We’re looking for a talented and highly motivated Digital Project Manager.

You’ll be up for the challenge of taking ownership of multiple projects from pitch to sign-off. You’ll serve as the point of contact for clients and will be very much hands-on with exceptional client and project management skills.

Projects are wide and varied, from large-scale content managed websites to iPhone apps.

Whatever they may be, you’ll be creatively and strategically involved from concept through to completion. As an ideas person you’ll be using your digital experience, working collaboratively with creative, technical, and IA talent both in-house and with our partners to ensure that everything is delivered on time and on budget.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, check out job spec.

Download the full job spec here.

If this position sounds like something you think is right up your street then please tweet 140 characters that will make us pick up the phone and call you @catch_digital. Or if you must, send your CV and covering letter to jobs@catchdigital.com.

No agencies. Yes we use them, no you can’t be on our PSL. We’re not looking to expand it.

We’re looking for a talented and highly motivated Junior Designer to join our team.

Creatively and strategically involved from concept through to completion, you’ll be an ideas-person with a talent for designing beautiful and functional websites and apps. You’ll add your experience to the design team, working collaboratively with our client services, technical and IA teams, both in-house and with our partners.

With the help of the team, the work you’ll produce will wow our clients, help increase their ROI, win plaudits around the world and bag us a whole clutch of industry awards. No pressure.

You can read the job spec here. If this position sounds like something you think is right up your street then please send your CV, portfolio and covering letter to jobs@catchdigital.com.

We’re looking for developers with great Drupal knowledge and the php/mySQL, XHTML/CSS skills to be a great all-rounder.

We have a couple development positions open:

• middleweight Drupal developer (full job spec here)
• junior graduate Drupal developer

We have developed Drupal sites for some of the UK’s (and the worlds!) largest companies including these recent ones:

www.primefocusworld.com (they worked on Avatar!)
www.iq-student-accommodation.co.uk (great fun on this project!)
www.steerdaviesgleave.com (multi language global site)
www.wates.co.uk (the UKs leading construction company)

We’re interviewing immediately, so please do get in touch on jobs@catchdigital.com with the following:

• this completed questionnaire, rating yourself out of 10 (for a whole host of technologies and other random things)
• salary expectation
• availability for interview
• availability for start

Basically, you’ll be doing open source web development with a heavy Drupal slant, work in a team with other creative/technical people and be able to make the role your own if you’re senior, or learn form the best if you are a junior.

Recruiters: We have an approved PSL. We do not discuss recruitment on the telephone with any agency not on our PSL. To be considered for our PSL you need to send over your details to the same email address as above, and WE’LL call you. Don’t call us. Sorry to be a pain, but you know how unscrupulous some of you can be. (Not you reading this, am sure you’re lovely).

No remote working.

RAR has compiled a list of the 50 independent digital agencies in the London area.

Agencies are rated across criteria including client service, creativity and value for money.

RAR’s system also measures key areas such as growth, gross profit and turnover per employee, key indicators in terms of profitability and efficiency.

Doing well in all the above, I am please to say we’ve snuck in at number 47 this year!

Grab next month’s edition of The Drum to see the list published in its entirety, or check it out now online.

Highly recommend getting yourself a copy of the excellent Photosynth app for your iPhone.

Clearly I am no professional (as you can see from the quick studio shot), but the speed at which it allows you to create a half-decent 360 panorama is impressive.

Check out how the pros use it at www.photosynth.net.

If you are heading to Grosvenor House next week for the Revolution Awards, stop by our table and say hi. We’re sponsoring the awards this year, touting our expertise as a digital production partner to adland.

As our advert says:
“We understand what it takes to partner with some of the UKs leading agencies that need specialist outsourced skills or additional resources. Adept at working on a white label basis, we bring our knowledge of open-source development and design skills for when you need a trusted partner that gets the job done.”

Hope to see you there, and if you’re a nominated agency (well done you), fingers crossed!

www.revolutionawards.com

With all the non-stop excitement of Drupal website development keeping the client services team at Catch busier than ever, the decision was made to bolster the team at Archer Street Studios in Soho.

So, here I am – your new Senior Producer! I come from a background working in all things digital and have a passion for helping businesses to maximise their digital output. I’ve produced digital solutions and campaigns, both online and offline and been lucky enough to work on some great projects over the years for the likes of Berkeley Homes & Caterham Cars, sometimes even getting my hands dirty with coding or design where appropriate.

Having worked in the agencies for the bulk of my career (most recently as Head of Digital at a full service marketing agency), I’ve got bags of experience in producing high-traffic, framework driven websites for businesses with a focus in the new homes, financial, construction and automotive markets.

I look forward to working with you.

Jon Hume

Make a fresh start in 2011 and befriend us on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr (if you haven’t already), and we’ll see you there!

It’s not often I get featured on the BBC News website (read: never), let alone in the company of Liz Hurley and Shane Warne.

