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User Experience practitioner – 8-10 weeks – £350-400pday (ref J345)

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

This one is for a relatively young but fast growing agency, based 45 minutes outside of London (with a journey infinitely nicer than the central line during rush hour). They have a number of new clients and projects, and need a mid / heavyweight User Experience practitioner to lead on a crucial piece of work. The project pitch has been won, and they now need someone to help them deliver the solution, including extensive requirements gathering and scoping, followed by full design of the finished product. Deliverables will include documented requirements gathered through senior stakeholder interviews, scoping and prototyping, personas, work flows, user journeys, fully annotated wireframes and a functional spec. This is one of those rare freelance roles where you get to impact a project from beginning to end. You must be available ASAP (no more than 1 weeks notice), and some experience of working with e-commerce products would be hugely beneficial.

If this sounds of interest please do drop me a line with your CV and folio.
Ben Tregoing 020 3326 0568, ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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Information Architect for 5 days £400pd (ref J344)

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

I have a new, short term freelance role to brief you on. It is for a central London based User Experience consultancy, starting on the 5th May for 5 days, delivering an Axure prototype from a full set of complete wireframes. The client can pay between £350-400pday, but would prefer someone with extensive experience of producing the actual deliverable.

 If this sounds of interest please do drop me a line. Ben Tregoing 020 3326 0568/ ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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Associate Project Manager £30 – £35k (ref 309)

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Our client is a pure play digital agency with a great reputation in the industry who are looking for an Associate Project Manager to provide a service to their longest standing and most important customers.   A fantastic opportunity for a mid weight Project Manager who is looking for a vehicle to move into a more senior role in the future.

 As Associate Project Manager the role requires you to lead and motivate a delivery team to consistently deliver improvements to their client’s web presence. You must ensure that their clients are delighted with our clients service on an ongoing basis.

 Experience required

 The role requires the following experience:

  • Client management experience.
  • Web design and/or development experience.
  • Experience of managing a small delivery team.
  • Experience of estimating and proposal writing.
  • Experience of bug tracking systems.
  • Experience of writing and working to Service Level Agreements.

 With the following personal qualities:

  • Innovation
  • Drive and Effectiveness
  • Communication Skills
  • Client management skills
  • Organisation skills

A highly organised, digital professional with the talent to run tyour own projects and with a keen understanding of client needs and priorities.

You are someone who…

  • Can manage multiple workstreams concurrently
  • Meet project curveballs with cool, flexible, lateral thinking
  • Is highly organised and extremely responsive
  • Can manage client expectations effectively

Boxes to tick

  • strong client-facing skills
  • effective team management skills
  • excellent communication skills, including written English, verbal presentation and visual representation
  • experience of Service Level Agreements and bug tracking systems
  • disciplined PM skills: status reporting, proposal writing, change management
  • practical knowledge of web design and/or development

In return you will work with a top digital agency with really smart people who will be excellent mentors to help you progress in to a senior PM role in the future.

If you can demonstrate the above please email to Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk, 020 7420 3540

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Perm User Experience Consultant – £50 to 80K (ref J342)

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

My client has 200 people based in the London office, but also have a base in San Fran, Sydney and Brazil. You will be joining a  really passionate team of 4 user experience consultants. – this company are embracing design strategy, and they way they work – marrying lean and agile approaches into user centred design. You have a passion for putting people, customers and employees at the heart of everything you do. You will be working on internal applications and, software tools and technologies, websites and some mobile projects. You will be working with clients onsite – hand holding them on their journey. Sitting down with  software development teams and working on complex interaction design – wireframes and documentation is part of the process, the real excitement is seeing the finished product.

 Of course you *LOVE*

 Ethnography, contextual and guerrilla research and testing

Ideation, strategy and concepting

Rapid, high, low, inside out and upside down prototyping

Testing.

 And you *LOVE LOVE LOVE*

 Consulting, walking with the CEO’s, talking with the developers, scratching your head with subject matter experts and chairing all the workshops.

 Holler if you want some more, I’ll tell you all about the cool culture and benefits of working with this consultancy.

