Web Designer / Producer

Web Designer / Producer at GasPedal and the Blog Council (Chicago)

GasPedal and the Blog Council are looking for a fantastic, motivated web designer/producer to take over our web sites, blogs, and social media sites.

You’re going to stabilize our brand look, improve the graphics, add new features, and make it easier to use. Get our content online, out the door, looking great, smartly coded. You’ll create and edit web pages, build new sites, and re-style off-the-shelf applications (like blogs, shopping carts, and all sorts of plug-ins). You’ll look forward to testing different platforms, figuring out which tool is best for the job, skinning it to fit our brand, and hacking it up a bit to be just right. Then you’re going to build something new every month or so: A new blog, a community, a cool email, or whatever’s hot. We use XHTML/PHP/CSS, WordPress, and Adobe Creative Suite.You will:

1. Improve graphics and templates, with a clean, bright, consistent look
2. Add new sites/pages for new projects, expand our sites as we add content
3. Build a sensible user experience and simple navigation through a ton good content
4. Code the design on the right choice of open-source publishing platforms for the job
5. Occasionally, create print pieces to match the look of the sites
6. Know WordPress really well

This is an opportunity to do it like it should be done. No legacy site with bad code to worry about, a team that appreciates great design and experience, where even the office manager has read Zeldman. We’re doing this right!

Check out our sites www.gaspedal.com/jobs, www.blogcouncil.org, and www.damniwish.com — and show us how you can make them better.

Details: This is a full-time position based in our historic downtown Chicago office, hiring immediately. We offer great health insurance, 401(k), cell phone reimbursement, gym reimbursement, and a guarantee: You’ll never have another boring day at work.

What we do, what we believe

We want to teach the world to blog. And use social media. And be really great at word of mouth marketing.

Why? Because companies that understand this stuff are more open, transparent, honest, and kind. Because companies that learn to get people talking (and learn to talk back) are better businesses. We’re about one big idea: Companies that make people happy are more successful.

Businesses everywhere are beginning to realize that this is the one and only secret to success. They are building a future where honest, ethical customer love is the most powerful kind of marketing. They are learning to listen, to obsess over customer experience, to treat people like people, to value values, to respect the environment, to be part of the community. To be nice.

We believe that this is good for society … and it’s a profitable business strategy.

Working at GasPedal is a dream job if you are interested in blogs, social media, word of mouth or the future of marketing. You won’t just be reading about the visionaries. You’ll be working with them to make the future more ethical and effective. Stop talking about this stuff — do something about it.

We are a creative team who loves to innovate, so you’ll have lots of opportunity to do interesting things. Our employee handbook has a few simple rules: No office politics. No jerks. Real personal growth.

Read our stuff. Send us a resume. Make a difference.

Learn more at www.gaspedal.com/jobs, www.blogcouncil.org, and www.damniwish.com.

To Apply: Send resume, links to portfolio, and salary requirements by email to Preston Firestone at preston@gaspedal.com. The subject of your email should read: “G215 Web, Your Name.” GasPedal is an equal opportunity employer.