However, today I have found myself and my future wife featuring as the 4th most popular story on the website today extolling the virtues of Social Media – specifically announcing my recent engagement to the world via Twitter, in an interview I gave yesterday.

Read the article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11986826

What a better way to celebrate the great year we’ve had by heading off to Madrid to celebrate Christmas in style. We had a cracking time, helped by leaving a freezing -2 degree London, and arriving in the Spanish capital to a sunny 17 degrees.

It all went by too quickly and the recovery from our 3 days of jamon eating and cerveza drinking is only just beginning!

Take a look on our Facebook page to see our photos.

With all of these new clients of ours, we thought it would be a good idea to add a few more members to the Catch team. As of Monday the 25th of October we’re happy to welcome two new people – Said and Anna – to each take a seat in our office at Archer Street Studios in Soho.

Said has a BA in software engineering from The University of Westminster, and comes to us from another well known London agency. Not only is this guy a very talented backend-developer, but he also holds a proficiency in Drupal – Catch’s favourite CMS. Said is now eager to learn more about frontend programming, and will be joining our development team.

Anna comes from a background in project management for system development, marketing and PR. Having previously studied at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm (where she comes from), she received her MA degree in interactive media from LCC, University of the Arts London, this September. Anna is joining us an intern on the Client Services team (she is also nominated for a BIMA at present… wow).

Welcome!

Are you a Web Developer with Drupal experience interested in a job that pays you to work with like-minded technical types on a vast range of web projects? Good! Read on…

You’ll have 4+ years’ solid (post-graduation) professional experience in building commercial sites and have enthusiasm and an aptitude for learning more. Perhaps you are a Middleweight Developer in a larger London digital agency with your eye on taking the next step up to lead a team?

Read the full job spec PDF by clicking here.

If this position sounds like something you think is right up your street then please tweet 140 characters that will make us pick up the phone and call you @catch_digital. Or if you must, send your CV and covering letter to jobs@catchdigital.com.

Recruitment agencies take note: if we’re not already working with you, we’re not interested.

Catch’s SEO specialist extraordinaire Danny is a multi-talented chap. Not only does he play in one of London’s most successful wedding bands at weekends, he has also just been signed up to JLA, the UK’s leading speaker bureau, as a speaker-for-hire on the subject of search engine optimisation.

JLA have a huge range of motivational speakers, after dinner speakers and presenters, of which we’re proud of Danny for being one.

Catch offers a comprehensive range of SEO services in order to help your business rank and convert through the use of conventional on/off page optimisation, and our slightly more off-piste tailored Social Media strategy.

Get in touch to see how we can help you get onto page 1 in Google.

We’re on the look-out for a supremely talented graduate keen to take up an internship in our Client Services department.

Don’t be fooled by the mug, you’ll certainly not be making tea 8 hours a day here at Catch. You’ll be expected to meet clients, help produce reports and brief the design and development team, among many other things.

Why not read the job spec here and see if this internship is for you?

We headed off to Bloomsbury Lanes for bowling, hot dogs, beer and free Whiskey(!) earlier this week. There were a variety of bowling styles on show, with Rory’s smooth efficiency, Matt’s through the legs backwards technique and Joanathan’s unrefined but deadly bullets (Yes, ‘Joanathan’, the staff down there might be lovely but they sure can’t spell).

With a game won each by Jonathan and Owen we moved on to left handers and spin bowls under the guidance of Rory, who claimed to be very knowledgeable on the subject.

All in all there seems to be plenty of talent just waiting to be tapped here at Catch, perhaps you will see us in a second appearance at the 2012 Olympics. We’re already dead certs for the Foosball following our Friday night post-work/pre-pub training sessions here in the office.

Katharina joined the team as a Producer in November, but we’ve only just convinced her she needs a proper introduction on our blog!

She brings with her a degree in media economics and various agency experience the world over from Europe to China, in sectors as diverse as Fashion, FMCG and Travel.

Hailing from Germany, she tries her best to prove that Germany has much more to offer than sausages, admiration for David Hasselhoff and efficiency.

Willkommen Katharina!

We need a Web Designer to join our team with a proven ability in user-centred design.

This job involves designing and building. So only apply if you are a fantastic designer that knows your way around XHTML and CSS!

Download the jobspec here.

Strictly no recruitment agencies.

The Catch team continues to grow as we welcome Dan Ashdown onto the creative development team.

With a background in graphic design, product design and web application development he fits right in with the rest of the multi-skilled, multi-talented team.

Originating from Bristol, Dan is a keen sailor and will soon be undertaking his day skipper qualification. Looks like we’ve found a good way for undertaking jaunts across the channel.

The final touches are being put in place at our new Soho studio. As you can see from the photo above our new studio is very nearly ready (read: it’s a building site and this photo was taken pre-sweaty builder invasion).

Our new address (from w/c 12th Oct) is:

Studio 5 & 6
10-11 Archer Street
London
W1D 7AZ

Our main telephone number will remain the same, 0207 494 3554.

We look forward to welcoming you soon.