Who: Razorfish

Responsibilities:  The VP actively participates in business development efforts and drives technical vision for the overall solution. The VP inspires our cross discipline teams and clients by articulating a clear vision.  The VP will also be responsible for managing the delivery staff of Project Managers and QA staff.

This person builds bridges with other Razorfish disciplines to exchange innovative ideas, hone a collaborative approach, and solve our clients’ business problems. This person is enthusiastic and effective at business development, including the analysis of business problems and proposing innovative engineering solutions and/or making strategic technical recommendations for development solutions.

The VP also develops strong, sustainable relationships with senior clients at Microsoft. Ultimately, the VP is responsible for the overall direction, strength, profile, output, and excellence of the technology team, as well as the tone and quality of the interactions and collaborations with other disciplines within and outside the agency.

 Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or science/technology based discipline. MBA or relevant Master’s Degree preferred
• 15+ years of experience, at least 5 years in large-scale technology management (30+ people) at a digital agency
• Proven ability to develop technology solutions for a wide range of clients in the digital space that deliver results
• Deep experience with core development technologies including Object Oriented Programming, Microsoft Technology Stack, Social API, Mobile Development, Cloud Computing and Emerging Marketing technologies.
• Requirements Engineering: Working ability to perform requirements elicitation, requirements analysis using use case modeling, and requirements specification as a supporting member of the requirements team. Working ability to identify architecturally significant requirements and their ramifications
• Delivery Management: Working ability to set project schedules and deliverables, manage budgets and contracts.
• Application Architecture: Expert knowledge in software architecture principles.
• Comprehensive and expert knowledge of the interactive software development process
  Acknowledged thought-leader
• Excellent leadership and management abilities
• Excellent ability to interface with senior leaders within client organizations
• Proven expertise at motivating and managing technology leads in developing, communicating, and selling industry-leading solutions to clients
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Clear, compelling, and charismatic presenter in client presentations and industry events
• Demonstrated critical thinking ability
• Extensive industry network

Contact: If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1373959-1812-5695

Who:  Stoel Rives, LLC

This position reports directly to the firm’s Director of Business Development and works closely with the Seattle and Anchorage Office Managing Partners and assigned practice group and initiative leads, as well as other team members on the Business Development and Marketing Communications team.

Candidates must possess superior written and oral communication and project management skills, and the ability to implement strategic directives and see projects through from concept to delivery, using initiative, solid judgment, and business savvy.

Responsibilities: 

• Serve as front-line manager on incoming projects and function as project manager from conception to follow-thorough to ensure efficiency and quality.

• In collaboration with the firm’s CI/BI researcher and Practice Group Business Manager, research, analyze, and present information relevant to targeted groups of clients, identify issues, and recommend next steps.

•  Play a key role in lateral integration of and support for assigned groups.

•  Actively support cross-selling activities between practice groups and initiatives.

•  Coach and prepare attorneys for presentations to clients for new business.

•  Collaborate with the Marketing Communications Manager to identify and pursue profile-raising opportunities in key industry and business publications through media relations and advertising.

•  Serve as project manager to the RFP process, from leading the go/no-go discussion to the post-opportunity debriefing, collaborating closely with the firm’s Business Writer and others.

•  Develop targeted and highly customized qualifications documents, proposals, and presentations in the pursuit of new business for assigned practice groups and initiatives.

•  Manage the organization of representative matters, client lists, and practice group and initiative experience for use in the Experience Database and specific business development efforts.

•  Collaborate closely with the Events Supervisor to manage events and sponsorships including attendance focusing on client relationship building.

•  Serve as project lead in the coordination of select peer review directories (e.g., Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Best Law Firm/U.S. News).

•  Serve as the “face” of the firm at Seattle business community events.

•  Create, monitor, and track business development budgets relative to all areas of responsibility, assessing ROI from one year to next.

• Make recommendations regarding participation/membership in industry publications and organizations.

• Work with the Marketing Communications Manager and the in-house design team on the production of marketing materials for various events and campaigns.

• Identify awards and recognition opportunities and manage and coordinate nominations.

• Manage Coordinator and provide guidance on civic and charitable giving programs for the Seattle and Anchorage offices.

• Manage attorney community board involvement, including identifying opportunities and matching with the best skill-set for the organization.

Requirements:

• BS or BA degree required, preferably in marketing, business, or related fields.

•  Minimum of six years of experience, preferably in a law firm and/or other professional services firm.

• Able to work long hours and travel.

• Self-starter, ambitious, and dedicated, with high levels of initiative and drive.

• Able to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritize and multitask, and complete simultaneous projects with minimal supervision.

• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.

• Able to work independently with good judgment as well as within cross-functional teams.

• Enthusiasm for and dedication to the legal marketing field.

• Active knowledge and curiosity of the law firm environment, including competition and trends.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and CRM systems, preferably InterAction.

Contact: Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter, résumé, and salary history online at http://www.stoel.com/admin_openings.htm for consideration.

Who: All Star Directories

Responsibilities:

What You’ll Do:

•Gather actionable data from our various sources to ensure consistent and continual optimization of campaigns.
• Generate and disseminate reports to ensure that the team is aware of campaign performance trends. Monitor multiple campaigns’ results daily and optimize as necessary for leads, margin and profitability
• Investigate, identify and resolve day-to-day campaign performance issues, including writing and testing ad copy, keywords, etc.
• Test and optimize landing pages for conversion rate and quality score
• Build and manage strong relationships with search engines and other vendors
• Monitor search market and communicate findings broadly to teams
• Confidently present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders
• Assist in strategic planning to grow SEM business

Why you are awesome:

You have at least 2 years of hands-on SEM experience with Google, Yahoo, and Bing/MSN. You are smart, hyper-organized, detail oriented, analytical and unafraid of spreadsheets. Your passion is using data to forecast, make decisions and solve complex problems. You have a history of successfully managing external vendors and effectively communicate with many types of people. You are mission driven and inspired to make your mark at a top internet marketing company.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a strong sense of ownership and are self-driven this is the ideal role for you.

What you bring to the table:
• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years experience of hands-on SEM management, including bidding, building, optimizing and analyzing PPC campaigns
• Proven ability to identify data trends and build long-term, strategic plans
• Experience managing a P&L
• Ability to forecast accurately
• Proven success in executing various bidding tactics to reach goals
• Proven success optimizing ad copy for increased CTR, CR, and QS
• Advanced knowledge of Excel
• Strong communication and organizational skills
•Ability to multi task in a deadline-driven environment

If you’ve got this, even better:
•Experience with A/B or Multi-variate testing and defining creative requirements for landing page or site testing
• Experience with Kenshoo or other bid tools
• Qualified Google Advertising Professional

Contact: Apply now by emailing your resume to jobs@allstardirectories.com.

Who: Zillow

Responsibilities:
* Develop a clear, measurable set of goals for marketing initiatives across various mobile properties
* Drive product launches working across the marketing, social media, and public relations teams
* Devise and execute strategies to increase awareness and usage of the Zillow Mobile apps
* Define and execute all partner marketing opportunities, assisting the Business Development team as needed
* Analyze marketing programs, user behavior, and financial performance, and drive tactics to improve the business
* Lead competitive intelligence — analyze and communicate competitive information across the company
* Help define product roadmaps and business requirements based on team strategy and vision

Qualifications:
* 7+ years experience in consumer facing mobile and/or web product marketing
* Knowledge of ROI oriented performance marketing principles and frameworks
* Demonstrated ability to create innovative programs and/or partnerships that generate results
* Strong analytical and quantitative skills (includes advanced abilities with tools such as Excel) — demonstrated ability to use metrics and data to prove assumptions and develop business cases
* Tenacity and sense of urgency; the ability to make things happen quickly with large, less nimble partners and/or teams
* Passionate about mobile and local – you don’t need to have all the answers, but you do need to want to have them
* Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred

Contact: Please apple here: http://zillow.hrmdirect.com/employment/view.php?req=81512&

Who: John L. Scott Real Estate

Job duties may include but not be limited to:

Communications/PR/Media Relations:
• Manages/oversees all direct internal communication support materials to the broker associate community promoting John L Scott programs.
• Manages company local public relations for corporate and affiliates offices including: Grand opening press releases, Community service press releases and Corporate announcements
• Manages all media relations in WA, OR, ID – with an emphasis in social media
• Pitches story ideas to the media to generate company public relations on a local/national level
• Prepare press materials including news releases, blog posts, fact sheets, editorial briefings, media pitches, background documents, and other special projects as requested. Research information and ensures all press materials are accurate and prepared as necessary.
• Proactively manage media relations to establish first person relationships with industry influencers to develop story ideas and share information helpful in garnering media coverage and online visibility for the company.
• Setup and development of effective, secure and timely data communications to, from and between partners internally and to the end-user through multiple communication vehicles
• Edit/Review all weekly Residential Operations updates
• Draft/Edit Internal communication for President and CEO
• Respond to press “call for information” with quick turnaround times

