Whether you have 3 years experience or 7, if you are passionate about market research and want the opportunity to push the boundaries and do things differently, antedote is the place for you. At antedote we believe in “Slow Research” and use a multi-method approaches to get to know people on an individual level, in their own environment and then use analysis to inform thinking rather than pushing respondents through a process to answer questions and make decisions for us.

antedote is a small fast growing insight and innovation consultancy with a global client roster. We combine decades of research and strategic innovation experience with the rigor of academic approaches and the latest technology to deliver insightful and actionable solutions for our clients. At antedote we celebrate the individual and know that every new addition to the team is an opportunity for us to grow and develop as a business – antedote is a place to develop your skills, cultivate your expertise, apply your knowledge and experience and help create a business and a culture that offers something different.

 Project Director: Qualitative Market Research

 Overview of the role

As Project Director you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of global and local research studies. You will also have the opportunity to lead projects and work directly with clients from large multi-national organizations. In addition you will be working with a breadth of traditional and technology based methodologies and techniques. Reporting to one of the Founding Partners you will be involved in the development of the qualitative research offer and support the team in ensuring the overall success and performance of the business unit.

 Core Responsibilities

• Project management of research studies from fieldwork management and budgeting through to analysis and debrief delivery
• Preparing screeners, discussion guides and stimulus
• Ownership and management of the online community and platform
• Conducting primary research (such as ethnography, in-depth interviews and focus groups) both online and in person
• Insight generation and analysis

Skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, sociology, anthropology, marketing, journalism, economics or other discipline in which strong analytical and strategic skills are cultivated. (Masters preferred)
• Foundation knowledge and experience in qualitative market research methodologies and techniques (quantitative experience a bonus)
• Moderating experience (Certified preferred)
• Experience with design, management and analysis of primary research studies
• Minimum of 5 years experience in qualitative market research environment – research firm, consultancy or equivalent (Social media experience a bonus)
• Superior oral and written communication skills
• Excellent computer skills and experience with both Mac and Microsoft systems (skills in movie making software and design programs preferred)
• Proficient with technology and social media tools
• Excellence in time management, planning and attention to detail
• Readiness to travel (travel is sporadic and up to 70% of time over the year)
• Language: English (Spanish or additional language a bonus)
• Full time position in San Francisco
• USCIS Status: legally eligible to work in the U.S

antedote is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law 

Must have excellent Adobe Suite skills. 

We are fostering change, and supporting the evolution of the brands we work with through positioning strategies implemented in industrial design, packaging, graphics, naming, UI and environmental design. Our clients benefit from fuseproject’s approach through our ability to provide a broader view of a product design and branding program.

We are currently seeking a creative, culture and business-savvy Senior Design Strategist to help answer the questions of “what and why” before budgets are committed to development and engineering and marketing plans are established.  The Senior Design Strategist will be a key member of a growing team that helps clients solve critical business challenges, framed by customer insights, competitive advantage, product and brand positioning, and breakthrough thinking.

Responsibilities of the successful candidate include:

• Working directly with clients and other team members to identify and clarify relevant client business and competitive issues and propose specific methods to address them in relation to new product development & brand building activities
• Devising, conducting, overseeing (in some cases), analyzing, and synthesizing primary and secondary research
• Working with teams of industrial designers, engineers, interaction designers, and graphic designers on the creative product and brand development process within tight timeframes; feed and catalyze brainstorming and development activities with consumer, competitive, and channel insights
• Actively participating in creative activities to turn business, customer, and competitive insights into breakthrough new product & brand innovations
• Participating in presentations and strategy sessions with senior executives; Making presentations and substantiated recommendations to clients regarding customer insights, product and brand strategy, and competitive scenarios

Required skills/Experience:

