Creative Manager: Giganews, Inc.

About Us:

Powerhouse Management manages the operations of several common ownership companies in the Internet/High Tech business vertical. We are seeking a motivated, smart, and driven individual..

Additional business ventures are in the early stages of development. To learn more about our current operating companies, please visit:

www.giganews.com

www.datafoundry.com

Creative Manager

Responsibilities:

· Create effective, engaging designs that support business objectives, adhere to established brand guidelines and meet legal requirements, with minimal direction

· Shift between a creative and a technical focus depending on the project need and/or the type of project

· Collaborate with marketing on how to continually improve the effectiveness of promotions; continually develop and test new approaches

· Lead design projects and other creative initiatives proactively (e.g., redesign of templates, style guide, or process improvements), set deliverables and deadlines, and help to drive projects to completion

· Research and learn emerging technologies

· Communicate and sell your design solutions to senior management and colleagues

· Manage a team of designers

Requirements:

· Ability to think strategically and understand the user, the brand, the internal customer

· Thorough familiarity with latest Adobe Creative Suite software

· Able to work in a PC environment

· Demonstrated ability to accurately estimate and scope development work

· Solid skills in graphic design

· Able to adapt deliverables to fit brand guidelines

· Strong written and oral communication skills

· Ability to work independently, taking project from beginning to completion

· Ability to work across teams with a variety of internal customers

· Ability to incorporate creative direction and guidance

· Ability to juggle multiple projects, good time management skills to meet tight deadlines

· Has successfully demonstrated ability to mentor, manage and direct

· Web site and/or Micro site design experience

· 5 plus years of professional web design experience with a proven track record for creating branded website experiences.

· Demonstrated understanding of user-centered design, web usability principles, information architecture, principles of graphic user interface (GUI) design, capabilities of different platforms/browsers, design constraints on the web.

· Strong team collaboration and interpersonal skills.

· Organizational, analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills.

· Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.