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Skyron is looking for an Information Architect (permanent), London, up to £40K

by Yannis |March 6th, 2013

Are you passionate about technology, information and how we interact with them? Are you a sworn champion of users’ rights and strive to create awesome experiences for them? Are you a natural team player keen to learn, share and collaborate? If you are indeed such a rare creature, we need you!

We are a growing technology and marketing agency headquartered in London Waterloo. We have a great list of international corporate clients for which we deliver a range of solutions such as responsive websites, business applications, software solutions, mobile apps, data visualisation, ecommerce, intranets, portals, as well as our own SaaS products. We are looking for an enthusiastic mid-weight information architect to further strengthen our user experience team.

About the role

  • You will work in a multi-disciplinary team and collaborate with  designers, developers, copywriters, business analysts and  usability specialists
  • You will be involved in the whole production process, and contribute to all user experience stages: research, requirements gathering, definition of user personas and journeys, content prioritisation and organisation, information architecture, visual design, development, testing and on-going improvements
  • You main area of responsibility will be the planning, creation, testing and optimisation of interactive prototypes and wireframes
  • You will be applying the latest usability and accessibility best practices and share with the team industry insights and developments
  • Your will be a pivotal part of our commitment to improving the usability and quality of our output, and streamlining our production process

 About you

  • You have least 2 years’ experience working as an information architect or in a similar role
  • You have worked closely with designers, developers and business analysts and have a good understanding of the creative and technical production processes
  • You strive to always stay up-to-date with the latest usability theories and best practices
  • You are creative, resourceful and you enjoy complex problem solving and experimentation
  • You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • You are a team player, evangelize digital media and the importance of good usability
  • You love information, organisation and structure and live by the maxim “the devil is in the detail”

Our standard prototyping tools are: Axure for non-responsive and HTML for responsive interfaces. Our process however constantly evolves so we would be open to any suggestions you might have.

To express your interest in this opportunity or for more information please send your details to emily.dear@skyron.co.uk.

(Skyron has not outsourced recruitment to agencies for 7 years so, if you are an agent, please refrain from contacting us)
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Self service from hell: How large corporates serve an insulting user experience to job applicants

by Yannis |September 11th, 2012

Are you a manager recruiting on behalf of your large corporate employer? Are you a director hoping that your managers get their hands on the best talent out there? Are you in HR and certain that everyone is having a field day with the third party recruitment solution you invested in?

Below we reveal the misery your online job candidates are likely to be  subjected to, along with 25 tips on how to make things better.

Your organisation is likely to be investing quite a bit of effort and money into recruitment to ensure that it attracts the best candidates. There is probably a nicely written and designed careers website, a YouTube careers channel dedicated to company videos, interviews, employee testimonials and departmental presentations, social media career chatter on Facebook and Twitter and maybe a blog with polished corporate news and views written with job prospects in mind.

In our research we came across numerous examples of such online recruitment initiatives, most offering a decent experience. And yet, behind this sparkly, über-optimistic career-fest lies a big rot: the online job application process. As soon as a job candidate crosses the lovely shop front and enters the back room of online account opening, job searching, CV uploading and job applying, all cuddly content and design fade away. Instead, the unsuspecting user is asked to go through a clinical, impersonal, confusing, badly designed, badly written, patronising, and sometimes even impossible to complete, process.

This embarrassing for the employer and insulting to the candidate debacle is more often than not owned by third party recruitment solution providers such as Oracle’s TaleoKenexa, or SAP’s Success Factors. Yet, this should not be an excuse for a poor user experience.  If you fail to attract the best talent out there, it is the future of your company that is at peril.

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Hiring: ASP.NET (C#) Web Developer, permanent, London SE1, up to £35K pa

by Yannis |December 13th, 2010

Skyron is a busy and growing digital communications agency in SE1, London. We have a fantastic client list and a diverse portfolio. Our services include CMS and bespoke web development, online marketing, SEO and analytics. We are looking for a skilled developer to help strengthen our team and deliver quality technical work.

About the role:

  • You will work on a variety of web projects including corporate websites, intranets/extranets and bespoke online business applications.
  • You will be developing, implementing and maintaining open source ASP.NET content management systems (primarily Umbraco) as well as bespoke systems when required.
  • You will ensure that solutions are implemented according to the agreed functional and technical specifications as well as development standards and best practices.
  • You will work with the creative team, help generate original ideas and get the opportunity to explore, experiment and implement diverse technical solutions.

