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As a member of the Creative department you will influence changes in consumer behaviour through ideas, creativity and the use of interactive media. You will make a difference to digital communications, marketing, advertising and inspire the best global brands. You will bring exceptional creative thought to the Agency, delivering projects from brief to consumer in partnership with the Client, Technology and Creative teams

 

Key Responsibilities

 

• Deliver and inspire award-winning work from both yourself and others who work with you, influencing where appropriate a dramatic change through ideas, creativity and the use of interactive media.

 

• Consistently deliver high quality work on time.

 

• High level internal and external client satisfaction.

 

• High level of team satisfaction.

 

• Learn new skills and stay abreast of technical and digital design developments and successfully apply these to work

practices to help improve processes and procedures.

 

Skills and Experience

 

• Proven experience working as a Designer is required, including experience in web design.

 

• Experience working in a creative/agency environment is advantageous.

 

• Experience working with the latest versions of PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash and HTML.

 

• A degree in Design, Interaction Design, Visual Studies or other design-related field is preferred.

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An independent Marketing & Advertising Agency are looking for a talented Creative Artworker to work on site with their client, a travel company, based in Weybridge. The work will be largely digital banners and print collateral, so we’re looking for somebody with solid experience in this area and top skills in Adobe CC. It’s a lovely company to work with – nice environment, regular working hours and a lovely team.

Salary is £35k + benefits

If you’d like to apply, please send your CV & portfolio.

Freelance ASP.Net Developer 

(Full-Stack, ASP.Net)

Digital Magazine & Media Brand 

(Music, Fashion and Youth Culture)

Central London

Budget £400-£450 per day

3-6 Month Contract

We’re hiring a Senior Freelance Developer (ASP.Net, Full-Stack) for a contract role within a digital magazine and creative agency working with culturally iconic brands within the worlds of fashion, music, art and style.

As the Senior Freelance Developer (ASP.Net, Full-Stack), you will play an influential role in ensuring the modernisation of the digital offering. This digital transformation continues to upgrade and improve the digital publications, the creative agency offering and the content management systems used by internal teams across the suite of magazine brands.

TECH STACK:

• C# (Essential)
• ASP.NET, MVC (Essential)
• SQL server or similar (Essential)
• DVCS, Mercurial / Git (Essential)
• JavaScript, JS Frameworks / JQuery (Essential)
• Windows Azure / AWS (Essential)
• CMS Experience (Essential)
• TeamCity or similar build server (Beneficial)
• Powershell (Beneficial)
• TypeScript (Beneficial)
• Nhibernate (Beneficial)

Contact Danny Stewart at Redosfa London for more info and/or to apply for the position.

(Freelance Developer, Senior Developer, ASP.Net, MVC, Full Stack, JavaScript)

 

My client is looking for an Analytics Manager to setup and implement web tracking solutions. To provide analytics-based strategic insights and directions in the development of media & communications initiatives, and be a significant contributor to the team providing insights and recommendations.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Work closely with key leads across the organization to understand reporting needs, new product requirements and business opportunities.
Providing analytics, integrated marketing solutions to improve client decision-making
Tracking marketplace, technology, and consumer demographic trends within and across multiple industries
Analyze Web site behavior using Web analytics tools to determine areas of site improvement
Designing and conducting analysis, interpreting results and synthesizing recommendations.
Uphold best standards practice in terms of data cleanliness, data management and tracking across websites including the new in-house web team developing the new website modular system which will be used by all event properties.
Create simple dashboards that visualize data and provide insights in a simple way to all levels of management
Be pro-active in suggesting and scoping improvements to ways of working, connecting data sources and providing solutions to improve the business within your areas of expertise.
Proficient in rolling out tracking solutions (Experience with Adobe tech stack preferred but not essential)
Assist the paid media managers in identifying trends within the campaign by integrating channel data
Any other duties that are within the scope of the role that may be required

Key Areas

Significant but realistic improvements in website conversion
Streamlining of reporting to satisfy all levels of management
Well practiced implementation plan for website tracking, for rollout or site optimization
Lead the analytics resource in EMEA for the events division, be the go-to resource for analytics (web and campaign)
Integrated reporting with paid media that identifies actionable insight/trends within the campaign

 

Knowledge and Experience

Demonstrable/established experience in working in the Business Intelligence and analytics landscape.
Demonstrable experience of Digital Marketing, Online, Media or eCommerce.
Experience in using web analytics platforms and software packages such as Google Product Suite, Adobe Product Suite.
Some experience in analytics and reporting best practices (thorough understanding of standard analytics, report builder tools, and online analytics metric).
Knowledge of emerging trends and practices in customer intelligence and data warehouse fields.
Understanding of online advertising planning, buying and performance metrics is an advantage 3
Experience of working in an environment of Digital marketing, Online, Media or eCommerce experience.
Understanding of statistics, customer profiling and segmentations

Skills & Abilities (Personal and Professional)

Ability and willingness to delve into the details as well as manage and assist with projects/initiatives.
Ability to understanding of statistics, customer profiling and segmentations.
Understanding of online advertising planning, buying and performance metrics is a plus
Willingness to build relationships with events teams to be able to establish new and improved ways of working using data
Ability to build long-lasting working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Able to work within a team environment, feel comfortable being involved in all aspects of digital marketing
A strong team player that is flexible dependent on business demand.
Ability to self-direct and motivate and work with minimal supervision.
Proficiency in Tableau, Data Studio, PowerBI, and Datorama is advantageous
Strong working knowledge of MS Office packages, such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent time management skills, ability to work calmly under pressure whilst meeting deadlines.
Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritise.

 

All candidates must be able to live and work in the UK. No sponsorship for this role.

Lead Developer 

(Full-Stack, ASP.Net)

Digital Magazine & Media Brand 

(Music, Fashion and Youth Culture)

£60,000 to £70,000

Central London

We’re hiring a Lead Developer to join a digital magazine and creative agency working with culturally iconic brands within the worlds of fashion, music, art and style.