• 6 – 8 years of relevant experience in marketing, product design/development, digital development, brand management, strategic product planning, strategy consulting, or equivalent
• Strong understanding of, interest in and passion for design
• Experience with major national or international brands desirable
• Consulting experience strongly preferred
• Experience with programs that go across media and touchpoints (physical + digital) highly desirable
• Characteristics, track record, and experience trumps education
• Detailed oriented and comfortable working to deadlines with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated excellence in verbal and visual communications, with a particular emphasis on visual storytelling; strong information design sense is a definite plus
• Comfortable presenting to, and engaging with senior executives on strategic matters
• A creative, self-starter who can prioritize and work autonomously in a demanding environment
• Razor-sharp analytical skills: ability to gather, analyze, summarize and present market data to objectively support business recommendations and plans
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

You will be tasked with the creation of a network of researchers by refining PSFK’s network of scouts and existing writers as well as finding new researchers through PSFK readership. You will work to build the network into a community that we can leverage not only for research but for other tasks as well.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Compile daily story ideas for PSFK.com including headline, brief, angle  
• Tracking analytics and sussing out patterns for more effective publishing  
• Providing editorial support where necessary (writing, editing)  
• Manage network of global scouts    

Qualifications:  

• Well-organized, self-starter, able to work to meet tight and constant deadlines  
• Must have excellent knowledge of the worlds of mobile communications, technology, design, digital, creative business, marketing  
• Must have high level writing skills (previous writing experience a plus)  
• Very comfortable with WordPress CMS  
• Familiar with all Google Office Products/Microsoft Office Suite  
• Photoshop and Design skills a plus

• At least 2 years of applicable experience
• Excellent HTML/CSS/JS skills
• Able to write clean/semantic markup
• Experience with HTML5 and CSS3
• Knowledge of third-party APIs such as: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare etc.
• Comfortable working with modern JavaScript frameworks and animation libraries
• Working knowledge of back-end technologies and databases  (PHP, MySQL, Ruby)
• Experience with CMS/publishing platforms such as Drupal and WordPress
• Advocate for mobile-first/responsive-design workflow
• Good design and animation/motion sensibilities
• Requires a fastidious attention to detail
• Working knowledge of Photoshop (converting a layered design into HTML/CSS)
• Objective-C and/or iOS SDK experience a huge plus
• Good sense of humor
• Collection of work samples demonstrating your capabilities

Founded in 1984, APCO Worldwide is an independently owned global communication, stakeholder engagement and business strategy firm that challenges conventional thinking and creates powerful movements to help our clients succeed. APCO combines a global perspective with local expertise to help clients around the world manage challenges, opportunities, perceptions and reputations. APCO clients include corporations and governments; industry associations and nonprofit organizations; and six of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500. APCO Worldwide, named one of the ‘Top Places to Work in PR’ by PRNews, offers a collegial work environment, countless training and development opportunities, and a competitive compensation and benefits package. EOE M/F/V/D

Must have:

• Over 2 years experience in a professional services or consultancy environment
• Success in selling advertising packages to media agencies and brands
• Deep understand of marketing, branding and product  innovation

Should have:

• Ability to self manage and set and achieve goals
• Imagination to propose creative solutions
• Ability to learn – and sell – the new
• Adobe Creative Suite skills
• Actively engaging in social network and public discussion on cultural topics

PSFK Labs is currently witnessing growth and is looking for an experienced client services professional to lead the delivery of client projects so that they exceed their expectations and we continue to grow the company. The successful candidate will work with the President, Head of Consulting plus a dynamic team of consultants to deliver world class thought leadership and advice.

Must have:

• Over 8 years experience in professional services
• Proven track record of delivering profitable client engagements
• Experience in growing accounts in terms of revenues and converting clients from project to retainer-based relationships
• Market research and innovation as part of a repertoire of experience
• Led and won business pitches with global brands

Should have:

• Experience delivering trends research projects, product and service innovation projects and brand strategy projects
• Management of profit and loss and forecasting
• Team leadership skills

There is an opportunity for senior hires to grow within the company to a management position leading PSFK Labs.

Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students emphasizing arts, media, and communications in a liberal arts setting.

The Department of Interactive Arts & Media (IAM) invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position at the Assistant, Associate, of Full Professor level. The Interactive Arts and Media (IAM) department serves over 325 undergraduate majors, and realizes significant annual growth.

