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I’m excited to introduce Ray Krueger, the latest hire to our engineering team. Ray joins Interactive Mediums from Trustwave where helped lead the architecture and development of new payment card industry compliance products. Prior to Trustwave, Ray was a Technical Lead at Orbitz Worldwide where he built an extensible web services platform for 3rd party travel sites such as Kayak.com to shop Orbitz inventory.

We’re all very excited to have Ray join the team and dive into data. He’ll be working on an iPhone app for the next 4-6 weeks and then digging in.

We’re looking for someone to join our team and lead up all things marketing. A writeup of the job responsibilities, requirements and benefits can be found below – if you are interested or know anyone that fits the bill please visit http://interactivemediums.com/jobs to apply.

Marketing Director – Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Formulate unique market positioning, brand messaging, and elevate company profile and exposure
• Drive market research and competitive analysis; perform target market analysis and develop marketing strategies for aggressive target penetration
• Direct media relations and manage PR strategy
• Manage copywriting / content development (online copy, user documentation, media kits, whitepapers, collateral, press releases, case studies, presentations, blog posts, customer communications)
• Coordinate with creative resources to develop effective online and print marketing campaigns to support sales / awareness efforts.
• Manage redesign of corporate website (interactivemediums.com) and continuous iteration
• Manage TextMe (textme.net) product marketing efforts
• Manage SEO / SEM
• Lead creative client services practice and assist with ideation/program development

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience driving research, competitive analysis, launching new products, building brands, and developing growth strategies
• 3+ years of agency experience required
• Ability to complete project tasks individually or delegate /coordinate with internal or external creative resources when appropriate.
• Knowledge in creating national marketing plans, executing integrated campaigns and managing external / internal communications with press, analysts, employees, and customers
• Clear knowledge of the principles of integrated marketing and communications
• Creative thinker and problem solver
• Demonstrated responsibility, follow-through and ability to generate results
• Strong analytic, strategic, and business reasoning abilities
• Entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, collaborative professional
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be equally comfortable with identifying high ROI marketing projects and strategies as they are in personally performing the tasks necessary to complete projects.
• Marketing experience for companies providing technology enabled services and web software products.
• Experience in the following a plus (direct marketing, digital marketing, mobile marketing, brand promotions, CRM solutions, software as a service, technology / online products)

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing related field required. Masters degree preferred.

Perks:

• Medical and dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Transit pre-tax enrollment
• Flexible vacation policy

UPDATE: As of 7/22/2009 this position has been filled

We’re please to announce that Tim Lloyd has joined has joined Interactive Mediums as the Director of Sales. Tim comes to us with over 15 years of sales and marketing experience and has been successful in helping to build and grow high-tech start-ups. Outside of work Tim loves to travel, is an avid music fan, and a don’t-train-as-much-as-he-should triathlon hack.

And that makes a total of two blog posts in one month :)

Lots of exciting news for Interactive Mediums in Q1:

• In January we started working on our first iPhone application for a client, and that will be provisioned in the app store in beginning of the summer (more on this app when it’s ready). We’ve got a couple more applications in the pipe, and would love to take on more.
• Also in January, we hired John Wood as Lead Engineer
• In March (actually last week), we released a redesign of TextMe. We’ve rolled out a whole new look and feel which we’re super excited about. We’ve gotten a ton of great feedback from customers and we’ve been making tweaks every day.

Over the next few months we’ll be working on new features for TextMe, more iPhone apps, our first BlackBerry app and looking to partner with companies who offer solutions for which it doesn’t make sense for us to tackle.

Lots and lots of exciting mobile stuff happening right now. If you’re reading this and we can help you with anything, please send a note to hello@interactivemediums.com.

It’s my pleasure to welcome John Wood to the team as Lead Engineer. John most recently worked at Orbitz as a Technical Lead responsible for the technical direction of the air service layer (in short, he knows a ton about searching and booking flights). Prior to that John was a Software Engineer at Motorola, developing a high availability platform for call processing applications. In addition to his technical kung-fu, he’s also a karate instructor. John has been cranking away at new features since he started, including the ability to override messages for specific carriers.

It’s a big day of news for Interactive Mediums.

First off, welcome to Doug Barth. Doug is joining the Interactive Mediums team as Lead Architect. Previously, Doug worked for Orbitz Worldwide, where he helped build out Orbitz’s complex event processing framework, recently highlighted at JavaOne. We are super excited to have Doug join the team.

Secondly, we’re blogging. It’s silly that it’s taken us this long to fire this up, but we’re here now and we’re excited to start posting about some of the things we’re working on, and things that we find interesting.