We're hiring great talent. Could this be your lucky day?

We are...

A growing web studio located in the heart of Liberty Village, full of super talented, smart, nice people seeking more of the same. Our handful of developers and designers work independently on a high volume of diverse client work, in an agile, fast-paced environment. Projects vary from fun, creative microsites, to large scale web and mobile applications. Our company works with one of Canada's largest cable and wireless company, a major global publishing company, and one of the nation's largest insurance and financial services providers. Our clients appreciate our expediency, the quality of our work, and the ideas we bring to the table.

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Job Perks
What the heck do we work on?

Project Manager / Account Manager

You are: a super talented, smart, nice person. You are a strong manager with a diverse background in the online world. You may have worked as a project manager or coordinator, web marketer, designer, writer, or developer. In short, you've worked in the trenches and grew into this role. You didn't take the PMI course and overstepped the years of hands-on experience.

You're probably reading this because you need more of a challenge, or you feel like all of your talent is being stifled in a team filled with managers who don't quite "get" the online world. You want to work with smarter, better web people who support you and deliver the project with outstanding results. You love working directly with clients, coming up with solutions for complex marketing and e-commerce challenges. You want ownership on projects and love the challenge of managing timelines and resources. You want to enjoy what you do, where you do it, and go home with a sense of pride in your work.

Yes, this is both an AM and PM role (to clarify, we're not talking a job that makes you work day and night!). You get to chart your course in the long term. We need help getting our process worked out in the short term, but we also need someone to manage our client relationships. Yes, this will spawn multiple positions in the very near future, but right now we need someone with strong PM experience who can also pick up a client call.

We're looking for someone with:

Strong project management and coordination skills; you will need to make sense of projects with few requirements and little direction provided.
Good sense of user experience; you can put together sketches or convey concepts to a project team or client with ease.
Excellent communication skills; you will be talking directly to our clients, and also managing our project teams. You speak client, and geek.
The ability to multitask; you'll likely wear a few different hats across projects. You may have to write copy, be an art director, be an analyst, be a babysitter.
Client-facing skills and strong leadership and management abilities; you can say 'no' to a client but make it seem like you're saying 'yes'.
Process and workflow mastery; you recognize process problems and strive to create solutions to help our team and our clients to work better together.
Fluency in Spanish would be ideal for one of our clients, but not mandatory

We want to talk to you if:

You're a resourceful, dedicated and talented manager who wants to get into the thick of it.

Apply:

Simply send us your best single work example -- tell us your role on the project, what you loved about it and how you overcame a challenge on it. Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky). Oh, and a cover letter and resume is necessary.

Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

Senior Developer / Architect

We are looking for a senior software architect/developer to manage the technical side of our business.

We work extensively with Rogers Communications, helping to deliver mass marketing campaigns, complex software platforms, dynamic web apps, mobile apps, and provide support to their internal teams when needed. This is an amazing opportunity that puts you front and centre with our primary client. You really can point to the big campaigns in market and say "I did that."

You'll be joining a small team of good people, onsite at our Liberty Village office. We work in an organically agile fashion, iterating quickly and trying to keep spec minimal. Our clients love our short response time and ability to ship quickly. Our developers are great at hitting the ground running, and working together closely to build neat things.

Sounds like your sort of thing?

You'll need to have:

Experience building Java EE servlet-based webapps, in MVC frameworks.
Solid MySQL chops.
An understanding of HTML/CSS and the web front-end in general.
Great communication skills, both written and oral.
Most important: You are a visionary and you can quickly solution problems with our clients. You have a knack for coming to the table with solutions to complex problems and can work with limited spec
Big bonus points if you are: PHP-friendly, Well-versed in the front-end interaction layer (JavaScript, and any of the usual frameworks), Comfortable with maintaining a Tomcat server, Familiar with usability & UX design best practices, Experienced with mobile development, and iOS in particular.

To apply: Tell us what you did and why you think it's your best work.

Apply:

Attention to detail is critical to this role. As such, you will only be considered for this position if you follow these instructions:

Provide a cover letter that proves you read and understood the job requirements
1 paragraph outlining your best project experience.
Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky).
Your resume

Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

Intermediate Java / PHP Developer

You'll be joining a small team of good people, onsite at our Liberty Village office. We work on some nifty software (web & mobile apps) for some of Canada's most prominent financial, telecommunication, and broadcast clients.