Students in the Interactive Arts & Media department create interactive experiences for participants. Programs are offered in Game Art, Game Design, Game Programming, Game Sound Design, Interaction Design, Interactive Art, and Mobile Media Programming. As creators on the frontier of emerging technologies, students in IAM design smart media and prototype innovative ideas that are shaping how people think, interact and play in contemporary culture. State-of-the-art facilities like our motion capture studio, fabrication lab, and audio production suite give unrivaled access to industry standard tools that help students fully realize creative projects.

Job Summary

We seek candidates who can demonstrate expertise in usability and user experience matched by a vibrant, complementary practice in programming that directly supports user experiences; those who possess a proficiency in interactive media development and user experience design along with the ability and passion to teach in two of the following areas: mobile/game computing, physical computing, web programming or app development.

Duties & Responsibilities

The position begins Fall 2013. Tenured and Tenure-track faculty members teach three courses per semester (9 credits), advise students, participate in college and department service and provide scholarly or professional contributions to the field.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate will hold a terminal degree in Interactive Media, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science or a related field. Outstanding candidates with masters’ degrees in other related fields, coupled with a track record in applied research, creative practice, or professional experience in the creative industries, will also be considered. Experience in leading teams toward technology innovation using agile development, inter-disciplinary collaboration or cooperative-learning techniques are highly desirable. Ability to teach or coordinate courses in technology for change, serious games or the history, critical analysis and aesthetics of interactive media is an additional plus. It is imperative that applicants demonstrate a strong potential for success in teaching at the college level.

This person will interface between our “clients” (UN agencies, NGOs, government partners) to help design potential Big Data projects by working with our clients to understand their needs/requirements, and developing a scope of work for those projects, then manage the project’s execution through development of a working prototype (with the data scientists on our team and any “external partners” we may be working with – like an academic team or a private sector company with a powerful analytics tool), and communicating results & findings.

This person will be the bridge between our UN-world, and the Data Science world – bringing our R&D collaborative projects to fruition.

Ideally this person will:

• Have client-based project management experience (with EXCELLENT listening skills; understanding what the client needs)
• Be a problem-solver and an action-oriented team player
• Project management experience: competent with scoping out structured project plans, setting milestones and hitting deadlines
• Highly organized and a clear communicator
• Have an understanding of the data science/analytics and can help explain the basics to our “clients”
• Experienced with “experimental design” or rapid prototyping desirable

Beyond a theory of strategy, Blue Ocean Strategy is a global brand in consulting and the company website is a critical piece of this vision. We are looking for a web design specialist to help us overhaul our current company website.

As a member of an international remote team, this individual will be the lead designer responsible for the look of a highly-trafficked website for Blue Ocean Strategy. Deliverables will include user interface design (PSDs), production-ready CSS, contribution to corporate style guide and , depending on candidate, brand element design & wireframes. The ideal candidate will have experience working on a range of interactive projects, with clean creative aesthetic, a passion for web-related technology and trends, and a desire to build a global brand. Exceptional talent and commitment will be considered for ongoing work with potential for fulltime hire.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Design company website from wireframes to PSDs and production-ready CSS
* Effectively communicate offsite project manager and offsite back-end /IT support
* Manage requests and concerns from key stakeholders and senior leadership

REQUIREMENTS              
* Expert level command of Adobe Creative Suite
* Intermediate/Advanced command of HTML/CSS
* Working knowledge of UX/UI Principle
* A stunning portfolio
* Ability to coordinate with a global team, including flexibility to accommodate multiple time zones, including US, Europe and Southeast Asia
* Fluent English

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED
* Familiarity with and passion for blue ocean strategy
* International Exposure
* Understanding of project management and website development process

ABOUT THE BOOK BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY
Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than 100 years and thirty industries, Blue Ocean Strategy provides a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant. In this bestselling book, Professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne present proven analytical frameworks and tools for successfully creating and capturing blue oceans. The fastest selling book from Harvard Business School Press, with over two million copies sold and translations in 42 languages, Blue Ocean Strategy highlights principles that every company can use to successfully formulate and execute blue ocean strategies.