Heather Goldsmith

Email Marketing Manager - Fashion : New York City, NY : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:04:13 EST

*** ALL CANDIDATES MUST HAVE A BACKGROUND IN EMAIL MARKETING ***

Fashion is an exciting, dynamic and growing business for our client. Our Client's membership-only fashion destination is offering up to 60% off hand-picked styles from the most sought after brands. We are looking for a talented, smart, entrepreneurial and analytical email marketing manager to join our client's marketing team in New York City.

Primary responsibilities:
- Manage email marketing campaigns end-to-end, including planning, targeting, set-up, testing, execution, reporting and optimization.
- Create email reporting dashboards and custom reports analyzing campaign performance in order to provide actionable recommendations and deliver continuous improvements to our email program.
- Champion continuous advancement of our email features and capabilities including targeting, personalization, template development in collaboration with multiple stakeholders: development teams, designers, business teams and more.
- Stay current with best practices, strategies, and industry standards related to email.

Basic Qualifications
- BA/BS Degree
- 2+ years of email marketing experience, including strategy, implementation, analytics and reporting. Knowledge of best practices for email creative and templates, segmentation, dynamic content, testing methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of Excel and HTML and ability to learn technical systems and in-house tools quickly.
- Strong project management skills: experience coordinating cross-functional teams, delivering results and meeting tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of additional analytical and database tools (eg SQL, Access) a strong plus
- Experience in fashion, retail, e-commerce or daily deals / flash sales
- Familiarity with planning, implementing and analyzing online marketing initiatives across multiple online channels
- Experience designing and executing online customer experiences and / or implementing online marketing programs

Graphic Designer I - E-Commerce : Seattle, WA : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:04:56 EST

Our client, one of the leaders in on line services and cloud computing, is seeking a talented Visual Designer to join our small design team to work on visual design for their e-commerce website.

The ideal candidate will have experience creating multiplatform visuals while striking a balance between creative designs and business deliverables. The candidate should be able to problem solve and work independently in an atmosphere of rapid development. Highly effective communication with business and technical stakeholders, time management and the ability to incorporate constructive feedback into projects will be required for this individual to succeed.

Responsibilities
- Create graphical concepts and treatments as appropriate to our client's services on their website.
- Develop and strengthen web assets, including style and usage guides, and collaborate with the design community to ensure consistent use.
- Use marketing and business requirements to assist in developing compelling designs
- Work with a multi-disciplinary team to evaluate the feasibility of proposed solutions
- Present work to design, marketing and business stakeholders for review and feedback
- Develop and maintain detailed design templates and specifications

Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in designing for web
- Bachelor’s degree in design or equivalent professional experience
- A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating skills and approach to user-centered design as well as fluency in best practices
- Experience with a variety of design and optimization tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks
- Ability to prototype in HTML, Javascript, CSS

Preferred Qualifications
- B2B design experience
- Experience defining or maintaining design style guide

UI Designer II : Seattle, WA : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:11:48 EST

Our Client's Gift Card team is looking for a User Experience Designer with strong user interface, usability and visual design skills. You will design for public and corporate retail purchase and redemption of gift cards (desktop and mobile worldwide), and for our client's internal tools used to create or modify gift cards.

The ideal candidate is aware of current e-commerce best practices and knows how to leverage visitor data and user feedback to inform their recommendations and measure their design solutions.

Responsibilities
- Create process flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and detailed UI and visual design specifications (redlines) for web and mobile.
- Request and drive user research as needed. Must be able to conduct research on your own or be able to lead a contractor to provide these services.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements
- Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in usability testing and interpreting analytics data.
- Present design work to the product team, engineering team, and external partners for review and feedback.
- Contribute to user interface design and development best practices and standards.
- Partner with highly technical teams and handle multiple projects in an agile, fast-paced environment.

Please include a link to your portfolio.

Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years professional experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or user interface designer
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in design or human-computer interaction
- Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design
- Strong practical knowledge of user-centered design methodologies and usability principles
- Proficiency in standard design tools including Photoshop and Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and wireframing tools, such as Omnigraffle, Vizio, or Axure.
- Familiarity with HTML and CSS
- An available portfolio or samples of work demonstrating great user-centered design solutions

Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
- Demonstrated visual design expertise; capacity for creating fun, highly usable designs and layouts, and a propensity towards simplification
- Nimbleness; the ability to turn around rigorous wireframes and mockups quickly in an iterative environment - able to generate design ideas quickly (whiteboarding) with team members
- A general understanding of how design impacts development; and how to design something good that is technically feasible and prudent
- The ability to scope design initiatives accurately and prioritize work items appropriately
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment
- Retail and eCommerce design experience
- Experience designing user experiences for desktop and mobile devices
- The ability to prototype in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and Flash or Flex (or use Axure) and to run usability studies
- Proficiency with web and mobile standards

Editor/Copywriter I : Editor/Copywriter I : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:13:47 EST

Our client is seeking a person who is responsible for providing strategic messaging, FAQs, error messages and marketing copy for a new product. You will communicate effectively through compelling targeted messages with focus on the end user. This role will work closely with the engineering team and Product Manager to ensure accurate documentation and effective communication of technical concepts, procedures and compliance/regulations for our client's Post API. This person is a hands-on contributor who can quickly and efficiently develop original copy, the ability to be both creative and analytical, will have fantastic interpersonal skills and an interest in contributing to a exciting new product launch.

If this sounds exciting, please contact us.

Responsibilities:

- Write compelling and grammatically clean long-form website copy as well as effective headlines, taglines, and calls to action.
- Work with internal teams to craft strategic messaging.
- Provide auxiliary copywriting as needed for sales and marketing collateral, while maintaining the company's voice and creative standards.
- Brainstorm ideas for creative projects and contribute to our overall creative direction for our client's products.
- Work with internal stakeholders to gather business needs and input for writing copy for marketing deliverables.
- Manage projects in a timely fashion for multiple deliverables; work with our legal department and marketing stakeholders on copy review and approval.
- Provide best practice guidance for effective copywriting that complies with our client's policies and legal standards.
- Must understand application source code enough to extract the information that API documents require

Basic Qualifications

- 3-5 years of copywriting experience.
- Able to comfortably and confidently present to all levels within the organization in both written and verbal communication.
- Impeccable attention to detail, excellent grammar and copywriting skills.
- Think and act both strategically and tactically. The successful candidate will be a tenacious self-starter with a passion for advertising, who can serve as a strong advocate for our customers.
- Able to manage multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment.
- Able to conceptualize and execute projects, with strong bias for action.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree preferred in a relevant field such as communications, marketing, advertising or business.
- Experience with content strategy and product development.
- Advertising or creative agency experience.
- Basic HTML knowledge and applied experience.

Technical Writer II - E-Commerce : Seattle, WA : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:15:29 EST

The our Client's E-Commerce Storage and Computation Platform is looking for an experienced, high caliber Technical Writer to join our Seattle team.

We are building a highly scalable, low latency, highly available, and cost effective storage platforms with an integrated computation frameworks that powers our client's retail and digital business.

We’re looking for a talented, passionate technical writer to play a vital role in documenting the products and services for these software platforms. Our ideal candidate will exhibit an uncanny sense for creating elegant developer-centric designs, demonstrated ability to balance high-level, holistic overviews (with conceptual illustrations) with detail-oriented examples, and facility documenting service APIs. An unfailing passion and capacity for advocating on behalf of our customers (other software developers) is also an absolute must, because this role will directly impact the programming experience of hundreds of our client's engineers.

Role Responsibilities:
o Create world-class, developer-centric technical documentation through consideration of skill level, common use-cases, design patterns, best practices, customer feedback, and usability study findings
o Illustrate sample business requirements as use cases and worked examples (commented, sample code)
o Design the overall documentation architecture, organization, and cross-reference flow of existing and newly written technical documentation assets
o Develop conceptual diagrams, sequence diagrams, UML diagrams, and demonstration prototypes
o Develop and maintain detailed application programming interface documentation specifications
o Present design work to the developer experience team, product team, and software developers for review and feedback
o Conduct usability testing to assess and optimize new and existing documentation
The successful candidate is innovative, self-directed, with the ability to learn fast and a passion for delivering high quality infrastructural solutions for safe management and operations of one of the most critical systems at Amazon. They will also be comfortable working independently in a close-knit team of talented engineers.

eCommerce Engine (SIB) Team

Basic Qualifications
o 3+ years experience as a technical writer
o Bachelor's degree in Technical Writing, Computer Science, Information Technology, or 4+ years of equivalent, relevant work experience
o An available portfolio or samples of work demonstrating software developer-centric documentation
o Experience with a variety of technical documentation tools including JavaDoc and Visio.
o Experience creating coding samples and developer cookbooks
o Experience compiling and running code samples

