Senior Art Director | 

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We are looking for an extremely talented and passionate Senior Art Director to join our expanding team. You must be a creative powerhouse with top digital agency experience and a strong ideas led portfolio under your belt. You will be able to shine across all digital formats, from games and interactive experiences, campaigns and marketing solutions through to UGC, social networking and information heavy web builds for our wide range of clients. We are an award winning agency and want to win a whole lot more. Do you have what it takes to help us do that?

A self motivated and passionate advocate of digital creative, you will be able to lead with great ideas and solutions, backed up with the knowledge and experience of being able to produce the work with the rest of the team. You will thrive on working creatively with existing client briefs as well as pitching for new business and winning exciting new work for the team.

General Expectations

• Hands-on creative with an excellent understanding of interactive design
• Self-starter who can work to tight deadlines & within budget
• Experienced in art directing / critiquing digital teams
• Expert in the key Adobe tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, AfterEffects)
• Be versed in experiential, marketing, viral, games & brand experiences
• Fantastic verbal/written communication skills with high attention to detail
• Clear understanding of what Preloaded is about, & desire to be part of it
• Understanding of the key creative web technologies & their pros/cons

Project Expectations

• Confident working with both prescriptive & open creative & strategic briefs
• Find solutions to digital briefs that surprise & entertain end users
• Able to pitch / present work to clients throughout project life-cycle
• Generate ideas, visuals, & write documentation to communicate concepts
• Ability to inspire & guide designers & developers to bring ideas to life

Experience Expectations

• Minimum of 2 years working as an Art Director in a creative digital agency
• A varied portfolio of quality relevant work finished to a very high standard
• Strong awareness of the current digital market & creative trends

Middle-weight Designer | 

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Preloaded is looking to grow its design team and has a vacancy for a passionate and motivated middleweight interactive designer. This is a great opportunity to work with a seriously talented team, producing award winning work for a varied and exciting client list. You will have a hunger for digital and be able to work within a team of designers, art directors, developers and producers to produce award winning work. You will be equally comfortable working on games and interactive experiences as well as layout design and banner work. This is a great opportunity to hit the ground running and to develop and grow within a highly creative agency.

A minimum of 2 years experience in creative agencies, you will be well versed in all the main development tools (knowlege including but not limited to Flash, P'shop, Illustrator, Fireworks, HTML, CSS, J'script) and be able to communicate well and be happy working in a team environment.

General Expectations

• Hands-on creative with an excellent understanding of interactive design
• Able to work within a team environment
• Self-starter who can work to tight deadlines & within budget
• Expert in the key Adobe tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, AfterEffects)
• Be versed in experiential, marketing, viral, games & brand experiences
• Good verbal & written communication skills with close attention to detail
• Clear understanding of what Preloaded is about, & desire to be part of it
• Understanding of the key creative web technologies & their pros/cons

Project Expectations

• Confident working with both prescriptive & open creative & strategic briefs
• Find solutions to digital briefs that surprise & entertain end users
• Able to pitch / present work to clients throughout project life-cycle
• Generate ideas & create visuals for project briefs
• Work with the team to design & build a project, on time & on budget

Experience Expectations

• Minimum of two years working as a designer in a creative digital agency
• A varied portfolio of quality relevant work finished to a very high standard
• Strong awareness of the current digital market & creative trends

Senior Producer | 

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Preloaded is looking for a highly motivated Senior Producer to join their growing team, working on an exciting range of projects with some great clients. You must be highly organised and used to producing large scale projects with sophisticated creative and technical requirements, from interactive experiences and games through to complex UX & CMS web builds. Able to work well within a team, you will encourage and support staff and clients, and be exemplary in your communication skills and reporting skills.

You will need to have 4-5 years of digital agency experience and able to show a deep understanding of production, from client and team management to process and financial tracking.

General Expectations

• Highly organised with strong communication skills
• An excellent understanding & passion for digital
• Able to work within a team environment
• Self-starter who can work to tight deadlines & within budget
• Proficient in the key Project management tools (Merlin, Office iWork etc.)
• Be versed in experiential, marketing, viral, games & brand experiences
• Good verbal & written communication skills with close attention to detail
• Clear understanding of what Preloaded is about, & desire to be part of it

Project Expectations

• Management of multiple projects of various sizes across variety of clients
• Manage projects through their full lifecycles
• Create project milestones & task-orientated project plans for team
• Track projects against schedule
• Manage effective change control processes
• Manage all financial requirements to projects & follow reporting structures
• Maintain all documentation of project processes & decisions
• Promote team motivation & creativity
• Maintain excellent communication between all team members & clients
• Contracting & management of freelancers for relevant projects

Experience Expectations

• Minimum of four years working as a producer in a creative digital agency
• A portfolio of quality relevant projects
• Strong awareness of the current digital market & creative trends

Account Manager | 

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We are looking for an energetic, creative and highly organised account manager to join our growing team, working with an exciting and varied client list. You must be passionate about digital and able to work closely with clients and team members to deliver high quality and award winning interactive projects. Working alongside the production team, you will be primarily client-facing, and able to communicate ideas and processes, expert in negotiation and able to ensure the best solution to a client problem intelligently and with the agency's best interests at heart. You will be responsible for the day to day running of accounts, strategic account planning, account development and internal communications. You must be able to enthuse or calm, depending on the situation, and have the experience to be persuasive at a senior level.