Contact Be Kaler Blake 0207 420 3539, be@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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User Experience Architect to start next week (ref j340)

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

I am looking for a user experience architect to start next week, you need to be capable of being set a research and design brief, its not just churning out documentation – but rather to scope and set the direction for a project. The work is to scope a Facebook application using a variety of 3rd party RSS feeds. You need to have experience of creating  decision tree documentation and interface wireframes along with supporting research rationale. I need someone who can take a fairly loose brief and define some of the front end build/development requirements

 Any examples of similar work they can provide would be very useful. Contact Be Kaler Blake on 0207 420 3539, be@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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Senior Digital Producer £40k – £50k (ref J339)

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Our client is a Production focused agency who produce very high quality digital work who are looking for a Producer to join their highly talented and close knit team.  If you want to oversee highly creative and technically impressive projects this role will be of interest to you.  As the team grows there is scope to manage more junior and mid weight Producers.

Are you experienced in Project Management and motivated by producing digital creative with wow-factor? Are you interested in managing a highly creative, dedicated and talented team in a relaxed environment? Our client is looking for a Producer to join their rapidly growing company. They want someone who really cares about delivering great interactive projects and fully understands how to manage the creative team and process to achieve brilliant results.

You’ll be responsible for taking projects from conception through to final delivery. As the crucial link between the Production team and their clients, you’ll ensure projects are delivered on time, budget and brief.

The ideal candidate will:

  • Have a proven track record in managing the production of both advertising/marketing led projects and medium/large scale site builds.
  • Have impeccable organisational skills and a keen, creative eye.
  • Have excellent attention to detail and communication skills.
  • Be at ease dealing directly with clients, along with a willingness to learn.
  • Have an understanding of, and enthusiasm for, emerging digital technologies.

Please email your CV to Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk or call 020 7420 3540

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Group Project Director £60 – £75k (ref J336)

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Our client are one of the top pure play London based digital agencies who are looking for a Group Project Director with experience of multiple project deliveries.

The successful candidate will be the Group Project Director  across a number of accounts with a number of levels of Project management reporting into them.   A fantastic opportunity to work with a great agency, passionate team and well known brands.

The Group Project Director has day-to-day responsibility for the smooth and effective running of their projects as well as line management of a team of Project Managers/Senior Project Managers.

The Group Project Director will be working in partnership with the account team and other disciplines to deliver client’s business goals.  They will to be able to get their hands dirty, but also take a pragmatic approach when shocks occur to projects, working with the whole team to deliver the best solution for the client and for our client.

 We except the candidate to be responsible for:

  • Line management of a team of Producers/Senior Producers
  • Be champion of PM best practice and disseminate this knowledge to the wider team.
  • Be a champion of high creative/technical standards and mentor your team to encourage the same in them.
  • Be a resource than can be called on for ad-hoc advice by the wider agency re Project management.
  • Gather requirements for PM resource within work hub for Head of PM and assist in allocation of PM resource
  • Monitor account relevant processes; suggest improvements and amends when necessary.

 Experience Required.

 Digital experience on creative accounts / at a creatively focused agency as well as experience in managing big build technically complex projects

  • Experience of managing Project Managers
  • Experience of managing multiple projects concurrently
  • Delivery of large websites (transactional site delivery ideal)
  • Be comfortable presenting to and conversing with clients at all  levels including senior
  • Excellent diplomatic and negotiation skills
  • Be champion of PM best practice and disseminate this knowledge to the wider team.
  • Should be knowledgeable and genuinely excited by the potential of digital

 Please email your CV to rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk or call 020 7420 3540

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User Experience Project Manager £60k – £90k (ref J302)

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Our client is a well known global financial institution who are looking for a UX Project Manager to join an in house digital team.  A great opportunity to join a new venture on the client side for a talented ambitious Project Manager with a strong understanding of UX with an ability to liaise technical too.  They are keen on people from an agency background as this team will be set up as an internal agency.

