Thursday 11 November 2010

> Junior Web Developer, London - 20-22k

This is a long established, well managed digital communications agency that has retained the small, fun studio environment based by the Thames .

They are very busy with creative online promotional and large design and build work with the big brand names in telecoms, broadcast and entertainment industries.

It is a friendly, sociable environment and a very productive team who clearly have fun with their work. This is reflected in the atmosphere and the calibre of their on and offline creative output. Work can be on brand’s main websites, promotional microsites, digital advertising, to print.

This role works with senior Web Developers, Technical Director, Creative Directors and Account Management.

They are looking for commercial production experience with HTML and CSS. Javascript and JQuery would also be good. You will also need commercial awareness of good design layout and interface design.

Skills would include:

Understanding of XHTML, HTML5

Proficient CSS

Javascript: basic JQuery or better

Experience with PHP & MYSQL (desirable)

The agency is hot on developing people skills. This in turn, has led to very low turnover of people and careers which have flourished from industry Juniors to Creative, Technical and Account Directors.

Please email your CV and online portfolio (or links to work) to me Graham Cazaly, with a view to being fully briefed.

My email, graham@searchpartydigital.com

Tuesday 9 November 2010

> Technology Manager, London - 45-55k

This role is for a Senior Web Developer who is looking for the next move up the ladder, or someone who has already begun working as a Technology Manager overseeing the development of all forms of digital projects.

It's an Associate Technical Director role.

The role involves defining initial technical build, defining core components of a solution, detailing how these components fit together, mapping data paths between components, producing functional and technical specification documents and overseeing development.

They are particularly looking for technical knowledge of the major social networks (especially Facebook™) and mobile platforms and how technical solutions can be developed utilizing these.

The mobile and social networks knowledge and experience is important. This role is with one of the top digital agencies who do cover whole global re-designs for the biggest brands in the world, but they are also embracing all new emerging technologies and solutions for their extensive top tier brand client list.

The agency is a pure digital agency of 100 people in the London office. It is a creative digital agency environment with excellent creative, strategy, IA, UE, social media, copy and technical teams. The atmosphere is an informal, sociable environment, as a top digital agency should be. People’s careers are nurtured and the agency provides a good list of benefits on top of salary. People are looked after, which is part of their reputation in the digital industry.

This is a senior role requiring full life-cycle experience and also plays a part in the wider development of the agencies strategy.

There if a full and detailed job spec. If you are interested in finding out more, please email your CV to me at graham@searchpartydigital.com

> Senior Digital Art Director, London - 45-55k

I have placed many people in this agency over the past 8 years - and they are all still there. It is a fun, social Farringdon based agency environment with an MD who wants people to enjoy life. The MD wants people to develop their careers and have the good work life balance. The MD insists on good work life balance.

The digital team cover everything from big design and build, rich media to all the latest social media innovations. A highly Creative agency – but also have a strong tech team.

Clients include GAP, Nike, Toyota, Virgin, hp, some financial services, L’Oreal, ebay, PepsiCo etc etc.

They work very creatively with their clients and are technically innovative with clients who want to push boundaries in this area of digital communications solutions.

This Senior Digital Art Director role defines the needs and develops the creative strategy for clients. You will need to be a good listener and be very good at asking clients questions. This role will visualize, conceptualize and design effective user experiences and interaction design for the web, social web and mobile environments.

They are looking for are a visionary with a passion for research based messaging and visual design that resonates with target audiences to take action. This role is in the digital team, but experience of translating your ideas for all mediums is ideal.

You will need excellent knowledge in typography, photography, colour, usability, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash.

An understanding of xhtml, Final Cut and/or After Effects, or Premier, Soundtrack Pro or equivalent audio editing program would be useful.

This role works collaboratively with the Creative Director, Interaction Designers, Programmers, Project Managers, Senior Copywriters and Account teams.

Solid understanding to design for numerous social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, You Tube Brand Channels and Blogging platforms would also be beneficial.

Must have excellent experience with taking the creative lead and a passion for visual design.

The London agency is also part of an international network.

Please email your CV and portfolio to me at graham@searchpartydigital.com

I have the job spec and lots more on their culture and work.

> Director of Search, London - 65-75k

This media agency giant has evolved digital capabilities that have been an integral and pioneering force in the Search Engine Marketing industry. Hence they have now emerged as one of the world's leading Search Engine Marketing (SEM) firms. They work very closely with Google, Yahoo! and MSN in shaping the future of SEM.

This is an entrepreneurial environment of bright sparks with a very bright future. They develop strategic, integrated search marketing campaigns that help the world's largest brands generate revenue and drive traffic to their websites. Their local and global client list is impressive.

They are looking for an up and coming digital expert with a solid knowledge of search engine marketing (PPC & SEO).

This role requires senior digital media planning and strategy experience, digital client management experience and multi-language EMEA campaign strategy, including centralizes and regionalised. Your time will be divided between strategy, client delivery and working with the team on developing new opportunities.

