The Company
BraveNewTalent is a game changing Social Recruiting platform with traction, blue chip clients and
heading for global scale. Jobseekers use the site to create a professional profile and follow their
target employers, thereby allowing the employer to develop a professional talent community. The
service is free to access for talent and generates revenue from employers using Talent Words™ to
drive targeted people into their communities and on a licensed seat model (SaaS). The platform
brings together in one place all social media content the employer has – jobs, tweets, blogs, news,
pictures, videos and more, and intelligently connects talent to employers and opportunities based
on a recommendation system.
BraveNewTalent is developing a new model of online education, allowing employers to
distribute training and skills to their talent communities in advance of the job application.
Paying clients include blue chip brands such as Starbucks, IBM, L’Oréal, Tesco and McAfee.
Following UK success and venture funding from Northzone and experienced Angels such as
Cambridge Angels, Pierce Casey, Mike Bourne and Alex Hoye, BraveNewTalent has now
expanded its operations to the US and India.
We are located in central London in a trendy office in Soho.
The role
- Building beautiful, accessible, and functional interfaces.
- Creation of wireframes, mockups, and fully integrated HTML/PHP pages.
- Working with a team and independently to come up with creative solutions to create and
maintain a complex feature set.
- Helping develop the structure and operations of a growing and maturing engineering team.
Personal skills and attributes
- Love for web design and passion to stay up-to-date with current trends in design.
- Mature and independent, yet receptive to team participation.
- Driven and committed to true excellence.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Good understanding of software design principles.
- A focus on quality and attention to detail.
- Superb communicator, both oral and written.
- Willing to grow your role with the company, taking on leadership roles as the opportunity
arises.
Your core skills
- 3-5 years of experience in front-end development and design.
- Very strong understanding of standards complaint XHTML/HTML5.
- Very strong CSS 2.1/3 experience and working with cross browser compatibility.
- JavaScript experience (including jQuery/jQuery UI).
- Strong Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks experience.
- Knowledge of ZEND framework (or any other MVC based framework).
- Experienced in (and comfortable with) structured development environments (version
control, release processes, light documentation, etc.), so that you are able to help us
become a large, mature engineering team.
- Good eye for design and a feel for excellent user experience: visual understanding of page
layouts, formatting, workflow, user journeys, etc.
- Version control (SVN/Git) experience.
Your extra bonuses
- Familiarity with the social networking space, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
- Familiarity with job boards and other recruitment channels (particularly social recruitment).
- Knowledge of Turbine (or any other CSS Framework).
- Facebook application development experience.
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