Lux Worldwide is on the lookout for talented and experienced people who share our dedication to responsive client service and quality work.
Many key roles are available here for project managers, information architects, designers, developers, writers, editors and other highly-capable individuals ready to focus their creative and technical energies on cutting-edge work in a fast-paced, team-based environment.
Lux strives to balance individual career development with client satisfaction, and meld technical innovation with creative expression. This balance is key to our culture, and key to our success.
If you are ready to collaborate with the smartest, most creative people that you've ever met, take the time to read through the job postings listed below. We're definitely interested in talking with you.
Lux is an equal-opportunity employer.
Current Job Openings:
Web Developer/Sharepoint (contract/freelance)
The Lux Group is looking for a detail-oriented sharepoint developer to join our team to focus on Microsoft SharePoint technical tasks for some of our key clients. Candidates for this position will be is responsible for providing publishing and technical support to several of our clients’ intranets and extranets.
Responsibilities include:
- Integration of web parts
- Creation of page templates
- Ability to customize SharePoint to move beyond "out-of-the-box"
- Converting PhotoShop designs into SharePoint Pages
- Page building, site testing and content management with an eye on quality and a willingness to collaborate with client and coworkers
- Ability to offer creative solutions to the question, 'Can SharePoint do this?"
- XML experience a plus
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Solid XHTML and CSS skills (hand coding) (3 – 5 years experience)
- Previous experience using SharePoint Portal Services technologies and SharePoint Team Sites
- Experience using Photoshop or similar graphics software to crop, resize and optimize images for use on the Web.
- Experience working with content contributors, editors, graphic designers and IT team members
- Ability to work within strict deadlines, multi-task between projects and triage work requests based upon priority and complexity
- Must be detail-oriented with a good eye for quality assurance
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong team player
Please send cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls please.
Account Coordinator
The Lux Group, Inc. is seeking an enthusiastic and energetic individual to assist our sales process as Account Coordinator.
The successful candidate will participate in and support all sales activities, assist with management of the sales cycle, including cultivating, expanding and maintaining existing client relationships. The Account Coordinator will also generate leads, identify and qualify new prospects, set appointments, write proposals, and assist in closing business with new clients.
Job Responsibilities:
- Meet and maintain specific lead generation and sales goals
- Initiate unsolicited outbound calls to leads to generate new clients
- Identify and qualify new prospects
- Assist business development with maintaining and expanding existing client base
- Assist with bid writing
- Collect and report sales results
- Manage and update sales management database to track new leads and build on existing leads
- Represent the company at external marketing or industry seminar forums
- Help administer quarterly mailings and follow-up sales calls
- Perform other sales duties as assigned
Job Qualifications and Requirements:
- 1-2 years experience successfully generating sales
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Effective, professional communication and presentation skills.
- Exceptional phone skills a must.
- Demonstrated prospecting abilities
- Conversational understanding of the web design and development
- Maintain accurate and complete data as well as create reports
- Strong working knowledge of: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- College degree preferred; relevant experience in lieu of a degree may be considered
Compensation
- Base salary + commission, DOE
Please send cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls please.
ASP.NET Developer (contract/freelance)
Candidates will offer support and change fulfillment for a wide variety of existing website projects as well as new projects under development. Browser-based applications include e-commerce sites, content management systems, business workflow management and intranet portals. The primary development technologies include ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0, SQL Server, and XML.
This position is a part-time, contract position available in January 2007.
Experience Required:
- 4+ years experience programming ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0 using either Visual Basic or C#. Familiarity with both languages is preferred.
- Significant experience building and designing secure database solutions for high-end browser-based business tools. Experience developing SQL Server databases (SQL Server 2005 is desired).
- Experience working with XML, including schemas, XPath, and transformations.
- Strong background with HTML / XHTML and CSS.
- Ability to write clean, documented code
- Strong verbal/written communication and team collaboration skills.
Experience Preferred:
- Experience applying sound development standards and practices such as source control, versioning, bug tracking, and unit testing.
- Experience extending third-party components such as shopping carts, content management systems, and online community tools.
- SharePoint implementation and/or custom development experience.
- AJAX / Atlas implementation experience.
- Experience consuming or writing web services.
- Working onsite at our Seattle office location is preferred
Please send cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls please.
