Social Media Community Manager £30-40k London

We’re working with an exciting new client, a Leading online gaming business with a state of the art platform hosting hundreds of games available 24 hours a day. They’re currently looking for a Social Media Community Manager to work in-house to generate conversation in online communities about the games and products available in the store.

The Community Manager will manage the development and growth of our communities on social networks, blogs and forums ensuring that gaming brand is a leading and active member of all major networks on the internet.

Key Responsibilities
-Co-ordinating social media activities across departments and regions
-Creating and maintaining an engagement plan for all social media sites ensuring KPIs and performance goals are achieved
-Setting-up, customising, optimising, maintaining and updating accounts on social media platforms, blogs and forums
-Developing, engaging and growing communities across all social platforms
-Using the social media platforms to generate buzz and interest in gaming on the internet
-Measuring, monitoring and reporting on all social media activity
-Monitoring and managing social media mentions of the brand
-Working with social media manager to teach and mentor other departments on social media

Skills and Capabilities
-Educated to degree level or equivalent
-Comfortable and experienced in working with large brands
-In-depth knowledge of social media specifically in developing online communities
-Extensive knowledge of social media trends, strategies, platforms, tools and best practices
-Ability to develop and build strong working relationships with internal and third party service providers
-Display a strong customer and brand focused background with commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability
-Track record in innovating and adapting to the constantly changing nature of the internet
-Friendly, articulate and persuasive interpersonal style
-Motivated with a high energy level and strong work ethic
-Ability to work well under pressure and on own initiative
-Willing to work outside of normal office hours
-Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal)
-Demonstrate sound judgement and good instincts
-In depth knowledge and passion for online gaming

We’re looking for a talented digital marketing guru that has a skill and passion for social media and word of mouth, who will understand how blogs, discussions and tweets will impact traffic and the brand of their client and ultimately utilise the tools available to drive conversation about a brand or product.

Salary in the region of £30-40k

Word of Mouth Planner £22-27k (Social Media) London

We’re looking for Planner / Project Manager for one our most exciting and interesting clients. They’re a leading Word of Mouth Agency based in Central London who are responsible for engaging with customers and building online presence and drawing in traffic for the biggest brands in the UK and Worldwide.

The WOM Planner will be responsible for multiple projects and thrive on fixing and organising people, clients and campaigns!

We’re looking for someone who will confidently monitor progress and chase clients and internal stakeholders and be familiar with organising /tracking budgets, resource allocation, status reports and action management. Ideally we’re looking for someone that has worked in Social Media or understands the process of engaging with consumers via a number of new media and social media channels.

Skills:
- Managing projects from inception to delivery
- Maintaining and strengthening client relationships
- Coordinating complex team structures
- Daily client communication & loving
- Mapping out project planning, timings and deliverables
- Contributing to internal projects and self initiated work
- Building client relationships; listen to and understand individual client requirements and consistently meeting if not exceeding their expectations; understand their brand(s) and customers.
- Monitoring and understanding your clients’ markets; be aware of market issues and competitive activity.
- Commercial experience of Social Media.
- Familiar with market trends and emerging technologies.

We’re looking for someone that’s passionate about the Digital and Social Media industry! The role will be organisational across web and social media projects so a solid grounding and understanding of the area is essential.

Salary in the region of £22-27,000

Social Media Exec (Tech Brand) £20-25k London

We’re looking for a Community Exec for a leading brand in Social Media Marketing. They’re a leading Word of Mouth Agency based in Central London who are responsible for engaging with customers and building online presence and drawing in traffic for the biggest brands in the UK and Worldwide.

They’re looking for a hands-on Community Exec / Social Media Exec to generate conversation about new tech products for a leading mobile operator! The role is primarily about engaging with consumers via a number of social media and word of mouth channels.

Skills:
- To assist in forming brand presence within social media.
- To intrigue and excite social media voices.
- To assist in creating Social Media / WOM stimulation.
- To develop appropriate engagement activity.
- To develop creative in-space engagement.
- To create content for online platforms.
- To contribute creative ideas to further increase brand presence.
- To continuously develop knowledge of social media.
- Meticulous attention to detail and
- Regularly communicate with network of participants.
- Experience engaging with customers on behalf of a brand.
- Create online discussion on market issues / new products.
- Produce blogs, articles and reviews of the latest technology products.
- Online PR / Digital Marketing experience.
- Familiar with market trends and emerging technologies.
- Commercial experience of Social Media.

We’re looking for someone that’s passionate about engaging with customers! A talented PR / Marketing guru that will understands online conversation, how your blogs, discussions and tweets will impact traffic and the brand of their client and ultimately utilise the tools available to drive conversation about a brand or product.

Salary in the region of £20-25,000

Director Product Marketing – eServices/eCommerce £100k (Barcelona)

We’re working with a high-growth, technology-driven e-commerce company, who are looking for a Director Product Marketing focusing on the E-services product line in Europe. As a leader in the product marketing team, you will be engaged in bringing products from conceptualization to market, and evolving existing product lines. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, energetic, and constantly changing environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

In this exciting position you will grow and develop a small team focusing on the optimization and expansion of the product line. You will own the revenue target for this product line and will not only perform directed analysis of this product, but also proactively identify areas of opportunity, defining and implementing test plans, and making recommendations to drive the product strategy.
The successful candidate will be committed to building a comprehensive suite of products that will position the business as the clear leader in the market of customized electronic products for small businesses.

Responsibilities:
-Collaborate the North American E-Services team on product definition and requirements, pricing, promotions, content planning, QA, marketing and the development of a testing plan
-Define optimization and merchandising plan to increase take rate and manage churn
-Develop revenue forecasts and business cases for new products/product categories by working with Finance, Capabilities Development and Marketing
-Meet revenue goals for selected products by partnering with the channel managers
-Partner with the Direct Marketing Team to develop promotions, splash pages, offers and functionality that will help them meet their goals; develop a central marketing plan for new products with input from this team and project manage the implementation of this plan
-Conduct market research on new and existing products to drive pricing and functionality decisions, including competitive research, customer surveys, industry research, etc to feed into multi-year line road maps.
-Partner with the Analytics Team to identify ways to increase conversion rate (purchase rate), repeat rate and order values for existing products; develop metrics and manage plans to goal; develop forecasts for initiatives and work with Engineering and Marketing to implement changes and tests
-Manage and develop a team; recruit and grow team as needed to meet product objectives

Requirements:
-Bachelors degree required; preferred majors: Economics, Marketing, Business
-5-8 years relevant work experience, strong preference for experience in an ecommerce environment.
-Preference for experience with products like hosting, local search, web site building, email marketing etc
-Excellent analytical skills – ability to build excel models to aid in business decision-making
-Ability to derive actionable business insights from quantitative analysis
-Structured, logical thinking even when working in a fast-paced environment under tight timeframes
-Creative problem-solver
-Strong communication skills – both oral and written
-Self-starter with the ability to drive projects from inception to completion
-Excellent people manager that can build and motivate his team and bring them to new heights.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director, User Experience and Site Optimization £100k+ (Barcelona)

We’re recruiting a new, highly visible, strategic role for a senior marketing executive to lead and expand a European Content Strategy and Design team for a major International Brand. The Director of User Experience & Site Optimization will lead the European team of information architects, site optimization and usability specialists in developing world-class user interfaces based on iterative design, testing, and customer research.

