Careers
WASSER is always on the lookout for talented and experienced team players
who share our dedication to responsive client service and high-quality work.
We have many key roles available for project managers, information
architects, designers, developers, writers, editors, and other highly
capable individuals who are ready to focus their creative and technical
energies on cutting-edge work in a fast-paced, team-based environment.
WASSER strives to balance individual career development with client
satisfaction and meld technical innovation with creative expression. This
balance is key to both our culture and our success. If you’re ready to
collaborate with the smartest, most creative people that you’ve ever met,
take some time to read through the following job postings. We’re definitely
interested in talking with you. WASSER is an equal-opportunity employer.
Current Job Openings
Account Coordinator
WASSER is seeking an enthusiastic and energetic individual to assist our
sales process as account coordinator. The successful candidate will
participate in and support all sales activities and assist with management
of the sales cycle, including cultivating, expanding, and maintaining
existing client relationships. The account coordinator will also generate
leads, identify and qualify new prospects, set appointments, write
proposals, and assist in closing business with new clients.
Job Responsibilities:
- Meet and maintain specific lead-generation and sales goals
- Initiate unsolicited outbound calls to leads, to generate new
clients
- Identify and qualify new prospects
- Assist business development with maintaining and expanding existing
client base
- Assist with bid writing
- Collect and report sales results
- Manage and update sales-management database to track new leads and
build on existing ones
- Represent the company at external marketing or industry events
- Help administer quarterly mailings and follow-up sales calls
- Perform other sales duties, as assigned
Job Qualifications and Requirements:
- One- to two-years’ experience successfully generating sales
- Excellent written- and verbal-communication skills
- Effective, professional communication and presentation skills
- Exceptional phone skills
- Demonstrated prospecting abilities
- Conversational understanding of Web design and development
- Ability to maintain accurate and complete data, as well as create
reports
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook,
and PowerPoint
- College degree preferred; relevant experience in lieu of a degree
might be considered
Compensation:
- Base salary + commission, DOE
Please send your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls,
please.
ASP.NET Developer (contract/freelance)
Candidates for this position will offer support and change fulfillment
for a wide variety of existing Website projects, as well as new projects
under development. Browser-based applications include e-commerce sites,
content-management systems, business-workflow management, and intranet
portals. The primary development technologies include ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0,
Microsoft SQL Server, and XML. This part-time, contract position is
available as of January 2009.
Required Experience:
- Four+ years’ experience programming ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0, using
either Microsoft Visual Basic or C# (familiarity with both languages
preferred)
- Significant experience building and designing secure database
solutions for high-end browser-based business tools
- Experience developing SQL Server databases (SQL Server 2008 desired)
- Experience working with XML, including schemas, XPath, and
transformations
- Strong background in HTML/XHTML and CSS
- Ability to write clean, documented code
- Strong verbal- and written-communication skills and
team-collaboration skills
Preferred Experience:
- Experience applying sound development standards and practices, such
as source control, versioning, bug tracking, and unit testing
- Experience extending third-party components, such as shopping carts,
content-management systems, and online-community tools
- Office SharePoint–implementation and/or custom-development
experience
- AJAX-/Atlas-implementation experience
- Experience consuming or writing Web services
- Working onsite at our Seattle office preferred
Please send your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls,
please.
Entry-Level Web Designer (contract/freelance)
Candidates for this position must have a creative mind, an eye for
detail, efficient production practices, and a self-motivated desire to
produce high-quality work. The designer’s involvement will include working
with the creative director and design team to create original design
concepts, develop storyboards and/or prototypes, produce final art suited
for online use, and build standards-based Web sites.
Experience:
- Excellent project- and time-management skills
- Ability to multitask across multiple, simultaneous projects
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Experience in Web and information design, and excellent
understanding of all aspects of Web production
Qualifications:
- Software expertise in Macromedia Studio 8 and Creative Suite 2
- Ability to create Web prototypes in Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, or
proprietary prototyping tools
- Knowledge of Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash; knowledge
of ActionScript a plus
- Thorough knowledge of standards-based Web design
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design or related field preferred
Please send your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls,
please.
