Melissa Sharples

Marketing Coordinator - Des Moines, Iowa : Des Moines : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:03:32 EST

Here's your chance at the best of both worlds! Freelance as a Marketing Coordinator for our corporate client in Des Moines and as our freelance employee, take advantage of a great hourly rate for a long term contract PLUS: health, dental, vision, life insurance as well! Want more details? Read on:

Marketing Coordinator with 1+ year's experience needed for a long term (6+ months) assignment at a great company!
Our client needs someone who can coordinate logistics for their marketing department meetings, track marketing project updates/statuses, create marketing process documentation/flows, take marketing meeting notes and follow-ups and maintain contact with department members and marketing meeting attendees.

Are you organized?
Do you like to keep everyone else organized?
Do you have strong written and verbal communication skills?
Do you like to manage details?
Are you interested in being a part of a Marketing team?

Here's your chance to get in with a great company!

User Experience (UX) Designer : San Francisco : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:05:33 EST

UX Designer with 4-6 years experience in user interface/user interaction design. Our client (corporate setting) requires web application experience as part of the qualifications for this position. This is a fantastic opportunity for what could potentially be up to an 18 month contract with a top national company. Imperative for qualifying for this position is a significant amount of interaction design experience for web-based applications. Additional key skills will be the ability to work autonomously but also engage outside teams when needed. Experience with large corporate websites and/or teams a plus. Attend meetings (virtual and some in-person offsite) with project teams, provide feedback on business requirements and use cases, present information architecture and interface design deliverables, communicate best practices to project stakeholders, and work very quickly.
* Participate in requirements development and planning and
* Translate business requirements into intuitive application interface solutions
* Information architecture experience (strategic planning and diagrammatic skills)
* Detailed knowledge of user experience best practices
* Ability to ask appropriate questions, communicate effectively and persuasively convey design solutions to a broad range of stakeholders: product managers, engineers, customers, etc.
* Strong attention to detail and exceptional organization, logic and analytical skills
* Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks; comfortable with tight deadlines
* Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Visio and Fireworks
* Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
* Gather and understand user needs
* Translate business requirements into intuitive interface solutions
* Develop application maps, process flows, wire frames and mockups with accompanying interaction rules (think UI specification) based on a synthesis of user needs, technical restrictions and requirements and business goals/needs
* Participate in user research/usability testing (as needed or appropriate)

Senior Digital Content Management : San Francisco : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:06:04 EST

We have a great temp-to-perm opportunity for a senior level manager with deep experience in managing content teams. If you live and breathe to drive content strategy and have experience managing teams to the delivery of great online content then this role is for you!
Taking on this position means seeing yourself as part of the UX process instead of just Manager of the information that's put into a website after it's been designed.

This position is responsible for managing teams of people whose responsibility it is to deliver strong content throughout almost 100 applications to business customers from as many countries with millions of transactions monthly.

Did we say this was a highly visible role?

This Manager will contribute to the overall user experience and business strategy of this division's business portal, define and expand the role or content in meeting customers' needs and will be responsible for creating and maintaining the team's production calendar.

The ideal candidate has experience defining and executing on the overall vision, possesses passion for content and the process of creating, implementing and maintaining it and has a proven track record with creating and managing cross-channel customer experience through strong content.

Online Product Marketing Manager : San Francisco : Temporary

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:00:04 EST

We're looking for an Online Product Marketing Manager to handle management of specific B2C products offered via their .com, mobile, and applications.
Your experience in online product management for lines of credit, loans and/or credit cards make you a fantastic consideration for this position. The Online Product Marketing Manager has a direct impact on the business and customer experience through strategy, competitive analysis and research and working in partnership with product management peers, designers, project managers and all those involved in the product life cycle.

Key Responsibiities:
Product Management, Strategy/Analysis, Metrics Analysis
- Help lead sales effectiveness programs by focusing on optimizing current data and processes in order to increase leads
- Develop strategies to ensure that projects move to implementation
- Define opportunities, business cases and manage ongoing processes for programs
- Monitor customer life cycle data