Unemployed locals question job outsourcing

[LBSkier]

As an avid skier and web designer, i've always been curious how ski areas handle their marketing. I know a lot of the large ski areas/corporations use Ad Agencies to build their sites. But what about Mammoth? Does it have it's own Marketing Dept? Does this Marketing department have a design group? Or is everything outsourced? I haven't done much research, but the only ski area I could find that hires a full-time web designer was Sierra at Tahoe. At least they did last year.

[brahm]

As an avid skier and web designer, i've always been curious how ski areas handle their marketing. I know a lot of the large ski areas/corporations use Ad Agencies to build their sites. But what about Mammoth? Does it have it's own Marketing Dept? Does this Marketing department have a design group? Or is everything outsourced? I haven't done much research, but the only ski area I could find that hires a full-time web designer was Sierra at Tahoe. At least they did last year.

Yes, the Mammoth Marketing Dept is in house. We have a web team, a graphics team, video team, ect. It's a fair sized dept. Currently we have an opening for a graphic designer. http://jobs.mammothmountain.com/career/index.cfm. While we do outsource some of our work a lot of it is to locals when qualified locals can be found.

[LBSkier]

As an avid skier and web designer, i've always been curious how ski areas handle their marketing. I know a lot of the large ski areas/corporations use Ad Agencies to build their sites. But what about Mammoth? Does it have it's own Marketing Dept? Does this Marketing department have a design group? Or is everything outsourced? I haven't done much research, but the only ski area I could find that hires a full-time web designer was Sierra at Tahoe. At least they did last year.

Yes, the Mammoth Marketing Dept is in house. We have a web team, a graphics team, video team, ect. It's a fair sized dept. Currently we have an opening for a graphic designer. http://jobs.mammothmountain.com/career/index.cfm. While we do outsource some of our work a lot of it is to locals when qualified locals can be found.

Oh! Very cool. So did your design team build mammothmountain.com?

[brahm]

As an avid skier and web designer, i've always been curious how ski areas handle their marketing. I know a lot of the large ski areas/corporations use Ad Agencies to build their sites. But what about Mammoth? Does it have it's own Marketing Dept? Does this Marketing department have a design group? Or is everything outsourced? I haven't done much research, but the only ski area I could find that hires a full-time web designer was Sierra at Tahoe. At least they did last year.

Yes, the Mammoth Marketing Dept is in house. We have a web team, a graphics team, video team, ect. It's a fair sized dept. Currently we have an opening for a graphic designer. http://jobs.mammothmountain.com/career/index.cfm. While we do outsource some of our work a lot of it is to locals when qualified locals can be found.

Oh! Very cool. So did your design team build mammothmountain.com?

We worked on it in conjunction with several firms.