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About Us > Careers
Why would anyone want to work here?
Happy employees make happy clients – at Zone 5, what seems to be cliché is actually true. The satisfied employee exudes confidence and excitement about new challenges and strives to make the client a satisfied (and a returning) one.
Zone 5 was built on the concept of employee empowerment. Hire employees and create a client-centric culture. Replace processes and forms with accountability. Make no mistake, we’re professionals. But we haven’t lost our sense of fun along the way. You can tell the minute you step foot inside our office.
We believe that talent defies gravity at Zone 5. It’s talent that is responsible for our growth and it’s the talented individuals at Zone 5 that will continue to rise within the company. We reward talent. We nurture talent. We encourage talent. Slackers beware.
Who we are
Zone 5 is a marketing communications and design firm offering design services for Web, print and trade shows along with complete in-house production. At Zone 5 we help create a comfortable and positive experience for the client by the way we approach a project. We work in small teams and interact with the client as much as possible. The advantage is that all parties involved with the project are accessible to the client. This leaves less to be “lost in the translation.” A strong advantage Zone 5 possesses is that each member of our staff is skilled in multiple aspects of the communications industry. This redundancy of skill sets allows our designers to work more intimately with our clients and often manage the entire procedure.
Business Development strategies are specifically built around our employees' interest areas. If we can land clients that our employees want to work for, then we create a place where people actually look forward to Monday mornings. Everybody wins.
A Collaborative Culture
This positive employee interaction goes beyond what the client sees. The open sharing of ideas and techniques is a regular occurrence at Zone 5. Pride and egos don’t get in the way of learning how a program works or what line of copy may work better. Zone 5 is a place where everyone can contribute, not just the senior person in the room. Great ideas can come from anyone. In any department. Creativity is not just for the creatives.
A Creative Culture
Celebrate creativity. We informally gather over each other’s shoulders. We’re more likely to spread creativity than gossip. To gather around the drawing board, rather than the water cooler.
The social environment of Zone 5 is that of a small family. Even though the company has seen rapid employee growth in recent years, the office still eats lunch together as a group every Wednesday. And a shared CD jukebox of employees’ own collections allows each employee to play the music of their choice at their own workstations.
A Technological Culture
One of our strongest selling points is how we stay on top of ever changing technologies. Coming from a prepress background, we are consistently on top of the latest software being used in the market. The development of software for our work with Web and new media projects keeps us at the forefront of interactive media technology. And by housing complete printing, large format and trade show production in-house, Zone 5 can stay in front of the curve. This “technology-current” goal makes employees more productive, better production leads to a quicker turnaround on projects and a better final product – creatively, technically and financially.
The Result?
93% Employee retention since 1989.
30% Average annual growth since 1996.
2004 and 2005 recipient of the "Great Places to Work Award" by The Business Review.
No nervous breakdowns. No screaming matches. Just old-fashioned hard work, cutting edge technology and a lot of fun along the way.
Interested?
We’re always on the lookout for talented people who share our passion and philosophy. Sound like you? Drop us a line at Paul.Fahey@zone5.com.