Head of Production: Digital Media and User Experience, Brighton
Cogapp, the award-winning Brighton-based digital media and user experience company, is looking for a Head of Production.
This new senior role is all about ensuring that our production department (which is at the centre of all our work) is running smoothly and our clients are provided with top quality service. As such it would suit an experienced and ambitious producer/project manager with excellent client-facing skills.
You’ll be working on diverse and interesting digital projects for a range of high profile national and international clients like The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, London 2012, the Museum of Modern Art; New York and the Arts Council. If you want to help clients like these use interactive media to engage and delight their audiences, this role could be for you.
In return for your energy, initiative and commitment to delivery you’ll be part of a company that prides itself on its great track record in staff retention and development. Professional training opportunities, clear career pathways and a progressive ethos ensure that Cogapp is a rewarding place to work. Of course, the central Brighton studio with panoramic sea views (and the apartment in Manhattan if you’re working with some of our New York clients) doesn’t hurt…
We are located in central Brighton, in an office with views stretching across the entire town. Our studio is open plan – allowing our design, production and programming departments to work collaboratively on all projects. We also meet for cake every Thursday afternoon!
The Role
Your responsibilities will include:
* Managing (including line managing) our production team
* Actively managing a portfolio of digital projects, at varying levels of complexity but focussing on larger, more challenging projects
* Overseeing our work to delivery and beyond
* Client liaison and communications
* Problem-solving and creative input
* Co-ordination of our project team, client input, third party suppliers and assets
* Project management administration including preparing and managing budgets, forecasts, risk, scheduling and communication
* Accurate, high quality documentation
* New business development including responding to tenders, leading pitches and working on pro-active proposals
* Consulting on digital strategy and user experience projects
* Monitoring and improving our project management processes
* Deputising for the Production Director as needed
You are
* A senior producer with more than 5 years experience in digital media, particularly large-scale, complex websites
* Passionate about online and interactive media
* An experienced project manager (preferably PRINCE2 accredited) with an appreciation of and ability to drive improved project management processes
* Ambitious and entrepreneurial
* Experienced at managing a wide range of digital media projects with budgets ranging from £10k to >£500K
* A good communicator with excellent client-facing skills
* A competent line manager
* Dynamic and able to “think on your feet”
* A self-starter, constantly striving to improve and extend existing services
* Able to see the bigger picture without missing the detail
* An excellent proposal and report writer
* Knowledgeable about user-centred design, information architecture and wider user experience practices
* Looking for an opportunity to work in central Brighton
Other Requirements
Willing to travel nationally and internationally
Salary and Benefits
£40,000 + negotiable dependent on experience + benefits including bonus and pension schemes
Application Process
Please send:
* your CV
* a covering letter stating how your experience and skills qualifies you for this role
* a completed application form – which can be found at http://www.cogapp.com/application/CAquestionDyn.html?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true
(please also state where you saw this advert)
by email to jobs@cogapp.com or by post to Billy Lowe, Administrator, Cogapp, Lees House. 21-33 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3FE.
Closing Date: 28 January 2010