Posts Tagged ‘futureheads’

Project Director, £65k, London, J600

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Hello

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

Technical project manager – interactive (web and mobile) – £350 – £400 pd – Start end mid September – 6 months – J599 – London

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Our client is a global consumer brand who are looking for a technical Project Manager to oversee the development of a multi market, multi channel, multi brand personalised, transactional consumer marketing portal, a fantastic opportunity for a technical Project Manger to work on a high profile project from scratch.

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

Freelance Digital Project Manager, £300 per day, London, J587

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Our client is a London based pure play digital agency with a focus on larger design and build projects who are looking for a Project Manager to support a very busy Project Management team.  The focus of the work is email campaigns and small site builds in this case however.  These guys are a really button down agency so will suit a Project Manager who comes from a more structured PM agency background.  They are a great agency to get on the CV, very respected on the industry.

Key skills are:

  • Strong client-facing skills
  • Disciplined PM skills: tracking, reporting, people management
  • Proven experience of managing £50K+
  • Practical knowledge of web design and/or development
  • Excellent experience of estimates, proposals and pitches
  • Excellent communication skills, including written English, verbal presentation and visual representation

Start Tuesday 31st August

If you are available soon and feel you demonstrate the above please email your CV to Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Snr and mid weight Project Managers £35k and £45k

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Futureheads are looking for Senior Project Managers at £45k and mid-weight Project Managers circa £35k for lovely West End based agencies.  An opportunity to work with a varied client base.  A greater focus on campaign based projects in both these roles, with a big focus on career progression, mentoring junior PMs and potentially moving in to Lead PM role with direct line management.

Please get in touch rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Senior Project Manager, £50k – £60k.

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Our client is one of the UKs top digital agencies made up of passionate and talented mix of digital people who are looking for a senior Project Manager to join their team.  They are sector and channel neutral, which means they care just as much about the creative message as they do the user experience, or the technology needed to bring their ideas to life.  A great agency.  Their focus is definitely larger builds, they do not do online advertising so if you are looking for larger scale digital projects delivered by a talented and creative team this is a good option for you.

Experience Required

  • Budget experience £250k plus
  • Agency background
  • Large website design and build experience – ecommerce, social media, cross platform, CMS etc
  • Client facing
  • Management potential

 

Please get in touch Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Managing Director (Director),£100k plus bonus, equity, pension (package £130k) , J565

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Our client is a privately-owned, London-based full service digital agency, established in 2001 specialising in delivering high quality digital strategy and user-experience-led digital solutions, who are looking for a Managing Director to join them and become an integral part of their business.

They are an ambitious company that has emerged strongly from the recession and is now striving for significant growth over the next few years. In order to achieve this they are looking to strengthen their leadership with the appointment of a new Managing Director.

Our client has a genuine passion for digital communications, and in particular the web. Their team is a coming together of experts in their field, be that digital strategy, user experience, visual design or web development. They are absolutely looking for an MD who has a strong background in and passion for Digital.

Key responsibilities:

  • Set the strategy and lead the drive to achieve the agency’s commercial goals, in association with the CEO
  • Lead and manage the agency’s operational capability, including their growing strategic consultancy offering
  • Drive excellence across teams and disciplines to deliver real value to clients’ digital projects
  • Review and develop the agency’s resources, knowledge and skills across all disciplines
  • Play a key role in leading business growth and client relationship management alongside the CEO and other senior colleagues.

Background:

  • They are seeking an individual of the highest calibre, preferably from an agency background, with a demonstrable and extensive track record in delivering world-class digital thinking and solutions.
  • You will have considerable experience working at both strategic and operational levels
  • You will be an outstanding communicator with the commercial expertise and gravitas to lead and inspire in a fast-moving, complex environment
  • You will possess a deep understanding of the UK’s digital industry and be well connected within the industry
  • An acute awareness of how clients can best utilise the power of digital to deliver real business value is critical to the role

If this sounds of interest and come with commercial and operational background please do send your details to Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk

User Experience Practitioners-, £70-90k, London, Permanent, J562

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Hello everybody,

I have a new perm role to brief all you heavyweight User Experience Practitioners on. If you are looking for new perm opportunities, between 70-90k, working for a Central London consultancy, please read on.