As the Lead Developer, you will play an influential role in ensuring the modernisation of the digital offering. This digital transformation continues to upgrade and improve the digital publications, the creative agency offering and the content management systems used by internal teams across the suite of magazine brands.

This role will hands-on with writing code and architecting systems. You’ll have autonomy with reviewing and improving development practices. It’s also a role that will give great exposure to creative ideation during concept stages with internal stakeholders and external clients.

TECH STACK:

• C# (Essential)

• ASP.NET, MVC (Essential)

• SQL server or similar (Essential)

• DVCS, Mercurial / Git (Essential)

• JavaScript, JS Frameworks / JQuery (Essential)

• Windows Azure / AWS (Essential)

• TeamCity or similar build server (Beneficial)

• Powershell (Beneficial)

• TypeScript (Beneficial)

• Nhibernate (Beneficial)

We’re looking for a lead developer with at least 5 years commercial software engineering experience and leadership skills. Any Unit Testing/TDD skills will be highly beneficial. CMS experience is essential.

This role will suit a software engineering professional with a breadth of technical and commercial skills, who seeks the opportunity to create a legacy by leading internal greenfield projects and delivering mouth watering external client campaigns.

Contact Danny Stewart at Redosfa London for more info and/or to apply for the position.

(Lead Developer, Senior Developer, ASP.Net, MVC, Full Stack, JavaScript)

WordPress Developer (Freelance)

 

Boutique Hotel Group – eCommerce Technology

City of London (Remote working within the UK)

 

We’re hiring a freelance WordPress Developer to start a short project next week.

 

The tasks will include reworking forms, add page navigation and other modules. It’s a collaborative role with the designers marked up in Invision/Sketch.

 

Key requirements:

– PHP

– HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

– QA / Testing

 

Budget: £250-£350

 

Please contact Danny Stewart at Redsofa for more info.

I am looking for a mid to senior-level Software Engineer who’s looking to join an exciting product team.

You’ll be collaborative by nature and will be happy defining new features and how they work. You’ll be able to scale a product and identify performance issues before they’ve occurred. You’ll also love taking a test-and-learn approach to development and will use insights to inform your decisions where appropriate.

They rely on the following tools and technologies

AWS for most of their infrastructure
Terraform for provisioning their infrastructure
Kafka for their asynchronous message queue
Go and Ruby to write their micro service application code
React for our frontend applications
Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run their micro services
AWS Lambda for serverless tasks
Postgres and MongoDB for their persistent data storage

 

REQUIREMENTS

You should apply if

You’re familiar with some of the above tools and technologies or specialise in just one area
You’re keen to learn more about new technologies
You want to help build scalable platform to support millions of people
You’re comfortable working with your own team and other departments
You’re interested in building microservices

Their Product team is growing fast, with some distinct areas of responsibility (user, customer, and platform). Reporting into the Head of Backend Engineering, you’ll work with other engineers and a product designer to build a product that changes HR forever.

Excellent benefits.

It would be an advantage to have links to any accounts on GitHub, BitBucket, etc and be able to talk through your code using a computer during the interview.

All candidates must be able to live and work in the UK. No sponsorship for this role.

I’m looking for a highly conceptual designer with excellent skills in, typography, branding and identity creation with some digital knowledge. You will be able interpret the creative brief and implement the creative vision across a broad range of projects ranging from place making, digital, social, print, environmental design. It is also imperative that your portfolio  showcases your work in the mentioned areas.
This agency works with some amazing brands and will give you the opportunity to build a career, they are looking for a Designer who has aspirations to grow with the agency.

.Net Developer (FullStack)

Advertising Agency (Charity Sector & Commercial Clients)

Central London

£30,000 to £50,000 

Flexible Working Hours & Work From Home Allowed 

We’re hiring a .Net Developer to join a mission-driven Advertising Agency to work on creative digital projects for clients including household charity brands and impressive commercial clients.

As the .Net Developer, you’ll be working within the digital team of 15 people with multi-disciplinary skills; Full Stack Developers, UX designers, UI designers and Project Managers.

The tech stack is predominantly C#.Net with Umbraco as the go-to framework, HTML5, CSS3 and Vanilla JavaScript. Modern JS frameworks Node.js and React are being used increasingly more often.

Due to the variation of the client projects, there will frequently be the opportunity to try new development languages and tech tools.

We would like to hear from you if you have the following:

• 2 to 5 years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Significant experience creating applications in .NET.
• Significant experience with a modern CMS solution.
• Good frontend development skills: HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Any experience of Umbraco is highly beneficial (the minimum requirement is to be keen to use Umbraco professionally).

This agency has all the exciting challenges that typically come with the advertising agency industry; the variation in projects, the creative thinking and fun problem to solve but because this agency serves the charity sector, the work can be extremely meaningful to those that get a sense of satisfaction from mission-driven contribution.

The culture is relaxed and many people within the organisation take advantage of the flexible hours and working from home days when needed.

Please contact Danny Stewart at Redsofa London for more info or to apply for the position.

Thanks

(.Net Developer, FullStack, Umbraco, JavaScript, Agency, Charity Sector, Software Engineer, CMS)

We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Sr Designer with a proven background in Packaging & Brand Design. We’re passionate about what we do – working with amazing brands to deliver thought proviking, beautiful work. We put our creative hearts into everything we do, and are looking for somebody who wants to do the same too. Here’s a run down of what the role entails;

Your main duties and responsibilities include:

Designing independently or as part of a team, depending on each project

Supplying the lions share of creative concepts for each presentation

Creatively lead and present mid-sized projects

Inputting strongly to each design critique and ensuring your voice is heard

Questioning and challenging briefing documents

Working in collaboration with client service peers

Taking an active interest in design strategy

Presenting your designs with conviction and on occasion to clients with senior team support

Seeing jobs through from concept to print

Challenging senior creative team members with innovative and inspiring thinking

Acting as a creative catalyst on each project, inspiring your creative team

Attempting to have your design chosen every time and helping to implement the winning design thereafter

Briefing illustrators, lettering artists and general suppliers

Art directing photo-shoots

In addition to the duties stated above you may be required to undertake further tasks as necessary to meet the demands of the Employer’s business.

