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Title: Production Manager - OPEN

Where: East Bay
Skills: Looking for a sharp-thinking, personable professional with a diverse skill set in communications and multimedia to become the Production Manager for growing office. This position requires 5-10 years experience in the field of graphics and visual presentations (a strong background in litigation graphics a plus). Excellent PowerPoint and Keynote skills desired, along with proficiency with the Adobe Design suite and/or video editing programs, and/or Flash. Ability to create compelling graphics and other visuals.
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Title: Senior UX Designer - OPEN

Where: East Bay Biotech
Skills: Looking for a Sr. UX designer to work with software developers, hardware engineers and marketing teams to understand pain points, limitations and suggest unifying solutions. Create workflow documents to test and present UX/UI solutions to the teams. Meet daily with the software development team (Agile workflow structure). Command of Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio and PowerPoint are must haves. Wireframing and prototyping skills will be a great plus.
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Title: Senior UI Designer - OPEN

Where: San Francisco
Skills: Looking for talent with an interest and passion for what can be done to have fun online in the social networking space. Must possess an uncanny combination of design ability, communication skills, and insight into user psychology. This Sr. Designer will be crafting effective page flows, layouts and wireframes. Work with engineering and product management to realize the ideal user experience and web performance and contribute to a consistent look and feel across the social networking site. Requires a strong portfolio featuring interaction design samples and 6+ years of designing web and/or desktop experiences. Formal training in HCI, Cognitive Psychology, or user-centric design, experience implementing user interfaces and mastery of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are all pluses.
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Title: Senior Copywriter - OPEN

Where: San Francisco
Skills: Solid marketing copywriter with pharma & healthcare background. Strong experience in pharmaceutical and biotech industry highly desirable. Ability to bring a deep understanding of the product and target audience for Professional (DTP) Communications. 5+ years agency experience preferred. Must present samples to be evaluated for presentation.
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Title: Project Coordinator - OPEN

Where: East Bay Biotech
Skills: The Project Coordinator will be working under the supervision of the Project Manager to facilitate the day-to-day flow of projects through the MarCom Department. BA/BS degree in Communications, Advertising, Marketing, Business (or applicable field) sought. Working knowledge involving web/digital/interactive campaigns a plus. Junior candidates welcome.
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Title: Creative Director - OPEN

Where: San Francisco
Skills: Senior leadership opportunity. Oversee copy, art and interactive teams. Must have deep regulatory knowledge of Pharma and be able to mentor and direct cross functional teams.
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Title: Account Services, Multiple Roles - OPEN

Where: San Francisco
Skills: Account Executive through Account Group Supervisor. At least 2 years Pharma experience required at AE level. For more senior roles, looking for Cardio Pulmonary and/or Oncology experience. Ophthalmology background also desirable. Prior Agency experience strongly preferred.
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Title: Account Supervisor - OPEN

Where: San Francisco
Skills: Traditional print based Account Supervisor, responsible for managing all agency resources while providing strategic and tactical direction. 5-7 + years of agency experience, with at least 3 years in pharmaceuticals, Oncology or Cardio Vascular. Product launch and FDA experience sought. Ability to develop and execute tactical and strategic marketing initiatives. Will relocate highly targeted candidate.
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Title: Sr. Interactive Designer/Art Director - OPEN

Where: San Francisco
Skills: Designer/Art Director who is strong on web but with a print background. Versatile, tech savvy, highly creative. Bring your strong sense of design along with your winning personality to all projects you are assigned. Prior agency and some Pharma experience, a plus – B2B, B2C, DTP.
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Title: Interactive Account Services Lead - OPEN

Where: San Francisco
Skills: Seeking new Interactive Account Services Lead to join staff. Must have healthcare background and or brand manager within a pharma firm. 5-7 years of agency experience, with at least 3 years in pharmaceuticals. Excellent strategic skills as well as interactive project management ability. Product launch and FDA experience. Ability to develop and execute tactical and strategic marketing strategies. Ability to lead and mentor account team members and delegate as appropriate. Ability to manage a budget with strong expense management.
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Title: Web Designer - FILLED

Where: East Bay
Skills: Project based web designer who can design the skin (look and feel) of Corporate web pages and microsites. CSS Template design skills needed. Telecommuting possible.
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Title: Document Specialist - FILLED

Where: East Bay
Skills: Graphics Production, Page layout, Presentation Graphics.  High proficiency with Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite. 2 -3 days/week (Wed-Friday) to assess for long term direct-hire role.
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Title: Senior Designer - FILLED

Where: East Bay
Skills: Work on design of youth focused book properties. 3-7 years of print design experience. Bright, youthful, animated portfolio is appealing. Experience in book design and or working with illustrators or licensed properties is key to success in this role.
Approximately 30 hours/week.
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Title: Power Point Artist - FILLED

Where: Peninsula/Silicon Valley
Skills: Graphics person highly skilled in PowerPoint presentations to design high profile presentation. The ideal candidate will have experience in biotech/biopharm.
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Title: Identity Designer - FILLED

Where: East Bay
Skills: Jr. and/or Sr. designer with both print and packaging experience. Food & Beverage experience a plus. Agency background desirable.
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Title: Web Production Artist - FILLED

Where: East Bay
Skills: On-going need for a free lance Web Production Artist for Banner production. Client needs someone who can produce both static and expandable banners.
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Title: Associate Creative Director/Instructional Designer - OPEN

Where: Santa Barbara
Skills: Provide strategic oversight to the design team. Manage the planning, creation, and delivery of graphical content for online training courses. Provide conceptual interpretation and storyboarding.  Visually present concepts to the team to streamline end concepts.

This is a hands-on management position requiring exceptional design chops combined with the ability to develop and build a creative team, while working within the guidelines of the Company brand. Requires 5+ years experience supervising a creative team in an agency model. 5+ years experience in instructional graphic design as demonstrated by a portfolio. Must have passion for employing design as a medium for education and a clean, high level design aesthetic. Experience with Presentation Design serves as a good background for this role. Understanding of the online environment is key to success.
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Title: Senior Graphic Designer - OPEN

Where: Santa Barbara
Skills: World-class Senior Graphic Designer to create award-winning and motivating design communications, including: collateral, page design, typography and iconography. Exceptional visual designer and strong conceptual thinker able to influence and direct other designers. Collaborate directly with the Creative Director, Marketing team, User Experience team members and other cross-functional team members in initiating and executing visual concepts. 8 + years of professional print and web design experience preferably in an agency, marketing or in-house creative services environment with a proven track record for creating branded communications.
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