Web and Print Designer @ SocialMedia.org
Andy Sernovitz
Own the print and visual identity for SocialMedia.org, WordofMouth.org, and our other brands at GasPedal. We are looking for someone to come on board as a full-time on-site freelancer for six weeks. If we work well together, we'll make it a permanent job with benefits.
We are looking for a passionate, talented, and
friendly designer to take over our print, web, and WordPress design. We've just
finished rebuilding our brands -- and you get to oll out the new look. We're a
team that appreciates great design and user experience, and we need your help
to do this right. Your job is to extend the look to all of our new projects with
consistency and creativity.
You'll get to work on a wide variety of
projects (including marketing collateral, events, blogs, websites, and more)
that need constant design, improvement, and extension. The job is equal parts
print and web, with a lot of WordPress design. You don't need to be a
developer, but you need solid WordPress theming and CSS skills.
Here's why this job is great: You're going to
get to do everything. You'll own the design for five great-looking brands, each
with their own websites, print design, social media sites, blogs, and events.
You get to determine each look, improve it, and make it amazing. Every day
you'll get to work on a new variety of projects and challenges -- while being
the person who ensures that each brand stays strong and clean. We collaborate
-- a lot -- so you should enjoy working with a team. There is non-stop brainstorming,
creative feedback, and experimentation.
Your job
* Create all graphics for websites, blogs, and
email newsletters
* Create all design elements for our conferences
* Create all print design for our marketing, products, and communications
* Improve graphics and templates, with a clean, bright, and consistent look
* Add new sites/pages for new projects and expand our sites as we add content
* Create and update designs on our WordPress sites and work with our developers
* Work with our external agencies and freelancers
Our style
To get a sense of who we
are and the design we're looking for, here's a brief list of site designs we
love:
You
* Love to create and improve graphics and
templates with a clean, bright, consistent look
* Diligent, strong attention to detail
* It drives you nuts when something is misaligned by a single pixel
* Strong skills in typography, graphic design, and layout
* Are a master of Adobe CS
* Solid understanding of HTML and CSS, including cross-browser compatibility
* Experience working with WordPress template systems and existing code
* Can write and proofread
* Love to collaborate and explore ideas with a team
* Organized project manager who can track multiple, simultaneous tasks and details
* Embrace a small company culture (bonus: experience at a high-performing small business)
* High levels of energy, drive, enthusiasm, initiative, flexibility, good humor, and commitment
* Nice to work with
Some important details
How to get this job: All
applications must be submitted through our online job site (gaspedal.com/jobs).
Send links to your portfolio -- we will only interview candidates
with wonderful work that also matches our style. We want to
see anything that shows us how you think and work. Show us that you're someone
we'd enjoy working with, someone with a great personality backed up by real
skill.
Location: This is a full-time, in-the-office position based in Austin. No relocation assistance is provided, and we're not hiring telecommuters, agencies, or freelancers.
Compensation: We pay slightly better than average, with decent benefits, a great health plan, and profit sharing. We're never going to have an IPO or sell out to a bigger company -- we're in this for the long term.
What it's like to work with us
Learn all about our
company culture at gaspedal.com/life. We're quirky, so you should read it
carefully before you apply.
We spend our days helping
the good guys win. We love to serve our customers, help them thrive, and make
them stars.
Imagine never having
another boring day at work. Imagine a place free of politics and whiners.
Combine that with amazing energy and productivity that cranks out astonishingly
good work every day. We don't know it all, but we're figuring it out together
and having a great time doing it.
Who we are
GasPedal is the company that manages
WordofMouth.org and SocialMedia.org.
Businesses
everywhere are beginning to realize that honest, ethical customer love is the
most powerful kind of marketing. They are learning to listen, to obsess over
customer experience, to treat people like people, to value values, to respect
the environment, to be part of the community -- to be nice.
We teach them
how to do it.
We believe
that this is good for society -- and that it's a profitable business strategy.
Companies that get their customers for free through the power of word of mouth
have a fundamental competitive advantage over those that use expensive
marketing to chase fleeing customers. Smart companies reinvest those savings in
service, support, and innovation -- putting them even further ahead.
This is a
dream job if you're interested in social media, amazing customer service, or
the future of marketing. You won't just be reading about the visionaries.
You'll be working with them to make the future more ethical and effective. Stop
talking about this stuff -- do something about it.
Check out our sites to
learn more: wordofmouth.org, socialmedia.org, gaspedal.com, and damniwish.com.
If what you read turns you on, join us on this exciting adventure.