Team Imperatives:

First and foremost deliver show stopping and awe-inspiring design solutions against each brief you are given

Support all thinking with reference, research and a thorough visible thought process

Inspire, nurture and support design talent of your level and below

Inspire, support and impress design talent of your level and above

Live a truly creative life at our agency, bringing ideas and perspectives to the agency in general

Roll up your sleeves and go the extra mile in order to set us apart from our peers and competitors

With that said, we’re looking to see the experience and ability to execute all of the above. Along with that, we’re looking for somebody that will fit in to our fun and fearless family atmosphere, and wants to take risks and be bold.

It’s important that we can see this in your portfolio – we want to be wowed. A solid background in reputable branding and packaging agencies is essentail, and a portfolio must show your abilities in both brand and pack design.

If this sounds like you, then we would love to see your work. Please send your CV, portfolio and salary expectations. Thanks!

We’re looking for an exceptionally talented MW Designer with a proven background in Packaging & Brand Design. We’re passionate about what we do – working with amazing brands to deliver thought provoking, beautiful work. We put our creative hearts into everything we do, and are looking for somebody who wants to do the same too. Here’s a run down of what the role entails;

Your main duties and responsibilities include:

Designing independently or as part of a team, depending on each project

Supplying a high percentage of creative concepts for each presentation

Inputting strongly to each design critique and ensuring your voice is heard

Presenting your designs with conviction, sometimes to clients with senior team support

Seeing jobs through from concept to print

Challenging and ‘biting the heels’ of the senior designers

Acting as a creative catalyst on each project, inspiring juniors and impressing seniors

Attempting to have your design chosen every time and helping to implement the winning design thereafter

Helping to create mood-boards, audits and presentation stimulus when required

Possible involvement in art direction of photo-shoots

Team Imperatives:

First and foremost deliver show stopping and awe-inspiring design solutions against each brief you are given

Support all thinking with reference, research and a thorough visible thought process

Inspire, nurture and support design talent of your level and below

Inspire, support and impress design talent of your level and above

Live a truly creative life at our agency, bringing ideas and perspectives to the agency in general

Roll up your sleeves and go the extra mile in order to set us apart from our peers and competitors

With that said, we’re looking to see the experience and ability to execute all of the above. Along with that, we’re looking for somebody that will fit in to our fun and fearless family atmosphere, and wants to take risks and be bold.

It’s important that we can see this in your portfolio – we want to be wowed. A solid background in reputable branding and packaging agencies is essential, and a portfolio must show your abilities in both brand and pack design.

If this sounds like you, then we would love to see your work. Please send your CV, portfolio and salary expectations. Thanks!

Full Stack Developer

 

Fine Art SaaS Platform; Technology Company

 

Location: Oval, London

Max budget: £45,000

 

We’re hiring a Full Stack Developer to join a technology company whose business is building a scalable CRM SaaS platform specifically designed for Art Galleries, Artists and Art Collectors.

 

As the Full Stack Developer, your role will be to build innovative web applications and features within a multi-disciplined team of engineers.

 

Tech Stack*:

Python, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript & MySQL

 

*If you have a good grasp of Ruby, C++, PHP, C# or Java and are happy to learn Python, we would be delighted to provide Python training on the job.

 

The company has a track record of hiring programmers with good core skills and providing an opportunity to learn new skills, build cool products and work with a team of people who enjoy being part of a fun culture.

 

Additional info: The office is as you’d expect from a tech company that service the art industry; big open spaces with lots of natural light. They have lots of activities to take part in outside of working hours including; rock climbing, yoga, running, social drinks, takeaway pizza nights and more.

 

For more information or to apply to the role please contact Danny Stewart at Redsofa London.

 

(Python, Full Stack, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Developer, Software Engineer)

My client is a well-known creative agency in central London, they are are looking for a HTML5 banner developer to work within their friendly, digital team.

Their clients include Amazon, Lloyds Banking Group, O2, Sony, Three Mobile, Intel, British Gas and Bacardi to name but a few.

You will work on display advertising for desktop, mobile and occasionally on website animations. You will work closely with the development lead, digital designers, project managers and producers.

Ideally you will have the following experience/abilities:

Experience working with rich media vendors such as DoubleClick Studio, DCM, Sizmek and Flashtalking

Ability to animate using JavaScript libraries such as GreenSock (GSAP)

Fluent in CSS3

Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility and responsive design

Ability to use automation tools such as Gulp

Thorough understanding of source code repositories such as Git

Well versed with Adobe Photoshop and Sketch

Experience with the following is considered a plus, but not crucial:

Creating Dynamic Banners in DoubleClick Studio

Ability to animate SVGA

Must have:

Strong understanding of layout and design
2+ years of experience animating in HTML5/JavaScript

 

You will need to provide URLs for an online portfolio, client work and any side projects they may believe are relevant to the job scope, as well as any other site or application work that shows your digital creative spark.

You must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom to be considered for this role.

 

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We seek a versatile, senior writer with a fierce imagination and creative heart to join a Brand and Content Department.

You’ll join a vibrant team staffed by young designers, writers and creative thinkers.

My client produce ideas, craft concepts and make the work that tells and sells the story of the whole company.

They build inbox-busting emails; show-stopping direct mail pieces; go-to digital experiences; arresting print ads; vibrant, colourful video; and rewarding podcasts to name a few of our varied outputs.

Key Responsibilities

Here’s what else we want from you:

·       Five + years’ industry experience

·       Experience in producing creative and conceptual work, from campaign-level thinking one-off, tactical pieces

·       Experience writing copy across diverse formats: digital, email, article copy, social media, DM, display, A/V

·       Experience of producing work to tight deadlines, across multiple clients / campaigns

·       Experience writing long and short copy, and in report writing and editing

·       Experience working with a CMS is HTML preferable but not essential

 

·       Experience managing other team members is preferable

For more info on the role please make contact.