The team leads user interface design for our 14 localized European web sites. Your objective is to drive improvements to conversion rate, average order value, and lifetime value of customers. That means you will develop and execute long-term strategies to enhance the site user experience and drive business performance. You will also conduct rapid-fire testing of new concepts in response to opportunities identified through our site optimization process. These opportunities are identified through such ongoing analysis as competitive research, usability studies, site metrics, customer feedback, employee suggestions, and others. You will develop business cases related to advancing the functionality, usability, and business performance of the website. You will liaise closely with our user experience and site optimization team in North America. You proactively track and communicate website business performance using internal reports and tools. This requires you to work closely with our site optimization and site marketing teams to identify short-term performance issues and long-term opportunities; suggest solutions that address customer and business goals.

Roles and Responsibilities Strategic Thought Leadership: Develop user experience strategies for new website capabilities; evolve critical areas of the website to improve the experience and drive business value. Foster innovation in user experience design to solve business problems while developing UI standards as needed to ensure consistency and drive efficient solution development. Create prototypes of future-state site interfaces (“vision-ware”) to gain alignment with executives, stakeholders, and partners. Represent the user experience team on the leadership team for several high-profile strategic initiatives.

Team Leadership and Growth: Build and lead a team of information architects and user experience specialists. Optimize team structure and scale the team as needed to meet demand for user experience design and customer research company-wide, including new products, new site functionality, partnerships, and strategic internal applications. Develop a scalable model for on-boarding new hires and a roadmap for the team’s continuous improvement and ability to leverage and adapt to new technologies.

Demand and Process Management: Oversee user experience staffing and manage demand for the team’s services, prioritizing as needed based on business value of various projects. Define, establish, extend, and communicate global user-centered processes and standards. Work closely with leaders globally from product marketing, web creative, and technology to optimize the process, deliverables, and standards.

Project Oversight: Ensure delivery of high quality, high performing user experiences through application of successful customer research and iterative concept testing. Provide direction, oversight, and quality assurance for team deliverables. As needed, play a hands-on role in design activities and customer research.

Communications: Communicate to executives and other key stakeholders the strategies driving the user experience, a vision and roadmap for future improvements, and provide ongoing status updates across initiatives. Serve as subject matter expert for user experience across the organization globally. Work closely with such internal partners as product marketing, creative, capabilities development, and our European user experience localization teams.

Requirements
We are looking for a seasoned user experience strategist and designer with a proven ability to deliver high performing user interfaces for e-commerce sites across Europe. Our candidate must be a hands-on, inspirational team leader with executive-level communications skills, strong business acumen, and ability to develop and articulate UE strategies and guide the creation of compelling user interfaces.

Qualifications and Experience:
-BA/BS degree in human-computer interaction or other relevant discipline, MBA desirable.
-7-10 years hands-on experience in information architecture or website interaction design, with 3-5 years leading user experience teams; consulting experience a plus.
-Solid understanding of user-centered design processes and ability to balance customer needs with business goals in developing solutions.
-Executive-level visioning, strategic development, and influencing skills and experience.
-Experience leading and/or observing user research and usability testing and in translating results into design decisions
-Ability to document designs in scenarios, workflows, site architectures, interaction notes, and page template/wireframe formats.
-Solid understanding of the relationship between successful user interface design and its effect on key e-commerce metrics that drive business value.
-Demonstrated ability to develop innovative solutions and apply cutting edge user interface techniques.
-Strong interpersonal, meeting facilitation and presentation skills. Ability to clearly articulate ideas through written, verbal, and visual communications.
-Inspirational team leader with experience building high performing teams.
-Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills.
-Data-oriented approach to iterative design and testing (can logically think through implementation of test designs, and draw conclusions from results)
-Ability to excel as both a team lead and individual contributor.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director Product Marketing – Consumer Products £100k (Barcelona)

We’re working with a high-growth, technology-driven e-commerce company, who are looking for a Director Product Marketing focusing on the Consumer product line. As the leader of this product marketing team, you will be engaged in bringing products from conceptualization to market, and evolving existing product lines. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, energetic, and constantly changing environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

In this exciting position you will manage a small team for the conceptualization, optimization and expansion of a Consumer & Promotional Product Line. You will own the revenue target for this product line and will not only perform directed analysis of this product, but also proactively identifying areas of opportunity, defining and implementing test plans, and making recommendations to drive the consumer product strategy. As manager of this team you set directions and motivate them to come up with innovative new products while improving existing ones. We are going head on with some strong competitors and you need to drive this team to excellence.

The successful candidate will be committed to building a comprehensive suite of products that will position the business as the clear leader in the market of customized products for consumers.

