- We are looking for an irreverent, inspired and inspiring person with technological expertise who will join our founding team to help us scale, engage and innovate. We are a bootstrapping media company that has created a strong brand name, a powerful global community and outstanding content. If you have superb technical skills, are hungry to learn and have a taste for analytical news then give us a shout.
- We focus on analysis instead of news – why is something happening rather than what is happening is the question that we seek to answer. To answer the why, we tap people from around the world with expertise and experience. Often, they provide better insights than self-appointed pundits. They also bring fresh perspectives, unheard on mainstream media. In a more global world this diversity of perspectives across borders is essential to achieve a better understanding of the world we live in. We have more than 300 contributors from over 30 countries, more than 20 volunteer editors based from Sao Paolo to Shanghai, and eminent advisers from across the world that include John Bruton, the former Irish Prime Minister, Jianxun Shi, the famous Chinese Professor at Tongji, and Donald Marron, a former member of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers. This means that we provide cutting edge analysis of relevant issues from people with expertise.
- Right now we are migrating our old Drupal 6 website to Open Publish, which is a packaged distribution based on Drupal 7, designed for the online news industry. It is ideal for the implementation of a variety of media outlet sites including magazines, newspapers and journals. As platform we use the new scalable Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- In the future, we want to involve people from around the world at every stage from suggesting topics, submitting content, editing the content, sharing it and commenting on it. By operating on any device we want to become an interactive platform analyzing data – economic, demographic and geographic - and present it in a visually stimulating manner. We want YOU to design a user interface for a fantastic user experience.
What we are looking for and what we offer?
- Strong visual design skills, including an eye for good typography and use of color
- Fluid ability to design in Photoshop, OmniGraffle (or similar), and Illustrator
- A strong personality and definitely a strong passion to contribute and learn
- Solid understanding of HTML/CSS and browser debuggers, and browser nuances
- Some experience with at least one other User Interface framework is desirable
- Javascript/jQuery welcomed, but not required