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Project Manager

Project Managers guide a project from inception to launch, ensuring that projects are delivered on-time and on budget according to the defined scope, timeline and cost parameters. You’ll be involved in navigating new technology, prestigious clients, brilliant designers and developers, and producing beautifully polished end results. You’ll be able to bring your process best-practices to our team as well as learn from our style. At the end of the day, you’ll help Stimulant consistently turn dreams and fictions into elegant realities, and your input and oversight will help shape it all.

This role is the right fit for you if your attention to detail is unmatched, you can easily transform a dynamic brainstorm into an itemized list, and you get energized checking items off a list. You’ll be involved in every step of the project, from estimates and schedule creation to weekly management of clients and your team, all the way through to project launch. We’re looking for someone who can speak fluently with developers and designers, who can comprehend interaction design wireframes, and doesn’t shy away from technical conversations. You will be expected to manage multiple projects simultaneously. If the energy and excitement of a small company doing cutting-edge and never-before-seen work excites you, you’ve found the right home.

A project manager at Stimulant will:

• Manage project scope, schedule, deliverables, and client expectations
• Track all specifications, features, change orders, and other project documentation
• Formulate communication plans and project schedules to keep all eyes on the final goals and constraints
• Deeply collaborate with project team members, business development, and accounting
• Balance being a project team advocate with the needs and requests of the client
• Conduct internal project meetings and help build team consensus on challenging issues
• Ensure efficient and consistent meeting times with client and internal teams
• Take ownership of the tactical project plan while accepting the input of the whole team
• Guarantee timely delivery of invoices
• Negotiate with all parties to ensure the balance of schedule, features, and budget
• Shepherd the project’s vision through attention to detail, strategic and tactical planning, and supporting the internal team
• Conduct project post-mortems to ensure future process improvements

The ideal candidate will have

• A demonstrated ability to multi-task, organize, and improve process
• Flawless written and verbal communication
• Experience keeping projects on time and on budget
• Ability to handle stress with aplomb and, above all, humor
• Extreme comfort with asking questions, negotiation, raising flags, and navigating conflict
• Comfort and skill adapting to dynamic situations
• Extensive experience in the services industry
• Confidence with new technologies
• A passion for process, no matter how pragmatic or polished
• Talent with prioritizing, issue tracking, and scheduling
• Effective risk management strategies
• Fluency with the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, and a variety of hosted project management tools such as Basecamp, Harvest, Trac, and the like.

Developer

Developers at Stimulant are responsible for taking projects from a blank slate to a full application which functions according to the specified project requirements, with a healthy dose of the developer’s own creative touch. You’ll take part in project brainstorms, planning, and prototyping. You’ll actively work with the user experience team to identify technically feasible approaches to client’s problems. You’ll then be responsible for principal development on the project, working solo or in concert with other developers. As things wrap up, you’ll work with the QA team to debug and document your work.

As our projects routinely mix familiar territory with the never-before-seen, you should feel as comfortable retooling an existing project for a new client as you do venturing into uncharted waters. Our developers are responsible for bringing the creative vision to life, and as such have design-minded sensibilities and a keen eye for pixel-perfection. We’re looking for someone who thinks visually, and who puts as much time into the elegance of his/her code as he/she does into the end-user experience. Most of your time will be spent programming user interfaces, but you’ll likely end up pushing the boundaries of OS and or back-end integration as well. While it’s expected that you’ll have your own tools and processes for coding, you should be comfortable both adapting to and recommending best practices for the entire team. We’re less concerned about how long you’ve been working; we’re looking for well-honed skills and a portfolio of past projects that you’re proud of. It’s important that you’ve had experience executing paid work, however, as these types of projects present a unique set of time-constraints and pressures that will be critical to your success in this environment.

We’re looking for folks with:

• an exacting attention to detail
• the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects
• excellent oral and written communications skills
• a proactive, team-player attitude
• familiarity with various project/team collaboration tools such as Basecamp, Harvest, Google Apps, and the like.
• a portfolio of past projects, including WPF and/or Silverlight and/or XNA technologies
• the ability to come up to speed on new technologies quickly
• a high level of comfort with Microsoft Windows, the Microsoft Expression tools, Visual Studio, the C# programming language, and source control and bug tracking systems
• Basic web development skills, experience with C++ and/or Objective C, and an interest in hacking off-the-shelf hardware into new configurations are a plus.
• Real-world experience working with multi-touch, multi-user and gestural UI are a big win.

This position can be filled in either our Seattle or San Francisco offices.

Design/Development Integrator

The integrator role is a position that sits between the design and development teams, whose primary function is to implement visual and motion design onto functional applications.

As an integrator at Stimulant, you’ll be responsible for the visual perfection of Stimulant’s software projects. As a project’s features begin to come together, you’ll follow behind the lead developer and apply the visual styles to UI controls that are provided by the design team. For the most part, this will involve editing or hand-coding XAML in Expression Blend, but will also include some C# development. Your creativity will come into play as you fill in the design gaps, adding things like press states and transitions that are consistent with the overall design. As the project wraps up, you’ll work with QA to solve any visual bugs in the project. You’ll also directly support the content management team, helping to format, deploy and maintain content and assets for projects.

The ideal candidate will have:

• a fluency in the language and idiosyncrasies of design, coupled with an exacting attention to detail
• the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects
• excellent oral and written communications skills
• a proactive, team-player attitude
• familiarity with various project/team collaboration tools such as Basecamp, Harvest, Google Apps, and the like.
• the ability to come up to speed on new technologies quickly
• a high level of expertise with Microsoft Windows, the Expression tools, Visual Studio, the C# programming language, and source control and bug tracking systems
• general web development and deployment skills

This position can be filled in either our Seattle or San Francisco offices.