Responsibilities:
-Product definition and requirements, pricing, promotions, content planning, merchandising, QA, marketing and the development of a testing plan
-Develop revenue forecasts and business cases for new products/product categories by working with Finance, Capabilities Development, Marketing and Manufacturing
-Meet revenue goals for selected products by partnering with the channel managers
-Partner with the Direct Marketing Team to develop promotions, splash pages, offers and functionality that will help them meet their goals; develop a central marketing plan for new products with input from this team and project manage the implementation of this plan
-Conduct market research on new and existing products to drive pricing and functionality decisions, including competitive research, customer surveys, industry research, etc.
-Partner with the Analytics Team to identify ways to increase conversion rate (purchase rate), repeat rate and order values for existing products; develop metrics and manage plans to goal; develop forecasts for initiatives and work with Engineering, Marketing and Manufacturing to implement changes and tests
-Manage and develop a team; recruit and grow team as needed to meet product objectives

Requirements:
Bachelors degree required; preferred majors: Economics, Marketing, Business
10-12 years relevant work experience, strong preference for experience in an ecommerce environment.
Preference for experience with consumer products like photobooks, calenders etc
Excellent analytical skills – ability to build excel models to aid in business decision-making
Ability to derive actionable business insights from quantitative analysis
Structured, logical thinking even when working in a fast-paced environment under tight timeframes
Creative problem-solver
Strong communication skills – both oral and written
Self-starter with the ability to drive projects from inception to completion
Excellent people manager that can build and motivate his team and bring them to new heights.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director, European Content Strategy & Design £100k+ (Barcelona)

We’re recruiting a new, highly visible, strategic role for a senior marketing executive to lead and expand a European Content Strategy and Design team for a major International Brand. This team develops business strategies aimed at optimizing online design library to better meet the needs of our European customers while driving business value in the form of improved site conversion rate and average order value. Content consists of the thousands of designs we offer our customers to use in creating finished printed products.

To qualify for this exciting role you will have to be a very strong executive with a proven track record of driving value through customer centric strategies at a global company and have a unique blend of impressive analytic acumen and superior strategic thinking. By analyzing customer behaviour, evaluating key metrics, understanding market trends, and extensive testing, your talented team delivers on business objectives to optimize our European content strategy. It is your responsibility to recruit, train and manage those top performing talents. In this position you will also work with our site optimization teams to sponsor key website design initiatives aimed at optimizing design gallery performance and keyword search performance in order to improve conversion rates. The ultimate goal of this position is to turn content into a key competitive advantage, leading to increased conversion rates, revenue and noticeably higher customer satisfaction.

Roles and Responsibilities
Establish and drive content design strategy and optimize the design selection and keyword search in Europe
Define and track metrics that measure ease of customer design selection
Scale our existing European content strategy team, establishing long-term structure, roles and responsibilities, and processes
Establish a core team of content designers who will be responsible for creating design templates that meet the needs of European small businesses and consumers.
Prioritize projects using data analysis and forecasting techniques based on economic value to the company
Set metrics for measuring the success of new content after launch. Track and report new content sales results.
Track trends in key industries and among competitors. Conduct market research to use as input into overall strategy and creative briefs to Creative Team.
Coordinate with US-based content strategy and creative teams to optimize global/local strategies and ensure we maximize global value of our joint efforts.
Work with the Creative Team to generate new/upgraded content and get it posted to the websites on tight release schedules.
Work with User Experience Team to ensure that customers are able to find the content they are looking for and easily able to develop quality printed products with it—i.e. keywording and search, re-ranking of content, uploading pictures, development of new tools

Qualifications:
-10+ years of experience in a related field
-B.A. required, M.B.A. preferred
-Ideal experiences include advertising, promotion, or direct marketing agency experience, any kind of marcom experience, brand/corporate identity work, new product management.
-Strong experience in strategic development and analysis.
-Solid understanding of the European customer, including tastes and preferences
-High degree of creativity and good eye for style/design. You don’t need to be a graphic artist, but the position requires a balance of business/strategy skills and artistic sense.
-Adept at juggling multiple high-profile projects
-Comfortable in a tremendously fast-paced environment.
-Superior people skills and cross-functional relationship-building skills
-Excellent skills communicating to all levels of an organization
-Experience hiring, training, managing a large team of direct reports
-Some licensing/contract negotiation skills desirable.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Front End Developer £30-40k, Exciting Startup in Surrey

We’re working with an exciting new client, a startup brand backed by a leading name in eCommerce, which will be breaking through into the UK and International markets in 2010. They’re currently building an energetic new brand in the entertainment industry and aim to revolutionize the way we access and buy our entertainment media and digital assets.

They’re searching for a talented Front End Developer to join the team, someone that is passionate about Digital, Technology, Pushing technical and creative boundaries and have the ability to build technically challenging platforms and applications.

Skills:
- Hands on Developer with experience across the web.
- Ideally 3-6 years experience in web development using Advanced HTML, CSS and Javascript for commercial websites
- Familiar working in a LAMP Environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Excellent communication, team-work and problem solving skills
- Excellent SEO experience.
- Ensure required standards met and deliver creative output and marketing effectiveness.

Sal to £30-40,000 + Package

For more details on this exciting Front End Developer role, please apply and include your cv and portfolio/examples of sites worked on.

Senior PHP Developer £30-40k, Surrey

We’re working with an exciting new client, a startup brand backed by a leading name in eCommerce, which will be breaking through into the UK and International markets in 2010. They’re currently building an energetic new brand in the entertainment industry and aim to revolutionize the way we access and buy our entertainment media and digital assets.

They’re searching for a talented PHP Web Developer to join the team, someone that is passionate about Digital, Technology, Pushing technical and creative boundaries and have the ability to build technically challenging platforms and applications.

Skills:
- Hands on Developer with experience across the web.
- Ideally 3-6 years experience in web development using PHP for commercial websites
- Solid understanding of object oriented programming (and MVC Frameworks)
- Develop / maintain applications using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Excellent communication, team-work and problem solving skills
- SEO experience.
- Ensure required standards met and deliver creative output and marketing effectiveness.

Sal to £30-40,000 + Package

For more details on this exciting PHP Developer role, please apply and include your cv and portfolio/examples of sites worked on.

Flash / Actionscript Developer £40k, London

We’re working with a leading brand in online entertainment and gaming based in central London; they’re currently looking for a Flash / Actionscript Developer to join their London based development team.

They’re looking for a talented Flash / Actionscript developer to develop and maintain AS3 applications for a variety of interactive gaming environment and experiment with new tools as they arrive from this Adobe family of tool (ie AS3, AIR etc). The right candidate will ideally have worked in a role building games or interactive applications of another kind and be aware of the requirements that this market brings with it.

The Ideal candidate will be strongly skilled in, and have had previous professional experience with:
• ActionScript 3
• OOP PHP and design patterns
• Using a revision control system (such as SVN)
• Developing inside and outside the Flash IDE
• Developing image editing intensive applications
• Flash Player security model
• Multiple Application Domains
• Apache ANT or other build system

For more information on this opportunity to join in leading brand and challenge yourself in a demanding and rewarding role, please get in touch with you CV and be ready to talk about why you have the right skills!