Key points from the job spec:

• Explore and implement new search engine technologies and products

• Mentor team members, providing professional development through training, hands-on experience, and collaborative project work

• Ability to mentor and lead the overall search campaign life cycle of key clients

• Ability to present to and educate clients on Search Engine Marketing principles, tactics and strategies.

If this is sounding of interest, please email your CV to me with a view to being emailed a job spec and discussing further.

graham@searchpartydigital.com

Thanks,

Graham.

> Motion Graphics / After Effect Designer, North London - 25-30k

This agency’s work is highly creative and contemporary. They provide the content for in-store retail, as well as for brands TV and web TV channels. They work with major international corporate brands to well known nightclub brands. A good mix of work for the portfolio.

They are looking for a conceptual designer with After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. You’ll have an eye for excellent contemporary design, and use of typography and colour. Any Cinema 4D exposure would be good.

You will also need good communications skills to present your conceptual ideas to brand managers.

They are also looking for a personable person to work in a vibrant, social team environment that consists of a mix of creative and technical skills.

Please note a car or motorbike is needed to get to this agency. The agency has the perfect creative, informal studio setting - but they are not accessible by public transport.

And of course you will have a good ear for music and cool tunes that work with high calibre animation and video!

Please email your CV and showreel to me at graham@searchpartydigital.com

Full job spec and briefing on the agency available.

> Digital project Director, London - 50-55k

I have placed many people in this agency over the past 8 years - and they are all still there. It is a fun, social Farringdon based agency environment with an MD who wants people to enjoy life. The MD wants people to develop their careers and have the good work life balance. The MD insists on good work life balance.

The digital team cover everything from web builds, micro sites, digital advertising campaigns (rich and standard), micro sties, email campaigns, apps widgets, social media and virals. A highly creative agency, with a stunning portfolio – but also have a strong tech team.

Clients include GAP, Nike, Toyota, Virgin, hp, some financial services, L’Oreal, ebay, PepsiCo etc etc.

They work very creatively with their clients pushing brand guidelines and are technically innovative with clients who want to push boundaries in their area of digital communications solutions.

This is a lead role in the digital team involved with clients from concept stage through to delivery. The Senior Digital Project Manager/Director role defines the needs and develops strategy for clients working closely with the Head of Digital and Digital Account Handlers. The role is not tied to the typical PM delivery spec, you will need to cover all aspects from team lead, IA (inc. knowledge of sitemaps / wireframes), UE to client digital strategy. You will need to be a good listener and be very good at asking clients questions.

Covering the full spectrum of digital communications, good technical knowledge is required as well as reasonable PM methodologies knowledge.

This role would suit someone who has come from a hands-on background who now wants to manage and lead a great digital team to deliver multiple projects.

This role works collaboratively with the Creative Director, Art Directors, Interaction Designers, Programmers, Junior Project Managers, Digital Copywriters and Account teams.

They are looking for agency experience, experience leading a team and a passion for creativity and technology.

The London agency is also part of an international network, working throughout the US and Europe.

Please email your CV and portfolio to me at graham@searchpartydigital.com

I have the job spec and lots more on their culture and work.

> Senior Digital Copywriter, London - 45-55k

The MD wants people to develop their careers and have the good work life balance. The MD insists on good work life balance.

The digital team cover everything from big design and build, rich media to all the latest social media innovations. A highly Creative agency – but also have a strong tech team.

Clients include GAP, Nike, Toyota, Virgin, hp, some financial services, L’Oreal, ebay, PepsiCo etc etc.

They work very creatively with their clients and are technically innovative with clients who want to push boundaries in this area of digital communications solutions.

This role defines the needs and develops creative strategy for clients. You will need to be a good listener and be very good at asking clients questions. As Digital Copywriter, you will create brand messaging, content outlines, copy decks, SEO friendly copy, and overall stellar writing for all digital, web, social, mobile and traditional media.

This role works collaboratively with the Creative Director, Art Directors, Interaction Designers, Programmers, Project Managers, Junior Copywriters and Account teams.

Solid understanding of numerous social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, You Tube Brand Channels and Blogging platforms is necessary.

The London agency is also part of an international network.

Please email your CV and portfolio to me at graham@searchpartydigital.com

I have the job spec and lots more on their culture and work.

> Group Account Director, West London - 50-65k

Are you a Senior Account Director looking to fast track to be an agency’s Client Serves Director? When backed by a first class digital team can you stand up in a room and engage people with strategies across any digital channel?

This is a long established 70 person agency with long term in-depth relationships with a top brand client list. They sailed through 2008/9 well and are on the up with great brands. There are 30 pure digital people in the agency and this is expanding. The team is happy being the first with digital innovations whether working locally or internationally with clients.

This role is to join the senior management team as the heavy-weight digital strategy person to work across all their clients. It is a new role. The previous type of client experience is not important, it’s the spectrum of digital experience from design and build through to social mobile apps that is needed to fulfil client objectives. The agency’s digital resources will allow you to go in any digital direction. It is a creative marketing agency environment that has won awards in all areas of digital communications. (Although, major brand experience is required).

