Full-time
(Los Angeles, CA)
The Company
Revolution Prep was founded in 2002 with the vision of using innovative instruction and technology to transform education while remaining true to a social mission. By attracting and retaining a group of dedicated, talented and performance-minded individuals, Revolution Prep has become a national leader in educational services and software. The company has achieved triple digit growth annually and will generate revenues of $20 MM+ in 2010. This fun, energetic, and creative company employs over 100 people, is profitable, and is privately held. Over the next five years, Revolution Prep intends to dramatically accelerate growth while maintaining our social mission of quality education for all.
The Opportunity
Revolution Prep is looking for a designer/front-end web developer to join our marketing team. Your primary responsibilities will be creating designs and layouts for product web sites, landing pages, emails, and other web applications as needed, producing HTML and CSS to implement these designs, and working with Ruby on Rails developers to integrate the HTML with the functional application. You will also do occasional design work on print projects and create illustrations in Illustrator.
Requirements:
- Fluency in XHTML and CSS
- Ability to produce mockups in Photoshop and turn them into standards-compliant HTML/CSS
- Expertise in achieving cross-browser compatibility in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari
- Ability to work with web developers in integrating design and functionality
- Typography knowledge (must know how to make fonts work)
- Expertise in grid-based layout design and its implementation in HTML/CSS
Pluses:
- Formal education in art or design
- Experience with JavaScript, especially jQuery
- Experience in Ruby on Rails
- Regular reader of A List Apart
- Obsession with all things open source
- digg reader, Apple fan, music lover
Salary and Benefits Total compensation: DOQ. In addition: Medical, Dental, Vision benefits, 401k with Company matching and an Equity Incentive plan.
Apply: Please complete an online application at http://bit.ly/bn87kd
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