In-house, full-time Portland web developer wanted

Spot Color Studio is looking for a full time developer to join our creative agency. Most of our custom-designed sites use CMS, specifically WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Many include shopping carts, databases and/or animation.

Responsibilities

• Build out sites
• Set up email
• Manage hosting
• Transfer sites
• Perform daily maintenance on existing client sites
• Handle office technology needs

Soft Skills

As a small –but rapidly growing– agency, we wear a lot of hats. The ideal candidate will be flexible, positive, friendly and have an excellent attitude. We pride ourselves on completing work on time, so the ability to manage multiple projects and swiftly shift gears from one client/project to another is essential, so you must be well-organized and detail-oriented…with a great memory!  We’re looking for a:

• Creative thinker who can problem-solve many different website solutions
• Strong communicator who can interact with clients in person, via email or over the phone
• Accurate estimator who can write up specs and provide realistic timeframes

Hard Skills

• Wordpress Skinning, theming, Plug-ins
• PHP, XHTML, SEO, advanced CSS
• LAMP and WIMP
• Bonus points for Drupal, Joomla, SQL, Ruby, coldfusion
• Even more bonus points for fluency in Javascript, AJAX and the DOM

Experience Requirements

• At least 5 years experience
• Comply with best practices
• Have built dynamic websites from scratch, including ecommerce sites
• Be familiar with unit testing and continuous integration
• Be able to meet deadlines
• Work well in a team environment

Pay depends on experience. This is a full time job with benefits and a lot of growth potential. Please email your resume, cover letter and examples of work and salary to jobs@spotcolorstudio.com.

Looking forward to meeting you!

Job Opening: Development Project Manager for Design Firm

One of our clients, a web & graphic design firm, has recently opened a Development Project Manager position. E-mail devpm2010@causeit.org with your resume and a cover letter, along with links to at least 3-5 sites you have project-managed with a basic explanation of what you did on the project.

This position is hiring very soon, so don't hesitate to send your information over.

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Growing creative agency is looking to hire a full time project manager to manage all aspects of our development department.

As Project Manager you are responsible for defining the project scope, developing estimates & plans, contract negotiations, delivering project documentation, vendor selection process, and ensuring activities occur according to plan. The Project Manager will interact with the creative team, developers, and clients on an ongoing basis.

Responsibilities:

• Act as project manager for multi-varied website projects; write functional specs, create project plans, calendars, lead kick-off meetings and manage budgets
• Provide strong vendor management skills to ensure that multiple vendors work together and provide quality deliverables on-time and on-budget
• Work effectively with other departments ensuring a smooth and productive flow of work
• Manage and orchestrate quality assurance
• Communicate regularly with clients: gather information from them, show progress, suggest enhancements or items that will make their site function better and get them more traffic
• Play an active role in re-evaluating current processes and recommend and implement improvements

Requirements:

• 5 years of Website / Development & Project Management experience for a creative agency or web firm
• 3 to 5 years of managing websites on various CMS platforms, ability to manage an e-commerce
• implementation from start to finish
• Excellent communication both verbal and written
• Ability to explain technical specs to clients in a way they can understand, and be able to train clients on their CMS system
• A development background would be extremely helpful. You won’t be doing any programming, but being able to explain the steps to the client, write up the specs, estimate correctly, and manage all aspects of multiple websites with various degrees of complexity is required
• Knowledge of SEO and Social Media
• Have basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

job openings: fliptography

A Causeit, Inc. project company, Fliptography, LLC, is hiring flipbook-makers and shift leads. Fliptography's mission is to create joy and create jobs—which they do by making awesome instant flipbooks live at events. Like a photo booth (but with video), the Fliptography crew records a short seven-second clip of guests at an event, and then quickly constructs a paper flipbook as a great memento and party favor. Fliptography staff work in Portland, Central Oregon, Seattle and the Bay Area. Our team is full of interesting folk, such as students, part-time small business owners and/or non-profit staff committed to having fun with a great time.

Pay ranges from $12 to $15 per hour, and work is generally part-time. Applicants' exact availability can vary from week to week, as long as evenings and weekends are generally available. A brief cover letter and resume can be sent to jobs2010 [at] fliptography [dot] net. Customer service experience is a plus. No specific photography experience is required. Diverse applicants of all backgrounds and groups are strongly encouraged to apply, including women, people of LGBTQ communities, people of color, and more. 

Job Opening: Operations Assistant/Project Management Rockstar for Public Speaker and Brand Innovator

One of Causeit, Inc.'s clients is in need of an amazing operations assistant/rockstar. You would work closely with Causeit's amazing team (in our Southeast Portland, Oregon office) to remotely support one of our clients in building their business.  Our client creates innovative, participatory brands for major companies and organizations. If you are interested in being on the leading edge of social media, online interaction, and brands which have more value than just hawking wares, this might be the job for you. You should possess the following:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills (no surprise there)
• A knack for merging the inspirations & stream-of-thought of an innovative professional into the systems of a well-oiled business
• A working knowledge of marketing and branding, especially as it relates to interactive/social media
• Experience creating order out of chaos through use of powerful collaborative tools such as Google Docs, Remember the Milk, Batchbook, Freshbooks and online project management systems
• "Natural" fluency with technology
• Daytime availability (morning to mid-afternoon)

Contact pmrockstar at causeit dot org for more info.

Job opening: Senior Account Executive for Northwest Technology Firm

One of Causeit, Inc.'s recruitment contacts, Janet Brumbaugh and Associates, is seeking a Senior Account Executive for an award-winning Pacific Northwest technology firm.  This is a great opportunity at a “family-focused” technology company that’s at the cutting edge of the blossoming field of cloud computing as well as being a leader in developing green solutions.  The position is a “hunter” type sales role which will primarily entail developing new accounts in the medium to large market, making presentations to “C” level clients.  The successful candidate should have several years of sales experience in the telecommunications/internet or IT related industry.  This company offers a highly competitive compensation package, including excellent benefits. 

Please contact Janet Brumbaugh and Associates directly at (503) 697-7992 or janetbrumbaugh at comcast dot net. We’re moving quickly to find the right person! 

Made of awesome? Know .net well? Need work/a job?

One of our clients is looking for someone with 3-5 years of Microsoft .NET development experience (VB and/or C#).  Experience with any or all of: WPF, LINQ, relational database programming, CSLA Business Objects, Web-Services and XML/XSLs is highly desired.

You need to be made of awesomeness, as our project manager puts it, and be both extremely reliable and easy to work with. Don't bother if you know you're kinda flaky—it won't be fun for anyone, and you will be let go. If you are reliable and easy to work with, great! Extra-special brownie points go to Seattle folk, as the client is based there.

E-mail your resume and cover letter to dotnetjob2010@causeit.org. Please do not call—we are not screening developers for this client, just forwarding on your information.