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Hiring: XHTML/CSS Front-end Web Developer, permanent, London SE1, £30K – £40K pa

by Yannis |October 1st, 2010

We are looking for a talented front-end web developer to build corporate websites, intranets and campaign microsites. Skyron is a busy and growing digital communications agency in SE1, London. We have a fantastic client list and a great portfolio. Our services include web development, online strategy and marketing, SEO and analytics.

About the role

  • You will be working with designers and information architects to build great websites of varied size and functionality
  • You will ensure that solutions are implemented according to the agreed specifications as well as development standards and best practices
  • You will help generate original user interaction ideas and you will explore and implement diverse navigation mechanisms

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Hiring: ASP.NET Web Developer, permanent, London SE1, £30K-£40K pa (Get Umbraco training!)

by Yannis |September 23rd, 2010

Skyron is a busy and growing digital communications agency in SE1, London. We have a fantastic client list and a great portfolio. Our services include web development, online marketing, SEO and analytics.

About the role

  • You will work on a variety of web projects including corporate sites, content management systems and bespoke online business applications.
  • You will be developing, implementing and maintaining .NET Content Management Systems including open source solutions.
  • You will ensure that solutions are implemented according to the agreed functional and technical specifications as well as development standards and best practices.
  • You will work with the creative team, help generate original ideas and you will get the opportunity to explore, experiment and implement diverse technical solutions.
  • We use Umbraco a lot so if you don’t have any relevant experience we will train you.

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Hiring: Umbraco Developer, permanent, London SE1, £35K pa

by Yannis |July 29th, 2010

Skyron is a busy and growing digital communications agency in SE1, London. We have a fantastic client list and a great portfolio. Our services include web development, online marketing, SEO and analytics. Umbraco is quickly becoming our CMS of choice, so we are looking to strengthen our skills in the area.

About the role

  • You will work on a variety of web projects including corporate sites, intranets and bespoke online business applications.
  • You will be mainly developing, implementing and maintaining Umbraco solutions.
  • You will ensure that solutions are implemented according to the agreed functional and technical specifications as well as development standards and best practices.
  • You will work with the creative team and help generate original ideas and you will get the opportunity to explore, experiment and implement diverse technical solutions.

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Skyron launch B2B lead generation microsite for The Sun Classifieds

by Yannis |June 29th, 2010

The Sun Classifieds team are targeting the recruitment sector with a new message and a lead generation campaign. At the heart of the campaign is the microsite designed and built by Skyron.

The purpose of the microsite is to communicate the wide and diverse readership of The Sun, to share insights about reach and engagement and to encourage new business enquiries. The microsite’s rich interactive content has been composed to resonate with and appeal to professionals in the recruitment industry.

Visit: www.themisconception.co.uk

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Hiring: Web Project Manager, permanent, London, salary £40K pa

by Yannis |June 14th, 2010

Do you want to run your own show, manage your own clients and work on a spellbindingly wide variety of great briefs? Join Skyron, a growing, independent digital communications agency based in London SE1.

We are looking for an experienced project manager to manage the design, build, hosting and support of ROI-driven websites, intranets/extranets, content management systems, bespoke web applications, Flash marketing campaigns and the delivery of a raft of other projects such as video production, email marketing and mobile websites.

We are a technology-agnostic house working with PHP, ASP.NET, ActionScript, the usual front-end technologies, as well as applications such as Drupal, WordPress and Umbraco. Our clients are medium to large enterprises.

About the role

  • You will be responsible for the efficient delivery of projects within the planned time, budget and specification
  • You will allocate in-house and outsourced resources and coordinate the completion of project specification, IA, design, development, SEO and analytics
  • You will organise testing and QA processes and release projects to publication
  • You will develop, document and implement Skyron’s project delivery processes
  • You will liaise directly with clients

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Hiring: ASP.NET Developer, permanent, London SE1, £35K pa

by Yannis |June 12th, 2010

Skyron is a busy and growing digital communications agency in SE1, London. We have a fantastic client list and a great portfolio. Our services include web development, online marketing, SEO and analytics.

About the role

  • You will work on a variety of web projects including campaign sites, content management systems and bespoke online business applications.
  • You will be developing, implementing and maintaining .NET Content Management Systems including open source solutions (e.g. Umbraco).
  • You will ensure that solutions are implemented according to the functional and technical specifications as well as development standards and best practices.
  • You will work with the creative team and help generate original ideas and you will get the opportunity to explore, experiment and implement diverse technical solutions.

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