We're looking for a visual designer or interaction designer to join us here at SilverStripe, and we're going to be expanding our search worldwide. If you want to live and work in Wellington, New Zealand, home of more coffee shops per square kilometre than New York City, or know someone who does, this might be your shining moment.
One of the interesting things about working in Wellington for SilverStripe is that because of New Zealand's remote nature and Wellington's well deserved reputation as a hub of culture, it provides a unique opportunity for those of us in the Web field. New Zealand needs the web to bridge the tyranny of distance, and Wellington is the hub of web development in New Zealand.
We've got a listing up on Trademe.co.nz which explains the particulars - your usual "three years experience," plus, you know, web design skills. We're looking world-wide because we want people who can produce world-class design.
On the visual side we're looking for an excellent visual designer who can create appealing web design concepts as well as translate brands to the web, giving them life with CSS/HTML and Javascript. And on the interaction design side, we're looking for someone who can create and inform design strategy, create static and interactive wireframes, and prepare and interpret usability tests, among other things.
We want people who will thrive in a fast-paced environment, using Agile techniques to work with clients and colleagues to create amazing, fresh, web goodness. We've got a casual environment, work with cutting edge technology, and many of our staff are also ex-pats from one country or another, and we'd like to have even more countries represented here. (Like Pokemon fans or collectors of Hummel figurines, we won't be satisfied until we have a complete set.)
Of course, there's the traditional advantages of living and working in New Zealand - beautiful nature, food safety, equality, laid-back culture, sport, and the highest sheep to Orc ratio of any island in the South Pacific.
Check out the listings, and then apply via Trade Me, or if that doesn't work for whatever reason, e-mail careers@silverstripe.com.