FYI -- pass on to anyone you think might be a good fit:
Art Director / Senior Designer--SALON
Salon is looking for an innovative, energetic Art Director / Senior Designer to join our small, talented design team and help design new products, new features and support daily production design. Your job will be to work with the editorial, product, engineering and business teams to develop new features for the site and support daily editorial art production for Salon's media properties. The ideal candidate is extremely creative, an experienced and fast-paced designer, a facile coder, a collaborative thinker, and one who can thrive in a demanding real-time media environment. Helps to be a total news fiend! This position is based in San Francisco.
Responsibilities:
• Interaction Design: define the user model and user interface for new and existing Salon products and features. Gauge the usability of new and existing products, and make constructive suggestions for change
• Visual Design: Create logos and layouts
• Editorial Art Design: select photos, create photo-illustrations and drawings
• Front and Back End Code: Solid grasp of CMS-type programming, with hands on PHP or Perl experience, ability to maintain and develop an organized HTML/CSS vocabulary
• Ad Development: Produce ad products and work them into the site
Requirements:
• Five years experience in all related skills
• Expert skills in HTML, CSS, Photoshop. Solid grasp of CMS-type programming.
• Photo-illustration and drawing skills a plus.
• Demonstrated talent in creative editorial design, typography, photo-illustration and production art.
• Demonstrated experience in designing usable web-based interfaces. Solid background in human-computer interaction, visual design or related field
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript for rapid prototyping purposes a definite plus
• Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
• Self-starter with proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Prior experience with start-up or small company is a plus
• Passion for independent news media
We offer competitive salary, excellent benefits and stock options.
Please send cover letter and resume to Jeanne Carstensen, managing editor, jeanne@salon.com
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Comments
Seriously--that you are posting this here is impressive and appreciated.
D-Tone also said he didn't "know jack" about HTML, but he knew how to spell it. I hope you go easy on him in the interview process. He's got a bit of a 'tude, thinking "that racist white cracker won't hire my black ass no how" even though I assured him you were very much left wing and most correct in your positions pertaining to the political spectrum.
Wow, that sounds a lot like we want you to tell other people what to do but don't think we're going to back you up or pay you more for the title. :-D
Do NOT compromise on the look/feel and user interface of your product: hire the designer for appropriate design skills and ADD a junior programmer.
The additional costs are not that much and it is insignificant when you consider the turn-off an unprofessional design might cause.
JOBLESSNESS.
Discriminating against art challenged or artfully special people will not be tolerated. I will be contacting my local chapter of artfully challenged dodgers... you'll be hearing from them, or me since it's just me.
You didn't turn me down yet? Well you should otherwise my case against you won't hold up.
~nodding~
:)
*Note: That's not true. But it rhymes.
You show me?
Cut and paste.
I show you how to mash German butterballs.
That is a smaller potato that's better than gold.
I always love to make a Frosty snowman sculpture.
That will be a fair tradeoff barter.
Frosty with a green bean groin tail.
Sliced yellow summers squash toes.
Red beets for a jolly Joan Baez belly.
Joan Walsh sing civil:`Any Day Now.
Frosty puffs a corn cob pot pipe bowl.
Two eyes made from a blue birds dung.
A sculpted nose:`fingerling rose spuds.
A Way for boondocks folk to pay for booze?
I'll try to darken the words. What's a stock?
Communication, HTML/CSS~vocabulary?
Hey, I'm available for speaking engagements, too. the AIGA or HOW magazine should hold training sessions for head-hunters.
If you are a really good designer and have some strong computer skills, the other programming skills will most likely overlooked.
Also most people who have been in the graphic designe business by now are pretty tech-smart.
Plus, these days, design schools load the kids up on programming.
We are redesigning Yale's science dept sites as interlocked CMS sites. We are revamping Garrison Institute's site as complex social network/event site (they are a Buddhist retreat). I did the same for NY State Veterinarians Society and many others. I use elegant but powerful prjoect management techniques to track me and my team
for every task and milestone, to the 5 min increment.
Me or not, you might consider Deliverables-based team rather than an all in one, so long as the Leader has core skills and design chops. I use talents from all over, incl Europe and India, surgically applied abased on exquisitely refined skillsets per each unique task and project. VERY cost-effective, and thus NO limits to imagination and effects.
I have also won a CLIO for design and umpty others.
So unless you get to the point where you will consider a virtual team/ mostly distant provider, etc. I will miss out on this, one of my DREAM JOBS.
But if you are curious at all? perhaps a conf call. I would let you peek under the hood of what we do. It might help guide you about where OS can go and do, with or without me. OS is about 1/5 as complex as our average projects. And I have testimonials out my respectable wazoo.
Otherwise: find someone great! (and add Ajax, accordion, chat and calendaring etc effects too! he he)
BTW: I love reading your work on OS. You're a wonderful writer. Yours is probably the only blog I read regularly. Who knew you had time to run a successful multicultural media mecca as well? Kudos.
My degree is in graphic design, and I'm a graphic designer, and I've also ventured into learning interactive design and web design on my own. Even though some of it overlaps, graphic design and interactive design and web design all require their own set of skills... especially in the way of coding. They are different birds in the same tree.
Just sayin'.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
I'd say focus on the ART Director piece, with a solid portfolio of Illustrator, Photoshop, and Visual Design skills with strong HTML/CSS, who also has an "understanding" of how javascript, php, and CMS fit into the overall site and then you can outsource/contract for the interactive coding/programming piece.
Unless, of course, you really need a solid programmer and then it might make more sense to split it into two or downplay the artist requirements. You also don't mention Flash or mobile programming, which seem like necessary requirements for the technical end.
Not meaning to add more wet blanket - just sharing my experience.
Good luck - it's great to see Salon expanding.
Lisa