Sr. Web Designer / Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Adjective & Co. is an award-winning branding and full-service advertising agency headquartered in Jacksonville Beach, Florida with satellite offices in New York. We specialize in brand strategy, branding and design, advertising, social media, and web design/development. Our “un-agency” is one of the most awarded agencies in the southeast and was recently named “Small Agency of the Year” by Ad Age and “Top 50 Best Workplaces in the Nation” two years in a row by Inc. Magazine. Notable un-sucky clients include Gatorade, Insomnia Cookies, Whalebone Magazine, New York Islanders, THE PLAYERS, ICEMULE Coolers, and much, much, much more...

Us trapped in a bulleted nutshell:

  • The Un-agency
  • Ad Age’s 2018 "Small Agency of the Year" Southeast Gold
  • Inc. Magazine's "Top 50 Best Workplaces in the U.S." (regardless of size or industry) 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Kick-ass client list
  • We only work with clients that don't suck
  • Not on Facebook
  • Atmosphere of pure energy
  • Love coming to work. Hate leaving.
  • Amazing, collaborative team environment (lots of work, but lots of fun)
  • Award-winning creative
  • Part-time underground fight club on the roof
  • Always expect the best
  • Out to take over the world

Job Description

Adjective & Co. is looking for a badass Digital Director who can enhance our clients' brands and build strong online communities through all aspects of digital media. The Digital Director will be responsible for developing and executing beautiful and engaging websites, emails, digital content, etc. that is designed to create an interactive relationship between consumers and our client’s brands, all while driving business results. We believe in the power of strategic and intuitive web design, but don’t think it should be cookie-cutter or overly complex. This position will also help develop, maintain, and keep the internal digital process and workings of the agency organized and thriving.

Responsibilities include: 

  • Digital Client Lead — You will be the client and creative lead for all website builds and ongoing maintenance of sites you built accounts
  • Evolve digital processes as needed
  • Digital Project Manager — From start-to-finish you will own the client relationship during a website build
  • Design and build emails and landing pages
  • Creating innovative websites with an awesome design aesthetic
  • You will be the lead contact for the client, with assistance from the account team on all things web-related
  • Managing the creation and curation of all Gather Content elements
  • Help ensure all updates to websites are current and handle any issues that arise
  • Training the client on their CMS upon launch
  • Being the single point of contact for client maintenance issues and requests and following up with them in a timely manner with updates, etc.
  • Managing interns or future junior creatives we bring on board

Qualifications

IMPORTANT: YOU MUST HAVE A MINIMUM OF 4 YEARS EXPERIENCE AT A GREAT WEB/DESIGN/ADVERTISING AGENCY, AND HAVE A KILLER ONLINE PORTFOLIO, AND SUBMIT A LINK IN ORDER TO APPLY.

  • Don’t suck
  • 5 years of previous experience as a web developer/front-end designer
  • Experience with e-commerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, etc.)
  • Proficient in Wordpress 
  • Experience presenting and being client-facing
  • Ruby experience a plus
  • Email design and implementation (MailChimp)
  • Strong oral and written communication skills with both teams and clients
  • Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript (jQuery), PHP, ASP, and/or JSP
  • Expert understanding of the latest and legacy browser capabilities, including mobile
  • Familiarity with version control (GIT)
  • Functional knowledge of Linux, UNIX, and Apache and familiarity with UNIX terminal commands
  • Working knowledge of AJAX and DOM page manipulation and client-side optimization techniques

Additional Information

Culture:

At Adjective, we only work with people who don’t suck—an amazing team working with amazing clients in a creative, collaborative and unique way. We believe in doing more with less, getting scrappy when needed, and outthinking vs. outspending the competition. We avoid "corporate talk," layers and gimmicks, and thrive off of rethinking and creating new, agile ideas that can do what bigger agencies just can’t do. We work smarter and harder, and we just care more than the average agency. We give our team lots of freedom and flexibility, but it comes with lots of responsibility—and have a lot of fun along the way with a weird group of awesome and uber-talented superhumans.

THE MAD PERKS

  • Office overlooking the ocean in Jax Beach
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Amazing, collaborative team environment (lots of work, but lots of fun) 
  • Vacation Un-Policy (take vacation time when you go on vacation)
  • All holidays and your birthday off
  • Grown-up stuff like healthcare, dental and retirement plan
  • Freedom to work when and where is best for you (but see above, you’ll love coming to the office)
  • Award shows
  • Annual Trips