Posts Tagged ‘creative’

Digital Designer, London, 4-6 month contract, £ dependant on experience, J548

Friday, August 6th, 2010

An agency specialising in corporate communications are looking for an established Digital Designer to join them on a contract basis, until December 2010. Working as part of the design team, with off-line designers and a Creative Director, you will be responsible for leading a number of digital projects from a creative perspective. It is essential that you are ideas driven with strong conceptual abilities with the skills to lead a project. You must enjoy the challenges inherent with corporate design and be passionate about the digital works and away of online trends.

Although a contract position this role should be viewed as a career move, it’s an opportunity to learn and develop and take real ownership of projects. Your work will include design of websites, online reports and some animation pieces, so a portfolio that demonstrates high calibre, polished, corporate design work is essential for this role.

Essential Knowledge and skills:

  • Intelligent approach to work that is user experience focused and compliant with all accessibility and usability issues.
  • An outstanding design portfolio with at least five to seven years’ web/digital experience working across various interactive disciplines.
  • Strong sense of design, layout, navigation and importance of brand identity with experience in producing work for corporate clients.
  • Impeccable Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash skills.
  • Working knowledge and understanding of the limitations and possibilities of Flash HTML, JavaScript, CSS

 

To apply for this role please send your CV, portfolio and salary or day rate expectations to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Visual Designer – £25-40k – London

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

A funky digital design studio is looking for an experienced visual designer to join them. They are looking for someone who is passionate about design and digital. You will be working alongside their talented team of experienced and innovative designers creating for mobile and other digital platforms.

They are looking for an experienced designer that can create pixel perfect work for screen, mobile TV and beyond. You will have experience in working on application design and understand how design is implemented into devices. The role requires flexibility and the ability to work in fast paced environment. You must be enthusiastic, sociable and enjoy working as part of a team. You will be able to lead and drive projects and motivate yourself and others.

You will have a high standard of design software (Illustrator, Photoshop) and experience is interface design for mobile is desirable. You will have a good understanding of interaction design and how motion graphics can be put into practice effectively.

This role offers the opportunity to work with a team of highly-motivated designers working on innovative and exciting projects. You will be working with cutting edge technologies and be part of fast growing design studio. To apply for this role you must have a polished design portfolio demonstrating work across a variety of platforms –  applications without a portfolio will not be considered for this role.

For more information please send your CV, portfolio and salary expectations to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Digital Designer – London – £40-45k

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

A leading integrated corporate communications agency are looking for a Digital Designer to join them and work across their design and digital teams.

As an individual you must be a passionate designer, and dedicated to the digital industry – someone who blogs, tweets and networks outside of your standard working day, with an inquisitive mind and desire to constantly learn more. Whilst hands on development skills are not needed in this position you should be someone who understands technology with an interest in emerging trends and technologies you should be aware of what solutions might be appropriate to enhance your designs and meet the clients needs. A natural user centred design approach is essential and you should enjoy getting involved in the User Experience of the project, often working along side a UE specialist, but with the ability to muck in and creative documentation yourself. You will be involved in projects from initial concept through to final build and be able to create written material for pitches and presentations, so client liaison skills are a must.  It is also essential you can adapt to different challenges and change, be flexible and able to work on multiple projects in a faced paced environment.

Your software skills should include Photoshop, Illustrator and ideally Indesign. You should also have good understanding of web technologies such as HTML, XML, CSS, Flash/Flex, Ajax and some CMS understanding too.

This role is an excellent opportunity for an established digital designer, who has a portfolio full of pixel perfect design and build project. Your portfolio should demonstrate your craft skills and digital design experience. For more information on this role please send your CV, portfolio and salary expectations to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Flash Developer – London – up to £35k

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

A large, global ad agency is looking for a Flash Developer to work alongside their team of existing flash and technology experts.

You must have previous Flash development experience, preferably within a multidisciplinary environment. You will be able to build and test rich flash based internet applications, design and build flash components and applications for multiple clients on both short and long term projects.

You must be a good communicator with great written/oral communications skills. You will be able to work alongside other disciplines to provide an understanding of all aspects of Flash applications being able to work within a team and to take lead of a junior team.  You will have excellent analytical, design, programming, problem solving and organisational skills. 

Required Technical Experience

-Actionscript 3

- XML and/or database driven flash applications

-Understanding of OOP

-Design patterns and frameworks such as  PureMVC and RobotLeg

-Development using FlexSDK with Eclipse FDT

This role is suited for someone with a passion for technology and desire to innovate who wants to grow their career within a leading agency working on high profile projects.

For more information please send your CV, portfolio and salary expectations to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Junior Flash Developer – up to £25k – London – J519

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

A large, global advertising agency is looking for a junior Flash developer to join their development team.

 You will be able to work with the development team to deliver maintainable Flash-based Rich Media applications. You will be able to work as part of a team and work closely with the production, technical and creative team to deliver creative output and be able to develop entirely functional sites and applications and also develop components for larger projects. You must be enthusiastic and have excellent written/oral communication skills.

 Required Technical Experience;

-1-2 years development experience Flash & Action Script2/3. Developing XML driven rich media internet applications using ActionScript 3

-Adobe media Encoded, Photoshop, illustrator

-Understanding of web & digital technologies which may include; AJAX, ASP.NET, SQL, Java/J2EE/J2ME, XML/XSL, XHTML, Javascript

This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading ad agency and be part of a strong team working on large advertising campaigns for well known brands.