Social Media Community Manager £30-40k London

We’re working with an exciting new client, a Leading online gaming business with a state of the art platform hosting hundreds of games available 24 hours a day. They’re currently looking for a Social Media Community Manager to work in-house to generate conversation in online communities about the games and products available in the store.

The Community Manager will manage the development and growth of our communities on social networks, blogs and forums ensuring that gaming brand is a leading and active member of all major networks on the internet.

Key Responsibilities
-Co-ordinating social media activities across departments and regions
-Creating and maintaining an engagement plan for all social media sites ensuring KPIs and performance goals are achieved
-Setting-up, customising, optimising, maintaining and updating accounts on social media platforms, blogs and forums
-Developing, engaging and growing communities across all social platforms
-Using the social media platforms to generate buzz and interest in gaming on the internet
-Measuring, monitoring and reporting on all social media activity
-Monitoring and managing social media mentions of the brand
-Working with social media manager to teach and mentor other departments on social media

Skills and Capabilities
-Educated to degree level or equivalent
-Comfortable and experienced in working with large brands
-In-depth knowledge of social media specifically in developing online communities
-Extensive knowledge of social media trends, strategies, platforms, tools and best practices
-Ability to develop and build strong working relationships with internal and third party service providers
-Display a strong customer and brand focused background with commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability
-Track record in innovating and adapting to the constantly changing nature of the internet
-Friendly, articulate and persuasive interpersonal style
-Motivated with a high energy level and strong work ethic
-Ability to work well under pressure and on own initiative
-Willing to work outside of normal office hours
-Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal)
-Demonstrate sound judgement and good instincts
-In depth knowledge and passion for online gaming

We’re looking for a talented digital marketing guru that has a skill and passion for social media and word of mouth, who will understand how blogs, discussions and tweets will impact traffic and the brand of their client and ultimately utilise the tools available to drive conversation about a brand or product.

Salary in the region of £30-40k

Word of Mouth Planner £22-27k (Social Media) London

We’re looking for Planner / Project Manager for one our most exciting and interesting clients. They’re a leading Word of Mouth Agency based in Central London who are responsible for engaging with customers and building online presence and drawing in traffic for the biggest brands in the UK and Worldwide.

The WOM Planner will be responsible for multiple projects and thrive on fixing and organising people, clients and campaigns!

We’re looking for someone who will confidently monitor progress and chase clients and internal stakeholders and be familiar with organising /tracking budgets, resource allocation, status reports and action management. Ideally we’re looking for someone that has worked in Social Media or understands the process of engaging with consumers via a number of new media and social media channels.

Skills:
- Managing projects from inception to delivery
- Maintaining and strengthening client relationships
- Coordinating complex team structures
- Daily client communication & loving
- Mapping out project planning, timings and deliverables
- Contributing to internal projects and self initiated work
- Building client relationships; listen to and understand individual client requirements and consistently meeting if not exceeding their expectations; understand their brand(s) and customers.
- Monitoring and understanding your clients’ markets; be aware of market issues and competitive activity.
- Commercial experience of Social Media.
- Familiar with market trends and emerging technologies.

We’re looking for someone that’s passionate about the Digital and Social Media industry! The role will be organisational across web and social media projects so a solid grounding and understanding of the area is essential.

Salary in the region of £22-27,000

Social Media Exec (Tech Brand) £20-25k London

We’re looking for a Community Exec for a leading brand in Social Media Marketing. They’re a leading Word of Mouth Agency based in Central London who are responsible for engaging with customers and building online presence and drawing in traffic for the biggest brands in the UK and Worldwide.

They’re looking for a hands-on Community Exec / Social Media Exec to generate conversation about new tech products for a leading mobile operator! The role is primarily about engaging with consumers via a number of social media and word of mouth channels.

Skills:
- To assist in forming brand presence within social media.
- To intrigue and excite social media voices.
- To assist in creating Social Media / WOM stimulation.
- To develop appropriate engagement activity.
- To develop creative in-space engagement.
- To create content for online platforms.
- To contribute creative ideas to further increase brand presence.
- To continuously develop knowledge of social media.
- Meticulous attention to detail and
- Regularly communicate with network of participants.
- Experience engaging with customers on behalf of a brand.
- Create online discussion on market issues / new products.
- Produce blogs, articles and reviews of the latest technology products.
- Online PR / Digital Marketing experience.
- Familiar with market trends and emerging technologies.
- Commercial experience of Social Media.

We’re looking for someone that’s passionate about engaging with customers! A talented PR / Marketing guru that will understands online conversation, how your blogs, discussions and tweets will impact traffic and the brand of their client and ultimately utilise the tools available to drive conversation about a brand or product.

Salary in the region of £20-25,000

Director Product Marketing – eServices/eCommerce £100k (Barcelona)

We’re working with a high-growth, technology-driven e-commerce company, who are looking for a Director Product Marketing focusing on the E-services product line in Europe. As a leader in the product marketing team, you will be engaged in bringing products from conceptualization to market, and evolving existing product lines. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, energetic, and constantly changing environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

In this exciting position you will grow and develop a small team focusing on the optimization and expansion of the product line. You will own the revenue target for this product line and will not only perform directed analysis of this product, but also proactively identify areas of opportunity, defining and implementing test plans, and making recommendations to drive the product strategy.
The successful candidate will be committed to building a comprehensive suite of products that will position the business as the clear leader in the market of customized electronic products for small businesses.

Responsibilities:
-Collaborate the North American E-Services team on product definition and requirements, pricing, promotions, content planning, QA, marketing and the development of a testing plan
-Define optimization and merchandising plan to increase take rate and manage churn
-Develop revenue forecasts and business cases for new products/product categories by working with Finance, Capabilities Development and Marketing
-Meet revenue goals for selected products by partnering with the channel managers
-Partner with the Direct Marketing Team to develop promotions, splash pages, offers and functionality that will help them meet their goals; develop a central marketing plan for new products with input from this team and project manage the implementation of this plan
-Conduct market research on new and existing products to drive pricing and functionality decisions, including competitive research, customer surveys, industry research, etc to feed into multi-year line road maps.
-Partner with the Analytics Team to identify ways to increase conversion rate (purchase rate), repeat rate and order values for existing products; develop metrics and manage plans to goal; develop forecasts for initiatives and work with Engineering and Marketing to implement changes and tests
-Manage and develop a team; recruit and grow team as needed to meet product objectives

Requirements:
-Bachelors degree required; preferred majors: Economics, Marketing, Business
-5-8 years relevant work experience, strong preference for experience in an ecommerce environment.
-Preference for experience with products like hosting, local search, web site building, email marketing etc
-Excellent analytical skills – ability to build excel models to aid in business decision-making
-Ability to derive actionable business insights from quantitative analysis
-Structured, logical thinking even when working in a fast-paced environment under tight timeframes
-Creative problem-solver
-Strong communication skills – both oral and written
-Self-starter with the ability to drive projects from inception to completion
-Excellent people manager that can build and motivate his team and bring them to new heights.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director, User Experience and Site Optimization £100k+ (Barcelona)

We’re recruiting a new, highly visible, strategic role for a senior marketing executive to lead and expand a European Content Strategy and Design team for a major International Brand. The Director of User Experience & Site Optimization will lead the European team of information architects, site optimization and usability specialists in developing world-class user interfaces based on iterative design, testing, and customer research.

