Career Opportunities
Flex Developer
Flex and Java Developer
Java Application Developer
AJAX Developer
User Interface Designer
Account Executive
Account Manager
Director of Account Management
Public Relations Manager
Flex Developer
This position requires a senior-level developer skilled in rapid development of Adobe Flex applications to develop systems enabling integration of rich Internet applications with back-end data services. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment.
The ideal candidate would have senior level proficiency in the following areas:
- Adobe Flex
- Rich Internet application development
- Strong working knowledge of usability focused interfaces
Candidates having experience with the following are preferred:
- Object-oriented programming, analysis and design with ActionScript
- Component development built on Adobe’s (formerly Macromedia) V2 component architecture or similar architecture
- Flash-database integration using Web services and/or Flash Remoting
- Flash Communication Server / Media Server
- FDT / Eclipse / MTASC
Flex and Java Developer
This position requires a senior level developer skilled in rapid development of Adobe Flex applications and rich Internet applications with integration with back-end data services. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment.
The ideal candidate would have senior level proficiency in the following areas:
- Adobe Flex
- Rich Internet application development
- Strong working knowledge of usability focused interfaces
Candidates having experience with the following are preferred:
- Object-oriented programming, analysis and design with ActionScript
- Component development built on Adobe’s (formerly Macromedia) V2 component architecture or similar architecture
- Flash-Database integration using Web Services and/or Flash Remoting.
- Flash Communication Server / Media Server
- FDT / Eclipse / MTASC
Java Application Developer
This position requires a senior-level developer skilled in agile Java Enterprise development, enabling integration of rich Internet applications with back-end data services. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment.
The ideal candidate would have senior level proficiency in the following areas:
- 4-6 years of professional development experience with agile Java Enterprise Development
- Rich Internet application development
- Test-driven development
- Continuous integration and large scale build systems.
- Strong working knowledge of usability focused interfaces
Candidates having experience with the following are preferred:
- Object-oriented programming, analysis and design with Java EE
- Spring framework / Hibernate or other ORM
- BlazeDS / LiveCycleDS / REST Web services
- JUnit / Ant / Eclipse IDE
- JBoss / Tomcat / Glassfish or other containers
- Microsoft SQL Server / MySQL / and other relational database technologies
- SVG / PDF / Batik / ImageMagick or other graphics programming
- GUI technologies, including Swing and/or AWT
- Adobe Flex/AIR Development
- AJAX Development
- SVN or other version control systems
- Groovy and Grails a plus
AJAX Developer
This position requires a senior-level developer skilled in the rapid development of AJAX applications, proficient in both front-end and back-end development. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction and will have an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate will also have had extensive prior experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment.
The ideal candidate will have senior-level proficiency in the following areas:
- AJAX development
- Rich Internet Application development
- Strong working knowledge and interest in usability and creating software interfaces
Candidates having experience with the following are preferred:
- Javascript and Javascript frameworks such as Prototype, jQuery, Scriptaculous (and/or others)
- Experience with server-side scripting languages / frameworks such as PHP and Ruby on Rails
- Java technologies: Java, Servlets, J2EE, Groovy on Grails, Spring, Hibernate
- Adobe Flex
- Microsoft Silverlight
- Interest in JavaFX
User Interface Designer
We are looking for a mid- or senior-level UI designer with strong interests and capabilities in the rapid development of rich Internet applications. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment.
The ideal candidate will specialize in one of the following while being capable of all three:
- Usability and interaction design
- Designing of artistic skins or applications
- Inventing new UI paradigms and user experiences
Required experience and skills:
- 2 or more years of user interface design experience focused around visual design for software applications, web, CDROM or kiosks
- 2 or more years of information architecture experience
- Strong knowledge of Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator and/or Flash
- Good knowledge of and experience with user interface design patterns, visual design elements, Web technologies and development methodologies
- Basic project management skills to track all project work
Any of the following skills are a plus:
- 2D or 3D illustration
- Flash animation
- Flex development
- Actionscript /Javascript / HTML / CSS / MXML coding
- Sound editing
The following is an example of regular job duties
- Gathering information architecture, usability and visual requirements
- Brainstorming usability best practices and innovation
- Designing information architecture diagrams and usability wireframes
- Artistically designing application skins
- Deciding on animated transitions for various application elements
- Creating styleguides of the application skins using Adobe Fireworks
- Following up with the developers of a project to ensure visual consistency with the styleguides
Account Executive
The account executive (AE) will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities and creating strategic client relationships at the CEO, COO, CMO and CIO level. The AE will identify, approach, and develop potential top-tier, key clients and lead the sales effort while being committed to quality and a team-based approach to problem solving.
