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Here at Aspire we're always on the lookout for top talent to join our quickly growing company. With a growing number of exciting projects in the works, our creative team has immediate openings as they expand to design more cutting edge brand campaigns, innovative websites for early-stage companies, and other creative content to help our ventures reach consumers and investors. If you're a design wiz or gifted web developer, read on.

Serious inquiries may email careers@aspirevc.com or speak with our HR Administrator Renee Rahe at 717-925-8453.

 

Front-End Web Developer/Graphic Designer

Aspire Ventures, an Aspire Universal company, is a growing venture capital firm headquartered in Lancaster, PA, that incubates tech startups and develops cutting edge technologies with a global reach. The Aspire creative team is looking for an experienced Front-End Web Developer/Graphic Designer to design and produce front-end web content for Aspire's various startups and projects. Work and grow with an energetic, diverse team of graphic designers, motion graphic artists, marketing strategists, and copywriters in a fast-paced environment that never gets routine or boring. The Developer/Designer will assist the creative team to develop an impactful web presence as well as a creative vision for early stage companies and products.

At the Aspire Venture lab, team members work in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere where they can thrive to meet their fullest potential. Aspire offers competitive salaries and generous benefits packages that include health and retirement benefits, a very flexible vacation policy, and incentives that give employees a vested interest in each venture's success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Aspire's Creative Team Manager, Lead Production Artist, Marketing Director, EIR's, and Aspire Developers to understand project goals, scope, constraints, and motive
  • Develop, test, and launch front end web content requested by the Creative Team Manager, Marketing Director, and Aspire Ventures to fulfill project objectives
  • Craft attractive front end experiences utilizing advanced design principles, artistic skills, and personal inspiration
  • Availability for On-Call operation 24 hours after major Web/Application launch to correct critical errors
  • Ability to learn and apply new Development platforms, programming languages, paradigms to achieve project goals
  • Ensure the quality and accuracy of Aspire Creative Department produced assets
  • Participate in the design, art direction, and iterative refinement of Creative Team projects
  • Influence the continuous improvement of Aspire Creative Team's web development and artistic process with personal creative input and perspective

Requirements

  • Bachelor Degree (or equivalent expertise) in Front-End Web Development, Web Design
  • 2+ years of team based web production experience
  • Expert-level HTML
  • Expert-level CSS
  • Advanced-level Javascript
  • Advanced-level PHP
  • Experience with DOM manipulation & formulation
  • Experience with JQuery and Bootstrap
  • Ability to independently engineer solutions for front-end experiences
  • Advanced-level Experience in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (CC Preferred)
  • Excellent understanding of modern design standards and practices
  • Ability to wireframe, mockup, and design professional level page and site layouts
  • Excellent communications and organizational skills

Nice To Have

  • Experience with Angular.js
  • Experience with JSON, SQL, & general data storage practices
  • Experience with Apache server stack
 

Lead Production Artist

Aspire Ventures, an Aspire Universal company, is a growing venture capital firm headquartered in Lancaster, PA, that incubates tech startups and develops cutting edge technologies with a global reach. The Aspire creative team is looking for an experienced Lead Production Artist to assume team design and brand leadership while producing a wide variety of art production assets for Aspire's various startups and projects. Work and grow with an energetic, diverse team of graphic designers, motion graphic artists, marketing strategists, and copywriters in a fast-paced environment that never gets routine or boring. The Lead Production Artist will direct team design choices in establishing future Aspire brands and developing brand image for early stage companies and products as they move to maturity.

At the Aspire Venture lab, team members work in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere where they can thrive to meet their fullest potential. Aspire offers competitive salaries and generous benefits packages that include health and retirement benefits, a very flexible vacation policy, and incentives that give employees a vested interest in each venture's success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Aspire's Creative Team Manager, Marketing Director, and EIR's to understand project goals, scope, constraints, and motive.
  • Develop future brand designs and establish brand guidelines for Creative Team deployment
  • Assist in Creative Team project coordination and development
  • Assist in the process of hiring capable Creative Team employees to fulfill key production roles.
  • Ability to learn and apply new design software in order to achieve project goals.
  • Guide design, technique, and branding choices of Creative Team Production Artists
  • Produce media assets requested by Aspire Marketing and its Ventures to fulfil project objectives
  • Ensure quality and accuracy of Aspire Creative produced assets
  • Influence continuous improvement of Aspire Creative's design approach by identifying techniques and reference for artistic growth

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent expertise) in Design, Media, and Branding
  • 4+ years of team based production experience
  • Extensive experience in Adobe CC design suite products
  • Extensive experience in Brand development process
  • Experience in designing for Web
  • Comfortable with uncertainty and rapidly changing priorities
  • Excellent communications and organizational skills
  • Ability to work effectively as a member of a x-functional team
  • Ability to multi-task with a high attention to detail in a fast paced environment
  • Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, and influencing teams
  • Collaborative work style and the ability to work comfortably in small teams
 

Production Artist (Design, Flat Media)

Aspire Ventures, an Aspire Universal company, is a growing venture capital firm headquartered in Lancaster, PA, that incubates tech startups and develops cutting edge technologies with a global reach. The Aspire creative team is looking for an experienced Production Artist to produce a wide variety of art production assets for Aspire's various startups and projects. Work and grow with an energetic, diverse team of graphic designers, motion graphic artists, marketing strategists, and copywriters in a fast-paced environment that never gets routine or boring. The Production Artist will assist the creative team in shaping brand image by producing visual assets for early stage companies and products.

At the Aspire Venture lab, team members work in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere where they can thrive to meet their fullest potential. Aspire offers competitive salaries and generous benefits packages that include health and retirement benefits, a very flexible vacation policy, and incentives that give employees a vested interest in each venture's success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Aspire's Creative Team Manager, Lead Production Artist, Marketing Director, and EIR's to understand project goals, scope, constraints, and motive.
  • Produce media assets requested by the Creative Team Manager, Marketing Director, and Aspire Ventures to fulfill project objectives
  • Ability to learn and apply new design software in order to achieve project goals.
  • Ensure the quality and accuracy of Aspire Creative Department produced assets
  • Participate in the design, art direction, and iterative refinement of Creative Team projects
  • Influence the continuous improvement of Aspire Creative Team's art production with personal creative input and perspective

Requirements

  • Associate's Degree (or equivalent expertise) in Design, Media, and Branding
  • 2+ years of team based production experience
  • Extensive experience in Adobe CC design suite products
  • Expert level Adobe Illustrator CC
  • Expert level Adobe Photoshop CC
  • Experience in designing for Web
  • Comfortable with uncertainty and rapidly changing priorities
  • Excellent communications and organizational skills
  • Ability to work effectively as a member of a x-functional team
  • Ability to multi-task with a high attention to detail in a fast paced environment
  • Experience in maintaining objectives across quickly evolving projects.
  • Collaborative work style and the ability to work comfortably in small teams



Serious inquiries may email careers@aspirevc.com or speak with our HR Administrator Renee Rahe at 717-925-8453.