The team leads user interface design for our 14 localized European web sites. Your objective is to drive improvements to conversion rate, average order value, and lifetime value of customers. That means you will develop and execute long-term strategies to enhance the site user experience and drive business performance. You will also conduct rapid-fire testing of new concepts in response to opportunities identified through our site optimization process. These opportunities are identified through such ongoing analysis as competitive research, usability studies, site metrics, customer feedback, employee suggestions, and others. You will develop business cases related to advancing the functionality, usability, and business performance of the website. You will liaise closely with our user experience and site optimization team in North America. You proactively track and communicate website business performance using internal reports and tools. This requires you to work closely with our site optimization and site marketing teams to identify short-term performance issues and long-term opportunities; suggest solutions that address customer and business goals.

Roles and Responsibilities Strategic Thought Leadership: Develop user experience strategies for new website capabilities; evolve critical areas of the website to improve the experience and drive business value. Foster innovation in user experience design to solve business problems while developing UI standards as needed to ensure consistency and drive efficient solution development. Create prototypes of future-state site interfaces (“vision-ware”) to gain alignment with executives, stakeholders, and partners. Represent the user experience team on the leadership team for several high-profile strategic initiatives.

Team Leadership and Growth: Build and lead a team of information architects and user experience specialists. Optimize team structure and scale the team as needed to meet demand for user experience design and customer research company-wide, including new products, new site functionality, partnerships, and strategic internal applications. Develop a scalable model for on-boarding new hires and a roadmap for the team’s continuous improvement and ability to leverage and adapt to new technologies.

Demand and Process Management: Oversee user experience staffing and manage demand for the team’s services, prioritizing as needed based on business value of various projects. Define, establish, extend, and communicate global user-centered processes and standards. Work closely with leaders globally from product marketing, web creative, and technology to optimize the process, deliverables, and standards.

Project Oversight: Ensure delivery of high quality, high performing user experiences through application of successful customer research and iterative concept testing. Provide direction, oversight, and quality assurance for team deliverables. As needed, play a hands-on role in design activities and customer research.

Communications: Communicate to executives and other key stakeholders the strategies driving the user experience, a vision and roadmap for future improvements, and provide ongoing status updates across initiatives. Serve as subject matter expert for user experience across the organization globally. Work closely with such internal partners as product marketing, creative, capabilities development, and our European user experience localization teams.

Requirements
We are looking for a seasoned user experience strategist and designer with a proven ability to deliver high performing user interfaces for e-commerce sites across Europe. Our candidate must be a hands-on, inspirational team leader with executive-level communications skills, strong business acumen, and ability to develop and articulate UE strategies and guide the creation of compelling user interfaces.

Qualifications and Experience:
-BA/BS degree in human-computer interaction or other relevant discipline, MBA desirable.
-7-10 years hands-on experience in information architecture or website interaction design, with 3-5 years leading user experience teams; consulting experience a plus.
-Solid understanding of user-centered design processes and ability to balance customer needs with business goals in developing solutions.
-Executive-level visioning, strategic development, and influencing skills and experience.
-Experience leading and/or observing user research and usability testing and in translating results into design decisions
-Ability to document designs in scenarios, workflows, site architectures, interaction notes, and page template/wireframe formats.
-Solid understanding of the relationship between successful user interface design and its effect on key e-commerce metrics that drive business value.
-Demonstrated ability to develop innovative solutions and apply cutting edge user interface techniques.
-Strong interpersonal, meeting facilitation and presentation skills. Ability to clearly articulate ideas through written, verbal, and visual communications.
-Inspirational team leader with experience building high performing teams.
-Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills.
-Data-oriented approach to iterative design and testing (can logically think through implementation of test designs, and draw conclusions from results)
-Ability to excel as both a team lead and individual contributor.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director Product Marketing – Consumer Products £100k (Barcelona)

We’re working with a high-growth, technology-driven e-commerce company, who are looking for a Director Product Marketing focusing on the Consumer product line. As the leader of this product marketing team, you will be engaged in bringing products from conceptualization to market, and evolving existing product lines. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, energetic, and constantly changing environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

In this exciting position you will manage a small team for the conceptualization, optimization and expansion of a Consumer & Promotional Product Line. You will own the revenue target for this product line and will not only perform directed analysis of this product, but also proactively identifying areas of opportunity, defining and implementing test plans, and making recommendations to drive the consumer product strategy. As manager of this team you set directions and motivate them to come up with innovative new products while improving existing ones. We are going head on with some strong competitors and you need to drive this team to excellence.

The successful candidate will be committed to building a comprehensive suite of products that will position the business as the clear leader in the market of customized products for consumers.

Responsibilities:
-Product definition and requirements, pricing, promotions, content planning, merchandising, QA, marketing and the development of a testing plan
-Develop revenue forecasts and business cases for new products/product categories by working with Finance, Capabilities Development, Marketing and Manufacturing
-Meet revenue goals for selected products by partnering with the channel managers
-Partner with the Direct Marketing Team to develop promotions, splash pages, offers and functionality that will help them meet their goals; develop a central marketing plan for new products with input from this team and project manage the implementation of this plan
-Conduct market research on new and existing products to drive pricing and functionality decisions, including competitive research, customer surveys, industry research, etc.
-Partner with the Analytics Team to identify ways to increase conversion rate (purchase rate), repeat rate and order values for existing products; develop metrics and manage plans to goal; develop forecasts for initiatives and work with Engineering, Marketing and Manufacturing to implement changes and tests
-Manage and develop a team; recruit and grow team as needed to meet product objectives

Requirements:
Bachelors degree required; preferred majors: Economics, Marketing, Business
10-12 years relevant work experience, strong preference for experience in an ecommerce environment.
Preference for experience with consumer products like photobooks, calenders etc
Excellent analytical skills – ability to build excel models to aid in business decision-making
Ability to derive actionable business insights from quantitative analysis
Structured, logical thinking even when working in a fast-paced environment under tight timeframes
Creative problem-solver
Strong communication skills – both oral and written
Self-starter with the ability to drive projects from inception to completion
Excellent people manager that can build and motivate his team and bring them to new heights.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director, European Content Strategy & Design £100k+ (Barcelona)

We’re recruiting a new, highly visible, strategic role for a senior marketing executive to lead and expand a European Content Strategy and Design team for a major International Brand. This team develops business strategies aimed at optimizing online design library to better meet the needs of our European customers while driving business value in the form of improved site conversion rate and average order value. Content consists of the thousands of designs we offer our customers to use in creating finished printed products.

