1. System Engineer / Programmer / Developer (Apps etc.)
Job Description:
- Client/Server system development for various business sectors / Web system development / System testing / Apps
- Network development and related tasks
Qualifications:
- Has at least a BS. (Preferably in Computer Science or related field)
- Has mastered (or at least has a strong grasp of) at least 2 of the following: C, VB, VBC, VBA, Access, Java, SQL, DHTML etc.
- Is well versed in, familiar with and interested in at least one of the following databases: Oracle, Access, SQLServer, MySQL, any other type of database
- Self-starting outgoing person who likes to tackle new things aggressively, Has a strong sense of responsibility and takes pride in their work
NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE.
WE ABSOLUTELY DON'T FARM OUT OUR WORK TO OTHER COMPANIES OR COUNTRIES..
Seriously, we mean it, ok?
*Experienced:
- If you've read our Developers Skills
page and think you make the grade, WE WANT YOU!
- If you've read our Developers Skills
page and it hit close to home but you're ready to start again from scratch, WE WANT YOU!
*Beginners:
- If you believe that in the future you will have what it takes to be unrivaled in your profession, WE WANT YOU!
Remuneration:
- To be decided on after your training period has ended; 100% proficiency based.
2. Office Administrator / Sales Support / Customer Service
Job Description:
A: For our online shops (a combination of the following tasks)
- Communicating with customers by phone / e-mail / fax / Sales support (taking phone orders, explaining shop policies, explaining product lineups etc.)
- Communicating with Merchants, making purchase orders, inventory management
- Probably: Writing web page contents for products, sourcing new items, photographing new items, editing photographs for web.
- Hopefully: Handling the SNS communications (Facebook, Twitter)
- Possibly: Boxing, packing, making labels, printing invoices, helping with returns:
B. For our main Development / Online Marketing / Advertising Business
- Communicating with clients and business related contacts by phone / e-mail / fax / Office administration / Sales support
- Hopefully: Handling the SNS communications (Facebook, Twitter)
- Software instruction
Qualifications:
Native in English, would be nice if you spoke Japanese as well, or some other language
- Proficient in Windows environments, Can use Word, Excel and other basic Office tools / Has a strong interest in the IT field, ok with using a computer / the internet / software all day, every day.
- Self-starting outgoing person who likes to tackle new things aggressively
- Can work legally in the US
*We especially want you if you
- Get positively, assertively involved in your work / Can't now, but would like to learn programming / HTML / Photoshop, SNS marketing
Remuneration:
- Skill / Experience based.
3. Web Designer / Web Developer
Immediate openings for a Web Designer / Web Developer candidate.
We tend to have many more web than print jobs, but we welcome people with experience in either, and hope you can rock Illustrator as well as the web tools.
We are looking for a person who is multi-talented; mature regardless of age, and who make us say "Wow!"
Candidates from Jr. level considered with very good portfolio, from mid-level preferred.
We love currently Jr. level candidates who plan to be better than mid-level in a couple months.
Meaning that you're the type to spend your free time and weekends powering up your skills so you can be a monster at work. Send us an email if that's you.
We prioritize local candidates.
NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES.
Seriously, we mean it, ok?
--About You--
* You are reliable, hard working, detail oriented, and trustworthy, meet deadlines, produce a professional result; you have professional pride.
* You are a team player, but independent and don't require micro-managing; you bring a vision to the work you do and don't need a manual to get it done.
* You have a related degree or background; we never say "no way" to the self-taught, but we do judge you by your results.
-- Your skills --
Illustrator, Design for web, Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Mac & Windows OS, MS Office etc.
You should be proficient in more than one of the above skills and learn new ones quickly.
--Web Designer / Developers--
Please don't overstate your skill set, we test you on the first day and will know immediately. Honesty is fine; if you're learning or will learn, let us know as well. We love fast learners.
For example, if you say "I know HTML", or "I know CSS" you mean "I can hand code HTML / CSS using code view in Dreamweaver (etc.)"
If you need to use design view, or can't hand code, please don't claim CSS / HTML as a skill set.
-- Salary / Pay: --
Skills based
-- Details --
Full-time:
Start around 9:30 or 10:00 in our office near the beach, part time employees can work flex-time when they're available.
