Compensation: CA$38,400/yr – CA$60,000/yr

The ideal candidate possesses a passion for writing and an innovative ability to create successful marketing campaigns and aid in creating company growth. You will be responsible for generating exciting and compelling stories on both digital and print sources of media.

The goal of your role is to assist in defining and writing content, including online courses and related media, articles, and marketing copy/scripts to promote Say Yeah’s educational and accessibility-focused content and courses to learners and professionals. You’ll take time and care to research our users and the education and course development space to write engaging copy that compels our audience and learners.

Beneficial experience

• Marketing writing, including understanding writing for audience and tone of voice
• UX copywriting, including helping guide people through online interfaces
• Online course writing and knowledge of instructional design
• Multimedia scripting for informative or engaging video content

We don’t expect any one candidate to have strengths in all of these areas.

Responsibilities

• Create new content to assist marketing campaigns
• Work closely with marketing team members
• Optimize content using SEO best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or relevant work experience
• Experience in full life cycle project management
• Proficiency in major digital and print platforms

The details

What you’ll be doing

• Aid in developing online courses and related marketing content pieces.
• Collaborating with our product team to fully understand our products and their offerings to deliver great marketing copy about each product and to help walk people through the product interfaces.
• Researching our potential customers and understanding their needs to determine the best way to communicate with them.
• Executing any content updates as we continue to grow our products and our offerings!

What you bring to the table

• Content writing or marketing copy experience.
• You’re a great writer with an eye for detail, style, and engaging copy.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.
• Knowledge of education or accessibility is considered an asset.
• To meet current grant requirements: you have graduated within the last 2 years.

We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, including, but not limited to women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities (racialized), aboriginal (Indigenous) persons, and persons of any gender identity and sexual orientation. We are committed to a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture and workplace environment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities in our recruitment processes. Please advise if you require accommodation throughout the recruiting process.

Interested in joining our team to create inclusive educational courses and services?

Apply now with a resume and read the full job description at the link below.

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If you’re passionate about game play, game mechanics, game theory, sports, poker, first person shooters, beer and socializing, we want to hear from you. Well, only if you can design too. Say Yeah is hiring designers with Web, mobile and mobile app experience to support our gaming clients (console, PC and mobile) in their efforts to build a stronger, more rewarding relationship with their users, whether on Web or mobile devices, consoles, or elsewhere.

A little about Say Yeah!

Say Yeah, the app design agency, is a leader in aligning business needs with consumer expectations through exceptional and iterative design processes. By understanding consumer behaviour, we’re able to design applications that work for consumers, helping them reach their goals as efficiently and enjoyably as possible, all while driving action around defined business needs. Whether Web, mobile, or desktop, Say Yeah designs apps that help make your consumer’s work and play life simpler so they can focus on doing the things they love.

Position summary.

Say Yeah is seeking an experienced interaction designer to help us move from strategy to screens for a variety of Web and mobile app projects, with a particular focus on the gaming industry. You’ll be part of a user experience team which includes research, strategy and design capabilities, working directly with top development partners and our internal QA and usability testing team.

Responsibilities.

In addition to working with other interaction designers and user experience strategists, you will be working closely with product management and dev teams.

You’ll be expected to have a keen understanding of design standards, development considerations across a variety of Web and mobile platforms, and user expectations and behaviours, all focused on taking user experience and business strategy docs and realizing these in feature complete, lush screen designs.

This of course means you’ll be expected to sweat the small stuff to help make user’s lives easier and more enjoyable, without sacrificing functionality, budget and timelines.

In the end, you’ll be responsible for creating user interface designs, graphics, animations, icons, style sheets, color schemes, templates and layouts, while identifying common typeface standards and ensuring consistency on a project by project basis.

We expect you to be thoughtful, intelligent and objective in your approach to design and be willing to collaborate across disciplines, while ensuring concepts meet user needs and business goals.

Essential skills and qualifications.

The prerequisites below focus on our senior designer requirements, but we’d love to hear from some smart juniors who feel they can solve some of these problems.

