posted January 6, 2011
The Company
14-year-strong dependable and forward-thinking Northampton web
development company with a solid reputation and awesome clients looking
for someone to join our strong and supportive team for a long term
commitment. If you're looking for a part time position and you're
amazing, we'd love to hear from you, but ideally this will be a full
time position with benefits.
The Position
We're looking for someone who is both a talented web designer and has experience managing projects/clients. We have very high standards and are open to talking to designers of all experience levels. We expect the job to be 50% client interaction and 50% design, although that ratio could change based on your experience level.
Your main job responsibilities will be to:
- Work with our awesome team of developers, designers and managers to make some fantastic websites
- Excite existing and prospective clients about their websites
- Create stunning designs with our other designers that can win prestigious national Awards
- Manage projects (timeline, client expectations, development team, budget, etc.)
- Assist with proposal writing and presentation
- Understand how web design is different than other forms of design, and apply it correctly
- Be accountable for your own work, and support other people in doing their work
Other Less Frequent Duties will include:
- Design iPad/iPhone/Android Screens
- Design logo or print materials
- Update internal marketing documents (Proposals, Powerpoints, etc.)
- Be an overall helpful presence in the office
A Junior Level Designer might also be called upon to help with office and reception tasks 5-10 hours a week as they hone their skills.
The right person MUST:
- Thrive with deadlines
- Believe that the process of client feedback makes a design stronger
- Be outgoing
- Be detail oriented (tell us if you got straight A's in school)
- Be great at followup
- Be proficient in Photoshop
- Have some sales experience
- Be confident and easy to talk to
- Like to be challenged
It's an added plus if you can hack CSS to make headings, lists, etc. or if you have other applicable skills such as Search Engine Optimization or web copy writing experience.
If this sounds interesting to you please email the info below to ishouldwork@gravityswitch.com:
- Cover letter including availability, salary needs, and why you're interested in this position
- Resume
- Your availability (we might have an immediate project)
- Your 3 strongest design samples (as JPG files). At least 2 of them must be web designs, although the 3rd can be anything.
- 3 Websites you *wish* you designed
No Adobe Flash or HTML code samples please.
This is an on-site position; telecommuters need not apply. No phone calls please.