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Come Join the Giant Bomb Design Team

Dave's going on vacation for a bit, so Alexis is gonna need some help.

Think you could have designed and coded the CSS for the new giantbomb.com? Then I might have a job for you.

Jeff said I had to put a picture of myself here so I am just gonna use this one created by buzz_clik
Jeff said I had to put a picture of myself here so I am just gonna use this one created by buzz_clik

I'm looking for a Senior Technical Designer with strong creative skills and proven experience building websites using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The candidate will be joining a small front-end design team that creates, designs, and then actively codes those designs into working pages. You'll be working on all the CBSi Games sites including Giant Bomb, Comic Vine, GameFAQs, and GameSpot.

The responsive nature of Giant Bomb uses some advanced CSS methods including media query breakpoints, multiple mobile device support, HTML5 video skinning, font icons, sass functions/variables, :before:after content, and retina support. A good understanding of these techniques are of paramount importance.

And although I can't require you to win a Mortal Kombat Scrub League or play Halo for 24 hours to raise money for the kids, a love of gaming would be nice.

Must Haves

  • Great Photoshop Skills
  • Advanced HTML and CSS coding skills with a strong emphasis towards responsive and multiple device development.
  • Portfolio with live examples. Dribbble.com and github.com accounts are a plus.
  • Experience working in a templating system like Django, Jinga, Smarty, Twig, Mustache, etc.

Nice to have

  • Experience with css precompilers such as Sass/Compass or LESS.
  • Javascript skills for use in prototyping.
  • Familiarity with Git or other source code version control system.

If you're interested, apply at the CBS jobs site here.

This position has been filled. More details coming soon. Thanks for all the interest. <>

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cheweqfp

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@ben_h: Who is the they in this statement? The end of what? This is some morbid stuff here. Having a kid changes everything. They don't shoot you in the delivery room.

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I said this on the last job posting but I am extremely disappointed that the Giant Bomb staff do not have a resident archaeologist. Don't worry, I'll take the job. Every video game website needs an archaeologist. I think it's law or something.

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I don't even know what most of the requirements mean... damn. I'm doing nothing productive with my life.

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I built an angel fire website once so that basically makes me an expert on web design right?

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@sooty said:

Dave is going on a vacation, one of those Soprano's vacations.

It was nice knowing you Dave.

Well people say having kids is the beginning of the end, so this isn't actually that far off.

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I won't lie. I wish my web design skill set was even remotely as advanced as anything Giant Bomb does, because in comparison for the work I currently do with the web, it's not even remotely close (although I mostly sit on the marketing side of things).

Aw, but if you meet all the listed requirements, why not just try (if you really do want to work for GB)?

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Dave is going on a vacation, one of those Soprano's vacations.

It was nice knowing you Dave.

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I won't lie. I wish my web design skill set was even remotely as advanced as anything Giant Bomb does, because in comparison for the work I currently do with the web, it's not even remotely close.

Although I mostly sit on the marketing side of things, so pretty much nobody wants to hear me drone on about web usability and metrics-driven this, or metrics-driven that.

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If you want to work for Giant Bomb, you better be damn good.

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NO ONE CAN REPLACE DAVE!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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@huss said:

But what sort of GeoCities experience would a person need for such a job? Also, I have some sweet under construction gifs for when you guys are working on the site (or just all the time).

Sorry, Tripod alumni only.

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I'll do it just give me the next three and a half years to get ready.

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This is pretty cool. I'm looking to be a web developer rather than a designer, but obviously I have to know HTML and CSS as well. Seeing stuff like this here is pretty exciting.

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But what sort of GeoCities experience would a person need for such a job? Also, I have some sweet under construction gifs for when you guys are working on the site (or just all the time).

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ok how about instead of a designer you hire a regular ol IT/win server guy from Vancouver who has no green card but could really add to your team dynamic?!

eh??

ehhh????????

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@snide: Hey man you robbed me of First Post achievement... oh... wait...

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Aww. You want someone good.

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This guy can't even lay out an article. Put that thing up top. Sheesh.