Nameless are expanding!

Nameless are looking for interesting people to join our team, if you match any of the profiles below find out what it's like to work with us and then get in touch. If you are a fan of the Status Quo then be prepared to justify yourself, we also take our coffee pretty seriously.

Art Director

Are you full of ideas? A talented designer in your own right, and an art director who isn't afraid of getting their hands dirty? We're looking for someone with talent and integrity to lead our design team. Someone who can direct not dictate, give their team room to grow and develop whilst ensuring that quality and service to the client isn't compromised.

This position will see the Art Director working flexibly throughout the creative process, from visualising through to producing finished creative executions and managing the output from the design team as appropriate.

You'll have solid integrated experience with strengths on and offline, fully evidenced in your work both for clients and yourself. You'll understand UX and have signficant commercial experience.

If you're looking for a role that uses and challenges your creativity then put crayon to paper. We want to hear from you.

Drupal-Ninja (middleweight to senior developer)

Calling Drupally digital technology creatives with a passion for leading successful, innovative projects!

You see, it's all about precision. Because the difference between a techie and an engineer is the pride an engineer takes in the detail of a digital project. Good techies will take a brief and deliver it to the letter. Great engineers take a brief and work out how to do it better. Making this distinction is part of why we do things so well at Nameless.

We're looking for someone to join our digital team to be a part of that creative process. We have a position available for a team-playing creative with a broad range of technical interests (from progress enhancement to MVC), experience (cutting code, leading teams, digital strategy) and, above all, a passion for pushing the web forward.

You'll be full of ideas, as sharp as a pointy thing and as focused as Bill Oddie on a birdwatching spree. You'll have a knack for articulating those ideas too - able to inspire others to turn them into a reality. And you'll come with bags of initiative, to get off your arse and make things happen beyond your job description.

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you.

Techno-Jedi (Head of Technology)

Thanks to some fantastic developments in the House of Nameless, we're now recruiting for a Head of Technology, someone who is not a stranger to innovation.

This is as much about developing new and fantastic ways to interact online as it is about delivering client projects with a solid, robust technical solution with a real understanding of UX under the bonnet. Unlike your average HoT roles (hot rolls? mmm), we've moved to a more agile structure that enables you to mentor and nurture your development team without having to get embroiled with every project going.

You'll instead be given time to help develop our products and in-house technologies which currently include Drupal and Magento, and guide the strategy that will dictate where we go with those technologies into the future. We're constantly evolving our creative processes to squeeze the freshest creative juices we can muster into our work and you'll be right in the thick of it.

You'll be a strong developer in your own right, being fluent in Drupal and preferably also Magento (LAMP, WAMP). You'll be the kind of guy or gal that embraces change. You'll also need outstanding client-facing skills so that you can explain how all that innovation will help them to hit their business objectives. You'll have a seat on the strategy board and also your own client projects to develop for as part of a multidisciplinary team. You'll be responsible for making sure that the technical output of the company is at the highest level of quality and you'll be so passionate about the technology and the medium that you'll be able to teach us a thing or two. Or three.

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you.

Special message to recruitment agencies

Over the years we've been bombarded with calls from recruitment agencies. So, for the record it's worth saying that WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES! If for any reason the worm turns and you want us to bear you in mind, write ONE email to procurement@nameless.co.uk with a relevant subject title. If we get phonecalls following that email, we'll put you on our recruitment agency bad karma list (and you really don't want that to happen!).

What it's like to work with us

Nine good reasons to work for nameless

You're reading this section because you're not just looking to be paid for what you do - you actually want to stop dreading getting out of bed in the morning. We don't want to disappoint you so here's a brief breakdown of why you really want to work with us:

  • We're all exceptionally good looking and those of us who are single are very approachable
  • We have a chocolate fountain in the middle of our building (it tastes delicious but is totally fat free)
  • We have a real live monkey as a company pet which can make coffee or massage your shoulders in exchange for (literally) peanuts (already provided)
  • Breakfast is included (from continental to full English - pre-order necessary)
  • We have a sauna, a hot tub and a full recording studio in our basement
  • The toilets all have pot pourri and the expensive hand moisturisers you usually get in posh restaurants
  • We have a roof terrace and we use it for our regular Pimms parties and barbeques
  • We provide beer and/or vodka on tap right to your desk. It's genetically modified to give you the happies and simultaneously inspire award-winning, totally fulfilling creative work.
  • You'll become instantly more attractive to the opposite sex, or the same sex if you prefer

So what do you think? Impressed yet?

Ok so you're not buying it. Pity. All of the above are in our five year business plan (!) but perhaps you'd rather some reasons grounded in reality to keep you going?

Smells like team spirit

Being a small company, we run a tight ship with a close-knit team. Maybe we don't all look like super-models but we're pretty good to work with (and it's personality that counts, right?). Sometimes deadlines get a bit fraught but we're office-politics-free and we go to the pub together pretty regularly, with no pressure to do so (the rounds are cheaper that way!). We work hard but we play hard too, and we usually celebrate the start and end of every project with champagne (although we're dabbling with Prosecco, which tastes much nicer).

Location location location

With our HQ in the centre of Bristol it means that using public transport or your own two feet to get to work is dead easy. We're in the old part of town near some historical buildings and some brilliant places to eat (we've got a whole article in our blog about good places for lunch in Bristol). We're a ten minute walk from our main railway station Temple Meads (or fifteen minutes if you're walking in uncomfortable shoes) and if you have a bike you'll be pleased to know that we have in-house parking so it will be nice and safe.

The added advantage to being really central is the proximity to the harbourside. There are boats and everything!

Our coffee beans

A good creative environment thrives or dies by the quality of its coffee (yeah, ok, amongst other things :-) ). We don't just mean the taste - we also mean how it's sourced. We've chosen to buy caffeine fixes from an incredibly ethical local dealer called Frank, whose suppliers are all fairer-than-fairly paid for their rather excellent coffee beans. Frank roasts these beans with love and care and attention every two days to ensure that it is tasted at its best. We like Frank - he runs Two Day on St Michaels Hill, he'll deliver if you order frequently enough and we think that he deserves to do very well in the world.

This week our coffee is mostly Buf - 100% Red Bourban from Rwanda.

So you wanna be in our gang…

There's nothing like experiencing the real thing but you could always chat to some of our people to find out what they think. They proof-read this page so the only porkies left on it are the funny and/or cheesy ones. If you like what you see and what you hear, drop us a line. In the words of the late, great Roy Castle:

"if you wanna be the best, if you wanna beat the rest, an application's what you need…".