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My client are a Creative Advertising Agency, based in west London. They are looking to expand their Design team and the ideal candidate will have at least 4 years’ experience working in motion design and editing.

 

You will be working across a number of Beauty, Electronic & FMCG clients plus supporting the wider team on sporting sponsorship projects. You will work on your own as well as part of the larger team, inspiring and educating your colleagues and clients.

My client are a lively and friendly team, who love working collaboratively when needed. They encourage training and personal development and love to see staff grow and progress within their roles.

 

What we are looking for:

 

Have a working understanding and proven knowledge of Adobe Premium Pro, After Effects and Adobe CC. Experience with Cinema 4D is a plus.
A balanced and diverse portfolio of work that demonstrates different techniques of motion design, animation and editing. Show an understanding of different rendering techniques and be technically proficient across different skills within motion design. Including a good understanding of video codecs and output processes.

Show an artistic and innovate eye, you must understand design principles as well as motion design. Show visual skills beyond key-frames and technical knowledge. Strong attention to detail.

Work well under pressure, with others and show interest in improving your skill set beyond what you already know. Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and effectively.

Report to the creative directors and senior members of the team to execute briefs collaboratively, successfully and on schedule.

You must work well with others, be curious, take direction and aim to improve and build on your skills constantly.

Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud apps, preparing PS and AI files to work within After Effects

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My client are looking for a  talented Junior Digital Campaign Designer to join their talented upbeat design team.

 

Work on a range of data-driven projects including overarching 360 paid media campaigns, web content, UI, UX, display advertising and email.

 

Work within a multidisciplinary team across a wide variety of in-house events from sport, music, culinary, gaming, global exhibitions as well as internal creds

 

Able to design rough scamps, storyboards, mood boards, comps, to help convey a narrative and articulate, creative decision making internally and to sponsors.

 

Translate sketches, wireframes and visual mock-ups into beautiful and award-winning visual designs. Apply an iterative approach and be open and constructive to feedback.

 

Assist the Creative Director in initiating and facilitating creative workshops and brainstorms.

 

Work with an existing strategic, creative and production process using teams’ project management tools and templates; while following and establishing digital best practices.

 

Provide involvement and ideas throughout the entire project lifecycle from the original concept development and design, prototyping, pitching, through to production and delivery.

 

Use initiative to innovate with different ad formats using technology, tools and methods that enable and expand engagement and interaction of all audiences.

My client is looking for a back-end development, Umbraco builds (their CMS of choice), Server/ Database management, and maintenance of legacy projects – you will have a wealth of experience in delivering efficient web-based solutions and bring with you an in-depth knowledge of development best practices and current technologies.

A positive and enthusiastic attitude is a must alongside a willingness to actively participate in implementing process, project lifecycle and technology improvements also. You will be working in a small, tight-knit and passionate senior team within their Digital Department, however, they’re an agency of 40+ staff company-wide with a vast range of skills from branding to strategy, interactive applications to experiential, and a lot more.

They maintain a continuous goal of further integration with every project to ensure they utilise their talent to the best – this role suits someone who’s willing to get involved in all types of projects, chip-in on ideas at all project stages, and serve as a trusted technical advice line to the wider company.

Essential skills required include, but are not limited to:

Back-End Technologies

C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Umbraco v4–v8, Razor/WebForms, RESTful API, WebAPI, WCF

Front-end Technologies

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, XML/XLST, AJAX

Server Technologies

MS SQL Server 2016/2014/2008/2005/2000, SQL Reporting Services 2008/2005, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server, IIS 6.0/IIS 7.0

Source Control, Bug Tracking & CI / CD

JIRA, BitBucket, GitHub, SourceTree, TeamCity, Octupus Deploy

Tools

MS Office Suite, Trello, TeamGantt, Slack

Desirable

Certified Umbraco Master, Microsoft Certified Developer, PHP/WordPress, Salesforce CRM integration, Facebook API, Twitter API

All candidates must be able to live and work in the UK

I am seeking a full-time Full Stack Developer to join my clienhts digital team. This role will involve collaborating on software projects for high-profile UK and international clients in the museum and exhibition space.
They are a a busy creative and production studio based in London. They have a talented team crafting extraordinary and unique work across many disciplines including interactive experiences, VR, AR and large scale multimedia.

Duties

Customise and maintain a tech stack for museums and exhibition clients, including a content management system, media server, monitoring system, and analytics. Develop the stack further to support future media exhibits and large collections.
Write clean, reliable code that scales and performs well. Integrate with 3rd party APIs when applicable.
Implement a CI/CD platform for development, QA, and deployment.
Stay up to date on technologies/industry trends that improve product development and user experience.
Collaborate with designers, producers, content developers, and other developers to deliver successful projects.

Skills and Competencies

Knowledge and experience of web technologies and platforms, particularly Javascript frameworks and libraries. Our current stack uses Node.js and Sequelize for the CMS back end, React and Redux for the CMS front end, MySQL/MSSQL for databases, web sockets, and a GraphQL API with Apollo. They also have an API in PHP for packaging and delivering media.
Ability to take ownership and make key project decisions
Computer Science or related degree and/or 3+ years of commercial experience.
Interest or experience in technologies such as VR, AR, image recognition, and machine learning is helpful but not required.

Relationships
You will be a part of the Digital team and report directly to the Digital Supervisor.

Traffic Manager – Creative Services – Integrated Agency

My Client is a leading Integrated Agency looking for a super switched on Traffic Manager to join their amazing team.  This is an incredible opportunity for someone with experience as a Traffic Manager, to come on board, work with some amazing people and be part of an award winning agency!

The Traffic department are the link between the client services and the creative department and they manage all resource requirements for the Creatives (Art Directors, Copywriters and Designers) placed on the business, and are therefore responsible for managing the expectations of both Client and Project management in terms of best practice and efficiency.

