Addressable Front-End Developer
About the role:
Addressable is a rapidly growing area within the industry and Wavemaker. We are a specialist team, combining data, audiences & creative to serve personalised ads across all digital media.
We are looking for someone who can support the entire end-to-end process of creating and setting campaigns live. Working closely with the team from concepting strategies and designs, creative builds, delivery. You will be expected to deliver high-quality work on multiple projects.This is a 12-month fixed term contract.
In this role, you will:
The Addressable Front-end developer will be working with digital design tools, ad servers, creative management platforms and emerging ad technologies todeliver high quality dynamic creative ads.
Both in building dynamic templates and the creation and setup the dynamic versions. This role gives you an opportunity to createadsthatpush the boundaries of design, audience targeting, data generation and capture, yielding increased user engagement – settingWavemakerapart from the rest of the industry.
Secondly,the rolewill be focusedon being theinnovator in the creative space.Working closelywithAddressable andDataInnovationteams to bringing new and exciting ways of producing dynamic creative templates.The role has a large prototyping and development component to it, as well as requiring focused project management to deliver projects where the requirements and expectations are unique and new.
- Take responsibility for creative production across clients who are using any new or innovative Addressable solutions (ensure the creative output is of the highest standard)
- Supporting on creative feed management, building creative variants from the core template
- Responsible for the activation of addressable campaigns
- OwnQA of all produced material against brand guidelines
- Develop and maintain high level of expertise in the end-to-endAddressable product
- Confidenttaking alead on creative strategy and design requests
- Demonstrate ability toworkas the sole developer on a projectas well as a part of a team
- Proven ability todeliver and exceed expectations on creative briefs
- Strong self-management/projects skills– timelines, deliveries, SLAs, expectation management, etc.
- Able to buildstrongrelationships with client teams, responsible for communication and education on the team ways of working
- Excellent communication skills - comfortable with senior interaction at both the business and technical level
- Excellent critical-thinkingandproblem-solving,attention to detail, able to pick apart a process and identify errors quickly
- Results & delivery focused
Core skills:
- Proficient in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with JavaScript animation library’s (GSAP) or CSS keyframe animation
- Working knowledge of Adobe creative suite - nice to have
- Experience building hand coded dynamic creative - nice to have
- Experience building HTML 5 banners
- Proficient use in Microsoft Excel &. Understanding of data manipulation
About Wavemaker UK:
Wavemaker is a global media agency. We believe there is a better way to grow. By leveraging our deep understanding of audiences, Provocative Planning process and the world’s largest database of purchase journeys, we deliver exceptional growth for clients including Audible, Nationwide, Danone, Asahi and Morrisons.
Unlike traditional linear media planning, our modular approach combines machine learning and human intelligence to unlock, maximise and transform growth for the world’s leading brands and businesses.
A part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company, our 7,650 people across 88 markets are defined by their attitude of positive provocation, which means:
- deep knowledgeof our clients’ business
- the confidence to challengewhat’s gone before
- the support to go furtherthan we thought possible.
Discover more atwavemakerglobal.com/uk or follow us @WavemakerUK.
We are an equal opportunities employer
All GroupM agencies are equal opportunities employers and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender identity, disability, culture/religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
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