Raises and bonuses by merit
Part-time: Skills / Time based
Freelance: Job based
-- How to Apply ----
In your subject line to us, please write "WBDV-ACEINC". DO NOT sent attachment files or call.
Please include a link to your portfolio, and tell us briefly what your design "motto" is.
(What you think the most important element of a "good" design is.)
--Please include any relevant urls to work you have done.
Please also be clear as to what part of the work in the link you did.
(VERY IMPORTANT!)
ex.
"Design in Illustrator only" or "Flash and HTML coding" or "Design and concept and design" etc.
--Your rates (hour, project etc.)
--Your availability
4. Graphic Designer
Immediate opening for a Graphic Design candidate.
We tend to have more web than print jobs, but we welcome people with experience in either, and hope you can rock Illustrator as well as the web tools.
We are looking for a person who is multi-talented; mature regardless of age, and who make us say "Wow!"
Candidates from Jr. level considered with very good portfolio, from mid-level preferred.
We love currently Jr. level candidates who plan to be better than mid-level in a couple months.
Meaning that you're the type to spend your free time and weekends powering up your skills so you can be a monster at work. Send us your resume if that's you.
--About You--
* You are reliable, hard working, detail oriented, and trustworthy, meet deadlines, produce a professional result; you have professional pride.
* You are a team player, but independent and don't require micro-managing; you bring a vision to the work you do and don't need a manual to get it done.
* You have a related degree or background; we never say "no way" to the self-taught, but we do judge you by your results.
-- Your skills --
Illustrator, Design for web, Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Mac & Windows OS, MS Office etc.
You should be proficient in more than one of the above skills and learn new ones quickly.
--Graphic Designers--
You need to be able to draw freehand as well as adeptly use Illustrator and other design related software. You should be able to create and produce cohesive graphic elements and entire layouts.
-- Salary / Pay: --
Skills based
-- Details --
Full-time:
Start around 9:30 or 10:00 in our office near the beach, part time employees can work flex-time when they're available.
Raises and bonuses by merit
Part-time: Skills / Time based
-- How to Apply ----
In the email subject line, please write "DSGN-ACEINC". Do not send attachment files or call.
Please include a link to your portfolio, and tell us briefly what your design "motto" is. (What you think the most important element of a "good" design is.)
--Please include any relevant urls to work you have done.
Please also be clear as to what part of the work in the link you did (VERY IMPORTANT!)
ex.
"Design in Illustrator only" or "Flash and HTML coding" or "Design and concept and design" etc.
--Your rates (hour, project etc.)
--Your availability
5. Flash Developer
We are a web development and online marketing company located in Torrance CA looking for a RELIABLE and VERY SKILLED local freelance, contract, or part time in-house Flash Developer / Designer to work with on different web related projects.
No "Adult work"; jobs will involve Flash ads / banners for online marketing, one point viral games / images /icons, fun-instructional, instructional clips etc.
-- Your skills --
Slick, fun, pro quality Flash design and development skills.
-- You are --
Mature, responsible, reliable. In other words; A pro.
We aren't looking for beginners or people who are studying Flash or going to be a Flash person in the future, we're looking for people who are currently already there.
-- How to Apply --
Please add "FDV-ACEINC" to the subject line of your email.
--Please include any relevant urls to work you have done --
Please also be clear as to what part of the work in the link you did (VERY IMPORTANT!)
ex.
"Flash only" or " Flash and HTML" or "
Flash and concept and design" etc.
--Your rates (hour, project etc.)
--Your availability
6. Copy Writer
Must have mad skills. In English or Japanese.
7. Alliance Partnership
Our company wants to devote itself to actual system development as much as possible. We are always looking to form alliances with individuals, companies or in-house partners who fully understand our company policy
and the pride we take in our development technology to help sell our products and services. If you bring us a system development or web development project, we will pay you or your company a commission of from 5% to 50%
of the job price as a contingent fee.
This percentage will vary according to the labor we ourselves had to put forth in actually landing the account. The more you handle the client, the more you get.
Viral Marketer / Head of Viral Marketing
(Special position)
This job / position / career, and how you apply for it is different than "normal" jobs / positions / careers so we absolutely need you to be different and how you apply to be different as well.
Interested? Let us explain.
