Photography: Aaron Ramsey

Work with us!

We are currently expanding our team, and looking for creative and motivated folks in or near the Seacoast area! If you have personality, mad skills and an innate desire to contribute to an epic bout of brand envy, shoot us an email at jobs@saltwaterco.com. Or you can send us a nice handwritten letter, it really is a lost art.

Saltwater is currently hiring for the following positions:

 

We are seeking an Account Coordinator to help with account traffic duties. You will be responsible for management of the day-to-day flow of projects for a handful of our larger-volume clients through the agency and across departments. You will be a key player in ensuring the successful and timely completion of projects within established schedules. You will work directly with the Saltwater Studio, serving as a liaison between the account services, media and creative departments to traffic jobs from initiation to production to final delivery. You will also offer administrative and research assistance to the Account Team--from target demographic research, organizing files, to documentation of key meetings and keeping the team abreast of competitive trends.

Responsibilities

  • Utilize strong client-servicing skills to build client relationships and deliver all elements of program elements with excellence
  • Demonstrate a thorough understanding and a passion for their client’s industry/business
  • Work with account team, Creative Resource Manager and producers to coordinate work order requests to assign to appropriate creative and production resources.
  • Maintain a client deliverable Status Report for all projects in progress for a particular account and serve as facilitator of daily status meetings.
  • Assist in agency-wide QA efforts and help make improvements to workflow as appropriate.
  • Assist Account Team on client research and reference compilation and maintenance for future onboarding and competitive trend analyses needs.
  • Contribute to positive team morale, consensus building and creative solution solving
  • Actively participate in brainstorming and idea generation sessions with cross-functional teams
  • Contribute to the delivery of timely ongoing and final program reports and provides timely updates as relevant
  • Ensure agency compliance to client strategies

Experience & Requirements

  • 1 - 2 years in an Agency environment or relevant internship experience
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Must have excellent interpersonal skills (and a good sense of humor is a plus!)                               
  • Detail-oriented, even-tempered personality with clear communication skills                                  
  • A skilled diplomat that brings a positive face to each aspect of specific job and each department
  • A discipline to bring rigor to the process; with healthy dose of flexibility as required for success
  • Strong command of MS Office Suite, Mac/PC fluency required
  • Excellent time management skills
  • A problem-solver who brings answers and ideas to the table at the same time as challenges       
  • Must be highly organized and able to juggle multiple tasks and requests
  • Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure and tight timelines
  • Agency experience preferred

Please send cover letter and resume to jobs@saltwaterco.com

The Senior Front End Web Developer to be an integral part of the creative and development team for interactive projects. He or she will participate in the complete project development life cycle from requirements, definition and analysis to development and will proactively present ideas and solutions to the team.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with account, design, backend dev, and digital production teams  to plan for proper execution of front-end programming
  • Ensure that front-end templates are executed to design specifications provided
  • Continuously move yourself and the agency forward in our collective knowledge of web and related development
  • Testing and optimizing features and content for each project

Experience & Requirements

  • 5+ years of front-end web development experience
  • CSS, HTML and Javascript/jQuery skills
  • Fluency in CSS, HTML and Javascript/jQuery and related technologies like AJAX, JSON, and HTML
  • Experience with API development
  • Experience with HTML5
  • Experience with app development
  • Proven ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
  • Excellent time management skills
  • A problem-solver who brings answers and ideas to the table at the same time as challenges       
  • Must be highly organized and able to juggle multiple tasks and requests
  • Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure and tight timelines
  • Agency experience preferred

Please send cover letter, link to online portfolio, and resume to jobs@saltwaterco.com

Responsibilities

  • Manage and deliver multiple projects simultaneously on time and on budget Gather requirements to develop detailed project plans and project estimates
  • Work with teams to identify appropriate insights and direction for delivery against projects
  • Identify the needs and manage the production process
  • Monitor project pipeline and contribute recommendations for required assets and resources
  • Serve as primary interface between The Central Services (production) and account teams on all project-related communication
  • Work with team to develop user flows, database and creative architecture
  • Manage and control project scope and the change control process
  • Help to develop and manage project timelines
  • Review of all project deliverables for quality and accuracy
  • Maintenance of project documentation
  • Communication of project status, project risks and assumptions to internal and external stakeholders
  • Keep the senior leadership informed of the day-to-day activity, of any conflicts, delays, or any other unusual situations that may affect the orderly flow
  • Work with key team members in the Development, Creative and Account teams to develop and improve operational efficiencies

Experience & Requirements

  • 2- 3 years of project management experience in agency interactive marketing environment
  • A creative, open-minded, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving.
  • Assertive and proactive self-starter with strong interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to communicate clearly, delegate projects, and manage multiple projects at once
  • Proven experience developing interactive microsites, online promotional campaigns and websites from concept to delivery.
  • Experience with project management tools such as MS Project or Basecamp
  • Excellent time management skills
  • A problem-solver who brings answers and ideas to the table at the same time as challenges       
  • Must be highly organized and able to juggle multiple tasks and requests
  • Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure and tight timelines
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Agency experience preferred

Please send cover letter and resume to jobs@saltwaterco.com

Responsibilities

You will be working in a collaborative, creative-driven environment. As a developer you will be tasked with staying current on new technologies, building out rapid prototypes and assisting the creative team from a technical standpoint. We are looking for someone who loves diving into unexplored territory and is no stranger to solution-finding, be it HTML5, Javascript, Flash, Processing, OpenFrameworks, you name it.

  • Implements and stays on top of the latest processes and design approaches in digital media and web-based design
  • Uses knowledge of current graphic design software to help conceive and produce visual materials and campaigns for promotions, advertisements, and corporate material
  • Responsible for assisting with the enforcement of the firm brand image and style guides in all digital media firm-wide
  • Maintains firm website, intranet, and all promotional email blasts and campaigns
  • Generates and manipulates graphic images, animations, sound, text, and video into consolidated and seamless multimedia designs

Experience & Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Graphic Arts
  • 4- 8 years of interactive design experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Experience with digital, motion, and web-based graphics
  • Understanding of mobile platforms, experience building mobile web applications a plus but not required
  • Knowledge of:
    • Graphic design software (i.e. Adobe CS5.x)
    • Video production software (i.e. Premiere, After Effects, Motion)
    • Web Design and Implementation fluency (i.e. HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, ActionScript, CSS, Sharepoint, Wordpress, other WYSIWYG platforms)
    •  Microsoft Office (i.e. PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Excellent time management skills
  • A problem-solver who brings answers and ideas to the table at the same time as challenges       
  • Must be highly organized and able to juggle multiple tasks and requests
  • Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure and tight timelines
  • Agency experience preferred

Please send cover letter, link to online portfolio, and resume to jobs@saltwaterco.com

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