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JOB OPENING: Junior Digital Marketing Assistant - Part Time

Dain Saxon (Digital Producer) - Jul 15, 2010

 

Junior digital marketing assistant - part time.
Job Description.

Attention punks and punkettes…

First - the list.

This is what we’re looking for - in order of requirements.

Tick more than 75% of these and you’ll earn yourself an interview.

Required:

• Currently studying a relevant subject (marketing, design, web)
• Available 3 x 1/2 days a week (flexible)
• Can make pretty things with Photoshop
• Know what HTML stands for (without Googling it)
• Know how to use CSS to make said HTML
• You are not a recruiter posing as a job hunter

Preferred:

• Socially capable (can answer phones)
• Like how marketing affects the general population
• Have a Twitter account (and use it)
• Facebook savvy (we will be checking your profile pic)
• Mad writing skillz a bonus
• Understand that there’s a place for tables on the web apart from on eBay
• Desire and determination to be awesome.
• Happy with $20 p/hour (the experience is priceless but we do have to offer at least minimum wage)

Second - the pitch.

So you’re a poor student.

We know what it’s like; living on two-minute noodles; holding down a menial job to survive; visiting your mum bi-weekly to get her to do your washing and hit her up for rent money.

All while dreaming that when you finish your course you’ll be magically snapped up into agency land and working on projects for rainbows and unicorns.

There’s a problem with this.

You need experience to get a job, but you need a job to get experience. It’s a vicious cycle.

Also,  unicorns don’t actually exist. Sorry.

We’re here to help break that cycle.

Melon Media, or rather, me specifically, are looking for someone like you to fill the role of a part-time Junior Digital Marketing Assistant. Which basically means you have to do everything I tell you.

You’ll be working on real projects with real clients and real problems. Which means you’ll be gaining real experience - which will put you ahead of all the other slackers when you graduate.

First,  you need to be smart (or clever - both are good) and a creative thinker.

“Sure”,  you say. “I’m part of Gen Y, I’m freaking awesome! Didn’t you know?”

Well I feel I’m entitled to my false sense of entitlement - but that’s not going to pay for my addiction to energy drinks.

Second you need to be technically minded and can speak Bocce.

“Whoa hold up!” you exclaim. “Someone creative AND a coder? Those people don’t exist!”

To the contrary. They do. I’m one of them.

Realistically I’m looking for a mini-me. Who’s creative. And can code for web and email. And is not scared to do hard work. While working in a great office in the city. And be surrounded by awesome people who will help you learn and excel.  Oh, it helps if you can write too…

So you want in?

Again,  in caps, so you understand: NO RECRUITERS

Melon Media is an email marketing and web design and development company located in Martin Place, Sydney.

 

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JOB OPENING: Web Developer > PHP, JavaScript, CSS

Dain Saxon (Digital Producer) - Jul 15, 2010

Melon Media is an established digital agency and web applications company based in Martin Place Sydney. We consult to many medium and large organisations with respect to their websites and online marketing.

In addition to providing specialist web consulting, design and development services we develop niche web applications.
Some of our current web applications include:

• spellr.us (2 awards, 2 TechCrunch articles)
• Tourcow
• Manageflitter (2 TechCrunch articles, significant daily usage)
• _spell

We are looking for a smart developer to join our team.

Essential:

• Experience with PHP, MYSQL, HTML & JavaScript: 18 months minimum
• Experience with backend and frontend web development.
• Effective communication skills.
• Initiative and ability to manage time efficiently.
• Ability to work within a team as well as autonomously.
• Professional work ethic.

Desirable:

• Project management experience.
• Experience with Drupal.
• Experience working with cloud based infrastructure.
• Experience with Agile development.
• User interface design aptitude and experience.
• Appropriate tertiary education.

Your role will include working with other team members in delivering web projects to our clients and assisting with some of our web products.

The culture at Melon Media is casual but hardworking. We encourage work life balance but often we get so passionate about our projects that we prefer to balance a little more work than life ...

You will also have the chance to spend between 10%-20% of your time working on a project of your choice. Manageflitter, _spell and Tourcow are products that were developed in 20% time.

We are a 100% privately and independently owned business and looking for someone to grow with us and share in our success.

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No recruitment companies please. Managing our recruitment internally works best for us.

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