Rapt Media is a 2011 Techstars company and provides a cloud-based interactive video platform that enables enterprise companies and strategic solution providers to transform video content into response-provoking experiences. Our technology offers the ultimate in consumer control which drives deeper engagement, learning, and desired behaviors. Each interaction generates useful customer or product insights.

We are looking for a contractor with front-end development and UX design experience to work on specific project-based work for our website. We are looking for about 20 hours per month or five hours per week.  

Development qualifications:

• Front-end development experience

• Strong, proven HTML5 and CSS3 skills

• Basic understanding of CSS preprocessors such as LESS or SASS

• Basic understanding of front-end performance tuning, best practices and techniques

• Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them

• Basic understanding of SEO principles

• Ability to accurately translate design comps into well-structured HTML and CSS

• Proven responsive development skills

• Desire to create modular, reusable and maintainable code

Design qualifications:

• Basic understanding of grid systems, composition, typography, and color

• Proven attention to detail

• Strong conceptual and problem solving skills in order to see the larger picture and continually work toward that picture through even seemingly small or insignificant changes

• Experience with Adobe Create Suite. Sketch experience is a plus

Bonus:

• Git experience

• Basic command line experience

• Basic JavaScript skills (without jQuery) are strongly desired

The internet and social media have taken the business world by storm by changing the way consumers engage, make decisions and exhibit loyalty. Fragmented content consumption, constant distraction, and consumer control are the outcomes that have changed the rules of engagement. How do businesses drive the attention and desired behaviors of their target audiences (employees and consumers) in today’s noisy, cluttered online ecosystem? In order to compete, companies are searching for new tools and technologies that transform their communication strategies while providing the data and analytics that can prove ROI.                    

Rapt Media's cloud-based SaaS software powers video with interactivity and has been designed to help businesses overcome consumer and employee communication challenges. Getting target audiences to participate and interact drives deeper engagement and accelerated sales and learning cycles. With that interaction comes the ability to pull meaningful behavioral data and insights. Rapt Media transforms your video content into interactive and response-provoking content experiences, a catalyst for modernizing communication strategies.

Rapt Media customers includes a who’s who of leading brands, such as PWC, Accenture, Deloitte, Phillips, Maybelline, Allianz Global Investors and top employer brand agencies such as Havas People, Hodes, Symphony Talent among others. These customers have taken the step to successfully transform their employee and consumer communication strategies with our technology.                      

Rapt Media is headquartered in Boulder, the entrepreneurial, media tech startup haven in Colorado. The company is driven by a culture that rewards people who are driven to "disrupt." The leadership principles that are key to the company include: Openness, Honesty and Transparency, Obligation to Care, Come with Solutions, and Aim for Awesome.