AVAILABLE POSITIONS

Rare Medium Atlanta has an immediate opening for a full-time graphic designer with experience designing web sites and web applications for large companies (i.e. Fortune 1,000).

Requirements:

• Ability to analyze and interpret user graphic requirements
• Minimum 4 years experience in web design
• Experience working with extended teams - information architects, HTML coders, and developers
• Experience in user-centered design practices
• Proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator
• Intermediate flash experience (3+ years)
• Coding experience (HTML, javascript, CSS) a plus

If interested, please send your resume to careers@raremedium.net or contact us at 1-888-RMEDIUM (763-3486).

Rare Medium Atlanta has an immediate opening for a full-time Design Technologist with well-rounded "front-end" web capabilitles. The Design Technologist role at Rare Medium encompasses all technologies that are considered public-facing (i.e. HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, etc.).

Essential Responsibilities:

• Create or edit HTML/CSS templates to be used by technical staff to create dynamic websites
• Design and generate front-end code to display consistently across a myriad of browser/platform combinations

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years experience in front-end development
• Required core technologies - HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS
• Expert proviciency in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) including experience building out "tableless" designs using CSS only
• Experience working with extended teams - graphic designers, information architects, and developers
• Proficient in Photoshop (graphic optimization, etc.)
• Sufficient knowledge of Java Server Pages (JSP) and other server-side scripting languages
• Microsoft .Net front-end design and implementation is a plus

If interested, please send your resume to careers@raremedium.net or contact us at 1-888-RMEDIUM (763-3486).

Rare Medium Atlanta has an immediate opening for a full-time Information Architect to help create innovative, usable solutions for our clients. Information Architects work with our clients to understand their business models and goals and to define strategies and approaches for reaching them. They interact with the user research, design, and technical teams to create dynamic Web-based applications that will communicate effectively and usably with their intended audiences.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Works with clients to understand their business models and goals and helps define strategy, content, and features for design of their Web site and other Internet based applications.
• Assist or lead with the design and execution of heuristic evaluations, competitive analyses, stakeholder interviews and focus groups
• Collaborates with project teams to: define site architecture and navigation, create user flows and experience, and define high-level interaction. Develops site maps, use cases, process flows, wire frames and content audits
• Conducts ongoing usability testing and assessment
• Defines metrics for assessing ROI
• Acts as user advocate

Requirements:

• Required: Minimum 3 years directly related information design and strategy experience
• Strong knowledge of site design and usability principles, issues and techniques
• Previous experience designing web site and web-based application including portals, e-commerce applications, intranets and extranets
• Familiarity with content management systems and their general principals
• Ability to analyze customer needs and define strategies for meeting them
• Ability to organize large bodies of information
• Experience with usability test design and implementation preferred
• Ability to work with design team in a collaborative, dynamic environment
• Professional customer-relation skills and commitment to customer service
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills
• Strong client education skills
• Team-building skills

If interested, please send your resume to careers@raremedium.net or contact us at 1-888-RMEDIUM (763-3486).

Rare Medium Atlanta has an immediate opening for a full-time Java Developer.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, document and test a web based application using Java and Apache Struts
• Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years of web application development experience using Java with a good understanding and some programming experience in JSP, HTML, Javascript and DHTML
• Install and configure web application server on workstation for development and testing
• Read and understand both requirements (use cases) and architecture documents (UML)
• Develop detailed designs consistent with object-oriented principles
• Document detailed design objects using JavaDoc standards
• Implement application design using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application framework
• Present work in peer review sessions and resolve all identified issues
• Develop and maintain ANT build scripts for software deployment
• Work with web developers to integrate Java functions with Java Server Pages (JSPs) using STRUTS, Tiles and custom tag libraries
• Accurately estimate work effort and complete assignments on schedule

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible related technical experience, including 1 year developing large, technically complex systems and 6 months with major responsibility for developing, revising and controlling technical documentation of a complex system.

Special Requirements:

• (MINIMUM) 3+ years of Java experience
• 2+ years HTML/DHTML & Javascript
• 2+ years of JSP & Servlets
• Experience with the following: Apache Struts, Apache Web Server, XML/XSLT, Ant
• Desire and ability to work in a team environment
• Strong commitment to developing quality software
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Willingness to learn our business
• RDBMS experience PREFERRED

If interested, please send your resume to careers@raremedium.net or contact us at 1-888-RMEDIUM (763-3486).

Rare Medium Atlanta has an immediate opening for a full-time Project Manager who will be the key day-to-day contact for clients with ongoing web, programming, and application development projects. The Project Manager will work directly with the internal production departments to communicate and facilitate client requests. The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Work with Sales/Strategic Consultants to develop web site, intranet, extranet, and application solutions for client base
• Gather project requirements from a broad range of internal and external contacts
• Lead teamwork on projects from initiation, to customer acceptance, to completion
• Interpret and document complex business requirements and processes
• Manage full implementation of custom projects for clients
• Communicate project status to stakeholders in a timely fashion
• Provide creative input to design team based on client input and review deliverables prior to delivering to client
• Display a positive attitude and make optimal use of staff and other resources through motivating team
• Create input for production estimates, monitor project P & L, and generate client billing & A/R
• Develop detailed documentation and change requests to communicate client requests to production team
• Review & test all client deliverables and then present to client
• Identify project/account risks and opportunities for growth
• Review, monitor, and enforce accurate time reporting for self and of assigned staff
• Manage critical path work plans to optimize project implementation time
• Ensure project delivery components are defined, on time, on budget and within scope under the proper change management practices
• Deliver time/status reports at various customer and management levels
• Evaluate project after implementation and identify areas for improvement

Requirements:

• Translating business requirements into project requirements
• Application of project management concepts to interactive or technical projects
• Business analysis
• Innovative problem solving
• Multitasking and managing parallel projects
• Demonstration and presentation to broad customer audiences
• Interpersonal and customer relationship management
• Written and verbal communication
• Adapting to changing conditions and managing expectations
• Effectively analyzing complex requirements and deriving elegant solutions
• Identifying sales/growth opportunities within an account
• Web design and development principles
• Web usability principles and testing
• Project management in a technical/design environment

Additional consideration will be given to candidates with experience in Information Architecture, Online Advertising & Promotions, or Usability Testing.

If interested, please send your resume to careers@raremedium.net or contact us at 1-888-RMEDIUM (763-3486).