Mahalo.com Needs A Designer!!!

Mahalo.com, Inc. is a new human-powered social search service backed by Sequoia Capital (the world's #1 venture firm), Newscorp, CBS, Elon Musk (Paypal founder), Mark Cuban and others. This kind of opportunity is **extremely rare** in LA: these high-profile rewards are usually found only in Silicon Valley.

We are looking for a Designer who can create clean, innovative, tasteful, lightweight designs. We need a fulltime, in-house designer to define the look and feel of many upcoming enhancements to the Mahalo.com website.

You should 'get' Web 2.0 -- Facebook, Twitter, etc. You understand user interface design for the Net. Of course, you should be artistic and blow us away with your graphics. We're looking for someone whose aesthetic sensibility is similar to this: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/

Rudimentary CSS / HTML knowledge required (you should be able to create a skeleton of your design -- but don't worry: we have developers who will program the javascript, database calls, etc.)

What we're NOT looking for: monster flash splash screens, screens that fade in and out, tons of animation, print or television-style graphics.

If you're world-class Designer looking for a very visible position in a world-class Web 2.0 company, then we're looking for you. Please send us a RESUME + PORTFOLIO asap to Mark (at) Mahalo.com.

NO OFFSHORE!  NO RECRUITERS! 

Comments

[Paul Salzman]

I know a great designer who freelances right there in Santa Monica. His name is Sam Crawford. Write me back for more info. He's quite brilliant.

[Nancy Jo Wright]

I am an artist. I have drawn and painted all of my life. In the 60's, I painted murals in and around Washington D.C. I also designed and painted two antique bandwagons... money from the first one gave me the downpayment for a baby grand piano that I bought from that antique place on Lee Highway in Fairfax VA. The second bandwagon was painted in a log cabin where I was living... and it ended up on display at the Smithsonian. In the 70's I was basically staying home with my children. In the 80's, I was doing other kinds of work, which I had also done earlier. I've worked often as admin.assistant to presidents, para legal, legal secretary, etc. I will send my resume as soon as I see an email address to send it to. In 1988, I opened my own stained glass window business (Valley Windows Incorporated). I probably have hundreds of stained glass windows, designed, created, built by me, or by my employees under my direction. I have a talent for taking in information (like a customer's request) and the answers just come out thru my drawing/sketching immediately, without consciously going thru any thinking processes. I had to close my business to the general public in 2006, because I got my neck injured in an unrelated exploratory surgery. I lost three and a half inches in my height, immediately, and I now have pain daily... to the point that, even tho I still have my shop set up in two buildings behind where my business was last located, I have not been able to finish 3 large stained glass projects, and a number of smaller ones, because I have not been able to stand on my feet and reach out and down to draw, create, cut glass, build my projects. I kept thinking I would get better soon, but it has not happened yet. So I have been sending out resume's for the past couple of months... with only two answers coming back in... mainly because it is easy to see I have just turned 65. However!... when I got moved out of the main building where I have had my business for the last 10 or 12 years, my daughter in law asked me to paint a mural on the front of the building for her, to draw attention to her antique business... in doing so, the young people that I sketched out, moving across the spaces that the mural now occupies, are the very same young people that I used to paint on children's furniture and antique band wagons in the D.C. area! How surprised I was to see them again, just coming naturally out of my mind! People walking down the street, driving down the street, all kinds of people ... would stop and tell me how beautiful the mural was... I have a very special feeling for Hawaii and have been drawn to this Mahalo name, in wanting to open my own blog. And in reading what you want ... a designer to give an overall feel to this website ... I immediately thought of my people who have been with me for many years... they could be throughout what ever it is you need to have illustrated. They are beautiful, flowing, colorful... they cause people to stop and ask about them. What do you think?