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Head of Interaction Design – Client side – £45-65k- London- J597

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Hello everyone,

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

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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

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Permanent Experience Architect, up to £45K, London, J595

Friday, August 27th, 2010

It’s all about the customer isn’t it? That’s why this online retailer have proved themselves for years on and offline. They have a fantastic brand and it’s a once stop shop for many of us. I  am looking for a super experience consultant who wants to work on big projects, and be engaged in how this product and additional services and served up in the digital world.

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

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Senior Information Architects – client FTSE Listed Content Owner – £450pday-London – J566

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Hello,

I have 5 increasingly rare, long term contract roles to brief you all on. They are for one of our largest, FTSE100 listed, content owning and aggregating media conglomerates, based 25 minutes train ride out of London (south west). They are ongoing, 6 month renewable contracts, and will pay up to £450pday for the right people. We are looking for strong, senior level Information Architects, but with a good, solid understanding of the wider UCD process.

This company has a well established and senior product and digital research team, so requirements and research documentation is all in place for projects. They also have a state of the art user testing laboratory, with a senior practitioner running the programs, so these roles are for pure UX designers, but who also have a good understanding of how that research documentation and testing data should feed intelligently into design.

These roles will be working across a number of the clients products, with the immediate requirements being an overhaul of the extensive online shop, from interactions to content layout to look and feel. Following this, other projects will come online, including revisions to areas of the .com presence, and a number of other transactional and functional revisions to consumer facing digital products.

You must be comfortable creating user journeys, site maps and wireframes, of increasing fidelity and complexity, working in an agile environment with the internal build teams, and iterating on your design work as results from testing and extended requirements feed into the project. This is an opportunity to work on some key consumer facing products for one of the countries most recognisable and well known media brands, used by millions of people every single day.

Drop me a line if these are of interest.

Ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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Information Architects, Freelance £400-450pday, London, J545

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Hello,

Me and Be have a new freelance role to brief you on, to start ASAP (1 weeks notice is OK), but you must be able to get to South West London 5 days a week (final destination 25 minutes out of Clapham Junction on an overland train). The role will run for 1 month initially, but if it works from all sides, could be extended to up to 3 months and beyond.

This is a design focussed role (wireframes, sitemaps, prototypes and concepting), requirements are either in place or will be gathered by the lead UX on the projects. You must be comfortable taking part in workshops / focus groups, and presenting and defending your ideas in this format, but will not be expected to run them.

This is to work across various work streams, including main site revisions, ecommerce products, and marketing and micro-sites. You will be working through a globally renowned agency, for one of the countries largest and most profitable blue chip media conglomerates, and will have a variety of projects to get your teeth into (you won’t just be churning out identical wireframes indefinitely).

The role will pay between £400-450pday depending on experience and contextual fit. Please drop me or Be a line for more info.

be@wearefutureheads.co.uk

ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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Research and testing consultant- £400 a day- London- J535

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

My client, based in Shoreditch is looking for an established Morae user to complete a total of 5-6 days work around August. Core dates you need to be available are on the 5th and 19th August and then a few days to analyse the date and then work on the report and presentation using an existing template.

You will need to be an excellent communicator with experience of moderating and understanding and communicating findings. You need to have experience of working with a prototype and using this as well as visual stimulation on screen – you will be comfortable inviting the user to think out loud and probe thoughts and ideas.

Drop me a line to discuss further.  be@wearefutureheads.co,uk

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Freelance Project Manager, J528, £240 per day, 3 months, London, Sector- Charity

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Hi there

Hope you’ve enjoyed the weekend. Here’s some brief info on two new freelance roles we’re working on for an expanding and super-busy charity in North London. Not the highest paying gig in London but just think of how good you’ll feel about ‘giving something back’!

 Partner project PM

Again, we’re looking for a good midweight to work alongside a lead PM on this key project for the charity’s brand partner website and digital asset system.

This contract would suit a digital PM with lots of stakeholder management and requirements gathering expertise – this is much more important than heavy technical knowledge as the role will revolve around planning the migration of partner content, managing expectations, and spacing up system and process solutions.

