Hello world! Sandstorm Design is starting the year off right and our Chicago office is hiring! Our ideal candidate is a senior level interactive web developer with flash, flex, php, jquery, ajax, and database skills. After you have all that, we want to hear about what else you have up your sleeve? Do you dabble in facebook applications? Mobile apps? Are you interested in what Adobe is doing with Cold Fusion? Or do you prefer to edit video in your spare time?

At Sandstorm, you have the job you are hired for, and then you have your X factor.Whatever your X factor is, we want to hear about it! The senior interactive web developer we are looking for must be brilliant, innovative and fearless. I know it may seem like we’re asking for the world, but we’re asking the world to find us our senior developer.

Interested in applying? Contact us and send us your resume, sample urls, and your X factor.

Are you an overachiever? Sandstorm Design is hiring! Our interactive agency in Chicago is seeking a part-time Interactive Copywriter to join our team with an entrepreneurial spirit :) We want to hear from you!

Candidates must have a minimum of 2 years of Interactive Copywriting experience in an agency environment, with a heavy background in SEO copywriting. We are looking specifically for web sites, articles, press releases, e-newsletters, and blog entries that really capture the personality of the client you were doing the copywriting for. (We don’t need you to have any CSS or html skills as we have a web development team on staff.) If you have link building experience, that’s a plus!

Our dream candidate for this job is a quick and sharp copywriter, with exceptional writing skills and attention to detail who understands SEO and internet marketing. A copywriter who is ambitious, driven and a self-starter to come up with your own ideas, conduct your own marketing research, and be comfortable researching new SEO opportunities. Your deadlines will be your responsibility in our fast-paced environment.

To apply for this copywriting job, please submit resume, hourly rate, writing samples/urls and hours you are available to jobs@sandstormdesign.com. Resumes without interactive copywriting samples will not be considered. Please NO phone calls. If you have any questions, please comment to this post and we will respond for all to see.

We are starting 2010 with a bang by being featured in the business section of today’s Chicago Tribune. The article, “Small Businesses See Good Omens for 2010,” talks to small business owners anticipating new opportunities and significant growth in the coming year. In addition to a few key quotes, the Tribune also took a photo of us in the office during construction. I love that during this “economic time,” the news is printing stories of hope, optimism, and growth. And I am honored to be a part of that story. Thank you Ann Meyer for such a great article!

It was a fun morning waking up to a series of emails from friends and family that had seen the paper before I did. And the best phone call was from my grandparents (ages 87 and 88) who not only had a copy for themselves, but asked all their neighbors for theirs so now they have a collection of their “famous granddaughter.” I have an incredible family, and am so grateful that my grandparents have not only seen the birth of my two children, but the growth of Sandstorm as well. My grandma asked me today what we do at Sandstorm, so I explained that we build web sites and interactive web applications, then gave her an example of what an interactive web application is. After a few silent moments, she finally said “so you work on computers?”