The role will be to manage the day-to-day workflow of roughly 20 creatives and around 5 different accounts. The role will require you to work closely and seamlessly with the other traffic managers in the team with an understanding and holistic view of the full creative department and the all briefs and deadlines. You will therefore need to have past experience with trafficking a fast paced and large team as well as someone who works and communicates well in a team.

This person will also need to be confident, strong and personable, you will be required to conduct daily stand ups, communicate with Creative Directors on decisions, run resource meetings and be firm to enforce process to ensure most efficient ways of working.

You will needs to have commercial awareness in assuring the Client and Project Management teams are quoting correctly for the resource required as well as being able to monitor the efficiencies of and burn rates on each job. This will require daily follow-ups on timesheet completion of your team.

The Traffic Team uphold agency process; ensuring departments across the agency are adhering to the best and efficient ways of working. A Traffic Manager must be able to use their judgement and skill to ensure the teams deliver work on time. The Traffic team aid Client and Project Management by being solutions driven and guiding efficiencies in the delivery of projects through Creative.

Requirements

Organisation of resources through your teams:

• Use your knowledge to put the right people on the right jobs according to their skillset/abilities and ensuring consistency of resource

• Keep the departmental freelance tracker up to date with accurate information around commercials and start and end dates. Working with IT and HR to ensure freelancers have the necessary equipment and work space to work.

• Running weekly commercial reports on utilisations across the departments, highlighting issues and trends. Reporting on team’s commercial health and flagging and following up on jobs with financial over runs.

• Working with Creatives on timesheet completion and commercial awareness

• Keeping your Creative Directors involved in decision-making around resource and overseeing projects

• Timely response to client and project management ad hoc requests and keeping the teams updated on project progression.

• Managing creative diaries, putting in briefings, wip’s and 1st thought meetings.

• Ensuring concept and design turnaround times are adhered to.

• Leading stand-ups confidently and resolving issues/changes highlighted.

• Check in with creatives and tech to ensure work is progressing and removing blockers.

• Weekly resource requests and Freelance requirements to be scheduled weekly, highlighting any resourcing or people issues.

• Work with Client and Project Management on timing plans and schedule for the life of projects

• Negotiating with agencies and freelancers on rates.

• Becoming part of the team you work within, knowing the brands and the people who work on them. Skills

• Proactive individual

• Great communicator

• Commercially focussed and proficient

• Able to follow process and best practice

• Competent presenter

• Strong time management

• Personable and approachable

• Team player

• 2-3 years’ experience in either traffic or project management

 

We’re looking for a talented Sr Brand & Packaging Designer to join a forward thinking creative agency with brand and packaging at their core.

We believe great ideas change the world… we believe in the power of design to influence human behaviour, affect change and pierce conventions.

We believe people make the difference… that true collaborative spirit creates a compelling, infectious energy that delivers outstanding commercial results.

 

Job Description: Your main duties and responsibilities include:

• Designing independently or as part of a team, depending on each project • Supplying the lions share of creative concepts for each presentation

• Creatively lead and present mid-sized projects

• Inputting strongly to each design critique and ensuring your voice is heard

• Questioning and challenging briefing documents

• Working in collaboration with client service peers

• Taking an active interest in design strategy

• Presenting your designs with conviction and on occasion to clients with senior team support

• Seeing jobs through from concept to print

• Challenging senior creative team members with innovative and inspiring thinking

• Acting as a creative catalyst on each project, inspiring your creative team

• Attempting to have your design chosen every time and helping to implement the winning design thereafter

• Briefing illustrators, lettering artists and general suppliers

• Art directing photo-shoots

Team Imperatives:

• First and foremost deliver show stopping and awe-inspiring design solutions against each brief you are given

• Support all thinking with reference, research and a thorough visible thought process

• Inspire, nurture and support design talent of your level and below

• Inspire, support and impress design talent of your level and above

• Live a truly creative life, bringing ideas and perspectives to the agency in general

• Roll up your sleeves and go the extra mile in order to set us apart from our peers and competitors

If this sounds like the job for you, please send us your CV & portfolio. We’re looking to see a portfolio full of well executed, original and inspiring packaging and brand design, along with a strong agency track record at some of the top branding and packaging agencies in town.

We’re looking for a talented Sr Brand & Packaging Designer to join a forward thinking creative agency with brand and packaging at their core.

We believe great ideas change the world… we believe in the power of design to influence human behaviour, affect change and pierce conventions.

We believe people make the difference… that true collaborative spirit creates a compelling, infectious energy that delivers outstanding commercial results.

Job Description: Your main duties and responsibilities include:

• Designing independently or as part of a team, depending on each project

Inputting strongly to each design critique and ensuring your voice is heard

• Presenting your designs with conviction, sometimes to clients with senior team support

• Seeing jobs through from concept to print • Challenging and ‘biting the heels’ of the senior designers

• Acting as a creative catalyst on each project, inspiring juniors and impressing seniors

• Attempting to have your design chosen every time and helping to implement the winning design thereafter

• Helping to create mood-boards, audits and presentation stimulus when required

• Possible involvement in art direction of photo-shoots In addition to the duties stated above you may be required to undertake further tasks as necessary to meet the demands of the Employer’s business.

Team Imperatives:

• First and foremost deliver show stopping and awe-inspiring design solutions against each brief you are given

• Support all thinking with reference, research and a thorough visible thought process

• Inspire, nurture and support design talent of your level and below

• Inspire, support and impress design talent of your level and above

• Live a truly creative life, bringing ideas and perspectives to the agency in general

• Roll up your sleeves and go the extra mile in order to set us apart from our peers and competitors

If this sounds like the job for you, please send us your CV & portfolio. We’re looking to see a portfolio full of well executed, original and inspiring packaging and brand design, along with a strong agency track record at some of the top branding and packaging agencies in town.