To qualify for this exciting role you will have to be a very strong executive with a proven track record of driving value through customer centric strategies at a global company and have a unique blend of impressive analytic acumen and superior strategic thinking. By analyzing customer behaviour, evaluating key metrics, understanding market trends, and extensive testing, your talented team delivers on business objectives to optimize our European content strategy. It is your responsibility to recruit, train and manage those top performing talents. In this position you will also work with our site optimization teams to sponsor key website design initiatives aimed at optimizing design gallery performance and keyword search performance in order to improve conversion rates. The ultimate goal of this position is to turn content into a key competitive advantage, leading to increased conversion rates, revenue and noticeably higher customer satisfaction.

Roles and Responsibilities
Establish and drive content design strategy and optimize the design selection and keyword search in Europe
Define and track metrics that measure ease of customer design selection
Scale our existing European content strategy team, establishing long-term structure, roles and responsibilities, and processes
Establish a core team of content designers who will be responsible for creating design templates that meet the needs of European small businesses and consumers.
Prioritize projects using data analysis and forecasting techniques based on economic value to the company
Set metrics for measuring the success of new content after launch. Track and report new content sales results.
Track trends in key industries and among competitors. Conduct market research to use as input into overall strategy and creative briefs to Creative Team.
Coordinate with US-based content strategy and creative teams to optimize global/local strategies and ensure we maximize global value of our joint efforts.
Work with the Creative Team to generate new/upgraded content and get it posted to the websites on tight release schedules.
Work with User Experience Team to ensure that customers are able to find the content they are looking for and easily able to develop quality printed products with it—i.e. keywording and search, re-ranking of content, uploading pictures, development of new tools

Qualifications:
-10+ years of experience in a related field
-B.A. required, M.B.A. preferred
-Ideal experiences include advertising, promotion, or direct marketing agency experience, any kind of marcom experience, brand/corporate identity work, new product management.
-Strong experience in strategic development and analysis.
-Solid understanding of the European customer, including tastes and preferences
-High degree of creativity and good eye for style/design. You don’t need to be a graphic artist, but the position requires a balance of business/strategy skills and artistic sense.
-Adept at juggling multiple high-profile projects
-Comfortable in a tremendously fast-paced environment.
-Superior people skills and cross-functional relationship-building skills
-Excellent skills communicating to all levels of an organization
-Experience hiring, training, managing a large team of direct reports
-Some licensing/contract negotiation skills desirable.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Front End Developer £30-40k, Exciting Startup in Surrey

We’re working with an exciting new client, a startup brand backed by a leading name in eCommerce, which will be breaking through into the UK and International markets in 2010. They’re currently building an energetic new brand in the entertainment industry and aim to revolutionize the way we access and buy our entertainment media and digital assets.

They’re searching for a talented Front End Developer to join the team, someone that is passionate about Digital, Technology, Pushing technical and creative boundaries and have the ability to build technically challenging platforms and applications.

Skills:
- Hands on Developer with experience across the web.
- Ideally 3-6 years experience in web development using Advanced HTML, CSS and Javascript for commercial websites
- Familiar working in a LAMP Environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Excellent communication, team-work and problem solving skills
- Excellent SEO experience.
- Ensure required standards met and deliver creative output and marketing effectiveness.

Sal to £30-40,000 + Package

For more details on this exciting Front End Developer role, please apply and include your cv and portfolio/examples of sites worked on.

Senior PHP Developer £30-40k, Surrey

We’re working with an exciting new client, a startup brand backed by a leading name in eCommerce, which will be breaking through into the UK and International markets in 2010. They’re currently building an energetic new brand in the entertainment industry and aim to revolutionize the way we access and buy our entertainment media and digital assets.

They’re searching for a talented PHP Web Developer to join the team, someone that is passionate about Digital, Technology, Pushing technical and creative boundaries and have the ability to build technically challenging platforms and applications.

Skills:
- Hands on Developer with experience across the web.
- Ideally 3-6 years experience in web development using PHP for commercial websites
- Solid understanding of object oriented programming (and MVC Frameworks)
- Develop / maintain applications using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Excellent communication, team-work and problem solving skills
- SEO experience.
- Ensure required standards met and deliver creative output and marketing effectiveness.

Sal to £30-40,000 + Package

For more details on this exciting PHP Developer role, please apply and include your cv and portfolio/examples of sites worked on.

Flash / Actionscript Developer £40k, London

We’re working with a leading brand in online entertainment and gaming based in central London; they’re currently looking for a Flash / Actionscript Developer to join their London based development team.

They’re looking for a talented Flash / Actionscript developer to develop and maintain AS3 applications for a variety of interactive gaming environment and experiment with new tools as they arrive from this Adobe family of tool (ie AS3, AIR etc). The right candidate will ideally have worked in a role building games or interactive applications of another kind and be aware of the requirements that this market brings with it.

The Ideal candidate will be strongly skilled in, and have had previous professional experience with:
• ActionScript 3
• OOP PHP and design patterns
• Using a revision control system (such as SVN)
• Developing inside and outside the Flash IDE
• Developing image editing intensive applications
• Flash Player security model
• Multiple Application Domains
• Apache ANT or other build system

For more information on this opportunity to join in leading brand and challenge yourself in a demanding and rewarding role, please get in touch with you CV and be ready to talk about why you have the right skills!

Social Media Community Manager £30-40k London

We’re working with an exciting new client, a Leading online gaming business with a state of the art platform hosting hundreds of games available 24 hours a day. They’re currently looking for a Social Media Community Manager to work in-house to generate conversation in online communities about the games and products available in the store.

