We’re looking for an Art Director who has a portfolio we’d want to steal. You will be responsible for collaborating on strategic planning, conceptual development and the execution of creative for the web. You will have a strong working knowledge and experience in online branding, user-centric design, e-commerce and e-marketing. You will work and collaborate with strategists, information architects, writers, designers, developers, and external suppliers while balancing the collaboration/interaction with the other Karo disciplines.

If this sounds like you, submit your resume to Jason Trufyn, Creative Director at careers_calgary@karo.com

You have talent and enthusiasm for making the complex simple.

As an information architect you help determine content and functionality and how people will find information in a web site by defining its organization, navigation, labeling, and searching systems.

You are familiar with interaction design, user research, functional specifications, business analysis, content planning, and interface design. You have a respect for usability and accessibility, and the skills to help the project team balance these among other competing requirements. You have worked at a strategic level, helping to establish the mission and vision for large sites, including how they change and grow over time.

Nothing stops you from learning -- you bring some extra breadth of experience to the role, such as strong copywriting, design, social media or coding skills.

Show us that you have a passion for great user experience design and a desire to grow. We are open to candidates seeking contract/freelance work as well.

Your experience

• 2+ years experience as an information architect working on complex websites, interaction/experience designer, user researcher, or similar role
• Can produce these types of deliverables:
• Use cases/scenarios
• User personas/task analysis
• Site maps, wireframes, process flows
• Business analysis/features/requirements
• Functional specifications
  
  
• Communicate very well whether spoken, written, or graphically
• Involved in IA trends and community
• Skilled with Omnigraffle, VISIO or similar tools
• Familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS) and dynamic web applications
• Familiar with basic web technologies such as HTML, CSS, PHP or .NET and how these technologies enable interactive web sites and applications
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in related field

If this sounds like you, submit your resume to Jason Trufyn, Creative Director at careers_calgary@karo.com

You're a brilliant front-end web developer looking for a great team and varied projects.

A group of talented designers, application developers, information architects and other web developers is looking for you to help create great web experiences. You're interested.

Why? You are very good at what you do, and you're looking for others who are really good at what they do. You are a coder who appreciates great visual and interaction design, and can help bring it to life. You are experienced in working closely with designers throughout a project. You understand the saying "anything is possible if we don't worry about who gets the credit", and you expect other team members to understand it too — you are committed to excellence on behalf of the client. And you love to keep learning.

Talk to us about either full-time or contract.

Your experience

• Degree in Computer Science, technical diploma or related experience
• 3+ years experience with website development
• Advanced understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript & frameworks such as jQuery
• Experience with some of PHP, .NET, XML, XSL/XSLT, MySQL and/or MS SQL
• Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator; Flash would be great too
• Familiarity with Web Standards and DOM
• Experience with Content Management Systems and dynamically-driven websites
• Focus on detail and quality control, ability to debug effectively
• Clear communicator
• Experience optimizing code for usability and searchability
• Any design experience which helps you work with designers would be great too

Your responsibilities

• Help with project analysis and developing production standards
• Work with provided design templates to create final production-ready code
• Coding HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to current web standards
• Working with application developers and helping to integrate with back end systems
• Producing optimized graphics from Photoshop files
• Creation of web style guides, interface specifications, contributing to user experience documentation
• Working as a team member, contributing ideas, learning from others, and having fun

I'd love to see your resume. Please include an electronic CV listing education and experience, and send to Alex Berenyi, careers_calgary@karo.com