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• Lead Software Architect

  What we’re looking for:

  MaxMedia is looking for a Lead Software Architect to add to our Creative Technology Team who will lead client-driven projects through the development lifecycle, from conception to maintenance. The ideal candidate is someone who is a proven leader in computer science and software engineering with a mind for software & systems architecture. This position is for an architect & developer with an expert knowledge base and concentration in web technologies.

  Who you’ll be working with:

  MaxMedia is an innovation agency whose nimble and diverse team of creatives and technologists use empathy and design-thinking to create killer solutions for real problems. We have a killer office in Atlanta’s westside where we keep it casual and bring our dogs to work. 

  At MaxMedia, we aspire to be the most innovative community in the Southeast.

  We believe a love for complex challenges, unbiased empathy for real people, a fearless sharing of ideas, and a selfless assessment of process are the best techniques to consistently exceed client expectations, to improve people's lives, and to build the most rewarding place for problem solvers to work and thrive.

  And we believe in progress, not perfection. That whatever challenges we face, putting people first and egos last makes every day more rewarding and productive than the day before.

  What you’ll be doing:

  Each day, you will build team success by leading creative technology integration on active projects, internal information technology resources, and third-party vendors. You will spearhead project ideation in order to choose and/or recommend proper technologies based on clients’ requirements and design. You will spearhead the definition of software architecture--collaborating to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, and learn the application capabilities. You will direct development processes through consensus building, regular assessments, and process improvement methodologies. You will be responsible for working collaboratively with the design department to translate designs and style guides into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and performance while using programming best practices. You’ll manage contract employees on the technology team, meeting with them to understand and guide their workload prioritization and provide development feedback and instructions. You’ll be responsible for the overall presentation of development deliverables to client and internal teams.

  To thrive in this role:

  You are a proven leader in creative technology. You’ve demonstrated your achievement with many different technology platforms, tools, and processes used in digital experiences, especially web technologies, SEO, open-source systems, APIs, mobile applications, and integration with proprietary systems. You have expertise and demonstrated experience in systems design, development, implementation, and deployment processes. You’re a master developer with both front-end and back-end expertise. You’re experienced with Linux/Unix shells. You’ve led other developers or creative technologists in a collaborative agency setting, and you have management experience. You have the ability to maintain a clear sense of purpose and priority while executing delivery of multiple projects on tight deadlines. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and are an independent thinker and self-starter with the ability to work collaboratively. You have experience working in an agile environment and are adept at communicating professionally with external stakeholders and internal teams. You can show a portfolio of work, discuss goals and roles on projects, and defend development decisions.

  You have a polyglot attitude with a right-tool-for-the-job mindset with a strong foundation in web technologies and JavaScript.  You have at least Proficient competency with JavaScript ES2019 (or later) for both browsers and Node.js, and you have at least Intermediate competency with the following technologies:

  HTML/CSS SASS or LESS PHP, Python, or Ruby

  *nix Command-line Bootstrap Google Material Design

  React or AngularJS AWS systems architecture AWS API Gateway & Lambda

   

  You also have at least Basic competency with the following technologies:

  MySQL or PostgreSQL Redis or Memcached

  CouchDB, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch

  AWS S3, EC2, and DynamoDB iOS or Android development

   

  What we offer:

  This is a full-time position with all the goodies that come with that. A competitive salary, a creative and fun work culture, paid time off, paid holidays, healthcare, a desk, probably some office swag. Did we mention the thing about dogs?

   

  ApplyEmail your cover letter and resume to careers@maxmedia.com

• Senior Project Manager

  What we’re looking for:

  MaxMedia is looking for a Senior Project Manager who will lead the development, delivery, and maintenance of large-scale, integrated digital solutions. The ideal candidate is someone who is a leader and an integrator who can work with cross-functional teams--management, strategy, user experience, creative, and technology--throughout the project lifecycle, including concepting, design, content creation, development, user testing, and deployment. 

   Who you’ll be working with:

  MaxMedia is an innovation agency whose nimble and diverse team of creatives and technologists use empathy and design-thinking to create killer solutions for real problems. We have an awesome studio in Atlanta’s westside where we keep it casual and bring our dogs to work. 

