You will be able to work to deadlines and delivery projects on time. They are looking for an enthusiastic designer who works well in a team. Your portfolio will demonstrate a strong commercial awareness and a great ability to work to strong brand guidelines and templates. You have a good User Centred Design approach and some exposure to User Experience. You will have experience of working on email campaigns and strong Photoshop skills.

If you are interested in applying for this role please send your CV and portfolio to rosi@wearefutureheads.co.uk

As a Producer you will be working with fantastic brands across a large range of industries, and the majority of projects are global as oppose to just UK restricted.

Budgets under your control would range from £20,000 – £500,000.  As a Producer you are responsible for supporting the brainstorming sessions, outlining scope of work including supporting technical and functional specs, drawing up site maps where required and ensuring projects are delivered on time and budget but always keeping quality of work as the biggest priority.  Our client is moving closer to an Agile approach to running projects but they are pretty flexible.  It is about finding the right approach to get the best results.

Ideal Background

• Creative Agency Experience a must
• 2 – 3 years Producer experience
• Strong Digital background
• Experience overseeing a breadth of digital projects including website design and build, campaigns, outdoor, interactive kiosks etc
• TV production background is preferred although not vital
• Experience working with TV Production companies on projects ideal

• A solid understanding of Flash, PHP, .NET, CMS etc
• Experience working with TV Production companies on projects ideal
• Experience overseeing budgets ranging from £20k – £200k
• Some IA experience such as drawing up site maps and wireframes using Omnigraffle
• Understands how to work with and manage  passionate creatives

If you are interested in working for an independent agency who genuinely produce cutting edge and broad digital work, please get in touch with Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk.

As Project Manager you will be overseeing projects ranging in size from £5k – £50k with an aim to manage projects up to £150k in time.  The DPM is a conduit between creative, technical and account management ensuring all digital projects are completed on time, on brief and on budget.

Ideal Background:

• At least 1 – 2 years working in an agency overseeing digital with a minimum of three years working within an agency environment.
• Ideally a breadth of experience including online, video and 3d.  Online is essential

• In terms of web knowledge ideally looking for solid experience in the below:

• Flash, Flex, HTML, CSS, JS and other common front end technologies
• LAMP and other back end technologies and the interface with front end languages
• Augmented Reality and other gesture or object recognition tools / software is beneficial
• A good knowledge of Content Management Systems such as Teamsite

• Experience working with blue chip clients  
• Ability to work across multiple projects with overlapping timelines
• Strong client facing skills advantageous (though not essential)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical team members

A can do attitude is a must.  This will suit a team player, who likes to get involved in projects at all levels and is a big communicator.  This is not a PM role which is just about managing a gant chart and a budget!

If this describes you please do email your CV to ben.gautrey@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Key Skills Required

PHP

XHTML

CSS

XML/JSON

jQuery

Confident CS skills for production graphics

Experience with video

This role is a three month contract with possibility of becoming a permanent role, so will be great for someone looking to establish themselves within a leading company. If you are interested in this role please send your CV and a portfolio or work samples to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk.

Your portfolio will demonstrate the ability to design clear, functional work with strong User Cantered Design and good commercial focus. You will have experience of working on email marketing campaigns and be able to deliver on-brand solutions. You will have experience of working to brand guidelines, and be confident in working within a team. They are seeking out someone with strong communication skills who can manage their time efficiently and can work to deadlines.

Skills required:

Strong working knowledge of Photoshop and Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Visio and preferably Flash

Excellent usability and accessibility/SEO knowledge

Ability to wireframe and task model

Good HTML knowledge

CSS and other front-end codes would also be desirable.

If you are interested in this role please email your CV and portfolio to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

You will have a strong, design-led portfolio, with great attention to detail, which demonstrates your ability to create commercial work for a wide audience. This role will be fast paced, and you will have to be able to work to be adaptable deadlines and able to work on several briefs at once.

You will need to be enthusiastic, with a keen interest in music, someone who can thrive in an energetic environment. You will need strong Creative Suite skills as well as knowledge and understanding of HTML. Any development experience would also be desirable. You will need to have strong communication skills, and be able to work with independently and as part of a team.  You must be able to design for web standards and use company guidelines.

If you have the right skills and are interested in this role please send you CV and portfolio to rosi@wearefutureheads.co.uk

There are two potential routes for the Project Director, either to work across one large and key account or to work across a number of smaller well known brands.  Either way an opportunity to join a passionate digital team for an award winning agency.

As Project Director you will reporting directly to the Director of Project Management and partnering with the Business Directors, the Project Director is responsible for managing and coordinating the projects and Project Managers across their respective Client/Account Groups ensuring the efficient and successful delivery of all projects according to client requirements and the high standards of the Agency.

