RiverKey Creative

Associate Producer

Design firm seeks associate producer for growing video production department

RiverKey Creative, a Kansas City design firm, seeks the most energetic and well-organized go-getter we’ve ever seen to join our video production department as an associate producer.

Here are the kinds of things you would have been doing if you had been working in this job last month:

• Edited a client’s trade show video.
• Taken a stab at the first draft of a creative brief for a thirty-second TV commercial.
• Logged video footage of a mixed martial arts event.
• Written up a shot list based on a script for a five-minute corporate overview video.
• Found a voiceover artist for a radio commercial aimed at truckers on three hours’ notice.
• Eaten cake because it was your boss’s birthday.

Here are the skills and attitudes you’ll need to be hired:

• Edit video quickly and beautifully using either Avid Media Composer or Final Cut Pro, and be willing to learn the other.
• Work on set and on location doing everything from helping set up a camera to carrying grip equipment to keeping irate neighbors off the DP’s back so he can get the shot he needs before the sun goes down.
• Obsess over excellence in creative work.
• Communicate flawlessly in writing.
• Understand the Internet.
• Work hard.
• Live up to your promises every. single. time.

RiverKey Creative is a Kansas City design firm specializing in computer animation, video production, and interactive design. Our marquee clients include both local and national companies as well as a broad roster of dozens of professional sports teams in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League. We’re a company willing to give an inadvisable amount of leeway and responsibility to those who impress us.

To apply for this position, send us:

1. A statement about the skills you bring to the table. It could be a résumé, but it doesn’t have to be.
2. A concise statement about why we might want to hire you. It could be a cover letter, but don’t bore us.
3. A sample of something you’ve made, probably a link to your online reel or portfolio.
4. The written recommendation of a boss, co-worker, mentor, or teacher. We’ll throw your application away if you can’t find at least one other person to recommend you who isn’t your mom.

Send all that stuff in one (1) email to iwanttowork@riverkeycreative.com, and make the subject line something that won’t confuse our spam filters.

This is a salaried, full-time, exempt position. You’ll probably find the pay range we’ve got in mind attractive if you’ve got somewhere between one and three years of experience doing this kind of thing.

RiverKey Creative is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

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Flex Developer

Design firm seeks Flex developer for growing interactive department

RiverKey Creative, a Kansas City design firm, seeks a sharp, detail-obsessed code monkey to join our interactive department as a Flex developer.

Here are the kinds of things you would have been doing if you had been working in this job last month:

• Coded an Android app real estate developers will use to pre-sell condos before they’ve been built.
• Taken the first stab at a technical specification for the front end of an educational software product that plays video and games.
• Helped troubleshoot a malfunctioning interactive exhibit completely outside your core development expertise.
• Helped the web developers find the bugs in a deeply troubled Magento installation.
• Pushed a straw all the way through a potato.

Here are the skills and attitudes you’ll need to be hired:

• Write clean Flex code quickly and accurately for a variety of applications, often from sketchy or incomplete specs, often with very little QA support down the line from you.
• Have experience developing software intended for deployment on the web.
• Be comfortable talking to non-technical humans, and be able to ask the kinds of questions that will let you write the code they want, rather than the code they’re asking you for.
• Obsess over excellence in creative work.
• Communicate flawlessly in writing.
• Understand the Internet.
• Work hard.
• Live up to your promises every. single. time.

RiverKey Creative is a Kansas City design firm specializing in computer animation, video production, and interactive design. Our marquee clients include both local and national companies as well as a broad roster of dozens of professional sports teams in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League. We’re a company willing to give an inadvisable amount of leeway and responsibility to those who impress us.

To apply for this position, send us:

1. A statement about the skills you bring to the table. It could be a résumé, but it doesn’t have to be.
2. A concise statement about why we might want to hire you. It could be a cover letter, but don’t bore us.
3. A sample of something you’ve made, probably a link to your online reel or portfolio.
4. The written recommendation of a boss, co-worker, mentor, or teacher. We’ll throw your application away if you can’t find at least one other person to recommend you who isn’t your mom.

Send all that stuff in one (1) email to iwanttowork@riverkeycreative.com, and make the subject line something that won’t confuse our spam filters.

This is a salaried, full-time, exempt position. You’ll probably find the pay range we’ve got in mind attractive if you’ve got somewhere between one and three years of experience doing this kind of thing.

