Interactive Creative Director

Responsibilities
  • Establish and maintain a collaborative team environment and continue to cultivate, motivate and grow our talented group
  • Maintain awareness of team members’ work and provide constructive feedback to ensure quality of work
  • Lead conceptual development and brainstorms
  • Inspire creativity, innovative thinking, strong marketing concepts and solutions through thoughtful management
  • Be tenacious in your unwillingness to deliver or accept anything less than highly creative, innovative and effective work
  • Build and maintain strong, creative partnerships with senior-level clients
  • Manage, prepare and present creative for business and strategic development and project presentations
  • Work with Project Managers and other team members to ensure timelines, resources, and budget allocations can meet project scope
  • Refine, implement and maintain our work process to contribute to the evolution and growth of the team
  • Desire to understand a client's business, brand and marketing objectives, proactively contributing to its evolution and success
  • Stay current on latest industry technologies
Qualifications and Skills
  • Five to eight years of interactive design and marketing experience
  • Substantial online advertising and interactive design experience
  • Strong copy writing background
  • Excellent communication skills and be comfortable translating creative design into meeting business goals
  • Solid understanding of the Creative Team role within a studio environment
  • College degree
  • Online portfolio review required
Additional Skills a plus
  • Professional, polished, and patient
  • Problem-solver who can remain composed under pressure
  • Confident and capable of juggling multiple projects simultaneously—must be able to prioritize, multi-task and meet deadlines
  • Strong communication skills
  • Highly organized and can delegate without micro-managing
  • Ability to fully realize the big picture while paying attention to the smallest details
  • Ability to bring positive energy to projects and team
If you wish to be considered for this position please email a list of urls clearly explaining your involvement on each project along with a current resume.

 
 
Creative Services Manager

Responsibilities
  • Manages recruiting and freelance needs
  • Negotiates all freelance contracts keeping correspondence throughout; contractors include creative and production staff
  • Tracks freelance hours/budget weekly
  • Works closely with management to assess skill sets and hiring plan
  • Determines department needs and works to fulfill and round out each department
  • Must be able to build credibility among colleagues and administrative counterparts and recruiting prospects
  • Coordinates with HR on all new hires
  • Keeps database of talent, establishing relationships with key creative staff in industry, continually and updates their status
Requirements
  • 3+ years of Creative Management experience
  • Working knowledge of the creative process and general creative agency workflow
  • Knowledge of all phases of project lifecycles
  • Familiarity with advertising and interactive development methodologies
  • Solid project management skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Must be highly reliable, extremely professional, able to interact appropriately with senior management, and to safeguard the confidentiality of information he/she handles.
If you wish to be considered for this position please email a resume and cover letter.

 
 
Front-End HTML Developer

JUXT is seeking a CSS/XHTML guru for a Front-End HTML Developer position. The ideal candidate should understand the separation of content from design, scoff at the mention of using tables and know when and when NOT to use Dreamweaver. Should write validating, standards-compliant, and semantically-rich code and be aware of cross-browser compatibility and bugs. Translations from the designs to final code should be a match, pixel-for-pixel.

Responsibilities
  • Will take the lead in translating design comps into HTML/XHTML pages
  • Work with the web developer to integrate back-end code
Qualifications and Skills
  • XHTML/CSS
  • Aware of W3C Standards and Specifications
  • Cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility
  • General knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Knowledge, experience with source/version control systems and structured deployment practices
  • Familiarity w/ Flash and Flash integration
Additional Skills a plus
  • XML, .NET, MS-SQL
If you wish to be considered for this position please email a list of urls clearly explaining your involvement on each project along with a current resume.

 
 
Copywriter

JUXT is seeking an interactive creative copywriter to concept, manage, and execute content for high profile rich media banner campaigns and websites. Campaigns will seek to drive program awareness, increase affinity for the brand, and drive click thru's. The copywriter will work closely with the art director to ensure that the tone and style are consistent with the visuals, manage and respond to client feedback, and amend and revise campaigns based on performance.

Requirements
  • Experience with concepting, campaign development, creative brief development, and creative execution of rich media banner campaigns
  • 4-6 years interactive copywriting experience for national brands
  • Experience and understanding of creative opportunities afforded by rich media technology
  • Ability to articulate and present ideas effectively
  • Ability to work with Art Directors to create a successful campaign
  • Ability to respond to performance metrics to achieve client objectives
  • A positive, professional attitude in a team setting
  • Strong attention to detail
If you wish to be considered for this position please email a list of urls clearly explaining your involvement on each project along with a current resume.


 
 

Interactive Designer/Developer

Juxt Interactive is seeking an Interactive designer. Candidates should have 3 years of interactive design experience. We are looking for rare individuals that have a gift for original thinking, a broad exposure to design and design styles as well as having a mastery of the tools involved in developing the interactive medium. Candidates must have proficiency with PhotoShop, Freehand or Illustrator, 3d apps, Video editing, Sound design and HTML development tools. Candidate must have extreme proficiency with Flash motion development and actionscripting. He/she must have excellent communication skills and be a great team player. We are looking for people that are willing to work hard and grow.