Commercial expertise is again important for this one, as is bags of stakeholder management.

  • The role is based on-site in North London and will pay commensurate with experience in the £200-240 per day bracket.
  • Start date asap for an initial period of 3 months.

Do let me know if either sound of interest to you or any friends who may be looking for a new contract – I’d be happy to add some more detail and flavour if you drop me a line. gill@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Thanks for your help!

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Freelance Project Manager, J528, £240 per day, 3 months, London, Sector- Charity

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Hi there

Hope you’ve enjoyed the weekend. Here’s some brief info on two new freelance roles we’re working on for an expanding and super-busy charity in North London. Not the highest paying gig in London but just think of how good you’ll feel about ‘giving something back’!

Role 1 – ‘Business As Usual’ PM

This role is for a solid midweight PM (or upwards) to work across a wide variety of digital projects including intranet, digital marketing campaigns, site functionality enhancements, e-commerce enhancements, online community implementation and integration work around CRM and email systems. The Project Manager would be responsible for projects end to end  and will be tasked with ensuring delivery of projects on time and on budget.

Good project planning and stakeholder management skills are more important than strict methodologies or deep technical knowledge. It’s important that you have a background in commercial organisations as this is a very fast paced environment which requires a well honed ability to prioritise tasks based on commercial understanding.

  • The role is based on-site in North London and will pay commensurate with experience in the £200-240 per day bracket.
  • Start date asap for an initial period of 3 months.

Do let me know if either sound of interest to you or any friends who may be looking for a new contract – I’d be happy to add some more detail and flavour if you drop me a line. gill@wearefutureheads.co.uk

Thanks for your help!

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Digital Programme Director – £80k – 130k- London- J523

Friday, July 16th, 2010

The Programme Director is the senior representative responsible for the Programme. They are the client side representative who acts as a single focal point of contact with the Project Managers for the day-to-day management and interests of the Program.  The PD is responsible for ensuring that the desired Programme objectives are delivered.  The person in this role must have adequate knowledge and information about the business and the Programme to be able to make informed decisions.

It’s a very interesting role. Hugely exciting client.  It’s a world renowned client and the site will feature elements of social interaction, gaming, e-commerce and it is a huge creative project with some amazing design elements.  It is the largest client they have ever had and the Programme Director will be the senior Stakeholder working closely with their Chief Exec and Board and with the client directly.  It needs someone with sufficient gravitas to work at senior level and take accountability on the delivery of the programme. 

If you are Programme Director level and looking for your next opportunity please let me know.  Salary range is £80k – £130k.  Freelance is also an option in the short term.

Contact:  Rachel@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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Digital Project Manager,£35-45k, London, J504 GA

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Our client is a new charity formed by the merger of two major UK charities. They’re at a very exciting stage of their development as a new organisation and this is a great chance to join a well regarded charity with an expanded digital team and a dynamic, commercial approach to their digital strategy.

Following on from phase 1 of a major relaunch of their website, they are looking for a Project Manager to join the team on a permanent basis to work across a wide variety of digital projects including intranet, digital marketing campaigns, site functionality enhancements, e-commerce enhancements, online community implementation and integration work around CRM and email systems. The Project Manager would be responsible for projects end to end  and will be tasked with ensuring delivery of projects on time and on budget.

It’s useful if you have exposure to Prince2 but a formal qualification isn’t necessary, however you’ll need to have excellent project planning skills and be able to manage resources, schedules and budgets with accuracy and a real attention to detail.

This role would suit a Project Manager with lots of stakeholder management, both internal and external partner stakeholders and you’ll have great influencing and negotiating skills.

Crucially, your background is likely to be in commercial organisations as this is a very fast paced environment which requires a well honed ability to prioritise tasks based on commercial understanding. You should also be able to point to examples of projects where you have carried out a degree of business analysis and be able to demonstrate excellent requirements gathering expertise.

The role is not a technical one, however a good understanding/experience of delivering technical digital projects would be necessary to ensure the projects are delivered to appropriate quality.

Only PMs with bags of digital expertise and the ability to handle multiple projects please!

Contact gill@wearefutureheads.co.uk

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