• Graduate or post-graduate degree in a design related field such as; Interaction or Interface Design, Graphic Design, Multimedia, HCI, or the equivalent experience and training in an area directly relevant to this position.
• 3-5+ years experience as interaction designer with at least 1 year of experience developing handheld applications.
• Understand the importance of aligning business goals with user goals.
• A well structured and user centric design methodology.
• A keen understanding of design and communication tenets, including visual and written look and feel.
• A particular disdain for bad typography, Web and otherwise, and an unhealthy determination to define and stick to a grid, or break it in a fever of inspiration.
• An understanding of the capabilities of web browsers, mobile applications and user interactions and an interest in keep abreast of the latest capabilities.
• A passion for understanding game theory and game mechanics and helping users discover apps organically while rewarding them for their efforts.
• Ability to communicate design principles and rationale to non-designers, including clients and developers.
• Ability to build relationships across different disciplines and the ability to define success as a team effort, not individual pursuit.
• The desire to delight users across a variety industries and interactive media, while tackling a number of different projects on a weekly basis.
• An interest in making magical apps that can only come from solving difficult problems.

Additional assets.

Some more software specific capabilities and beneficial experience:

• Experience prototyping Web apps and handheld devices, including user testing and research.
• A familiarity with or experience working on agile development projects.
• Experience with software tools such as OmniGraffle, Visio, Balsamiq.
• Fluent in graphic/media design software, particularly Adobe Illustrator and OSX.

Work hard. Play hard.

We share an incredible office space with a fantastic development and product management shop in a wonderful downtown studio at Portland and Richmond in Toronto.

There’s beer in the fridge along with a kitchenette and private washroom within our space, and a vine covered back patio. We have room to play and share ideas, including an event space to collaborate in groups or one to one in ways that can challenge and inspire us, all while making sure there’s a dedicated space for you to focus on heads down work when you need to.

How to apply.

Please send an email to team@yousayyeah.com with a list of your accomplishments, portfolio and design interests.

We’re looking for:

1. An experienced Web and mobile app designer (with the prerequisites noted above.
2. A seasoned Web and mobile app designer, less experience, but equally diverse skill set, as noted above.
3. A junior Web and mobile app designer, capable of bringing creative insight to the table and not afraid of spending hours in Illustrator making vector magic.

If you feel you’ve got the chops, don’t hesitate to reach out. That said, we’re too busy to breathe right now so I’m afraid we can only get back to people we’ll be interviewing.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Things are happening at Say Yeah that are making the business development and creative director’s heads spin.

So much on the go, so many projects with so many emails to sift through, blog articles to write, and people to connect with.

If you’re the kind of person who has a passion for design and loves playing with apps, while slightly OCD about being organized, we want to hear from you.

Tasks we’d love for you to be keen to tackle:

1. Help keep project deadlines organized.
2. Help manage the flow of email for the biz dev dude.
3. Help stay on top of local events and other goings on.
4. Help stay in touch with new contacts, moving from business cards to connections.
5. Help define and execute a regular blog publishing schedule.

A few notes on responsibilities:

1. Great writing makes us giddy. If you have the chops, we’ll want to throw some topics and article outlines at you so you can help keep our corporate blog fresh.
2. We have lots of receipts floating around. We may ask you to input these into the dreaded Quickbooks accounting software. If we find this makes sense, it still won’t be more than a half day a week at most.
3. We’ll also walk you through some of our beta apps so you can help us make sure they’re working the way they should. This means you get to try great new apps before they’re released and help shape their design and function.

A few notes on experience and pay:

1. We’re looking for the right person, not a specific degree. If you feel you have what it takes to tackle some or all of the above, get in touch at team@yousayyeah.com.
2. Whether you’re an intern or someone more seasoned, we’ll be talking short term contract before we segue into a salary commensurate with experience. That way we all get to see how well we work together and see if we can find the right set of responsibilities.

How to apply:

Please send an email to team@yousayyeah.com with a list of your accomplishments, portfolio if you’re keen to show off your writing chops, design interests, twitter and a link to your personal blog if you’ve got one. We’ll be in touch from there.

Our office:

We share space with a few other vibrant startups in a wonderful downtown studio at Spadina and Richmond in Toronto. Some highlights of the neighbourhood: everything you’d ever need to do in Toronto is within walking distance. This includes tennis courts, basketball, stellar foodstuffs, shopping, the Blue Jays, a dog park, and much, much more. I suppose the beach is too far, but that’s about it.

There’s beer and sparkling water in the fridge (though it’s a little warm in there right now, but I’m pretty sure that’ll be fixed soon) along with a kitchenette and private washroom within our space.

We’re looking for someone to occupy the desk pictured above, but if you feel there’s a fit for you at Say Yeah from afar, let us know.

And hey, if you’re an interactive designer (Web or mobile), we’re always looking for great designers to join our team, so feel free to send your resume and portfolio too.

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