We are currently not considering International candidates beyond Canada at this time. You must be a resident of or be willing to relocate to southern California. But hey it is not that bad we are a mile from the beach.

If you wish to be considered for this position please email a list of urls clearly explaining your involvement on each project along with a current resume.

Email juxtjobs@spamarrest.com with INTERACTIVE DESIGNER as the subject.

Please no phone calls.


 
 

Art Director

Juxt Interactive is seeking an Art Director/Flash designer. Candidates should have 5 years of interactive design experience. We are looking for rare individuals that have a gift for original thinking, a broad exposure to design and design styles as well as having a mastery of the tools involved in developing the interactive medium. Candidates must have proficiency with PhotoShop, Freehand or Illustrator, 3d apps, Video editing, Sound design and HTML development tools. Candidate must have extreme proficiency with Flash motion development and actionscripting. He/she must have excellent communication skills and have experience dealing directly with clients in both on going project communications as well as client presentation.

We are currently not considering International candidates beyond Canada at this time. Must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California. This is an in house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California.

If you wish to be considered for this position please email a list of urls clearly explaining your involvement on each project along with a current resume.


 
 
Web Developer (C#/Java)

Juxt Interactive seeks an assertive, knowledgeable and capable web developer. Candidate must have a minimum 3 years experience developing dynamic web sites and/or applications with a mastery of Internet technologies. Computer science degree preferred but not mandatory. Must be detail oriented and work well in a team environment. The position will involve working with the production/development team to build web sites and applications as well as playing a key role in maintaining existing projects.
  • 2+ years ASP.NET (C#)
  • 2+ years Java (J2EE, JDBC, JSP, Servlets)
  • 2+ years database design and programming
  • 2+ years HTML/XHTML/DHTML/JavaScript years XML/XSL
  • Experience with both SQL Server and Oracle -Experience with Visual Studios 2003 and Eclipse IDEs.
  • Knowledge, experience with source/version control systems and structured deployment practices.
  • Experience with both Windows/Unix operating systems and web servers.
  • Familiarity w/ Actionscript and flash integration.
We are currently not considering International candidates beyond Canada at this time. Must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California. This is an in house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California.

If you meet these requirements, please send your resume and an example SQL stored procedure that highlights your knowledge of databases to juxtjobs@spamarrest.com


 
 
Actionscript/Developer

Juxt Interactive is seeking a Flash Actionscript/developer. The ideal ActionScript Developer would have several years of experience in a creative environment with knowledge of both ActionScript and the standard Flash production methods. A thorough understanding of ActionScript 1.0 is required including OOP concepts, XML data exchange, use of external ActionScript files and programmatic tweening and animation; a working knowledge of ActionScript 2 is a plus. The ability to quickly produce lightweight, clean code is a necessity. Candidates should be prepared to direct production personnel and provide assistance to staff with ActionScript related issues, as well as perform production duties themselves.

We are currently not considering International candidates beyond Canada at this time. Must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California. This is an in house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California.

If you wish to be considered for this position please email a list of urls clearly explaining your involvement on each project along with a current resume.


 
 
Project Manager

Description

A client facing producer/project manager, managing local, national and international accounts. This position directs an award winning team of designers and developers working on high profile web site/internet marketing and technology projects.

Requirements
  • The ability to organize and lead a team to produce great work
  • College degree.
  • 3-4 years of Internet development and client management experience
  • Experience working with top tier Clients
  • Solid working knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS, Flash Development, Actionscript OOP, ASP / ASP.NET, SQL 7/2000, and other web technologies.
  • Solid understanding of structured development methodologies
  • Organized and capable of directing multiple projects
  • Solid understanding of Client/Server dynamic web site development (you won’t be programming them, but you need to communicate with Clients and staff)
  • Understand the nuances of complex Flash Development and programming
  • Ability to create, sequence and manage multiple projects using our proprietary PM software and MS Project
  • Excellent communication skills- verbal and written.
  • A passion for what you do
  • A commitment to nothing less than excellence
Responsibilities
  • Manage Clients and direct design and development staff.
  • Work with a shared production coordinator
  • Work with New Business team to develop budgets, schedule, and staffing plan for new work.
  • Will write project plans, functional specifications for new projects and allocate and manage staff to fulfill design and development requirements. Will develop a production plan to sequence development and staffing
  • Manage Client expectations and relations
  • Responsible for successfully bringing projects in on budget Being involved in projects strategies and identifying new opportunities for projects with existing Clients
  • Insure project conformance with Project Objectives
  • Communicate project status to accounting
We are currently not considering International candidates beyond Canada at this time. Must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California. This is an in house position and candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to Southern California.

If you wish to be considered for this position please email a list of urls clearly explaining your involvement on each project along with a current resume.