As the sole senior front-end developer, you will be working across multiple projects including new builds, site updates, smaller creative projects like EDM creation, digital advertising and social.
Working alongside a senior creative team and a back-end Umbraco developer, you will use current front-end technologies and frameworks to build clean and optimise digital products from both static and prototyped designs and UX with a high degree of accuracy.
You will have the ability to manage your own tasks and work to deadlines as well as working closely with the wider team to help problem solve, provided estimates, and warn of issues as soon as they become apparent.

What they are looking for:

This role is for a Senior Front-End Creative Developer who will be responsible for the development of interactive projects from conception through to completion, in a senior-level environment, collaborating with skilled and passionate designers and back-end developers.

Essential skills required include, but are not limited to:

Senior-level with 5 years professional experience minimum
Excellent HTML, CSS / SCSS, JavaScript, ES6 and jQuery skills
Experience in using build tools such as Gulp and Grunt
Asynchronous / REST API methods
Solid understanding of how Content Management Systems work
Experience with version control (GIT / Bitbucket)
Excellent understanding of responsive builds
Debugging for mobile and legacy browsers
Good understanding of performance optimisation techniques
Experience with at least one of React JS, Vue JS, Angular JS or other SPA frameworks
Creation of EDM templates that are compatible with most email clients
Awareness of technical on-site SEO requirements
High proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and knowledge Adobe Suite
Strong communication skills
Ability to manage own tasks and work to deadlines
Excellent sense of aesthetic and motion
Exceptional attention to detail
A creative thinker and problem solver

Additional Extras:
Experience with: PHP, WebGL, Unity3D, OpenFrameWorks, Processing
Understanding of front-end performance, CMS integration, Umbraco knowledge, C#, Node JS, Unit testing.

 

It would be an advantage to have links to any accounts on GitHub, BitBucket, etc and be able to talk through your code using a computer during the interview.

All candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

No sponsorship for this role.

My Client is a top global advertising agency within a leading agency network responsible for handling all marketing activity from advertising to digital experience, to data science to CRM, to dealer. Their operating model is based on an agile and inter-disciplinary approach, integrating narrative and experience in a dynamic creation process, with data and digital at the core.

Purpose

With the support of Lead PM, Project Managers ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget both within the agency and externally to clients to ensure the best qualitative output.

Supports account teams in early project stages: project scoping, strategy and creative brief development;
Takes full project and client management (with the help of account team) from late creative development stage, through to design, production and QA stages;

Creates and manages SoW – scope, cost and timings control at all times;

Books and manages resource, assures that delivery teams have all the support to produce their work in a timely and efficient way;
Develops design/production briefs, manages briefings, reviews, feedback and amends;
Sources tech requirements, manages trafficking sheet/display serving platform/Facebook Creative Hub set-up;
Takes responsibility for suggesting alternative options in situations where there are challenges from a timings or delivery standpoint’;
Manages and follows up on all internal and third-party costs and POs;

Profile

Integrated PM will have strong communications skills and first-hand experience of taking personal charge for the delivery of similar highly innovative and creative projects along with:

4+ years’ proven experience with a track record in marketing communications projects;
Experience and understanding of the processes involved in delivering Online display & Social, TV/Print/Radio and outdoor campaigns is essential;
Broad understanding of areas such as: web analytics, personalization, search, customer journey analysis, A/B-testing, trafficking/tracking is desirable;
Able to manage pressure and risks, prioritize and deliver effectively;
Is a strong team player and stays professional at all times;
A rapid learner, good communicator, negotiator and influencer who’s warm and likeable, able to convince a client;
Is detailed focused and has solid writing and speaking skills in English.

I am looking for an ambitious Tech Lead with strong digital experience to join my clients Creative and Digital team. This role will be delivering creative excellence using technology, leveraging their supplier network and building client relationships. As a key member of the team, you will be the driving force behind great creative work and technology, always striving to ensure the highest standards of both.

As Tech Lead, you will be responsible for managing the successful development and delivery of technology solutions, working with their in-house team or recommending and managing outsourced partners, depending on the skillsets required/timings, etc.

Your role will involve sharing your digital knowledge throughout the agency, teaching digital best practice to the account handlers to ensure they’re developing all levels of digital knowledge, and working with their Digital Project Manager to ensure a smooth delivery.

 

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Managing projects incorporating user experience design, user interface design, motion, code prototyping, front, and back-end development.
Scoping large and small scale digitally-led projects and defining resource needs, likely activities and estimating duration. Projects include anything from emails and banners to microsite and websites, to mobile apps, digital retail installations, games, interactive experiential (first-hand experience on all these deliverables isn’t necessary, but an approach/understanding of “how-to” is required)
Managing in-house and third-party partners
Helping to define product and project requirements
Collaborating with the key creatives, design, and project leads from brief, conception, throughout project planning all the way to delivery
Writing project plans and budgets and completing broad cost estimates and detailed breakdowns for clients including SOW documentation
Being the final escalation point for all digital/project issues within the digital PM team – reporting to the Digital Director where appropriate.

 

EXPERIENCE AND CREDENTIALS

Strong communicator – able to communicate in a simple and digestible way.
An ability to sell technical solutions in a way that is simple and easy to understand
Experience in strategic UX focused work, not just web builds or production
Comfortable managing the complexity of multiple work-streams with a calm and considered approach
A naturally curious nature, always keeping up to date with the latest digital trends and innovative and emerging technologies
Not a developer, but a strong technical understanding of different technologies, the skill sets, and processes required to deliver those, and the requirements and needs for each role, inputs, and outputs.

All candidates need to be able to live and work in the UK.

No sponsorship for this role.

Senior Creative Technologist

Creative Agency Group

Central London

£55k to £70k + Benefits

 

We’re hiring a Senior Creative Technologist to join a prestigious Creative Agency that behaves as an independent and autonomous unit within an award-winning global brand. The agency is renowned as experts in storytelling, experience design and system thinking to help brands create living Ideas.

 

As the Creative Technologist, your role will sit at the intersection of brand communications, experience and commerce, taking a human-centric approach to design the best outcomes.