The UX Project Manager plays a key role alongside User Experience, Technology  and Business  Leads to define, scope and manage application design and implementation projects across the business, and are seen as an essential part of successful delivery of quality solutions.

Specifically, this role will be responsible for shared team leadership, developing and maintaining projects plans, tracking deliverables, tracking and managing resource needs, organizing and leading project related meetings, liaising with various level of management within the organization to meet deadlines and assist in driving projects toward successful completion. 

 Key Responsibilities

• General leadership and pastoral care of the UX/Design team (Shared with UX Project Lead)

• Plan, resource and manage the UX/Design team on a project basis

• Co-ordinate UX between Business Analysts, Development, Test Team  & Project Management groups

• Attend all project meetings on behalf of UX, reporting back on progress and timelines

 Background Required

 This role requires a highly organized but flexible attitude, with an ability to be forward looking and anticipate the steps required to meet future deliverables while dealing effectively with an ever-changing set of needs and requirements.  In addition, it is essential that the right candidate have experience working with creative teams as well as liaising with technical teams and stakeholders from all levels of the organisation.  This role is based in London.

•  Excellent organization and time management skills

•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills

•  Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills

•  Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills

• Experience working with and managing creative teams

• Experience managing User-Centred Design and  Agile development methodologies

•  Proficient in MS Project

•  5+ years working experience

•  Bachelors Degree

 Salary £60k – £90k depending on experience.

Please email your CV to rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk or call 020 7420 3540

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Creative Director, Central London, Competitive salary dependant on experience (ref J330)

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Our client is an award-winning and fast-growing integrated digital agency with an established client base of well known brands.  An opportunity has arisen for a Digital Creative Director to lead and expand the creative strand of the business which will involve a mixture of on-line campaign led work supporting existing business and web design and build projects for clients who have bought into the creative offering. Current client base features household names in the utilities, travel and insurance sectors amongst others and the new business pipeline is very strong. This role requires a commercially focussed, results driven CD who has proven leadership skills with the ability to manage, grow and mentor a team. You will be responsible for overseeing all of the agency’s creative work and will be the design authority within the organisation and must inspire clients, peers and colleagues, bringing drive and ambition to take the agency forward to new heights.

As an individual you should have excellent client liaison skills with proven pitching experience. A digital or media agency background is also essential as is a strong portfolio of consumer led digital creative work.

 If this sounds like you and you would like to hear more please email your CV and portfolio to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk, or call 020 3326 0567

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Online Communications Manager £60k – £70k (ref j310)

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Our client is a large corporate who have a completely new role within their marketing department which will focus on outlining and shaping the digital communications strategy and overseeing delivery of that strategy.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape our clients corporate online identity, presence and experiences. Working in close collaboration with Marketing and other colleagues, this individual will define how content and messaging is communicated across various Web properties, including their .com, social media/networking sites, and industry and content syndication Websites.

This role will have responsibility for designing and developing their online presence and determine how they can effectively leverage technology to communicate their key messages.

An ability to influence at the highest levels within the online function and the practice is essential to empower the delivery of these projects and the buy-in of key stakeholders. 

Primary Qualifications are

  • Expertise and experience creating and implementing online communication strategies.
  • In-depth knowledge of techniques and best practices for online media programs and advertising, social media, search optimisation, Web content, and online communities.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams to accomplish business objectives.
  • Excellent computer skills, including a fundamental knowledge of HTML and CSS.
  • Superior project management and organisation skills with a high level of attention to detail.
  • Ability and flexibility to multi-task.
  • Proven success developing online communications for a well known brand or business, with some of that experience in international professional services or business to business marketing. 
  • Proven practical and the ability to work in a multi-cultural business or professional services environment.

 Characteristics

 Collaborative with strong influencing skills.

Lifelong learner with strong interest in the latest marketing/digital techniques and opportunities.

 Creative, dynamic out-of-the-box thinker.

Flexible, embraces challenges associated with change.

Resourceful, adaptable and action orientated.

 Practical Experience

 If you can demonstrate the above commercially please forward your details to Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk.020 7420 3540

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