Web Designer

Located in Burlington, Opie Marketing Group Inc. is offering this unique opportunity to become involved with one of Canada’s leading e-marketing companies. Our company is a fast-growing business that owns and operates a number of successful niche-market portals and e-commerce websites, with a solid client base of over 400 companies.

We are seeking a motivated Web Designer to assist in the design, production and maintenance of our niche-oriented web properties. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years experience designing and building web properties in a professional environment. This is an excellent position to join our dynamic, growing company, and provides the opportunity for tremendous growth and advancement.

Responsibilities:

• Create/hand-code new websites with pre-determined designs and specifications from our Creative Team
• Perform content maintenance, graphics production, and development of ongoing site features/functionality
• Format images, banners, online advertisements, landing pages and Flash pieces as required
• Design the structure, caching methods and front-end functionality of interactive content ensuring stability, bandwidth efficiency and cross platform support
• Integrate and design ad-serving functionality into interactive properties
• Integrate the graphic design of a product with back-end functionality
• Assist in quality assurance testing including the development and execution of test plans
• Effectively balance creative requirements with business and technical requirements
• Work in a multidisciplinary team with copywriters, SEO specialists and web developers/programmers

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years of web design and development in a professional environment
• Proficient with current web authoring coding and design standards including XHTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and Flash Action Script
• Deep understanding of Web 2.0 approach to HTML interfaces
• Generate clean and maintainable HTML code and CSS for all modern browsers
• Proven experience using graphics and web development tools, including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash
• Deliver sites / web pages that conform to W3C standards taking into account issues of accessibility and mobile devices
• Self-motivated, with the ability to handle multiple projects with tight deadlines in a fast-paced team environment
• Certificate or diploma in computer graphics or web programming or a related discipline is preferred
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills, including fluency in English

Additional Assets:

• Preference will be given to candidates who have previous work experience in an interactive agency environment.
• Experience using SilverStripe Content Management System
• Knowledge of search engine marketing, including natural search (SEO) and PPC campaigns

Compensation:

Salary commensurate with experience.

Please submit the following with your application:

• Salary objectives
• URLs showing your portfolio and recent samples of your professional work

Contact Information:
Email: careers@opiemarketing.com
Fax:  (905) 319-5662

PLEASE NO PHONE CALLS OR AGENCIES

We would like to thank each applicant however only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.