The AE will be the first to establish a relationship with potential customers. This highly skilled sales professional will need to be able to talk to multi-layers within a corporation and relate EffectiveUI’s services that align with specific client needs. The AE is expected to uncover projects, understand current business strategies, and provide solutions to existing and potential clients. By understanding the clients business, the AE will work with an Account Manager to 1) Successfully complete projects, 2) Expand relationships within an organization, and 3) provide solutions that are customized to the clients specific strategies and goals.
The goal of AE is to support the client in becoming long-term partners with EffectiveUI. By regularly providing account strategy, the AE will ensure longer engagements that provide true business value for our customers.
Responsibilities:
- Make initial calls to key or qualified prospects
- Meet and exceed quarterly revenue targets
- Identify new opportunities to expand business
- Translate ideas into clearly defined action steps
- Identify current and emerging business needs with value-add solutions
- Provide leadership to the team by example
- Prepare sales proposals
- Work closely with cross functional teams to leverage total scope of Company's services
- Set and manage both client and internal expectations
- Provide escalation support throughout projects to provide strategies & resolutions
- Review Master Service Agreements and facilitate the negotiation process
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
- Proven success selling custom design and software solutions to C-level clients
- Must be self-starting with solid prospecting skills as well as closing ability
- Experience with achieving or overachieving revenue targets
- Must have well established contacts and relationships in target industries
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Strong understanding of e-business processes
- Market savvy with well developed negotiating and closing skills
- Understanding of different sales approaches
- Outstanding problem solving ability
- Prefer a solution or services selling experience
- Experience selling and closing deals with Fortune 500 companies
Account Manager
The account manager (AM) is responsible for the overall account management, planning and development of EffectiveUI's top level accounts. They will serve as the strategic account partner and client advocate, and ensure exceptional EffectiveUI engagement experiences and client satisfaction. The account manager is also responsible for identifying and driving additional account business and revenue through strategic relationship building and value-added consulting services.
Primary Role:
- Driving new business and incremental revenue on existing accounts
- Ensuring client satisfaction
- Providing value-add and strategic account services
Responsibilities:
- Account Planning and Business Development
- Design an account development plan which includes the client's business mission, goals and objectives, organization chart, key stakeholders, influencers and decision makers, integrators, dependencies and barriers, and initial account growth strategies.
- Identify and build relationships with key executives and additional business units or product lines
- Pitch new business opportunities, write proposals and SOWs for additional business units within the account
- Negotiate contract terms, conditions and pricing for existing and new account business
Project Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and participate in project scoping, pricing, and estimates for new project opportunities
- Act as the internal client advocate when participating with the internal project team
- Communicate closely with the project manager to verify that existing client projects are in scope, on time and within budget.
- Manage and communicate scope creep with client
- Identify and review change order requests with client appropriately
- Set and reset client expectations throughout project lifecycle
- Host weekly or bimonthly account strategy meetings to provide proactive client communication and value-add services/support.
- Ensure invoicing is accurate and timely
- Ensure client payments are timely and follow-up with any client AR issues.
- Manage any client objections or escalations related to staffing, billing, costs, resources, or quality of service
- Confirm deliverables meet client expectations
- Maintain high value and profitable projects for EffectiveUI
- Identify new solutions and opportunities
- Apply problem solving and critical thinking skills
Director of Account Management
In the role of Director of Account Management you will provide leadership and guidance to the account management team who serve as the account partners and client advocates ensuring exceptional EffectiveUI engagement experiences and high levels of client satisfaction. In addition, you will lead and mentor your team to help identify and drive additional account business and revenue through strategic relationship building and value-added services. The Director of Account Management will also need to be P&L focused to ensure accounts are profitable and contribute to the overall company goals and success.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Drive new business and incremental revenue on existing accounts (team selling approach)
- Account planning and development
- Ensure high client satisfaction
- Provide value-add and strategic account services
- P&L focus to ensure operational efficiency and company success
- Hire, retain, cultivate and grow a professional world-class account management team
- Develop best practices and client education workshops
- Implement procedures and/or streamline processes to ensure consistent and exceptional client experiences
Responsibilities: General Management
- Manage and cultivate departmental objectives while keeping a keen eye towards the company goals and budget
- Continual focus on operational efficiency, process improvements
- Day-to-day management of the Account Management staff
- Perform frequent reviews with AM team members
- Aids in leading continuous efforts to improvement throughout the department as well as the organization; Work cross-functionally with other managers in the organization (e.g. Technology, UX Design, Project Management, Marketing, etc.) to identify and resolve any business related issues
- Own and oversee client billing schedules to ensure our clients* invoices are delivered accurately, and collections are timely
- Review client issue/AR list each week with team to set priorities for action
- Actively lead or participate in areas such as regular update meetings, ongoing communication, etc. as necessary
- Manage client or account escalations, and directly or indirectly implement appropriate resolution
- Liaison between account management team and EffectiveUI management team
Business Development & Value-Add:
- Oversee all client relationships; manage the overall client relations standard procedures and client interaction best-practices
- Oversee and provide direction to Account Managers to promote strategic relationship building
- Account planning and development
- Provide on-going advice and consulting to clients on best practices and providing thought leadership to help guide clients in the ever changing UX and RIA space
- Manage and ensure management of our client relationships and work to contribute strategic value beyond day-to-day campaign tactics to enhance and deepen client relationships
- Shares responsibility with AMs for client retention by proactively identifying client risks or opportunities and managing his/her client teams to effectively respond to these client needs
- Identify new business opportunities and prioritize pursuits
- Help craft sales strategies for top accounts
Client Satisfaction:
- Achieve recognizable improvements in the skill level and P&L performance of your team and ensure client satisfaction ratings of 90% or higher with a willingness to recommend
- Build rapport with internal teams, and ensure everyone is working toward a common goal which ultimately should be a delighted client and profitable high value account.