RiverKey Creative is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

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Senior Animator

Design firm seeks senior animator for growing animation department

RiverKey Creative, a Kansas City design firm, seeks an adept artist with flawless taste to join our animation department as a senior animator.

Here are the kinds of things you would have been doing if you had been working in this job last month:

• Created a three-dimensional logo animation for a brand new minor league baseball team.
• Modeled and rigged an anthropomorphic talking dog.
• Worked up sample style frames for the in-stadium opens of three different Major League Baseball teams.
• Teamed up with animators both senior to you and junior to you to come up with lots of compelling ideas for a new client.
• Eaten BBQ and had a beer for lunch on Friday.

Here are the skills and attitudes you’ll need to be hired:

• Create jaw-dropping models and environments using Cinema 4D and After Effects.
• Be able to easily generate great concepts and ideas, as well bring them to stunning life on screen.
• Be able to work directly with clients and other departments with minimal supervision by leading meetings, taking direction, and planning out next steps by yourself.
• Obsess over excellence in creative work.
• Communicate flawlessly in writing.
• Understand the Internet.
• Work hard.
• Live up to your promises every. single. time.

RiverKey Creative is a Kansas City design firm specializing in computer animation, video production, and interactive design. Our marquee clients include both local and national companies as well as a broad roster of dozens of professional sports teams in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League. We’re a company willing to give an inadvisable amount of leeway and responsibility to those who impress us.

To apply for this position, send us:

1. A statement about the skills you bring to the table. It could be a résumé, but it doesn’t have to be.
2. A concise statement about why we might want to hire you. It could be a cover letter, but don’t bore us.
3. A sample of something you’ve made, probably a link to your online reel or portfolio.
4. The written recommendation of a boss, co-worker, mentor, or teacher. We’ll throw your application away if you can’t find at least one other person to recommend you who isn’t your mom.

Send all that stuff in one (1) email to iwanttowork@riverkeycreative.com, and make the subject line something that won’t confuse our spam filters.

This is a salaried, full-time, exempt position. You’ll probably find the pay range we’ve got in mind attractive if you’ve got somewhere between one and three years of experience doing this kind of thing.

RiverKey Creative is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

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Interns

RiverKey Creative seeks interns eager to sharpen their skills at computer animation, motion graphics, audio production, video production, video editing, web design, web development, app development, marketing, and copywriting.

In addition to being the best in your class at one – or several – of those skills, you need a healthy interest in the others and you need all of the following:

• An honest interest in excelling at creative work,
• A willingness to work hard, and
• The recommendation of a professor, boss, teacher, mentor, or co-worker.

We’re willing to work with the requirements of the school where you’re studying. In fact, school credit is required. We don’t care whether you’re on quarters or semesters, what forms we have to fill out for your career services department, or whether you have to leave at 4:00 on Tuesday for a chemistry lab. We do care that you’ll commit to communicating proactively with your RKC mentor, that you’ll work to excel at the projects we give you, and that you’ll keep the promises you make. We’re willing to help set up a plan that helps you get what you want out of a creative internship as long as you’re willing to put in the work.

There’s no pay, and this isn’t charity for either of us: We’re looking for help making awesome stuff, and we’re looking to identify people we might like to hire in the long term to make RiverKey big and strong. We’ll ask you to commit to putting in 10–20 hours per week during your internship.

RiverKey Creative is a Kansas City design firm specializing in computer animation, video production, and interactive design. Our marquee clients include both local and national companies as well as a broad roster of dozens of professional sports teams in Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League. We’re a company willing to give an inadvisable amount of leeway and responsibility to those who impress us.

To apply for an internship at RiverKey, send us:

1. A statement about the skills you bring to the table. It could be a resume, but it doesn’t have to be.
2. A concise statement about what you hope to get out of an internship at RiverKey creative. It could be a cover letter, but don’t bore us.
3. A sample of something you’ve made. It could be a link to your online portfolio, but we’d love it if it were tasty cookies.

The written recommendation of a professor, boss, teacher, mentor, or co-worker. We’ll throw your application away if you can’t find at least one other person to recommend you who isn’t your mom.

Presentation counts. Spelling counts. Your personality and attitude count.

Send all that stuff in one (1) email to interns@riverkeycreative.com, and make the subject line something that won’t confuse our spam filters.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

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