 

If you have the following skills & experience, we’d love to hear from you:

JavaScript ecosystem: React, Node & ES6

Git, NPM, Webpack, Docker, static site generators and similar tools.

HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS & PostCSS

Any of the following will be beneficial: Python, PHP, Mongo/Postgres, Database Design

Any of the following will be beneficial: Processing, OF, Arduino & Raspberry Pi

Any knowledge of AR, XR, voice, chatbots, AI or Physical Computing is beneficial

Any DevOps exposure is also beneficial (CI, Netlify, AWS, Heroku or similar)

 

This role will fit within the tech team and there will be a lot of collaboration with designers and creatives. It’s an opportunity to turn ideas into physical experiences for super exciting brands. As you’d probably expect with this type of position; it will suit someone who likes to explore new ideas, research the latest tech trends and consistently push for innovation.

 

Please contact Danny Stewart at Redsofa London to apply for the role.

Strategy Director – Brand/Digital

Are you a superstar Senior Planner/Planning Director looking for your next big challenge?

My client is a global network with an impressive track record of winning new business. To this end, they are now looking to bring on two Strategy Directors to lead newly won accounts.

You will be integrated but bring strong brand and digital with a natural ability to engage with clients and internal teams. A deep dive research, great knowledge of behavioural economic principles and story telling will be part of repertoire and driving creativity will be second nature.

Salary Circa £80k
If you are stuck in a rut, get in touch today

 

We’re on the hunt for an awesome Mid-Weight Motion Designer to join a buzzing central London creative department. You’ll need to be super passionate about all things creative, have excellent motion skills, but most importantly, be crazy excited to be part of an industry leader in Social and Word of Mouth marketing.

You’ll be tasked with concepting and delivering a range of work across a variety of projects and brands in the Tech, Beauty, Alcohol, FMCG and Service industries. Time moves at the speed of light but you’ll be working with the most talented bunch of individuals this side of the Moon landings.

In a nutshell you’ll be working within the design team on a massive range of projects and brands. Designers are involved from the start of a brief right through to output. You’ll be involved in ideations, project development and creation of content in 2D, animation, video or whatever medium works best. Ownership and passion are key so we’re looking for a candidate with an insatiable drive to create award winning, innovative campaigns.

Conceptualise a brief from issue through to artwork and implementation
Creative ideation and design thinking, on your own or as a team
Delivering storyboards and campaign look and feel visuals
Meticulous visuals and finished assets delivered on time, on brand and in a cost-effective manner
Stay up-to-date with social platforms and industry trends
Liaising with fellow team members, client service and community teams to deliver projects as a team

My client are an ambitious and fast-growing marketing agency, led by award-winning creatives and based in Richmond.

They’re always exploring new ways to tell great stories, through incredible content.

The spec:

We’re looking for a Senior Designer to join a super-talented design team, currently comprised of: 1 Head of Design, 1 Design Director, 1 Senior, 1 Motion Lead, 4 Mid-weights and 3 Creative Artworkers.

We produce a wide variety of work, from branding and identities, websites and interactive to content marketing (videos, ebooks, long-ass web pages… stuff like that); with an emphasis on digital and exciting design innovation.

You’ll be…

Designing content across multiple channels from concept to final deliverables. So, someone hands-on with excellent technical skills who can also provide art direction would be perfect.
Working with our fantastic writing, accounts and web teams to turn briefs
into breakthrough work.
Helping sell in agency ideas and work to clients.

You’ll have…

A book full of amazing thought-provoking ideas, beautifully executed, predominantly in digital formats.
A solid foundation in the principles of design, type and creative direction.
Proven experience of creating and delivering design that works across responsive web packages.
Experience in prototyping and testing design ideas.
Decent branding experience, knowing the value of a powerful identity.
Plenty of passion, not only about how things look, but how they work and feel.
An impressive cultural awareness, strong at producing content for social media.
At least 3 years experience working in a digital creative agency.

And these technical skills…

Highly proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

Familiarity with industry standard UX and UI design and prototyping tools; Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD and InVision, Zeplin

About the role:

You will be joining our growing digital team, based in London and you will be reporting into our Senior Digital Designer. You will be responsible for designing and developing innovative branded solutions such as website, apps and other digital touchpoints for retail markets with specific contribution across 2D brand communications and digital design within a seamless customer journey. As a Digital Designer, you will be expected to work with Digital Designers, Developers, UX Designers to develop creative concepts across all aspects of digital interaction working with a wider multidisciplinary creative team.

PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

3 year+ digital design experience (Brand, Digital)
A strong knowledge of UI design principles and techniques
Good working knowledge of UX and Interaction Design
Knowledge of Motion / Prototyping
Strong verbal & written communication skills in English and other languages a bonus
Understanding how mobile, web and screen-based content works
Highly proficient graphics and digital software including Sketch, Invision, Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, Illustrator,

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The majority of time within the role is dedicated to:

Contribute into the development and delivery of effective user interfaces across a range of client websites and mobile apps
Ensure complex information is delivered and displayed in the most compelling way
Proactively developing graphics, digital and website design with other team members
Work with the UX Design team to ensure all client sites and apps deliver the best experience possible
Contributing to brainstorming sessions for creative concepting
Staying current on market trends and research as it relates to digital and retail design, communicating and feeding back to other team.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY WHO:

Have a passion for design
Cares about user experience
Have great attention to details
Delivers
Enjoys working in fast-paced projects
Can work alone and with a team
Curious and innovative

Design Agency based in Soho are looking for a mid-weight Motion Designer that can work across the following:

After Effects
Cinema 4D (nice to have)
Premiere (editing, colour grading)
Storyboarding

Filming (we have kit, so using a basic setup – we use 3rd parties for larger shoots)

The spec:

First and foremost our motion designers are creative thinkers and problem solvers. Their role is to be a key member of the team, continuously learning from and contributing to projects. They will be taking a greater lead on projects and begin owning some of the small to medium projects. They should be good listeners, not be afraid to air their views, be great team players, have very good mac skills, be enthusiastic and have strong sense of personal responsibility for the work they produce.