  At MaxMedia, we aspire to be the most innovative community in the Southeast. We believe a love for complex challenges, an unbiased empathy for real people, a fearless sharing of ideas, and a selfless assessment of process are the best techniques to consistently exceed client expectations, to improve people's lives, and to build the most rewarding place for problem solvers to work and thrive. And we believe in progress, not perfection. That whatever challenges we face, putting people first and egos last makes every day more rewarding and productive than the day before.

   What you’ll be doing:

  Each day, you will manage strategic initiatives including planning, resourcing, progress tracking, communicating, and reporting on multiple projects. You’ll spearhead the creation of frameworks, tools, best practices, and standards for program and project management. You will be responsible for leading the agency process and how to best match it with client requests. You’ll lead all relevant resources in the creation of budgets and timelines and will collaborate with account management in the creation of proposals, statements of work, and change requests. You’ll collaborate with key stakeholders and department leads to define project objectives, gather requirements, define deliverables, determine dependencies, and plan resources. You’ll own all aspects of the agile project management cycle including maintaining backlogs, scheduling and leading internal and client meetings, and producing backend estimating and tracking. You’ll ensure deliverables meet strategic objectives, timelines, and budgets while pushing and allowing for the best possible idea and solution. You’ll manage resources, timelines and milestones, and requirements against SOW (scope, time, and cost management). 

  To thrive in this role:

  You have spent 7+ years in a project management role where you’ve managed creative resources to deliver agile projects in the digital and technical project management field. You’ve used iterative methodologies, waterfall, and agile processes. You have managed technical project teams of designers and developers for project budgets of $50k-$1m+. You are extremely organized and proactive and use project plans, burn reports, and work breakdown structures when managing a project lifecycle. You have demonstrated the ability to successfully manage multiple projects and scrum teams with limited management oversight. You have been the client-facing representative for an organization and have been responsible for creating a healthy working partnership with clients. You work well under pressure, are highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-driven. 

  What we offer:

  This is a full-time position with all the goodies that come with that. A competitive salary, a creative and fun work culture, paid time off, paid holidays, healthcare, a desk, probably some office swag. Did we mention the thing about dogs?

  ApplyEmail your cover letter and resume to careers@maxmedia.com

• Talent Pool: UX/UI Designers

  What we’re looking for:

  MaxMedia is looking for seasoned design professionals experienced with both user experience and user interface to join our talent pool. The ideal candidate is someone who can take complex interactions and make them simple, sensible, and clear—and then explain that rationale to stakeholders and developers. Must be comfortable tackling challenges solo or as part of a team. Basically, you gotta love #agencylife and be excited to get your hands dirty in lots of interesting challenges.

  Also, must love dogs.

  Who you’ll be working with:

  MaxMedia is a small, tight-knit team of creatives with diverse skills: research, information architecture, visual design, motion graphics, copy and content strategy, creative technology, and front-end dev. Our work ranges from custom business intelligence platforms to consumer products; branding and messaging to e-commerce and large outdoor experiences. We also have a killer office on the Westside where we keep it casual.

  What you’ll be doing:

  You’ll work on a portfolio of design projects ranging from research and strategy, wireframes and flows, to level up to high-fidelity UI comps. You’ll be using research and strategy to devise solutions for everything from branding and messaging to both digital and analog experiences. You’ll be in direct contact with everyone involved—project managers, clients, and design and development teams—and will report directly to the Executive Design Director. 

  What we offer:

  This is a talent pool posting that lets us get to know each other for future opportunities at MaxMedia. If all goes well and the team is happy with your capabilities and mad skills, we’ll add you to our talent pool and reach out when we have a killer opportunity for you. 