Social Media:
• Manages Social Media community channels including: blogs, forums, twitter, facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, podcasts, videocasts, etc.
• Manages corporate content on JohnLScott.com
• Establish updates to keep the Marketing Dept apprised of industry news discussed through social media
• Creatively expand the company brand through social media

Qualifications:
• Advanced knowledge of PR and media relations experience
• Advanced knowledge of social media channels
• Advanced writing skills including marketing copy and writing for the web
• Technical marketing skills in social media and viral marketing
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to simplify complex or confusing information and easily “connect the dots”.
• Proven project management skills and ability to swiftly prioritize workload and multiple deadlines
• Creative thinker, able to tell compelling stories that will connect with the audience in a fresh, yet relevant way.
• Able to adeptly convey the company brand through multiple communications, digital media and social media channels
• Able to work with all people and in a highly collaborative environment
• High level of discernment to handle sensitive and confidential situations wisely
• Able to interface and influence at all levels, including those in executive positions
• Experience in a fast growth, highly competitive environment
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, demonstrated proficiency using social media analytic tools and Digital Marketing programs such as Constant Contact

Education and/or Experience: 
• BA or BS degree and 5+ years of PR agency and/or in-house Marketing Communications/PR experience
• 2 – 5 years experience in real estate desirable

Contact: This is a full-time position with a competitive salary and full benefit package including a 401(k). To apply, please email CL with salary requirements, resume and link to writing samples. Indicate “Marketing Communications Manager” on the subject line to  hiring@johnlscott.com

Who: SCVNGR/LevelUp

This is a freelance position, it is not full time. We ask for a minimum of 5 hours per week. With that being said, we are relatively flexible and you will personally dictate how many pieces you can complete each week. This will be based upon your schedule and availability that week.

We are headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. This position will be out of Seattle, WA.

Responsibilities

• Write short, witty restaurant summaries on a weekly basis
• Create content for our Facebook and Twitter pages

Background

• Prior writing experience preferred, but not required
• The strongest applicants will be creative, outgoing, highly-motivated and passionate about working for a start-up
• Ability to follow instructions and observe deadlines is a must
• Flexible schedule
• Ability to learn quickly & adapt

Contact: Make your way over to www.thelevelup.com to check us out. If you think you can write the daylights out of a restaurant summary, send us the following:

• A cover letter to let us know why you rock!
• Your resume
• A 510 character summary of a restaurant you’ve been to (including spaces.) Get creative!

About the Company:   SCVNGR is a Google-backed mobile gaming company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Over 1200 enterprise clients leverage SCVNGR’s location-based and mobile payment platforms to engage and better foster customer loyalty including Coca-Cola, GameStop, The Smithsonian, The U.S. Navy and hundreds more.

SCVNGR launched LevelUp as the smarter way to pay. Pay with your phone; save time; save money. It’s 100% free and easy to use. For merchants, LevelUp is like a high-tech loyalty program meets mobile payments, meets customer analytics cornucopia of awesome-sauce.

Who: Washington Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP)

Responsibilities: In cooperation with the EVP, executive leadership, appropriate Academy committees and members:
• Develop and implement membership development plan, recommend and coordinate research activities (focus groups/surveys/task forces), develop new products/services, make recommendations for EVP and board action. Develop target membership goals and supervise membership tracking. Build strategic partnerships to strengthen member benefits.
• Oversee Academy communications plan, including establishing annual communications calendar and work plan.
• Serve as staff editor of Washington Family Physician, and bi-weekly electronic newsletter. Liaison with physician editor, plan and write stories as required, supervise production and printing.
• Manage advertising for the website and WFP, including ad sales and revenue development.
• Manage creation, design and production of Academy promotional materials.
• Manage Academy web sites, coordinate design, content development and review, publishing timelines and analytic evaluation.
• Develop Academy brand and manage integration in Academy collateral.
• Coordinate “Family Physician of the Year” award.
• Coordinate database integration with all Academy data resources (surveys, AAFP resources, etc.). Analyze and disseminate as required.
• Assist in strategic planning and implementation as required.
• Maintain and enhance media contacts and relations, on behalf of the Academy and executive leadership sources.
• Ability to speak professionally in a public environment.
• Must be able to work with others in a team setting.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Commitment to the mission of the Washington Academy of Family Physicians.

Social Media
• Create, implement, and manage comprehensive social media strategy to define programs that use social media marketing techniques to increase visibility, membership and traffic across all Academy programs and projects.
• Experiment with cutting edge and alternative ways to leverage social media activities.
• Monitor trends in social media tools, trends and applications and appropriately apply that knowledge to increasing the use of social media at the Academy.
• Strategize with and educate the management team and others within the Academy on incorporating relevant social media techniques into all of the Academy’s products and services.
• Manage presence in social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, and other similar community sites, posting on relevant blogs, and seeding content into social applications as needed

Additional responsibilities include staffing WAFP committees, planning and staffing board meetings and statewide annual meeting, and other duties as assigned. Occasional travel and weekend meeting attendance are required.

