Posts Tagged ‘London’

Digital Designer, £23k + Commission, London, J596

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

 A fun and vibrant music centred organisation is looking for a designer to join their Commercial Design and Interactive Team. You will be working alongside a team of designers and developers working on a variety of projects for some of the leading entertainment brands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Freelance Information Architects- £375-425pday – Central London- J567

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Hello,

I have another freelance role to brief you on. This one is for an integrated agency based in Central London, and they are looking for an IA to lead on a complex project for a key client. The role begins on the 24th August, and will run for at least 4 weeks, and potentially 8. It is paying between £375-425 depending on the usual stuff.

The project is to completely redesign a desktop application, a complex and data heavy application to allow companies to track vehicles in their fleet. The client in this instance is not hugely digitally savvy, but understands that they need to bring their product into the 21st century, so the agency is guiding and massaging them through this process, and making them aware of what is possible with current tech (geo mapping, global positioning, cutting edge data visualisation and modular screen customisation.) Requirements gathering, workshops and stakeholder engagement for this project will be handled by the Head of Production, but you will be present in key meetings, and as the lead IA on the project, you will need to be able to confidently and clearly explain your design decisions to key stakeholders. The agency are partnering with a very good UX consultancy to deliver the user research documentation, as well as creating some of their own documentation.

You will be producing user journeys, page flows, increasingly complex wireframes and product maps, interaction design documentation and specification documents. It would be great if you had had exposure to working on products that had a lot of complex information feeding into the back end, but required beautifully simple, intuitive front end interactions and flows for the user.

Drop me a line if this is of interest.

ben@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

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