  The HR obligatories:

  • Responsibilities

  • Collaborate directly with clients, project managers, other creatives, and developers
  • Help to manage a team of creatives to fulfill project needs and exceed client expectations
  • Participate in hands-on experience design workshops with clients and stakeholders; help collect and digest requirements in order to formulate recommended solutions
  • Conduct research and user interviews to gain consumer insights and optimize the consumer experience
  • Effectively synthesize and communicate research findings, experience designs, and rationale
  • Create sketches, sitemaps, taxonomies, user flows, wireframes, user stories, and high-fidelity design specifications
  • Create usable, clean, and fully-formed designs 
  • Conduct concept, prototype, and usability testing and gather feedback
  • Work with front-end developers to deliver assets, style guides, and pattern libraries to facilitate project delivery
  • Be willing and eager to give and receive constructive criticism

  • Qualifications:

  • Proven experience as a UI or UX designer, or similar role
  • Experience collaborating on and contributing to projects that featured teams of creatives and developers (or similar) in agency or consulting environments
  • Strong visual designs skills
  • Can present a strong portfolio of design projects
  • Analytical mind with business acumen and problem-solving aptitude
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
  • Familiar with agile methodology
  • Agency, small business, or startup experience is preferred 

  ApplyEmail your cover letter and resume to careers@maxmedia.com

• Talent Pool: Developers

  What we’re looking for:

  MaxMedia is looking for Developers to support the development of websites and applications. The ideal candidate is someone who is skilled with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Node.js, and PHP and enjoys learning new languages, frameworks, and technologies to enable them to create custom solutions in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

   

  Also, must love dogs.

   

  Who you’ll be working with:

  MaxMedia is a small, tight-knit team of creatives with diverse skills: research, information architecture, visual design, motion graphics, copy and content strategy, creative technology, and front-end dev. Our work ranges from custom business intelligence platforms to consumer products, branding and messaging to e-commerce and large outdoor experiences. We also have a killer office on the Westside where we keep it casual.

   

  What you’ll be doing:

  This person will be developing web applications with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Node.js, and PHP, starting from provided design files, annotations, and high-level feature descriptions.  This position will report to the project’s lead developer.

   

  What we offer:

  This is a talent pool posting that lets us get to know each other for future opportunities at MaxMedia. If all goes well and the team is happy with your capabilities and mad skills, we’ll add you to our talent pool and reach out when we have a killer opportunity for you. 

   

  The HR obligatories:

   

  • Responsibilities

   

  • Task decomposition and estimating from provided design files, annotations, and high-level feature descriptions
  • Front-end development of components, pages, and interactivity with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
  • Back-end development of functionality & APIs with Node.js and PHP
  • Data model definition & architecture for databases and CMSs
  • Writing documentation in code and for end users
  • Unit, integration, and system testing
  • Recording work in project management systems (Jira, Harvest, etc.)
  • Source code version control with Git
  • Ability to communicate directly with peers, and managers, while leading development to a completed and successful solution
  • Strong organization skills to manage multiple timelines and complete tasks quickly within the constraints of clients’ timelines
  • Ability to grow professionally in a highly flexible and fast-moving environment

   

  • Qualifications:

   

  • 8+ years of agile development with modern frameworks
  • 4-year degree in Computer Science or related program or equivalent professional experience
  • Mastery of front-end development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Mastery of back-end development with Node.js and PHP
  • Mastery of responsive web development
  • Familiarity with your operating system command-line, e.g. Bash, Zsh, PowerShell.
  • Familiarity with Object-Oriented design and programming
  • Familiarity with semantic HTML, especially for SEO and accessibility
  • Familiarity with source code version control with Git
  • Experience with HTML and CSS preprocessor tools, e.g. SASS, LESS, Pug, HAML
  • Experience with web frameworks, e.g. React, Angular, Bootstrap, Material.io
  • Experience with relational databases, e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
  • Experience with accessibility best practices
  • Experience with SEO implementation, e.g. appropriate meta tags, microdata formats
  • Capability to configure PHP and Node.js development environments, including local web and database servers
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Windows developers: MaxMedia staff works on macOS and *nix, but we love you too! We just require that you have a few extra skills.
  • Mastery of your development environment
  • Mastery of Windows command-line
  • Experience handling platform conflicts, e.g. file system issues, package compilation

   

  • Extra points:

   

  • Experience with non-relational databases, e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Neo4j
  • Experience with portable scripting languages, e.g. Ruby, Python
  • Experience with compiled languages, e.g. C/C++, Go, C#, Java
  • Experience building optimized SQL queries and performance tuning relational databases

  ApplyEmail your cover letter and resume to careers@maxmedia.com