Web Designer, part-time

Nerve.com is looking for a skilled freelance web designer to work in our Manhattan office.

Responsibilities
- Formatting articles, galleries and creating graphics for the homepage and throughout the site.
- Creating ad campaigns, microsites and invites for Nerve and other companies.

Required skills
- HTML
- Basic CSS
- Photoshop
- Design and Typography
- Internet/Web Skills (FTP, server includes, etc.)
- Cross-browser compliant design
- A general disdain for drop shadows, glows (inner and outer), and fonts such as Curlz, Mistral and Papyrus.
- Mac and PC knowledge

Preferred skills
- CSS layout
- XHTML/XML
- Flash and Actionscript

The perks
- NSFW doesn't apply here.
- Espresso. Lots of it.
- A Pool Table.
- Access to exclusive Nerve parties.

Pay is negotiable depending on skill level.

Please contact mandalee@nerve.com as soon as possible with your resume and web portfolio.

Advertising Account Manager

Nerve Media, the award-winning online media company and publisher of Nerve.com and Babble.com (and a forthcoming populist green lifestyle site launching in October), is seeking a highly motivated Advertising Account Manager.

Position Description:
The Advertising Account Manager will report directly to the VP of Sales and will be responsible for contributing to Nerve Media’s advertising revenue by generating new sales leads and opportunities, developing new agency / client relationships, preparing and presenting proposals and closing business. This is a performance-focused environment and we reward great talent. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced sales person with the abilities to further develop and help grow our sales revenue. They will have a strong understanding of the Nerve Media brand and its two publications (Nerve and Babble), readerships, and advertising market and they will be well connected within the advertising industry.

Requirements:
- A minimum of 2 years of advertising sales experience (print or online, preferably online)
- Preexisting relationships with media buying agencies and clients
- Complete understanding of and confidence in handling RFP’s, creating marketing materials, making sales calls and presentations and analyzing traffic and inventory
- Strong communication, management and interpersonal skills
- Highly organized, proactive, results-driven, responsible and gets along easily with others
- Proven success in initiating new sales relationships, building a solid client base and meeting and exceeding goals.

Compensation: Base salary: $60,000 to $95,000, depending on experience plus commissions and benefits. Target compensation: $150k+

Candidates must be proficient in Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point, RFP’s, media kits, and so on. Photoshop a plus.

Benefits: Bonuses, Dental, Health, Stock

Special Instructions:
Please email cover letter and resume to: salesposition@nerve.com

No phone calls please.

** This job is not for you if you have had no prior advertising sales experience**

Nerve Personals Blogger

Nerve is looking for exceptional writers with distinct and entertaining voices to blog about their Nerve Personals dating experiences. Your blog will be featured on nerve.com/blogalog with a potential readership in the millions.

If you're an active Nerve Personals user and want to share your dating life with our readers, please email blog@nerve.com with:

1. a cover letter telling us about yourself and your background
2. a recent photo
3. your Nerve Personals member name
4. a Microsoft Word document with at least two sample blog posts about your Nerve Personals dates and experiences (a total of 300-600 words).

NOTE: You must be over 18 and have an active Nerve Personals profile.

Not a Nerve Personals member?

Click here to become one.

Finalists will be contacted for interviews.
For all questions, please email: blog@nerve.com

Photo Intern

About the internship
As a Nerve photo intern, you will help with all aspects of editorial production for the online magazine: researching new talent, calling in books, editing and formatting images, organizing the archives and photo library, brainstorming future story ideas, and organizing shoots. The position is hands-on, and is a good entry to the photo editorial world.

Who we're looking for
College students and recent graduates who can work 2 full days a week in our Manhattan office. Applicants should be psyched about nerve.com, and our subject matter: we cover sex, relationships and culture- our original, edgy coverage of photography, film, books, TV and music receives half a million unique readers per month.

You're interesting in photo editing, and are plugged into the photo scene. Ideally, you're a photographer yourself. You're well rounded-- you can appreciate Vice and Suicide Girls, but you also hit the gallery scene.

Stipend
This is an unpaid internship.

How to apply
Email "photo[at]nerve.com" with the following documents:

• A cover letter describing yourself and what you would bring to Nerve’s photo department, and how a Nerve internship relates to your future goals. Please also include a link to your own photographic work, a list of your favorite photographers and name your favorite publications, photo and otherwise.
• A resume

Please send attachments in Word or Rich Text format.

Deadlines
Nerve is now accepting applications for Winter 2007

Editorial Interns

About the internship
As a Nerve intern, you'll have opportunities to write for the site and participate in editorial meetings. You'll also get a unique, behind-the-scenes look at how a web magazine comes together. And your friends will think you have the best job ever. Of course, you will also do your share of grunt-work: research, office organization, buying caffeinated beverages. But we promise to take you out drinking at least once.

Who we're looking for
College students and recent graduates who can work 2-3 full days a week in our Manhattan office for a minimum of four months. We want you to be into Nerve as well as the subjects we cover: sex, culture, music, film, art, journalism, and literature. If you're creative, self-motivated, and professional, all the better.

Stipend
$200-300 a month (depending on time commitment) and unlimited espresso.

How to apply
This is a very hands-on, involved internship, so we want to make sure you're a competent writer with an understanding of the site. Email "nicolea [at] nerve.com" with the following documents:

• A short review of a film, any film, you've recently seen
• One blog entry for either Scanner or Screengrab
• Two detailed story ideas for Nerve
• A resume
• A cover letter telling us why you're interested in a Nerve internship

Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please send attachments in Word or Rich Text format.

Deadlines
Nerve is now accepting applications for Fall 2008