They are looking for someone who can develop great digital strategies with clients and someone who has the ambition to be an agency’s digital Client Services Director.

The MD wants to be very competitive on salary with a good bonus package on top. This is a key role for the agency. Experience in the very top listed agencies is suitable for this role.

This role works with the board directors and has 5 direct reports.

It is a well managed agency that has proved themselves by being in the higher rankings of any agency listings.

The MD is a particularly nice person to chat with. If you are interested in doing so, please email me your CV with a view to getting the further low down from me to see if you would like to meet them.

My email graham@searchpartydigital.com

> Producer (Mobile apps), London - 35-45k

Web apps, mobile apps, social media – this agency is working with a cool list of brands developing very entertaining solutions to clients briefs. They are a well established small to medium sized agency, also now established as the best in their field, evident by the major brand pitch wins.

Their clients are TV entertainment channels, global youth brands, to major corporate brands keen to lead the way in the new strategies in digital communication.

It’s an entrepreneurial, sociable, creative agency environment.

This role works between the clients and the web developers and designers.

It is a creative ideas role, putting forward proposals for apps and sites based on client briefs. Working together with the client, you will be involved in decisions on design, website structure and content based on SEO knowledge. So you will need to be comfortable working with Digital Marketing Managers of global corporations. This role then scopes the budgets and schedules and provides wireframes and user journey documents for the digital team.

Writing good optimised content for websites for the search side of things and prior mobile experience would be an advantage for this role. SEO and content issues knowledge is part of the role.

It’s an all round role in an emerging technologies environment.

As well as being a fun, creative agency environment, the people are cultured and intelligent. The agency does a lot of culture trips to keep on the forefront of what is happening in London, but also knows when it’s time for agency drinks and top food.

Please email your CV to me graham@searchpartydigital.com with a view to being emailed the job spec, details and discussing further.

> Web Developer / HTML Coder, London - 28-32k

If you are a HTML coder who has already gained high profile site experience, here’s your chance to join the digital team who develop the most famous digital communications work in the UK.

This 38 person digital team consists of Web Developers, Flash Developers, Project Managers, and Art Directors who work within the best advertising agency in London. They work on major brand’s digital communications campaigns. The advertising agency’s work is famous, you will definitely already know their TV advertising creative work for brands, as well as the digital team’s online innovations. Their web and mobile work is famous too and as a sign of the times, often leads the way for the TV creative work. They are not just rolling out the next micro site for a brand’s next product or service launch. It is clever online work that is entertaining and fun for people to engage with.

The role works in the development team and works into the technical director – who has a history of building great teams in the biggest digital agencies in London.

They are looking for someone who can produce cross-browser clean, smart code for HTML emails and web pages, from stand-alone single pages to micro sites. Coding that can, when required, work across multiple devices be it desktop, iPad or mobile.

Skills required are HTML / XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and knowledge of user interface design and IA. Experience in server side development (PHP, .Net) a huge plus.

As part of a team that produces award winning work, your passion for technology will help you contribute ideas with your knowledge of how people use the web and the ever changing digital landscape.

This is a bright, sociable and fun agency environment.

If you are interested in being emailed the full job spec and info on the company, please email your CV to me. graham@searchpartydigital.com

> Web Developer (,NET / PHP), London 32-40k

If you are an ASP.NET or PHP Developer who has already gained high profile site experience, here’s your chance to join the digital team who develop the most famous digital communications work in the UK.

This 38 person digital team consists of Web Developers, Flash Developers, Project Managers, and Art Directors who work within the best advertising agency in London. They work on major brand’s digital communications campaigns. The advertising agency’s work is famous, you will definitely already know their TV advertising creative work for brands, as well as the digital teams online innovations. Their web and mobile work is famous too and as a sign of the times, often leads the way for the TV creative work. They are not just rolling out the next microsite for a brand’s next product or service launch. It is clever online work that is entertaining and fun for people to engage with.

The role works in the development team and works into the technical director – who has a history of building great teams in the biggest digital agencies in London.

They are looking for ASP.NET (versions 1.1 to 3.5) experience and ideally PHP (versions 4 and 5). They are also ideally looking for this role to be the Javascript champion in the team when need be.

The role consults the Project Managers on the most appropriate technical solutions for client’s briefs which will involve occasional client contact. Your passion for technology will help creative staff and account managers understand emerging web technologies so that campaigns can make good use of new opportunities in the digital sphere.

To do this you will need a genuine interest for APIs and frameworks (Google products, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter etc.), and knowledge about how to implement them.

As a key developer in the team they are also looking for knowledge of best practices in site builds including effective navigation.

This is a bright, sociable and fun agency environment.

If you are interested in being emailed the full job spec and info on the company, please email your CV to me. graham@searchpartydigital.com