The Community Manager will manage the development and growth of our communities on social networks, blogs and forums ensuring that gaming brand is a leading and active member of all major networks on the internet.

Key Responsibilities
-Co-ordinating social media activities across departments and regions
-Creating and maintaining an engagement plan for all social media sites ensuring KPIs and performance goals are achieved
-Setting-up, customising, optimising, maintaining and updating accounts on social media platforms, blogs and forums
-Developing, engaging and growing communities across all social platforms
-Using the social media platforms to generate buzz and interest in gaming on the internet
-Measuring, monitoring and reporting on all social media activity
-Monitoring and managing social media mentions of the brand
-Working with social media manager to teach and mentor other departments on social media

Skills and Capabilities
-Educated to degree level or equivalent
-Comfortable and experienced in working with large brands
-In-depth knowledge of social media specifically in developing online communities
-Extensive knowledge of social media trends, strategies, platforms, tools and best practices
-Ability to develop and build strong working relationships with internal and third party service providers
-Display a strong customer and brand focused background with commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability
-Track record in innovating and adapting to the constantly changing nature of the internet
-Friendly, articulate and persuasive interpersonal style
-Motivated with a high energy level and strong work ethic
-Ability to work well under pressure and on own initiative
-Willing to work outside of normal office hours
-Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal)
-Demonstrate sound judgement and good instincts
-In depth knowledge and passion for online gaming

We’re looking for a talented digital marketing guru that has a skill and passion for social media and word of mouth, who will understand how blogs, discussions and tweets will impact traffic and the brand of their client and ultimately utilise the tools available to drive conversation about a brand or product.

Salary in the region of £30-40k

Word of Mouth Planner £22-27k (Social Media) London

We’re looking for Planner / Project Manager for one our most exciting and interesting clients. They’re a leading Word of Mouth Agency based in Central London who are responsible for engaging with customers and building online presence and drawing in traffic for the biggest brands in the UK and Worldwide.

The WOM Planner will be responsible for multiple projects and thrive on fixing and organising people, clients and campaigns!

We’re looking for someone who will confidently monitor progress and chase clients and internal stakeholders and be familiar with organising /tracking budgets, resource allocation, status reports and action management. Ideally we’re looking for someone that has worked in Social Media or understands the process of engaging with consumers via a number of new media and social media channels.

Skills:
- Managing projects from inception to delivery
- Maintaining and strengthening client relationships
- Coordinating complex team structures
- Daily client communication & loving
- Mapping out project planning, timings and deliverables
- Contributing to internal projects and self initiated work
- Building client relationships; listen to and understand individual client requirements and consistently meeting if not exceeding their expectations; understand their brand(s) and customers.
- Monitoring and understanding your clients’ markets; be aware of market issues and competitive activity.
- Commercial experience of Social Media.
- Familiar with market trends and emerging technologies.

We’re looking for someone that’s passionate about the Digital and Social Media industry! The role will be organisational across web and social media projects so a solid grounding and understanding of the area is essential.

Salary in the region of £22-27,000

Social Media Exec (Tech Brand) £20-25k London

We’re looking for a Community Exec for a leading brand in Social Media Marketing. They’re a leading Word of Mouth Agency based in Central London who are responsible for engaging with customers and building online presence and drawing in traffic for the biggest brands in the UK and Worldwide.

They’re looking for a hands-on Community Exec / Social Media Exec to generate conversation about new tech products for a leading mobile operator! The role is primarily about engaging with consumers via a number of social media and word of mouth channels.

Skills:
- To assist in forming brand presence within social media.
- To intrigue and excite social media voices.
- To assist in creating Social Media / WOM stimulation.
- To develop appropriate engagement activity.
- To develop creative in-space engagement.
- To create content for online platforms.
- To contribute creative ideas to further increase brand presence.
- To continuously develop knowledge of social media.
- Meticulous attention to detail and
- Regularly communicate with network of participants.
- Experience engaging with customers on behalf of a brand.
- Create online discussion on market issues / new products.
- Produce blogs, articles and reviews of the latest technology products.
- Online PR / Digital Marketing experience.
- Familiar with market trends and emerging technologies.
- Commercial experience of Social Media.

We’re looking for someone that’s passionate about engaging with customers! A talented PR / Marketing guru that will understands online conversation, how your blogs, discussions and tweets will impact traffic and the brand of their client and ultimately utilise the tools available to drive conversation about a brand or product.

Salary in the region of £20-25,000

Director Product Marketing – eServices/eCommerce £100k (Barcelona)

We’re working with a high-growth, technology-driven e-commerce company, who are looking for a Director Product Marketing focusing on the E-services product line in Europe. As a leader in the product marketing team, you will be engaged in bringing products from conceptualization to market, and evolving existing product lines. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, energetic, and constantly changing environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

In this exciting position you will grow and develop a small team focusing on the optimization and expansion of the product line. You will own the revenue target for this product line and will not only perform directed analysis of this product, but also proactively identify areas of opportunity, defining and implementing test plans, and making recommendations to drive the product strategy.
The successful candidate will be committed to building a comprehensive suite of products that will position the business as the clear leader in the market of customized electronic products for small businesses.

Responsibilities:
-Collaborate the North American E-Services team on product definition and requirements, pricing, promotions, content planning, QA, marketing and the development of a testing plan
-Define optimization and merchandising plan to increase take rate and manage churn
-Develop revenue forecasts and business cases for new products/product categories by working with Finance, Capabilities Development and Marketing
-Meet revenue goals for selected products by partnering with the channel managers
-Partner with the Direct Marketing Team to develop promotions, splash pages, offers and functionality that will help them meet their goals; develop a central marketing plan for new products with input from this team and project manage the implementation of this plan
-Conduct market research on new and existing products to drive pricing and functionality decisions, including competitive research, customer surveys, industry research, etc to feed into multi-year line road maps.
-Partner with the Analytics Team to identify ways to increase conversion rate (purchase rate), repeat rate and order values for existing products; develop metrics and manage plans to goal; develop forecasts for initiatives and work with Engineering and Marketing to implement changes and tests
-Manage and develop a team; recruit and grow team as needed to meet product objectives

Requirements:
-Bachelors degree required; preferred majors: Economics, Marketing, Business
-5-8 years relevant work experience, strong preference for experience in an ecommerce environment.
-Preference for experience with products like hosting, local search, web site building, email marketing etc
-Excellent analytical skills – ability to build excel models to aid in business decision-making
-Ability to derive actionable business insights from quantitative analysis
-Structured, logical thinking even when working in a fast-paced environment under tight timeframes
-Creative problem-solver
-Strong communication skills – both oral and written
-Self-starter with the ability to drive projects from inception to completion
-Excellent people manager that can build and motivate his team and bring them to new heights.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director, User Experience and Site Optimization £100k+ (Barcelona)

We’re recruiting a new, highly visible, strategic role for a senior marketing executive to lead and expand a European Content Strategy and Design team for a major International Brand. The Director of User Experience & Site Optimization will lead the European team of information architects, site optimization and usability specialists in developing world-class user interfaces based on iterative design, testing, and customer research.

