In this position, the Producer will be required to execute scoped documents and manage approved projects from inception through launch while monitoring complex work flows and aggressive deadlines. You will keep a keen focus on tracking and reporting-related results, and monitor your projects so that they meet or beat stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities:

* Manages project scope, deliverables, and timelines on day-to-day operational basis
* Creates and executes project assignments and revises priorities as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
* Reviews deliverables prepared by team before distribution
* Minimizes project exposure and risk
* Ensures project documents are complete, current, and archived appropriately
* Communicates effectively with colleagues to identify project needs, updates, and changes; evaluates alternative solutions
* Facilitates and escalates issues in a timely fashion
* Communicates difficult/sensitive information tactfully

Requirements: In addition to competencies in the responsibilities, you must meet the following requirements (items are required unless noted otherwise):

* One or more years of experience in a Producer or Project Management role
* Understand Interwoven TeamSite
* Intermediate level skills in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
* Solutions Focus: Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
* Business Process: Effectively applies company and project methodologies
* Compliance: Works in accordance with and helps to enforce standard policies and procedures
* Knowledge Management: Builds a knowledge base by projects and work-streams
* Knowledge Transfer: Keeps track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with team members

A Seattle-based advertising agency seeks a mid-level art director to develop creative for print and interactive advertising. This position will also be responsible for the creation of online video, broadcast, and collateral.

Candidates must be able to develop concepts quickly that are on brand and strategy while working alone or as part of a team, be a self starter, and have the productions skills to see a project through to completion. Ability to apply campaign visuals across media and formats.

The ideal design aesthetic should be bleeding edge with an ability to pull back to corporate shlock. Candidate must be able to keep up in a fast paced environment, be energetic, and be to work across different media. The ability to write an occasional headline is a big plus.

Interest in politics and the ability to grasp policy arguments is a plus.

A day in the life of the PHP Developer:

* Creation: You should have a thing for creating. You’ll develop Content Management Systems, SQL Jobs, create stored procedures, functions, views and table structures and create applications.

* Collaboration: You’ll work synergistically with other Developers to come up with innovative techniques to bring concepts to life. Work closely with all members of the agency – from Business Development to Project Managers and Designers, and lend technical knowledge to solve usability issues that influence design and concepts.

* Organization: Write organized and well structured architecture, back-end and technical documentation as necessary to substantiate build, ensure conformance to architectural guidelines and development standards. Provide documentation to support what you’ve developed and always develop with change and scalability in mind. Translate ideas, paragraphs, bullet points and whiteboard doodles into rich, interactive experiences that are as beautiful as they are intuitive.

Required Skills:
- Expertise in hand-coding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Ability to swiftly create Web prototypes/user interface designs from wireframes and verbal direction
- Strong understanding of usability concepts and best practices
- A knack for designing intuitive layouts and forms for all levels of users
- Aptitude to design optimized Web graphics that maintain an established corporate brand
- Technical savvy and communication skills for conveying ideas and concepts virtually

* IMPORTANT: For a candidate to be considered for this position, a resume and recent online work samples are required. *

General Responsibilities:
- Understand and apply the basics of creative and business strategy.
- Work with Clients, Usability Lead, Creative Director, Copywriter and/or Producer to produce layouts and form designs that are both compelling and cost-effective.
- Produce clean, technically accurate Web files while meeting deadlines.
- Create layouts and prototypes for client presentations and user research
- Effectively communicate design specifications of files to be given to back-end Developers
- Share knowledge and experience across teams
- Work with vendors (Developers, stock photo house, photographer, etc) when necessary
- Understand overall budget constraints of projects
- Able to complete tasks independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage deadlines and production scheduling on numerous, concurrent projects.
- Perform effectively in a demanding work environment and show resiliency to stress.

Required Software Skills:
- CSS, Photoshop, ImageReady/Fireworks, Illustrator and Dreamweaver.

My client is looking for a Ruby on Rails programmer to implement some RESTful APIs into an internal dashboard. Design is done but will need to integrate into the platform (CSS, xHTML and JavaScript are all build using jQuery UI).

The newly created position is within the firm’s 20-person Client Development department which includes business development, traditional and new media marketing and public relations functions. The position will require periodic travel between offices.
The responsibilities of the Web Marketing Assistant include website editing, video and audio taping, video and audio editing for internal use and web distribution (blogs, social networks, web sites and other channels) and use of search engine optimization tools.
Interested applicants should possess the following skills and knowledge:
• Strong grammar and editing skills
• Capable of using Adobe Premiere without supervision or training
• Knowledge of and experience with editing HTML and using an online content management system
• Ability to effectively use Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop and Powerpoint
• Familiarity with search engine optimization techniques, blogging, podcasting, Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and search engine aggregators

Interaction Designer
5+ years of interactive experience, preferably at a large agency or digital/interactive shop. The interaction designer will be responsible for concepting, designing and overseeing the production of banners, websites and other digital initiatives. A strong attention to detail is necessary since they will be responsible for the quality of work that is produced. User experience and information architecture capabilities are highly recommended for this position. Beyond the design acumen, the interaction designer should have experience with a variety of development languages (Flash, PHP, CMS systems). Must be an expert with Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash. After Effects or Video experience would be considered a plus.
Salary: TBD DOE