Social Media-Savvy Web Producer £25-32K

at Nixon McInnes

Location: Central Brighton, UK

== Company info ==
Nixon McInnes is a social media agency based in central Brighton, 200 metres from Brighton Pier. Founded in 2000 we are now a team of 15 and widely recognised as one of Brighton's leading digital agencies.

We help our clients to understand what things like blogging; Facebook; del.icio.us; Digg; widgets and RSS mean for their business, and then we design and build innovative websites to meet their needs.

Our clients include O2, Fat Face, MORE TH>N, First Capital Connect; Neilson Active Holidays; Harley Medical Group; Stannah and Southampton University.

We have a refreshing and unique company culture based on a number of guiding principles:

* FREEDOM: To work the hours that suit you (very flexible working policy - way more than flexitime and duvet days); wear what you want; change and improve things.

* TRANSPARENCY: Open book accounting so everyone knows what everyone else earns and how much profit is made; open communication and distaste for secrets.

* PARTICIPATION: Flat company hierarchy; voting on key company decisions; regular guest seat at company board meetings.

* PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: Regular one-to-one catch-ups with a director; a training budget; books and subscriptions; conferences; personal development planning; a chance to shape your career within a successful, growing company with a wide range of promotion opportunities.

* REWARDS: excellent salary; performance and company profit-related bonuses. 24 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and a company vote on additional holiday at Christmas. We like a nice team lunch on the company regularly too.

* FUN: Life's too short to focus only on money. The directors are clear that the company exists to do enjoyable work with interesting clients. We're not aiming for a sell-out or a NASDAQ listing, but we are ambitious in our desire to build a world-class team producing the best work.

There's loads more about us on our website: http://www.nixonmcinnes.co.uk

== Role description ==
We're looking for a social media-savvy web producer to join our in-house web design and development team at our offices 200 metres from Brighton Pier.

This is a hybrid role – a combination of consulting, requirements gathering, information architecture and website blueprinting; as well as project managing design and development teams to deliver web projects of the highest quality on time and budget.

You'll be joining a talented multi-disciplinary team consisting of: a user experience architect; a project manager; two developers; a creative director; a web designer; a junior producer; an online marketer; and one other senior producer (until the end of November when she goes on maternity leave. NOTE: this vacancy is permanent, not just covering maternity leave) We also have a roster of freelance designers and developers whom we work with regularly. This position reports to the Production Director.

If you know how to see a web project through from concept to completion then we'd love to hear from you.

== Skills range ==
It's essential that you are a passionate participant in social media. Perhaps you have your own blog; participate in online social networks like Facebook; upload photos to Flickr or collect links in del.icio.us. We don't mind exactly how you engage with social media, but for you to successfully advise our clients on this exciting new area, you must have a genuine enthusiasm for it and be living and breathing it yourself.

It is also essential that you have experience in leading at least two web projects from a requirements gathering stage through design and build to delivery.

You don't have to be an expert in every single one of these areas, but if you have skills or some exposure to most of them then we'd love you to apply for this role. If you are a specialist with expert-level skills in a few of these areas then please do get in touch anyway as we may be able to find an alternative role for you.

* Requirements gathering

* User research

* Persona development

* Functional specifications

* Information architecture and wireframing

* Usability evaluations and testing

* Development of creative briefs

* Visio, OmniGraffle (or similar) diagramming software

* Understanding of how AJAX can be used to enhance the user experience

* Defining project scope

* Producing project work break-downs

* Scheduling projects

* Producing project budgets

* Project tracking and progress reporting

* Overseeing design and programming work

* Client-facing and communication skills

Interested?

Please send your CV and covering email to tom@nixonmcinnes.co.uk including links to at least TWO web projects you have produced and links to at least TWO of your online social media pages (e.g. your blog; Flickr page; del.icio.us links; Digg profile)