Entry Level Web Designer (contract/freelance)
Candidates for this position must have a creative mind, an eye for detail, efficient production practices, and a self-motivated desire to produce high quality work. The designer's involvement will include working with the creative director and design team to create original design concepts, develop storyboards and/or prototypes, produce final art suited for online use, and build standards-based websites.
Experience:
- Excellent project management and time management skills; the ability to multitask across multiple simultaneous projects
- Excellent organizational skills, and excellent attention to detail.
- Experience in web design and information design. Must have excellent understanding of all aspects of web production.
Qualifications:
- Software expertise in Studio 8 and Creative Suite 2.
- Candidate must be able to create web prototypes in Flash, Photoshop or proprietary prototyping tools.
- Must have knowledge of Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash. Bonus to have knowledge of ActionScript.
- Thorough knowledge of standards-based web design.
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or related field preferred.
Please send cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls please.
Gamer Writer/Editor (contract/freelance)
The Lux Group is looking for a highly experienced Game Content Writer/Editor to produce content for an established game community.
Responsibilities:
- Work with other writers and editors on story ideas and schedules
- writing and editing on racing games
- light design and user interface
- web publishing
Qualifications
- Experience writing for a gaming audience.
- Experience with Forza and Project Gotham Racing (PGR) Games required.
- Very familiar with gaming methodologies and conventions.
- Ability to produce content in the tone of a specific game and genre.
- Enthusiasm for console and P.C. video games.
- Ability to work well on a team and with a managing editor.
- Ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
- Comfortable working on web publishing, using HTML, CSS, XML, Excel, and Photoshop.
- Experience with content management systems but not required.
This is a contract position beginning immediately, working in Redmond.
Please submit your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls.
Information Architect (contract/freelance)
Candidates will have 2-4 years experience working with web based projects.
This contract position will require approximately 20-30 hours per week with a good portion of the work to be done onsite at Lux’s Seattle office.
Responsibilities will include conducting or creating:
- Content Audits
- Wire frames and site maps
- Task-flow diagrams
- User experience analysis
- Personae
- Site taxonomies
Qualified applicants will have experience with the following:
- Office productivity software
- Wire framing tools such as Visio
- Creative and technical project documentation
- Collaboration with project managers, graphic designers, content writers/editors, and developers
- Communicating IA related concepts and ideas
- Negotiating with team members and project stakeholders
Please send cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls please.
Sales Representative
This is a temporary position. The successful candidate will generate leads, identify and qualify new prospects, gather requirements, write proposals, and assist in closing business with new clients. The Sales Representative will also participate in and support all business development activities, assist with management of the entire sales cycle within our target market, including cultivating, expanding and maintaining existing client business relationships at all levels.
Job Responsibilities:
- Meet and maintain specific lead generation and sales goals
- Leverage creative and effective lead generation and sales techniques; achieve monthly quota of qualified leads
- Initiate unsolicited outbound calls to leads to generate new clients
- Identify and qualify new prospects
- Assist business development with maintaining and expanding existing client base
- Meet with potential clients; analyze client requirements and document project specifications
- Create proposals
- Collect and report sales results
- Advise and consult with manager regarding sales processes and techniques
- Manage and update sales management database to track new leads and build on existing leads
- Effectively engage in client meetings; lead discovery-focused discussions with clients to better understand current plans, processes and requirements
- Participate in identifying and analyzing marketplace, competitors and market segment opportunities
- Represent the company at external marketing or industry seminar forums
- Help administer quarterly mailings and follow-up sales calls
- Perform other sales duties as assigned
- Some travel, public speaking and after hours sales are anticipated
Job Qualifications and Requirements
- 1-2 years experience successfully generating sales and meeting sales objectives or quotas at a technology and/or marketing agency, or relevant similar experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience in presenting projects
- Effective, professional communication and presentation skills.
- Exceptional phone skills a must.
- Demonstrated prospecting abilities
- Proven networking skills
- Conversational understanding of the web design and development
- Interest in technology and marketing
- Demonstrated ability to interact and develop relationships with senior client management, decision makers, IT professionals, marketing executives, and all other levels of an organization
- Maintain accurate and complete data as well as create reports
- Strong working knowledge of: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- College degree preferred; relevant experience in lieu of a degree may be considered
Compensation
- Base salary + commission, DOE
Please submit your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls.