You will need to have 3-4 years of account management agency experience and be absolutely passionate about digital. Driven and self motivated you will ensure the health of client relationships and actively participate in finding solutions to client requirements.

General Expectations

• Highly organised with strong communication skills
• Able to be a calming influence & inspiration for clients & project teams
• Fantastic negotiation skills
• An excellent understanding & passion for digital
• Able to work within a team environment
• Self-starter who can work to tight deadlines & within budget
• Proficient in the relevant communication tools (Office / iWork suites etc.)
• Be versed in experiential, marketing, viral, games & brand experiences
• Good verbal & written communication skills with close attention to detail
• Clear understanding of what Preloaded is about, & desire to be part of it
• Able to see & develop business opps within existing client relationships

Project Expectations

• Management of multiple clients at various relationship stages
• Involvement in account & project planning
• Ensure solid comms & account management throughout client relationship
• Implement processes with clients & ensure client understanding
• Maintain all documentation of project processes & decisions
• Promote client & team motivation & creativity
• Maintain excellent communication between all team members & clients

Experience Expectations

• Minimum of 4 years working as an account manager in a creative agency
• Strong awareness of the current digital market & creative trends
• Good existing client relationships

Senior User Experience Architect | 

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Preloaded is looking for a Senior User Experience Architect to join our talented and growing team. You will be working on a number of exciting and varied projects, from interactive experiences and games through to sophisticated web builds with complex CMS requirements. The role will underpin all departments working within our user-centred design methodology. As well as working on active projects, you will also be involved in evaluating requirements and developing user experiences for pitches.

You will be expert in all areas of information architecture and usability and be able to use all the appropriate tools to deliver scenarios, personas, site maps, wireframes and user journeys. From a workshop perspective, you must be confident in conducting user experience workshops, stakeholder interviews, focus groups, prototyping and usability testing.

General Expectations

• Have an excellent understanding & insight of current UX methodologies
• Self-starter who can work to tight deadlines & within budget
• Experienced in working in creative teams & able to deliver fresh solutions
• Proficient in the relevant UX tools (Omnigrafl etc)
• Be versed in experiential, marketing, viral, games & brand experiences
• Fantastic verbal & written comm skills with close attention to detail
• Clear understanding of what Preloaded is about, & desire to be part of it
• Understanding of the key creative web technologies & their pros/cons

Project Expectations

• Able to plan & conduct workshops & produce & interpret findings
• Confident working with both prescriptive & open creative & strategic briefs
• Find solutions to digital briefs that surprise & entertain end users
• Able to pitch & present work to clients at key stages of the project lifecycle
• Generate ideas, & write supporting docs to communicate UX solutions
• Ability to inspire & guide designers & developers to deliver those solutions

Experience Expectations

• Minimum of 3 years working as a UX creative in a digital agency
• Strong awareness of the current digital market & creative trends

HTML/CSS Client-side Developer | 

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Preloaded is looking to grow its technical team and has a vacancy for a passionate and motivated middleweight client-side developer. This is a great opportunity to work with a seriously talented team, producing award winning work for a varied and exciting client list. You will have a hunger for digital and be able to work within a team of designers, art directors, developers and producers to produce award winning work. This is a great opportunity to hit the ground running and to develop and grow within a highly creative agency.

With a minimum of 2 years experience in digital agencies, you will be well versed in the front-end development languages and experienced in creating accessibile and usable sites, written in semantic and standards-compliant XHTML / HTML, CSS and Javascript. Importantly you will be able to communicate well and be happy working in a team environment.

Essential

• Min 4 year's commercial experience ideally in an agency environment
• Fluency with LAMP stack (Linux/UNIX, Apache, MySQL, PHP5)
• Strong SQL knowledge, including DB server installation, setup and design
• Experience of integrating web services into web applications
• Standards-compliant HTML/XHTML and best-practice Javascript
• Working knowledge of version and source control systems
• Comfortable with javadoc-style comment and unit testing
• Skilled in OOP practises / producing well-structured, well-thought-out code
• Commented code that is optimised, reusable and extensible
• An active interest in emerging web technologies and techniques
• Excellent attention to detail and quality of QA
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to perform under tight deadlines
• Valid UK work permit

Preferable

• Experience of Django web framework
• Experience with Symfony framework, or similar PHP frameworks (Zend, Cake, Code Igniter, etc
• Experience of developing on and configuring large-scale, balanced apps on multiple web/database servers

Bonus

• Experience of Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, ASP or .NET
• Familiarity with localisation and internationalisation