Preferred Qualifications
o Demonstrated technical writing expertise; capacity for creating fun, highly usable reference and tutorial documentation, and a propensity towards simplification
o Ability to turn around code sample in an iterative environment
o Ability to scope documentation initiatives accurately and prioritize work items appropriately
o Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
o Proficiency with Java and/or C++ coding sample development
o Experience with editing, compiling, and testing software on Linux

Marketing Research Manager : Seattle, WA : Temporary

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:00:04 EST

Our Client's hand held reader team is looking for an analytical and technically skilled market researcher to join our team. This position will be responsible for developing and supporting best in class market research methodology and supporting techniques to meet defined business objectives. The Research Manager will identify and manage a select group of vendors to ensure the rapid and timely execution of world-class work. Upon completion, the Market Research Manager reviews the collected data, draws insights, authors reports and makes business-oriented recommendations that materially benefit their business.
This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities as well as outstanding business acumen. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, vocally self-critical, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. He/She recognizes that the true measure of the success of the work product is based on the business impact the findings have had.

Responsibilities Include: ·

- Developing in-depth analyses for ad hoc requests and projects, and increasing efficiency by operationalize tracking studies
- Selecting the most appropriate research methodology and techniques
- Designing qualitative and quantitative research plans
- Designing research questionnaires and moderator guides
- Interpreting data, writing reports, and making actionable recommendations
- Supporting Segment Research projects both in the US and Internationally; these may be either Primary research or Secondary data projects
- Keys to success in this role include exceptional analytics, statistics, judgment, and communication skills. The candidate will need to be able to extract insights from data and be able to clearly communicate appropriate triggers and actions

Basic Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 to 7 years within the custom Market Research industry (designing and managing primary research) and in statistical modeling and analysis
- Proficient with Excel, MS Word, and SPSS/SAS
- Bachelors or advanced degree in business, mathematics, or the sciences

Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to assimilate relevant data sources and hone in on key insights that drive business recommendations.
- Academic and practical experience with a wide array of new product, brand, advertising and customer satisfaction research methodologies
- Exceptional written and oral communication abilities
- Consumer Electronics experience, both US and international, preferred
- Candidates with a Master’s degree or higher with additional experience are preferred

Tech.,Writer II - WEB : Seattle, WA : Temporary

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:30:09 EST

Would you like to join a dynamic team that is focused on delivering critical content to vendors? Our client's Services team is seeking a bright, articulate, web-savvy technical writer/editor to join our our client's Vendor Contact Management team.

The role requires professional and efficient handling of large volumes of content in cooperation with local/global tech writers, editors, translator, and many internal teams, such as application and systems development, technical and non-technical support, public relations, legal, and operations. You will ensure that Web and Help content is up-to-date, and rework that content to be DITA-compliant in preparation for migration into a CMS.

The successful candidate will be self-directed, yet equally comfortable contributing within a global team environment. Strong interpersonal skills, time management, and accuracy are required. You must have a demonstrated affinity for technology and a background in technical writing, editing, and information design. A passion for communicating effectively and a healthy sense of humor are essential to the role.

Basic Qualifications
- Experience with HTML, XML, CSS, DITA, and content management systems (CMS)
- Proven verbal and written communication skills
- 5+ years in technical or business writing/editing for the Web
- Leadership/project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional discussions and to effectively scope and deliver projects under tight deadlines
- Ability to understand complex applications and system concepts
- Ability to juggle multiple projects, consistently delivering results despite competing priorities and distractions
- Bachelor's degree in English, technical writing, communications or related field

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Web Service, Advantage, or Retail
- Knowledge of e-Commerce
- Master’s degree preferred
- Experience applying information architecture concepts

Assoc., Brand Partnership Mgr., : New York City, NY : Temporary

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:00:04 EST

The Associate Brand Partnership Manager will be responsible for managing a category (including reporting, driving unit, revenue and margin growth), partnering with top tier brands to identify potential selection and excess inventories, negotiating pricing, coordinating sales events, providing brands with a sales recap and maintaining an on-going relationship.

The candidate should possess a strong customer focus, excellent communication and negotiation skills (both written and verbal), a track record of detail oriented work and successful relationship management. High proficiency in excel and experience in generating and managing reports and analysis will be essential to your success.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree
- Preferred Qualifications
- Strong Database and computer skills
- Minimum of 2 years of retail and/or online experience preferred