Minor Hotels is now hiring: Web Designer

We are looking for people from all ages and levels of experience – even interns! If you are a rising star in your area of expertise and are looking for a new challenge, Minor Hotels could be right for you!

Minor Hotels owns 151 hotels in 23 countries. Our websites get millions of visitors a month, and our booking engines take millions of dollars a year. We currently run MinorHotels.com, Anantara.com, AVANIhotels.com, OaksHotelsResorts.com, PERAQUUM.com, TivoliHotels.com, as well as the booking engine for 4 of those sites, and many other websites for campaigns and other activities. We are in the middle of redeveloping our 6 main websites.

We are a multicultural, multinational team who enjoy working on new challenges.

Do you like the sound of it? Check out more details below to find out what it’s like to work for Minor Hotels!

Quick facts about the team:

* head office team has around 200 employees in this location
* Ecommerce / Revenue team has 25 employees
* From 10 nationalities
* Speak 10 languages
* Within that, the Dev team has 6 members

Working environment

You'll be working directly with the other developers, as well as other departments with the organisation.
We love to do new things, and are looking for people who feel the same.
We work on a mix of platforms .Net custom, Sitecore, Wordpress, PHP custom. We are moving all our larger sites to Sitecore CMS
Our working hours are 8.30-17.30, but it's pretty flexible. Some of us start early morning (7.30), some of us start later and work late.
Our office, Berli Jucker House, is in walking distance of BTS Ekkamai.
We have a very relaxed working environment, our team values fun and a good work/life balance

Why this job is important

Customer experience is very important for our hotels, and we spend a lot of time and money making sure visitors to our websites get a good feel for our hotels. Great design creates that first impression.
We need great to design to make sure that visitors become guests, so the experience of booking hotel rooms is very important.
Our campaign micro-sites support multi-million dollar marketing activities, and give a chance to experiment with different techniques and approaches.

What will you be doing every day?

reviewing existing website for improvements to user experience
A/B testing design changes
doing user testing
designing and developing campaign and microsites
developing design concepts for existing websites
researching new developments in design and usability, and sharing with the rest of the team

Qualifications

We aren't too worried about qualifications, ability is most important.

Design skills -- using Photoshop, Sketch, etc to deliver designs to developers for implementation
Prototyping skills -- paper, HTML, InVision, Sketch, Balsamiq, whatever, but prototypes are an important way to prove concepts to the team
Front End skills -- not required, but if you understand HTML, CSS, JS, it's a bonus
Understanding of performance, SEO, also useful
Mac or PC -- you choose
English -- our company language, and we want people who are happy to explain and argue in English!

Compensation

We recognise that we need to pay well to get the talent we need. We can guarantee that we're offering our package above the industry standard. If you're talented developer that we're looking for, you can ask for it!