TL;DR

We need a web designer. Everyone that we hire needs to push our culture forward. We see web designers as part of the development team, but don’t worry if you don’t know anything about writing software; we’ll teach you. We’re most impressed by an amazing portfolio, an established visual style, incredible flexibility and outstanding hacky-sack skills. Apply at jobs@ownlocal.com, resumés are OK but you should focus on telling us about yourself and your previous work.

Culture.

A company can choose its culture or it can just let a culture happen.



Our developers so far are the autonomous, intelligent and creative type. They enjoy the opportunity to pick up new skills and grow them from n00bery to mastery.



We haven’t really tacked down Zappos-style “core values” yet — we’re a bit too young — and hiring people who will move our culture forward is key to our success. Do you think you’d fit in? Keep reading.

By the way…

Did we mention that our developers are allowed to work part-time from home? Or that we have world-class full health coverage, for which employees don’t pay a dime? Or that we have beer on tap in the office, a gymnasium-sized play room and are located in the artsy and hip (but still dignified) East Austin?

To ride you must be this tall:

  •   You should have already done enough work in your career to have a well-established style.
  •   You’re doing designs for web applications. You should be able to solve design problems for interactive software.
  •   You should have a strong opinion about user experience. You should have an attitude that you’re willing to fight for the customer.
  •   You should be familiar with typical industry tools, i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
  •   We would like you to write clean and correct HTML, CSS and jQuery. If you don’t do this right now, we’ll teach you how.
  •   Mad hacky-sack skills, high Tetris scores and knowledge of Star Wars collectibles are all a plus.

Are you still here?

Send us an E-Mail — jobs@ownlocal.com. Tell us about yourself and highlight some examples of your work. Resumés can help us get some boring stuff out of the way, but we don’t consider them key hiring criteria..


No recruiters, please. Seriously, please.