We are a company that is never interested in doing things everybody else can do and does. There's no real point and it's no fun for us. Right now, we're focusing on viral marketing because it's fun, effective, fresh and can be absolutely creative as well as be an incredible value to our clients. Are you interested? Want to try?
We are currently looking for someone to join / head up our viral marketing department who wants a real chance to do exactly what they want to do online for our clients.
We don't mean a person who has made videos and uploaded them to Youtube and gotten no views and left it at that or a person who will studiously submit spammy links of stuff we've done to reddit, we mean a full package real deal amazingly creative but needs work / clients for whom to do that work person. We need a person who wants the platform on which to perform and the audience for which to perform but who is ready for their performance.
We don't give you the script, just the stage and stagehands to an extent; it's your show, you also need to care about bringing in an audience.
Who you are:
1. A person with skills than lend themselves to being a viral marketer but that also make a company like ours hire them: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Visual Editing, filming, comedy writing or any other professional skill that earns a living in our industry
2. A funny person. Clever works too. A meme lover perhaps.
3. The person who wants this job the most.
How to apply: This is both easy and amazingly hard.
1. We need your resume as text in the body of an email or as a link online, no attachment files will be accepted. Please put "VIRALM-2012-01" in the subject line of your email to us.
2. Next, wow us with your talent / humor / viral potential.
Backstory: The last time we hired a cameraman / director for a viral project we got over a couple hundred applications.
We spent days and days looking over a massive quantity of "creative" work that was for the most part forgettable at best and occasionally truly hard to watch. The hiring process was painful to us and we're pretty sure no fun for the applicants either.
Who are we kidding; all the applicants did was throw links of amassed #$%^ at us and expect us to choose them because of ? The fact that they are unique snowflakes perhaps.
But they were snowflakes in a blizzard and in the end something completely different stood out.
We don't want to live like that anymore. From now on, applying for jobs with us and hiring new people needs to be fun for all involved. One of the nice things about a small company is that we can make decisions like this and carry through with them: The hiring process with us will no longer be a grind for anybody involved in the process, us most certainly included.
++ Will you make a Facebook page that gets 100,000 "likes" telling us to hire you?
++ Will you make an application video that gets 100,000 views on Youtube?
++ We guess you could do something twitter (but we might not notice it), or imgur, or Reddit or really just about anything as long as you make us notice you in a good way and it's interesting or fun / funny for everyone involved.
++ If you're strapped for ideas you could come up with a viral idea for one of our in-house shops and testing grounds such as the not-naturally viral: www.massager-machines-and-more.com
++ Or if you're into really low hanging fruit you could do something for the naturally viral www.artisansocks.com that had an image catch fire online thanks to bloggers, a great in-house photographer and a pretty girl's legs. (2011's viral shark socks)
++ Here's the thing though, while some of our clients' products will be fun or funny like the socks, for the most part they aren't and you're going to need to be comfortable coming up with original fun ideas to market some fairly serious products. You'll be valued as a partner, get the fame you deserve personally rather than having others take credit for it and make your share of the profits. That's the job, if you really want it, it's yours.
Who will hate this job?
1. People who hate / aren't interested in the internet, humor, and how information is spread on the internet.
2. People who think work should be like school except that you now get paid to learn.
3. People who like a job because it's easy and they can coast.
4. People more interested in being a tiny part of a adequately done big thing rather than being a huge part of a new thing. (How many campaigns for big companies do you see online that DON'T make you cringe? That Whole Foods viral rap and the Sears zombie thing maybe, but not much more..)
5. People who think there is / people who are more comfortable with one "right" answer to a great yawning abyss of potential.
6. People who don't want a huge amount of responsibility for the success of the end-product.
We hope to be laughing from sheer wonder at your amazing talent soon! And we hope you enjoy the process to. -ACE Inc.
How to apply:
Please send us your resume and cover letter in both English and Japanese if you speak Japanese. Otherwise just English will do.
1. When you send your resume by e-mail please include it as text in the body of the mail as we do not open attachment files.
2. Please send a text email and not an HTML email.
3. We do not accept job related phone calls.
4. We do not accept emails with attachment files.
To apply by e-mail please use the following address: careers@artisancrew.com
Most jobs are in-house at one of our Torrance Los Angeles County offices. We DO NOT outsource to agencies or overseas so please don't contact us if you are a rep from a company who provides those services.
