Jun
3
2010

Mindgruve is Hiring: Part-Time Junior Copywriter/Social Media Assistant

Mindgruve is a leading digital media agency located in downtown San Diego, CA in a loft-style, open workspace environment that promotes new ideas and empowers its employees to spearhead innovative, quality work that gets results for clients.

Mindgruve is seeking a motivated, reliable, organized and flexible individual to serve as a Junior Copywriter/Social Media Assistant. The ideal candidate will be comfortable and adept at self-management, possess strong written communication skills, have experience in all major social media platforms, have interactive agency experience or similar, and is looking for a long-term, prosperous and challenging career.

Responsibilities Will Include:

  • Content/production writing
  • Development of email, banner and landing page copy
  • Research/writing for SEO
  • Press release development and distribution
  • Client/competitor/landscape research
  • Social media campaign/content development and production
  • Set up of social media accounts, including content writing, images, profiles, applications, linking, etc…
  • Daily maintenance of social media accounts internally and for clients
  • Periodic reporting of social media accounts internally and for clients
  • Social media best practices/trends/tactics research and reporting

Candidate Requirements:

  • 1-3 years experience in a interactive/ad/PR agency setting (includes internships)
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, public relations, journalism or related field
  • Strong understanding of voice, tone and brand presence, including the ability to translate it into writing
  • Strong written communication skills and the ability to build relationships online
  • Working knowledge of popular and niche social media outlets
  • The ability to work autonomously or in a team setting
  • Highly organized and action oriented
  • Strong proofing/editing/grammar skills

Bonus If:

  • You have PR experience
  • You have mobile marketing experience

Compensation commensurate with experience. This is an in-house position. No headhunters, contractors, freelancers, overseas agents or professional job hoppers will be considered.

To be considered for this job, qualified candidates must submit a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to careers@mindgruve.com


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May
14
2010

Mindgruve is Hiring: PHP Web Developer

Mindgruve is looking for a highly motivated LAMP based developer that is a problem-solver with a documented history of success in web development. The ideal candidate will be comfortable and adept at self-management, possess interactive agency experience or similar, and is looking for a long-term, prosperous and challenging career.

Must Have
  • A broad understanding of web technologies with a familiarity of web standards
  • Expert at object oriented programming in PHP
  • Able to construct & troubleshoot MySQL queries
  • Strong experience working with JavaScript libraries
  • Experience setting up development environments
  • Very familiar working in the LAMP stack
  • Career-oriented individual seeking a long-term, in house programming opportunity
  • Experience working with and integrating APIs
  • Ability to work on multiple projects

Good to Have
  • Exceptional understanding of SQL and relational database design
  • Knowledge of how things work and how to troubleshoot them when they aren’t
  • Standards compliant HTML/XHTML/CSS
  • Well-versed in documentation and version control standards
  • Created jQuery plugins before
  • Ability to rapidly learn new technologies
  • Open source projects such as Joomla, Drupal, Magento a major plus
  • Experience optimizing Apache and performance tuning for high traffic websites
  • Familiarity with asp.NET
  • Ability to work with a Team (designers, project managers, developers)
  • Must be able to turnaround accurate estimates, and analysis quickly
  • Ability to scope out requirements of new projects
  • Excellent time management, problem solving and communication skills
  • Ability and enthusiasm to learn new web development technologies

Compensation commensurate with experience. We offer competitive benefits
including medical and 401K. This is an in-house position. No headhunters,
contractors, freelancers, overseas agents or professional job hoppers will be
considered.

To be considered for this job, qualified candidates must email a cover letter,
resume and salary requirements to careers@mindgruve.com with “PHP Web
Developer” in the subject line.


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May
11
2010

Mindgruve is Hiring: Web Developer

Mindgruve is a leading digital agency specializing in high level website
development via emerging marketing technologies and data-centric solutions.
We are located in downtown San Diego in a loft-style, open workspace
environment that promotes new ideas and empowers its development team to
spearhead innovative, quality work.

Mindgruve is looking for a highly motivated problem-solver with a documented
history of success in web development. The ideal candidate will be comfortable
and adept at self-management, possess interactive agency experience or
similar, and is looking for a long-term, prosperous and challenging career.

Candidate Requirements

  • A broad understanding of web technologies with a familiarity of web standards
  • Proficient knowledge in cross-browser compatible CSS, HTML/XHTML programming
  • Expert of web standards and CSS-driven layouts and a master of the DOM
  • Demonstrated experience developing sites with PHP and MySQL
  • Experience with table and tableless based coding practices
  • Experience with SEO best practices
  • Strong experience working with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery
  • Hand-coding web pages that validate without error
  • Good eye for aesthetics and attention to detail
  • Can faithfully convert Photoshop design specifications into a functional front end design
  • Knowledge of open source CMS tools such as Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Magento
  • Familiarity with social network connectivity such as developing Facebook Apps a plus
  • Career-oriented individual seeking a long-term, in house programming opportunity
  • Ability to follow technical specifications and production processes
  • Ability to rapidly learn new technologies
  • Ability to work on multiple projects essential
  • Ability to work with a team (designers, project managers, developers)
  • Must be able to turnaround accurate estimates, and analysis quickly
  • Excellent time management, problem solving and communication skills
  • Ability to work on multiple projects in a diverse environment
  • Ability and enthusiasm to learn new web development technologies
  • Multitask effectively in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment

Compensation commensurate with experience. We offer competitive benefits
including medical and 401K. This is an in-house position. No headhunters,
contractors, freelancers, overseas agents or professional job hoppers will be
considered.

To be considered for this job, qualified candidates must email a cover letter,
resume and salary requirements to careers@mindgruve.com with “Web
Developer” in the subject line.


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