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The Brewery – Brought to you by Young & Shand

September 26, 2011 by Duncan Shand

Young & Shand diversifies and launches its own Brewery… Digital Brewery, that is:

We’re moving into new offices this week and we’ve got some space available for rent that we’ve dubbed The Brewery – A funky, unpolished and edgy working space for the creatives of Auckland. The Brewery is a 300sqm creative haven, with all the essentials – and nothing more!

As a Digital Agency, we get creatives – the feel, the look and the love of ideas – it’s what we do too! We want to work with the best freelancers available. Our clients need talent, as do we. The Brewery is a space where the best freelancers can work together on their own projects and contribute with others as well.

Unlike other working spaces, we’re not ‘available to anyone’. We want freelancers – creative freelancers: web developers, designers, copywriters, video producers, illustrators, etc. Our idea is to get the best in the building, work with them on projects and help grow each others businesses. In other words, A web/dev ecosystem smack bang in the heart of Auckland.

The Brewery is a work in progress… we’re looking for ‘early adopters’, people who want to grow and shape our space with us. Discounts apply to the first three to join us.

The Brewery offer:

Fibre Internet (The fastest we could get our hands on!)
300Sqm office – Grungy and full of nooks and crannys to think, create and build.
Creative breakout spaces + Whiteboard walls/windows
2x meeting rooms – one big, one small (including projector)
Desk & chair included, obviously!
Kitchen (and all the facilities, including coffee machine)
CBD address and PO Box

Rental opportunity:

Permanent desks – $575+GST per month (all inclusive*)
- 24/7 access
Hot Desk - $375+GST per month
- Unlimited use (but don’t take the piss by staying every day, 9-5 – that’s a permanent desk, mate!)

And like any good landlord, we require one month bond + one month rent in advanced.

Note: We’re not in the co-working space business, we’re in the digital business. Our goal isn’t to get rich offering space, it’s to work with the best creative freelancers available. Period.

If you’re interested, contact Duncan Shand (details below)

We need a Senior Account Manager

August 16, 2011 by Duncan Shand

We’re looking for a shit hot Senior Account Manager to join the team at Young & Shand. We’ve been growing and picking up some new clients and we need someone that has solid agency experience and has enough experience to work at a strategic level with our clients to grow their business (and ours!).

So if you love advertising, get digital and can help bring together ideas that will make difference we’d like to talk. You also need to be great a developing relationships and delivering results for your clients. At the end of the day we live or die by the results we deliver.

We don’t expect you to be an SEO guru but we expect you to understand the difference between SEO and SEM. We’d expect you to understand social media. We’d also expect you to have a special skill (not like Sean’s talent for Lawn Bowls) but something that you’d bring to the table from day one. That might be a gift for copy writing, google adwords, or design skills. While this is a senior role we expect everyone to have a role in getting the work done.

Key things we’re looking for;

• Ensuring high quality client relationships (within your portfolio – working with Group Account Director)
• Making recommendations that will grow our clients businesses
• Managing implementation of client projects
• Strong Computer Skills – we work on Mac’s (don’t worry if you’re a PC person you’ll be much sexier after the switch), photoshop skills a bonus.
• Digital/Social Skills – seo, adwords, copy writing a bonus.
• Experience – 2-5 years agency experience necessary. University Degree preferred
• Monthly reporting and analysis on client success

So if you’re game for a change and want to work in a dynamic exciting growing environment get in touch. The full job ad is here on Seek…

We need a Junior Developer!

June 8, 2011 by Ben Young

We are looking for a shit hot junior developer to join our digital marketing agency.

Do you read TechCrunch? Love learning new languages? Get agile development? Keen to work in a startup style environment?

We need a junior developer to help us to plan, specify & build ideas like Facebook Apps, Websites, Ecommerce, Web Apps.  We have regular ongoing website builds, ecommerce work, bread & butter style work.  We also need you to help us drive our internal product development, we can’t say in public but this is a great opportunity to do world leading technology builds.

What we’re looking for:

• Digital Evangelists – you just love the online world and what it can do for business
• Demonstrated going above & beyond in the past (side projects, apps etc).
• Diverse skillset - need experience in WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP and great to have IOS, Python, Ruby on Rails, Magento, Photoshop.
• Driven by strategy & business results
• Ambitious
• Curious
• Love to learn
• Willing to pitch ideas & brainstorming
• A good writer

The digital world moves so fast, we need you to be armed with the right skillset to move with it, if you don’t know something we want you to learn it.

There aren’t many development jobs in New Zealand that will give you the same opportunities.  15-20% of your time will be allocated to our internal product development which we want you to take ownership of.  We are Mac people, you will be provided with a brand new MacBook Pro to get stuck in.

If the above sounds like you get in touch to kick off the process and show us what you’ve got.