For more information please send your CV, portfolio and salary expectations to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Web Developer, Central London, £35-40k dependant on experience , J502

Friday, July 9th, 2010

A leading international brand and digital agency are looking for a skilled web developer to join their technical team, sitting within the digital department  Ideally from an agency, or similar, background you must be used to working in a fast paced, deadline driven environment. As a passionate individual you will have a great knowledge of and thirst for emerging technologies and trends within the digital/interactive world. As an individual you need to be calm and professional with the ability to be client facing and be able to provide creative development solutions to complex client briefs.  You will be responsible for running the hands on development of projects from initial brief to delivery, working alongside design and client services, occasionally overseeing team members and contractors .

Essential skills must include:

OOP PHP

SQL

Linux

HTML,

CSS

jQuery

CMS experience

This is an excellent opportunity for a talented web developer to join an established agency at a really exciting time. Working on high profile projects for some great brands, you will be working in a great environment amongst some very talented individuals. This role would suit someone who’s looking for career progression and whilst this position is largely hands on there are potential opportunities to move into technical project management.

To apply for this role please send your CV, salary expectations and links to work to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Lead Digital Designer, London, £40-45k- J460

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Hello,

An award winning integrated agency are looking for a talented designer to join their creative department. As an established designer with previous agency experience you should have a portfolio that is full of award winning, cutting edge work – the kind of work you are really proud of, campaigns that are nationally recognised and work that is so beautifully crafted that even the most renowned Creative Director would get excited about it.

Your portfolio should demonstrate your flair for design plus outstanding typography and layout skills. As an individual you must have the ability to take a lead role on design projects whilst mentoring and inspiring other designers and team members. You’ll always have your finger on the pulse with a close eye on where the design and digital industry is heading, keeping abreast of the latest trends, technologies and developments.

This is an excellent opportunity for a lead designer to join an exciting agency with a great client list and really develop your skill and further your career.

To apply for this role please send your CV and portfolio to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Senior Designer, London, 35-40k, J456

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

An award winning integrated agency are looking for a talented designer to join their creative department. This role is a really excellent opportunity for a designer with a strong digital portfolio to work on a range of projects for some great brands. On a day to day basis you will be designing websites, banners, emails, social media pages/ apps, motion graphics pieces, print design – there will be a lot of variety in this role and you certainly won’t get bored!

Working alongside Client Services, Art Directors and Information Architects you will be responsible for conceptualising solutions to briefs and often leading the design of a project from scratch, developing brands, styleguides and producing pixel perfect designs.

You’ll also be expected to oversee members of the team’s work and delegate where necessary.  You must be a confident and passionate individual, someone who loves what they do and can produce award winning work whilst understand client needs and being able to work in a collaborative fashion to provide the most appropriate solution.

If you want to work in a fun creative environment with like minded people who love what they do then this is a great opportunity. It is essential you have an outstanding portfolio of commercial work which demonstrates mastery of colour, typography, layout and good all round eye for design. Ideally you will  have a blend of digital and off-line work but excellent digital designers with no print will also be considered.

To apply for this role please send your CV and portfolio to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Resource Manager, London, £35-45k- J445

Friday, June 11th, 2010

A successful digital agency are looking for an organised and pro-active Resource Manager to join a large, busy department. Your core responsibilities will include:

  • Resource forecasting, including resource reviews and maintaining accurate resource schedules
  • Liaising with Project Managers and Account Managers to enable a good understanding of project pipeline
  • Identifying skills gaps in the team in order to plug areas in line with future projects
  • Maintaining and managing a large freelance database
  • Resource allocation across projects on weekly basis
  • Overseeing and managing a large design team – assessing individual performance
  • Managing the teams time to ensure prompt and cost effective project delivery

As an individual it is essential you are multi-tasker who is unflappable and enjoys working under pressure. You must have excellent communication skills and be able to tactfully deal with designers, developers, project managers – anyone who crosses your path on a day to day basis! This role will also be client facing so you should have had some client facing responsibilities in your last role, excellent organisation and admin skills are also essential. This role would suit someone who has worked in a busy digital department and has a good understanding of the on and off line production processes.

For more information please send your CV and Salary expectations to meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Interactive/ Flash Developer, Central London, £40k, J437

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Hello,

A leading digital agency are looking for a talented hands on Flash Developer to join their technology team. Working alongside a Technical Director and other developers you will be working on a range of projects including RIA’s, websites, microsites, rich media, games and mobile interfaces/ applications so it is essential you have a broad portfolio which demonstrates having worked on a similar range of projects for high profile brands. Your responsibilities will include, concept development and writing technical specifications; code development and mentoring members of the team so you must be an excellent communicator with the ability to talk to technical and non-technical people. Passion for emerging trends and technologies is essential for this role, you should have your finger on the pulse and want to share your knowledge.

With at least 5 years experience with Actionscript 2 & 3 your skills should also include; Flex, XML, AIR and Javascript and you should have a good understanding of design packages and server-side languages. This role is an excellent opportunity for a committed developer to join a great company that offers great career progression.

For details contact meera@wearefutureheads.co.uk