Requirements:  Bachelor’s degree; previous experience working for a non-profit, membership-based organization; understanding of public health issues; publications/publishing experience; outstanding computer skills. Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications. Demonstrated ability to think strategically and develop/manage marketing programs to achieve established objectives.

Working environment: Casual, flexible office environment with core requirements of professional attitude, maintaining respectful and responsive relationships with five colleagues and all WAFP members, and the collaborative and strategic skills to help in advancing WAFP’s missions and goals.

Contact: Please forward your resume and letter of interest to info@wafp.net

Company Snapshot – a real time view of your company with multiple graphs and reports such as previous year comparison, income and expense trends, customers who owe you, etc.

Document Management – documents can be attached to customers, vendors, lists, etc.

Add/Edit Multiple Entries using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets – a way to incorporate Excel data into QuickBooks.

Just starting to use QuickBooks, or thinking about it? Need to brush up on some of your skills? Need to learn how to use that financial data to better manage your business?

If so, this course is for you! You’ll receive hands-on, interactive instruction in our new computer lab!

Session One: Getting Around In QuickBooks (3/22)

• Using forms, lists and registers
• Accounting basics
• Setting up your company
• Working with lists

You can find out more about the QuickBooks for Entrepeneurs course (including subsequent classes) and how to register online.

This is a unique opportunity to hear from experienced professionals who regularly advise businesses regarding intellectual property matters. If you have a product or service you are trying to launch, this seminar will help you understand the many areas of intellectual property that must be addressed in order to effectively protect your patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret rights.

• Do you have an invention you are wondering how to protect from being stolen?
• Are you providing a service or selling a product overseas and aren’t sure if you can or should patent it?
• Did you invent something while working under a government contract? Who owns your invention?
• Would you like to understand the effect of the new U.S. patent laws on your strategy for protecting your inventions?

Come learn answers to these questions and many more, including details of recent changes to U.S patent law.

You can learn more about this event and register online.

As the NW tech world turns, management turnover churns with it. Watching the direction of “HR talent flow” from one company to another, is a fair predictor of who is up and who is down in any given industry category at a particular time.

Take “third-party apps” for example, and the shifting momentum in that market space between Microsoft and Amazon.  Last year,  Charlie Kindel (no Kindle “name-pun” intended), who was a Microsoft general manager leading third-party app initiatives, left the company  to launch a start-up as yet unrealized. At the time Kindel called Windows Phone “the best product Microsoft has ever built.”

Now, his replacement, Brandon Watson is leaving Microsoft to join Amazon.com’s Kindle team also in third-part app development.  Watson’s Twitter account confirmed the move. “The rumors are true. The team is in great hands,” he wrote on Friday. “I’ll miss working on #wpdev.”

Mary Jo Foley notes at ZDNet that  the Amazon group Watson is joining makes Kindle apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows Phone.  Watson leaves Windows Phone with a legacy of accomplishment According to AllAboutWindowsPhone.com, more than 60,000 items have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Still it seems a bit surprising that the degree of overlap in the mobile app field is not restricted by a non-compete or non-disclosure agrement that would make it difficult to make such a switch “on the fly.”

Our talented cadre of Seattle workers are earning an average of $90,000 per year, up 5 percent from last year, plus an annual bonus of close to $10,000 according to a survey conducted by TechFlash.  This compares favorably with the average annual wage of $81,327 for tech professionals nationwide.

Like the Microsoft and Amazon parallelism, the Bay Area has two opposing tech poles in Google and Apple.  In an HR switch last week, Google purportedly pulled off a coup by hiring Apple’s senior director of product integrity for a secret project, according to VentureBeat.  The hiring is interesting because the Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly working out a “no poach” agreement where the companies — along with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Intel and Intuit — allegedly conspired to suppress employee compensation by not poaching each other’s employees.

According to this Linkedin page, Simon Prakash worked at Apple for more than eight years where he was most recently the senior director of product integrity responsible for product quality across all of Apple’s products, from iPhones to Macs.

Now he’ll be working for Google on a secret project, presumably run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is in charge of a variety of secret research and development projects at Google. The company recently acquired Motorola Mobility, and it has a wide variety of hardware projects under way that Prakash might be working on. [24x7]