A Motion Designer should have a relevant design degree, 3 or 4 years experience (may vary) and an excellent portfolio and/or showreel which demonstrates their ability to think intellectually about design problems and demonstrates their ability to flex their idea, in motion, across the different channels of a brand.

The role:

To help the team produce inspiring digital presentations, social media content, video and motion work for clients

Help develop/challenge/understand briefs, conduct audits, gather information, understand client’s business

Production of original, appropriate and highly creative motion concepts. Ability to present these to the team, explaining your ideas using whatever media best represents your thinking.

To develop and craft yours and others work working closely with the team

Have a strong knowledge of what is possible with existing and emerging digital platforms and devices, motion tools and devices

Be involved in award winning projects

Be inquisitive, ask questions, learn how things work

Be enthusiastic about as much as you can

Make even the seemingly mundane task a challenge and an opportunity to learn

Develop an awareness of 3rd party expertise such as digital designers, animators, 3d specialists, coders and proactively share new ‘finds’ across the consultancy

Keep abreast of what is happening in the motion, social and design industry and share those findings with the wider team

Your ‘team’ includes non designers such as project managers and account handlers, it is important to understand their goals and work closely with them

Begin to take responsibility for smaller projects in the studio

 

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Digital Designer – Amazing work space – West London – Love of plants this is for you! 6 month FTC

 

About the role:

Our in-house design studio is responsible for maintaining visual identity, championing high-quality design and providing creative advice and artwork on a huge variety of design projects.

The Digital Designer will help us deliver innovative, world-class design across the our website, social media, email and digital advertising channels. This role is pivotal in helping us engage a global audience and provides a unique opportunity to work across a huge range of projects bringing together our digital and non-digital look-and-feel to ensure one overall unique visual identity.

 

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a broad range of Learning and Development opportunities, with access to the Civil Service training curriculum, generous annual leave entitlement for new starters, family friendly policies, a choice of competitive pensions and flexible benefits scheme.

Are you a conceptual Midweight Graphic Designer with some animation/digital skills?

My client is a fully integrated agency with a digital heart. You will get the opportunity to work across all clients meaning the opportunity here is vast, you could be working on a full web re-design, adding flare to a print campaign, or helping brand the next start-up.

I am looking for someone who can follow direction but is also conceptual and enjoys pushing boundaries. You will need to be comfortable with all areas of design as well as having some experience in animation/digital design ideally and have 2-3 years experience working in a permanent position at a design agency and preferably ad agency experience.

This is a great opportunity for a Midweight who is looking for their next challenge and to work with an truly inspiring CD who will support your career and conceptual growth.

Our client is a well-known integrated agency based near London Bridge. They’re currently looking for a client facing Project Manager to work on one of their flagship accounts. Working predominantly on POS and Packaging campaigns you’ll help create timing plans, budgets and you’ll work with the resource manager to maximise creative and studio resource.

You’ll manage all day-to-day aspects of projects, tracking hours spent vs. estimates helping to drive profitability. You’ll ideally have an integrated agency background and will have experience with delivering print, packaging and digital campaigns for clients. A knowledge of the FMCG / retail market would be a big advantage as would any PM qualifications such as Prince2, PMP or AgilePM.

For a full brief please get in touch with acollins@redsofalondon.com

Our client is currently recruiting for a Resource / Traffic Manager to join their team and manage work through the creative department. The job involves making sure that the right people are on the right jobs according to their skillsets and ensuring the consistency of resource throughout the life cycle of projects. You’ll manage diaries, putting in briefings, wip’s and 1^st thought meetings. And you’ll work closely with Client Service and Project Management teams on timing plans.

Our client needs someone who is proactive, someone commercially focussed, who is personable and who can add value to the team. You will need at least a year or twos like for like ‘AGENCY’ experience of having worked in a resource or traffic management.

For more info or to see a full job spec then please get in touch with acollins@redsofalondon.com

Our clients a global advertising agency based in Central London, they’re responsible for all the marketing for a huge global Automotive account. They produce everything from 360 comms, transcreation and toolkits, ATL, digital, web and CRM. As the lead PM you’ll work closely with the Account Management and other internal teams to scope, estimate and then manage campaigns from start to finish. Booking in resource to make sure the people are in place to deliver projects.

You’ll need at least 5 years experience in Project Management having working on digital campaigns with both waterfall and agile (Prince2, Scrum certified, Agile coach). You’ll need a strong attention detail and a good working knowledge of Atlassian suite of tools, particularly JIRA and Confluence. Having some understanding of areas like web analytics, personalization and customer journey analysis would be an advantage.

For a full brief please get in touch with acollins@redsofalondon.com

Great conceptual work a must (more about story-telling and fresh ideas; less about digital innovation – which itself is a nice to have) – big ideas.

Sports knowledge and passion important with a leaning to football.

Must know and understand the culture that surrounds sports/football and how it interjects with the audience – music, sneakers, fashion, style, design – and understand the appeal and culture of athletes.

Must have a good understanding of the media the urban 14-20 year old global audience digest – heavy focus on IG, less so Twitter/FB.

Sports/football related work a nice to have but not essential.

The role is 90% as a creative team who want to do the best work of their lives in a hard-working, tight knit crack-unit team – the other 10% might see the writer take on small copy briefs for social media, app cards, etc.

The writer needs to have a great command of English and be down with the tone of voice.

The art director – would be nice if they were fairly sufficient in photoshop/illustrator for visuals and presentation decks.

Looking for a team with experience of actually making working – production know-how is important (we make a lot of work, do a lot of shoots) – people that want to make, not just throw big ideas into the ether.

This is not a brief to find social media/digital-only story tellers – high level, big-idea story-telling is a must. A team that understands the power of Brand but know how young people see, view and experience both their own brand and brands in the world.