- Seek and push for client testimonials and/or quotes from yourself and your team
- Ensure client satisfaction survey/input is conducted on each project
- Develop relationship with key stakeholders for top EffectiveUI accounts and periodically touch base to ensure an impression of partnership
- Generate case studies and client referrals/testimonials for marketing support
What You Need to Be Successful at this Role:
- Consulting or interactive agency background with previous experience implementing Web or Cross-Channel Enterprise program initiatives.
- Ability to accurately scope pre-sales engagements via interaction with the client, sales and the experience architects (solution development)
- Expertise in best practices for client engagement processes
- Ability to serve as a conduit in helping to identify and communicate customer issues and concerns to senior management and provide feedback sales, design and development
- Ability to interact effectively with design and development teams and assume ultimate responsibility for all client deliverables
- Ability to implement client satisfaction programs; setup and track success metrics
- Strong conflict management and negotiation skills
- Implementing best practices for professional services teams
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and unstructured environment
- Proactive self-starter; self-directed
Qualifications/Experience:
- BS or BA degree from an accredited university, Master*s degree desirable
- 10+ years overall management, including 7+ years of account management or strategic consulting experience
- Demonstrated client management skills, preferably in professional services
- Client satisfaction and retention program management
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong process orientation and process improvement experience
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Strong conflict management and resolution skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid financial acumen
- Demonstrated experience with Fortune 1000 and/or Enterprise
- Interactive agency experience strongly recommended
Public Relations Manager
The public relations manager is responsible for coordinating all aspects of the company’s public relations activities. Primary responsibilities are centered on proactively building relationships with business and technology media, organizing press events and tours, crafting and pitching stories to media, and coordinating with internal resources to maximize company exposure through the delivery of regular announcements.
Candidate should have experience working in a public relations role for a software or technology services industry. The candidate should be a self-starter and thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment with limited direction. Reports to the director of marketing.
Essential Functions:
- Study the objectives, promotional policies and needs of the organization to develop public relations strategies that will influence positive branding, thought leadership and increase lead generation.
- Help develop and execute comprehensive public relations tactical plans that support the media exposure and branding objectives of the organization.
- Drive messaging and branding initiatives outside the organization to communicate a high image to business and technology media segments.
- Plan and oversee public relation activities including but not limited to press releases, social media news releases, trade show interviews, partner events, client events, press tours for executives, and build relationships with media journalists.
- Respond to requests for information from the media or designate another appropriate spokesperson or information source.
- Arrange public appearances, speaking opportunities for company executives and clients to increase company capabilities and branding awareness.
- When requested coach client representatives in effective communication with the public and with employees.
- Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with representatives of local Denver business and press community.
- Confer with marketing and other internal personnel to produce and coordinate production of advertisements and other rich media assets.
- Work with team members to create, edit, and post content to company Web sites.
- Provide general support to the director of marketing in the achievement of marketing department goals.
- Aid in developing and managing the annual public relations budget with the director of marketing.
- Write press releases and other materials as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience:
- 3-5 years experience originating, crafting, and delivering pitch stories to media with measurable success obtaining coverage by top and mid-tier media outlets
- Experience working in the software or technology industry
Required Education:
Note: The job title, desired skills and essential job functions for this position are subject to change without notice.
EffectiveUI is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability or veteran status.
Colorado residents are preferred, but we are willing to consider off-site positions or relocation options for someone with the right skills and experience.