Information Architect (contract/freelance)
Candidates will have two- to four-years’ experience working with
Web-based projects. This contract position will require approximately 20–30
hours per week, with a good portion of the work to be done onsite at
WASSER’s Seattle office. Responsibilities will include conducting or
creating the following:
- Content audits
- Wireframes and site maps
- Task-flow diagrams
- User-experience analysis
- Personae
- Site taxonomies
Qualified applicants will have experience with the following:
- Microsoft Office productivity software
- Wireframing tools, such as Visio
- Creative and technical project documentation
- Collaboration with project managers, graphic designers, content
writers/editors, and developers
- Communication of Information architecture–related concepts and ideas
- Negotiation with team members and project stakeholders
Please send your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls,
please.
Sales Representative
The successful candidate will generate leads, identify and qualify new
prospects, gather requirements, write proposals, and assist in closing
business with new clients. The sales representative will also participate in
and support all business-development activities and assist with management
of the entire sales cycle within our target market, including cultivating,
expanding, and maintaining existing client business relationships at all
levels. This is a temporary position.
Job Responsibilities:
- Meet and maintain specific lead-generation and sales goals
- Leverage creative and effective lead-generation and sales techniques
- Achieve monthly quota of qualified leads
- Initiate unsolicited outbound calls to leads, to generate new
clients
- Identify and qualify new prospects
- Assist business development with maintaining and expanding existing
client base
- Meet with potential clients; analyze client requirements and
document project specifications
- Create proposals
- Collect and report sales results
- Advise and consult with manager regarding sales processes and
techniques
- Manage and update sales-management database to track new leads and
build on existing ones
- Effectively engage in client meetings; lead discovery-focused
discussions with clients to better understand current plans, processes,
and requirements
- Participate in identifying and analyzing marketplace, competitors,
and market-segment opportunities
- Represent the company at external marketing or industry events
- Help administer quarterly mailings and follow-up sales calls
- Perform other sales duties, as assigned
- Some travel, public speaking, and after-hours sales anticipated
Job Qualifications and Requirements:
- One- to two-years’ experience successfully generating sales and
meeting sales objectives or quotas at a technology and/or marketing
agency, or relevant similar experience
- Excellent written- and verbal-communication skills, including
experience in presenting projects
- Effective, professional communication and presentation skills
- Exceptional phone skills
- Demonstrated prospecting abilities
- Proven networking skills
- Conversational understanding of Web design and development
- Interest in technology and marketing
- Demonstrated ability to interact and develop relationships with
senior client management, decision makers, IT professionals, marketing
executives, and all other levels of an organization
- Maintain accurate and complete data, as well as create reports
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook,
and PowerPoint
- College degree preferred; relevant experience in lieu of a degree
might be considered
Compensation:
- Base salary + commission, DOE
Please send your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls,
please.
Web Developer/Office SharePoint
(contract/freelance)
WASSER is looking for a detail-oriented Microsoft Office SharePoint
developer to join our team, to focus on Office SharePoint technical tasks
for some of our key clients. Candidates for this position will be
responsible for providing publishing and technical support to several of our
clients’ intranets and extranets.
Responsibilties:
- Integration of Web parts
- Creation of page templates
- Ability to customize Office SharePoint to move beyond
“out-of-the-box”
- Converting Photoshop designs into Office SharePoint pages
- Page building, site testing, and content management, with an eye on
quality and a willingness to collaborate with clients and coworkers
- Ability to offer creative solutions to the question, “Can Office
SharePoint do this?”
- XML experience a plus
Job Qualifications and Requirements:
- Solid XHTML and CSS skills/hand-coding (three- to five-years’
experience)
- Previous experience using Office SharePoint Portal Services
technologies and Office SharePoint Team Sites
- Experience using Photoshop or similar graphics software to crop,
resize, and optimize images for use on the Web
- Experience working with content contributors, editors, graphic
designers, and IT team members
- Ability to work within strict deadlines, multitask between projects,
and triage work requests, based upon priority and complexity
- Detail-oriented, with a good eye for quality assurance
- Excellent verbal- and written-communication skills
- Strong team player
Please send your cover letter and resume to Contact Us. No phone calls,
please.