We work in an organically agile fashion, iterating quickly and trying to keep spec minimal. Our clients love our short response time and ability to ship quickly. Our developers are great at hitting the ground running, and working together closely to build neat things.

Sounds like your sort of thing?

You'll need to have:

Experience building Java EE servlet-based webapps, in MVC frameworks.
Solid MySQL chops.
An understanding of HTML/CSS and the web front-end in general.
Great communication skills, both written and oral.
Big bonus points if you are: PHP-friendly, Well-versed in the front-end interaction layer (JavaScript, and any of the usual frameworks), Comfortable with maintaining a Tomcat server, Familiar with usability & UX design best practices, Experienced with mobile development, and iOS in particular.

Apply:

This is an intermediate position. Experience is nice but the right attitude is better.

Send us your best single work example -- tell us your role on the project, what you loved about it and how you overcame a challenge on it. Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky). Oh, and a cover letter and resume is necessary.

Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

Web Developer

You are an HTML/CSS developer that will build a large portion of our web applications, working from UI mockups. You can build interactive elements including: forms, widgets, drag-and-drop interfaces, slideshows, modals. You are also a whiz at data visualization, presenting maps and charts using external data sources. You might also wield your WordPress, Drupal, PHP, or Java servlet powers where needed. Essentially you will use every tool in your bat-belt and add-on new ones as you progress to developer superiority.

We’re looking for someone with:

An excellent comfort level with front-end coding - enough to interpret a designers’ vision without making them cringe
Ability to work client-direct with excellent written and oral communication skills
A take-charge attitude to bring a project from inception to deployment
A healthy familiarity with standards-compliant XHTML/CSS.
A good understanding of JavaScript/ECMAScript, ability to build rich AJAX interfaces
A creative streak. You’ll be asked to fill in the last blanks on specs.
The ability to multitask. You’ll likely wear a few different hats across projects.
A willingness to be agile and nimble as priorities shift between projects and tasks.
Nice-to-haves: Experience with Apache Velocity template engine, iOS, Design-savviness(you know what looks and feels good).

Apply:

We want to talk to you if you’re a resourceful, dedicated and talented web developer. Don’t worry about fixing up your portfolio of projects just yet, we know that an abandoned portfolio is merely the hallmark of a busy and skilled developer. Simply send us your best single work example -- tell us your role on the project, what you loved about it and how you overcame a challenge on it. Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky). Oh, and a cover letter and resume is necessary.

Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

Quality Assurance Specialist

You are a highly motivated and fast QA specialist who can work under some pretty tight timlines and deployment shedules. You can quickly jump in and QA a user flow against business requirements, or write comprehensive test cases to apply to our larger core platform. You want to evangelize a proper QA process in a busy studio environment without becoming a roadblock, and you can help us come up with an organically agile way to manage an on-going deployment process that works for our clients.

We’re looking for someone with experience in the following:

Writing test cases
Performing UAT on our core software platforms
Run spot tests on our micosites and campaigns
Manage deployments of regular software updates
Experience working in an environment with regular ship dates

Apply:

We want to talk to you if: You’re a resourceful, dedicated and talented QA Specialist. Simply send us your best single work example -- tell us your role on the project, what you loved about it and how you overcame a challenge on it. Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky). Oh, and a cover letter and resume is necessary.

Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

Interface Designer

You're reading this because you need more of a challenge, or you feel like all of your talent is being stifled in a team filled with managers who don't "get" user experience/design. You need room to breathe, to invent and create, you want to work with smarter, better developers who won't ruin your design. You want to enjoy what you do, where you do it, and go home with a sense of pride in your work. If you're a resourceful, dedicated and talented designer - We want to talk to you.

We’re looking for someone with:

Strong user-centric design principals
Information architecture, wireframes, usability experience
Solutions, not problems.
Excellent interface design skills, and knowledge of Photoshop
The ability to multitask. You’ll likely wear a few different hats across projects.
Great communication skills, both written and oral.
Client-facing skills and strong leadership and management abilities

Apply:

Don’t worry about fixing up your portfolio just yet, we know that an abandoned portfolio is merely the hallmark of a busy and skilled designer. Simply send us your best single work example -- tell us your role on the project, what you loved about it and how you overcame a challenge on it. Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky). Oh, and a cover letter and resume is necessary.

Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

System Administrator

You are a jack-of-all trades server and network administrator (SysAdmin). We ideally want someone in-house to manage our small but growing spaghetti network of Apple, Windows, and Linux computers and servers, managed UNIX servers, and Java Tomcat environments. This role is best suited to an individual that thinks geek and thinks different. We are running a lot of web apps on Apache Tomcat with MySQL, and a few PHP environments thrown in for good measure. We need someone who can help maintain our internal environment, as well as our client-facing managed servers. Domain configuration and mainteance work will also be part of the job.

We’re looking for someone with experience in the following:

Managed, hosted web server environments
Apache Tomcat / Java: Ability to deploy and troubleshoot web applications in this environment
MySQL and database experience
Web server security, monitoring and maintenance
SSL and secure environments
Mixed platform office environments (primarily a Mac-based office with a few Linux machines and a PC here and there)
General office network and computer management
Domain management, ANAME/MX/DNS, subdomains, etc
Ability to take charge and provide leadership
Nice-to-Have: Ability to QA and test our web applications and be available to troubleshoot

Apply:

We want to talk to you if: You’re a resourceful, dedicated and talented server admin. Simply send us your best single work example -- tell us your role on the project, what you loved about it and how you overcame a challenge on it. Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky). Oh, and a cover letter and resume is necessary.

Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

Freelancer or Student

If you are a freelance designer or developer and any of the positions above interest you, please reach out to us. We're building a pool of talent we can call up at a moment's notice. We're also very intersted in web copywriters, iOS developers, usability analysts, and information architects.

Are you a student interested in a summer work term or internship? We'd love to have you here. If you are a computer science or creative design student and you think you'd thrive here, let us know.

Same instructions apply: Simply send us your best single work example -- tell us your role on the project, and what you loved about it. Describe your ideal work day, and we'll see if it matches what we can provide (in addition to a shiny new computer, a vibrant loft space, and maybe a beer, if you're lucky). Oh, and a resume is also necessary. Send it all to: gigs@bluenotion.com

Job Perks

We usually crack open a beer on Fridays, we have a respectible work from home policy as well as personal days and a Christmas holiday shut-down. If that wasn't enough, we have an awesome work environment and client relationships that put you deep into the driver's seat when it comes to client face time and opportunity to show off your amazing solutions-oriented skill set.

What the heck do we work on?

The list below represents only a small selection of work from the past year.

Rogers

Most of our work is for Rogers. We do a variety of customer-facing sites, some of them for mass or direct marketing campaigns, all powered by a core platform we built. We also spend a significant amount of time working on software systems for the company, working on behind-the-scenes sales tools for their call centres and field reps. We are most proud of the key product silos we designed, built, and managed and currently accessible via rogers.com including:

www.rogers.com/redhot - A clearance centre for wireless devices and other Rogers products.
www.rogers.com/mobileinternet - This is the main site supporting all mobile internet devices Rogers sells.
www.rogerschannels.com - a site to allow you to create a favourite channels list. We also have an iPad app awaiting launch.

Scotiabank

We just began working with Scotiabank a few months ago. We are mainly engaged on the front-end doing UI and templating work as part of a redesign rollout in their International Banking division.

Manulife

We've worked with them for years, mainly doing a lot of educational and consulting work to enable them to set up and deploy their own email marketing campaigns and microsites. Recently we built an 'engine' to power a customized insurance analysis for their affinity sponsors. www.myinsurancereport.ca/ec/

John Hancock

We began a relationship with John Hancock a year ago and started with a small quarterly project to produce and deploy an email newsletter campaign to thousands of insurance agents across the U.S.

Sportsnet

We successfully launched the Hockeycentral iPad app and it cracked the top 10 of all free apps in Dec 2010. We also redesigned their site in 2010 (no longer live but elements live on in the new design).

For consideration on any of the above positions, send your resume and cover letter to:

gigs@bluenotion.com