coverage. We also provide a 401K plan with company matching and quarterly out-of-the-office adventures, monthly cell phone reimbursement, weekly free lunch, and a daily dose of challenging and inspiring work.Apply: Send your resume, salary requirements, and a knock-out web-based portfolio to jobs.va@viget.com

We will be in touch if your resume and portfolio match what’s outlined above. So, knock our socks off already.