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The Uprising Creative, Inc is a Los Angeles music, entertainment & lifestyle-based design and interactive agency with clients from all corners of the industry, including Kanye West, Foo Fighters, Legendary Pictures, Supra Footwear, RCA Records, Beastie Boys, Linkin Park, Justin Timberlake, Warner Brothers Records, and many, many more.

We’re a tight knit group of art directors, designers, web developers, and project managers with a passion for what we do. It’s a creative environment and an exciting company that’s experiencing explosive growth and has become a leader in the field, with offices in Los Angeles and London.

Our motto? Make Cool Shit.

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Apr'12
Web Developer(s) – Echo Park, CA
We are currently seeking to fill the position of Web Developer in our Echo Park, CA office whose key role is to deliver digital-based projects and campaigns on time and on budget. Applicants must be ready to hit the ground running and jump into projects immediately.

Applicants should be comfortable working in an agile development environment with Git-based version control and should have a creative approach to solving problems. Previous work experience in the music, entertainment, or lifestyle industries a major plus.

Responsibilities
- Performs implementation tasks alone and/or in team environment.
- Codes web projects per technical and design specifications.
- Integrates third party and proprietary applications.
- Performs QA, browser compatibility and testing efforts.
- Perform web site maintenance tasks as necessary.
- Understands and enforces schedules.
- Serves as in-house technical contact for designated accounts.
- Understands and establishes version control (development and live) hosting environments.
- Field client maintenance requests.
- Demonstrates appropriate sense of urgency in inquiry response.
Qualifications
- 4+ years professional experience in web development.
- Strong HTML and CSS skills (HTML5 / CSS3 experience a plus)
- Strong object-oriented development skills (PHP5 OOP, Javascript, MySQL)
- Expertise with PHP frameworks
- Strong experience with JavaScript libraries (jQuery, etc) and JSON
- Database programming
- Strong knowledge of hosting environments
- Experience with the integration and implementation of 3rd party APIs and applications.
- Experience with WordPress and other CMS platforms
- WordPress custom CMS development experience
- Extensive knowledge of WP custom theme development
- Knowledge of WP custom plugin development a plus
- Experience with cross-browser and mobile optimizations
- Strong technical aptitude
- Strong emphasis on pixel-perfect, standards-compliant code
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven team environment on multiple projects
- Must be keen on strategy, collaboration and maintaining scope reqs
- Must be highly motivated, fast, precise, accountable and passionate
- Capacity to learn new technologies / programming languages quickly
- Understanding of basic graphic design principles and interaction design
- Familiarity with Macintosh OSX operating systems
Ideal candidates can work in-house in our Echo Park location full-time, however flexible schedules and project-specific / freelance applicant requirements will be considered.

Salary and benefits are competitive and based on experience. Employment packages include health benefits, unlimited vacation days, flexible schedules, free coffee & espresso (!!!), concert tickets, and many other perks.

Applicants will be required to present real world project examples clearly illustrating their contributions to the projects, code snippets, and other reference code to showcase their experience and past work. Applicants will also be required to provide client and/or employer references.

Please email resume, salary requirements, references, and work examples to jobs [at] theuprisingcreative . com.
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Apr'12
Interactive Producer – Echo Park, CA
We are currently seeking to fill the position of Interactive Producer / Project Manager in our Echo Park, CA office whose key role is to deliver digital-based projects and campaigns on time and on budget. Applicants must be ready to hit the ground running and jump into projects immediately.

Responsibilities
- Lead an integrated team in development of all project documentation (ie: project plans, statements of work, etc.) and in collaboration with account teams, finance and clients.
- Assist in developing estimates.
- Work directly with account teams and clients to define project requirements and create proposals.
- Manage and work with clients, interacting through meetings and correspondence.
- Track, report and regulate major client issues relating to a given project.
- Responsible for producing projects on time and on budget.
- Work with, and coordinate, members of the interactive team to accurately balance skill set and workload.
- Liaise with 3rd party vendors (including designers, video production teams, replication houses and others).
- Participate in program strategy development.
Qualifications
- Minimum 3-5 years experience as an Interactive Project Manager / Producer.
- Experience in the Music/Entertainment Industries is strongly preferred.
- Experience with Web-based technologies a must, including ability to speak to technical and creative development lifecycles.
- Working understanding of all facets of interactive development including strategy, design, development and implementation.
- Working knowledge of Information Architecture and QA.
- Supervisory and staff management experience on a project basis.
- Strong production planning skills.
- Able to translate technical requirements to marketing and non-technical partners.
- Organized, extremely detail oriented and able to balance multiple priorities.
- Possesses strong leadership skills and accountability.
- Able to build strong, resilient relationships with clients and be viewed as a partner.
- Experience managing project teams and leading creative direction.
- Proficient in MS Project, Liquid Planner, Merlin, Basecamp or other relevant project management systems.
Ideal candidates can work in-house in our Echo Park location full-time, however flexible schedules and project-specific / freelance applicant requirements will be considered.

Salary and benefits are competitive and based on experience. Employment packages include health benefits, unlimited vacation days, flexible schedules, free coffee & espresso (!!!), concert tickets, and many other perks.

Please email resume, salary requirements, references, and work examples to jobs [at] theuprisingcreative . com.

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Web Developer(s) – Echo Park, CA

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