Now, the first thing to explain about this role, as it’s one of the most interesting and appealing things about it, is how these guys work with their clients, and what their production process. It is one that is often talked about but very rarely practiced by agencies in London, and in this case it is one of the founding principles of everything they do.

So, they work with very large, global investment banks and FS institutions, and work almost exclusively on ‘Business Systems’, which is qualified as anything internally focussed for use by staff within the organisation. So this can include ERP systems, procurements systems, document management systems, anything internally focussed. Now, some of you may have switched off already, but please don’t until you hear how they build these things for their clients, and what these systems actually need to do. Everything is based around intelligent interrogation of why the client thinks they need these things, as opposed to just taking the brief and agreeing to build it, with no thought as to whether it is going to solve the problem in any way. Also, the beauty of these products is in their interactions, interface, form and function, as opposed to their skin. So if you are focussed around  creating flashy looking products to help sell cars or mobile phones, then this is perhaps not the role for you. If, however, your designers spirit is nourished by creating beautifully simple solutions to unbelievably complex problems, then read on. So, a typical client brief will go like this:

Client: ‘We need a new Single Dealer Platform for our brokers to use’

These guys: ‘Why?’

Client: ‘Because the current one doesn’t seem to be working how it should.’

These guys: ‘OK, well let’s find out if that’s true.’

There will then begin a very intense period of research, stakeholder engagement, business mapping and process capturing, ethnographic study and landscaping to ascertain what the actual business process is, rather than just the technical consideration. This research will take into account everything from human interaction, environment, context of actions, ergonomics, psychology and neuroscience, to team structure, size and behaviours. Once this is captured, the correct solution is presented, which 9 times out of 10 is very different to the original brief. So, in a nutshell, if you would like to undertake a role where you are actually helping global business’ to understand their problems, rather than just building the solutions they think they need and taking the money, then this is a role you should explore. But it is also one which requires a particular type of practitioner…

You must be an intellectual interrogator, not one to take anything at face value but challenge, question and investigate. You must also be adept at managing challenging stakeholders, and helping very powerful and important people to understand that perhaps they are not right in their assumptions, whilst maintaining the strength of the relationship. You will ideally currently be a Principle or Lead consultant within a leading consultancy (as opposed to a design and build agency making marketing sites or ecommerce products), and you will have a background in intelligent research feeding into beautiful design, rather than just design.

If  this sounds of interest, let me know.

Ben

ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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

User Experience Consultant – London- 2-3 Weeks – J493

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

My client, an established and award winning digital design agency are bursting at the seams with excellent projects and are looking for user experience consultants that are specialist at working with clients to turn business requirements into user experience goals, work across the research, design and testing phases of a project to look at insights, prioritise these and turn them into information and user experience designs.

The first project, in financial services is likely to kick off in two weeks and the work is required for 10-15 days although this could be extended.

Day rates are negotiable, so get in touch please if you have some space in the schedule.

be@wearefutureheads.co.uk

User Experience Consultant, York – up to £40K, J529

Monday, July 26th, 2010

My client, a huge employer nationally is looking to build a user experience centre of excellence in York. The team have around 5 people working nationally and around 11 team members in the design and UX team onsite ( including contractors). We are looking to populate the user experience team with people that can lead and define research internally or work with external partners.

You help to understand customers across B2B and B2C products and working with other teams across the business to help them achieve their business goals. Working with stakeholders is a huge part of the process, and while projects are often initiated by those teams ( sales, marketing, distribution) there is also an innovation programme being put in place so you can initiate new ideas. You will have experience of consulting in the user experience space – and working with design and technology teams and pulling together the full suite of ux documentation – business and user research, personas, interaction designs, user journeys, sitemaps and wireframes. There is a good work life-balance at this company – an onsite cafe, working in a great city with an onsite cafe. The company also offers 29 days holiday, a brilliant pension contribution (almost double your input) and a bonus and profit sharing scheme.

If you interested in hearing more about this new permanent role in York, drop me a line.

be@wearefutureheads.co.uk