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Front End Developer

Is your skill set a combination of the following ingredients?

• Expert level AJAX skills (HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML)
• Expert level Flash/ActionScript skills
• Thorough understanding of accessibility and web standards
• Proficiency in standard UI & development software and tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Subversion, etc.)

You can:

• Work in a team with developers, project managers, designers and production specialists to guarantee delivery of a quality product
• Work with management to facilitate continuous improvement in the development process
• Work independently on multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment

You have:

• 2+ years professional experience
• A dazzling portfolio of professional work
• An expert understanding of current web design techniques and standards based layout
• An expert understanding of existing and emerging internet and web technologies (e.g. XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)

You are:

• A geek. You live online, devour the latest technologies, etc.
• A good communicator (you talk and write real good)
• A quick learner
• Self-motivated
• Looking for challenging work
• Comfortable working on multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment
• Detail-oriented
• Nice

User Experience Architect

You can:

• Employ a variety of user-centered design methods to help learn about users and convey a site or application’s experience.
• Conduct stakeholder and user research to learn business and user needs and desires.
• Analyze business requirements, research findings, and the audience’s processes, tasks and goals.
• Work with project teams to translate findings into coherent user interfaces that are intuitive and innovative.
• Document design intent clearly for both business and technical audiences, using site maps, wireframes, and interaction flow diagrams with appropriate functional and behavioral annotations.
• Advocate for the target end-users throughout the development process, using personas and scenarios as aids in prioritization of issues and functionality.
• Identify potential usability issues early, and devise solutions that are appropriate to the target users and their tasks.
• Provide project teams with recommendations for the practical trade-offs that get usable well-designed products and sites up and running.
• Take a joke.

You have:

• 3+ years experience as a user experience architect, information architect, interaction designer, or experience designer (or similar role).
• Experience conducting user research and usability testing is desired.
• Knowledge or experience with Flash, DHTML, JS, AJAX, etc. is desired.

You are:

• Proficient in a variety of design tools including OmniGraffle, Visio, InDesign, the MS Office Suite, or Dreamweaver.
• Comfortable working on multiple projects at once.
• Self-motivated.
• Not afraid of technology.
• A geek.
  

Programmer

You have:

• Strong experience with the LAMP stack
• Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Web skills: XHTML, CSS, JS, AJAX, SOAP
• C/C++ experience (You are not afraid of pointers!)

You can:

• Work independently, managing tasks and deadlines
• Work in a team with developers, project managers, designers and production specialists
• Manage large source projects with SVN
• Get around in *nix

You are:

• A geek.
• A good communicator
• A quick learner
• Self-motivated
• Looking for challenging work
• Detail-oriented

Project Manager

You can:

• Confidently manage a project from kickoff to launch
  
• Act as a liaison between IA, creative, development and QA, keeping everyone apprised of due dates and project status
• Create and maintain project estimates and schedules
• Manage within budgets
  
• Communicate effectively with clients, helping to translate technical messages into plain English
  
• Assess and mitigate project risks
  
• Facilitate communication between internal project team members, and between project teams and clients
• Maintain historical files/project archive
• Write and maintain project status reports
• Motivate a talented team of Interactive professionals
• Track project changes and project-related tasks
• Take a joke

You have:

• 3+ years Internet project management experience
• Experience working with teams on multiple projects
• A background in interactive, software development, marketing or advertising
  
• Proven success delivering projects on time and within budget
• A working knowledge of Internet technology
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent verbal, oral and written communication skills

You are:

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT) and Google apps (Calendar, Docs)
  
• Able to understand and manage internal processes and workflow, from inception through delivery.
• At least a little bit geeky (you'll have to pass our acronym test, baby!)
  
• A good communicator (you talk and write real good)
• A quick learner
• Self-motivated
• Looking for challenging work
• Comfortable working on multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment
• Detail-oriented
• Proactive
• Whip-smart
  
• Nice

And what about us?

Clockwork invents, designs, develops and maintains web applications that market, sell, streamline, automate and communicate. For the past 4 years, we were named one of the "Best Places to Work" by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, and in 2007 were given a Psychologically Healthy Workplace award by the Minnesota Psychological Association.