As a senior member of the agency, the Project Director will be seen as a leader within the Digital group providing insights and challenging their current way of working, whilst constantly seeking way to develop the agency in the constantly changing Digital environment.

The Project Director has exceptional project, personnel management, client management and leadership skills and has a proven track record in project execution and managing a programme of projects from commencement through to successful delivery.

Experience Required

          Flawless project management skills with adaptive use of the appropriate methodology of dependent the needs of the Client/Account Group.

          Strong leadership skills, with the ability to manage board level internal and client relationships

          Strong negotiation, mediation and facilitation skills

          The ability to create and manage third party relationships at a senior level

          Excellent working knowledge of project management tools such as MS Project with the ability to coach PM team member on their appropriate use

          Ability to monitor the quality of all aspects of all projects: scope, risk, schedule, budget, quality, delivery on time on brief on budget and all associated client communication.

          Exceptional core project management skills

          To be able to work closely with the Director of Project Management and Business Directors and communicate with clients and teams on an ongoing basis on all Client/Account Group production process and status

          Prepare business requirements, reports and feasibility studies and provide digital production consultation to the client, account, strategic, creative and production teams in management of the project lifecycle process and defining individual project requirements

          Experience in execution of new business pitches from a project management perspective to ensure potential work is scoped and priced correctly.

          Effectively encourage communication with other departments (Creative, Technology, Operations, Finance, User Experience, Strategy & Accounts) ensuring a smooth and productive flow of work.

          Ensure consistency in overall PM team communication, methodology, best practices and team management.

The position is based in London and is a contract.

If this sound like the right role for you please contact – Rachel Murray

rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk

I have a new perm role to brief you on. This one is for a client side role (start-up software / application company, with an interesting central product), and is to be the head of Interaction Design for them. You will have management responsibility for one junior designer, and will report up to the CEO, with a soon-to-be-appointed Product Manager eventually acting as the bridge between the two. Salary for this role is between £45-65k, and they are based in Central / West London.

The central product in this instance is a hugely complex web based application, whose function is to capture masses of quantitative data on users interactions with a company’s digital products. This application is hugely customisable, and can capture an incredible amount of data on all touch points for an organisations digital presence. There are terabytes and terabytes of data flowing into the back end of this product (which was designed and owned by this company), whilst the front end must remain beautifully simple, intuitive, tailorable and efficient, as it is primarily used by time-poor marketers and sales execs.

This is an 18 month old company, and feels very much like a start-up. Internal teams are heavily weighted towards engineers and developers, with the next stage of growth being focussed around the front-end creatives and back office functions. If the idea of helping shape a companies growth, and growing with an organisation whilst functions and abilities come online in relation to need (with the incumbent growing pains that go along with this growth), then you should definitely explore this opportunity.

Production process is adherent to a good UCD cycle, with user research and requirements taking more and more of a front seat in proceedings, as more products are bought, the client list grows and the internal feedback loop built into the product increases in speed and volume of data. Lot’s of concepting, brainstorming and rapid prototyping for presentation to key internal stakeholders.

If this role sounds of interest please do drop me a line. ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Our client is looking to completely re architect their UK web sites to make them much more scalable.  This will involve:

• Managing the technical design & development including requirements gathering, gap analysis, architecture, technical design, technical estimation, build, testing, integration & data migration
• Coordinating work streams across local & global creative agencies and technical partners – both technical and creative
• Producing accurate cost & time estimates and once agreed manage the project to these.

Background Required

• 10 years in a digital agency, 5 years as a technical Project Management

• Demonstrable experience of successfully leading the project management of a large (~£2M) multi-country interactive personalized transactional consumer portal.
• Architect, design and then setup the operational organization to run the site.

Technical skills Required

• Define functional, technical, process and data requirements.
• In depth technical understanding of web standard and client technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, FLASH, DNS, Akkami, 
• In depth technical understanding of enterprise-level systems and back-end web technologies – JSP, J2EE, SOAP, Web services, Websphere, Oracle  databases or equivalent LAMP or .NET technologies.
• Familiar with enterprise analytics tools like Omniture or Webtrends.
• Demonstrable experience of developing multi language sites using enterprise CMS in with an enterprise level hosting provider in a managed service environment.
• Demonstrable experience of security and performance management.
• Practical experience of the development of Social and Mobile applications / integrations.

Start mid/end September, 6 months contract.  A fantastic opportunity!

If you can demonstrate the above please email your CV to rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Talented and energetic you are a key member of the internal team to support user research, focus groups, expert reviews. You also will be involved with working in partnership with stakeholders to understand the business goals and make sure they are reflected in the roadmap. You need to make good sound interaction and information architecture decisions and produce all the regular documentation to support the user centred design process.

You will get to work on redesigns for the web, but also iphone, mobile and some lovely creative applications to secure engagement from core users.

Drop me a line – be@wearefutureheads.co.uk