The team leads user interface design for our 14 localized European web sites. Your objective is to drive improvements to conversion rate, average order value, and lifetime value of customers. That means you will develop and execute long-term strategies to enhance the site user experience and drive business performance. You will also conduct rapid-fire testing of new concepts in response to opportunities identified through our site optimization process. These opportunities are identified through such ongoing analysis as competitive research, usability studies, site metrics, customer feedback, employee suggestions, and others. You will develop business cases related to advancing the functionality, usability, and business performance of the website. You will liaise closely with our user experience and site optimization team in North America. You proactively track and communicate website business performance using internal reports and tools. This requires you to work closely with our site optimization and site marketing teams to identify short-term performance issues and long-term opportunities; suggest solutions that address customer and business goals.

Roles and Responsibilities Strategic Thought Leadership: Develop user experience strategies for new website capabilities; evolve critical areas of the website to improve the experience and drive business value. Foster innovation in user experience design to solve business problems while developing UI standards as needed to ensure consistency and drive efficient solution development. Create prototypes of future-state site interfaces (“vision-ware”) to gain alignment with executives, stakeholders, and partners. Represent the user experience team on the leadership team for several high-profile strategic initiatives.

Team Leadership and Growth: Build and lead a team of information architects and user experience specialists. Optimize team structure and scale the team as needed to meet demand for user experience design and customer research company-wide, including new products, new site functionality, partnerships, and strategic internal applications. Develop a scalable model for on-boarding new hires and a roadmap for the team’s continuous improvement and ability to leverage and adapt to new technologies.

Demand and Process Management: Oversee user experience staffing and manage demand for the team’s services, prioritizing as needed based on business value of various projects. Define, establish, extend, and communicate global user-centered processes and standards. Work closely with leaders globally from product marketing, web creative, and technology to optimize the process, deliverables, and standards.

Project Oversight: Ensure delivery of high quality, high performing user experiences through application of successful customer research and iterative concept testing. Provide direction, oversight, and quality assurance for team deliverables. As needed, play a hands-on role in design activities and customer research.

Communications: Communicate to executives and other key stakeholders the strategies driving the user experience, a vision and roadmap for future improvements, and provide ongoing status updates across initiatives. Serve as subject matter expert for user experience across the organization globally. Work closely with such internal partners as product marketing, creative, capabilities development, and our European user experience localization teams.

Requirements
We are looking for a seasoned user experience strategist and designer with a proven ability to deliver high performing user interfaces for e-commerce sites across Europe. Our candidate must be a hands-on, inspirational team leader with executive-level communications skills, strong business acumen, and ability to develop and articulate UE strategies and guide the creation of compelling user interfaces.

Qualifications and Experience:
-BA/BS degree in human-computer interaction or other relevant discipline, MBA desirable.
-7-10 years hands-on experience in information architecture or website interaction design, with 3-5 years leading user experience teams; consulting experience a plus.
-Solid understanding of user-centered design processes and ability to balance customer needs with business goals in developing solutions.
-Executive-level visioning, strategic development, and influencing skills and experience.
-Experience leading and/or observing user research and usability testing and in translating results into design decisions
-Ability to document designs in scenarios, workflows, site architectures, interaction notes, and page template/wireframe formats.
-Solid understanding of the relationship between successful user interface design and its effect on key e-commerce metrics that drive business value.
-Demonstrated ability to develop innovative solutions and apply cutting edge user interface techniques.
-Strong interpersonal, meeting facilitation and presentation skills. Ability to clearly articulate ideas through written, verbal, and visual communications.
-Inspirational team leader with experience building high performing teams.
-Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills.
-Data-oriented approach to iterative design and testing (can logically think through implementation of test designs, and draw conclusions from results)
-Ability to excel as both a team lead and individual contributor.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director Product Marketing – Consumer Products £100k (Barcelona)

We’re working with a high-growth, technology-driven e-commerce company, who are looking for a Director Product Marketing focusing on the Consumer product line. As the leader of this product marketing team, you will be engaged in bringing products from conceptualization to market, and evolving existing product lines. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, energetic, and constantly changing environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

In this exciting position you will manage a small team for the conceptualization, optimization and expansion of a Consumer & Promotional Product Line. You will own the revenue target for this product line and will not only perform directed analysis of this product, but also proactively identifying areas of opportunity, defining and implementing test plans, and making recommendations to drive the consumer product strategy. As manager of this team you set directions and motivate them to come up with innovative new products while improving existing ones. We are going head on with some strong competitors and you need to drive this team to excellence.

The successful candidate will be committed to building a comprehensive suite of products that will position the business as the clear leader in the market of customized products for consumers.

Responsibilities:
-Product definition and requirements, pricing, promotions, content planning, merchandising, QA, marketing and the development of a testing plan
-Develop revenue forecasts and business cases for new products/product categories by working with Finance, Capabilities Development, Marketing and Manufacturing
-Meet revenue goals for selected products by partnering with the channel managers
-Partner with the Direct Marketing Team to develop promotions, splash pages, offers and functionality that will help them meet their goals; develop a central marketing plan for new products with input from this team and project manage the implementation of this plan
-Conduct market research on new and existing products to drive pricing and functionality decisions, including competitive research, customer surveys, industry research, etc.
-Partner with the Analytics Team to identify ways to increase conversion rate (purchase rate), repeat rate and order values for existing products; develop metrics and manage plans to goal; develop forecasts for initiatives and work with Engineering, Marketing and Manufacturing to implement changes and tests
-Manage and develop a team; recruit and grow team as needed to meet product objectives

Requirements:
Bachelors degree required; preferred majors: Economics, Marketing, Business
10-12 years relevant work experience, strong preference for experience in an ecommerce environment.
Preference for experience with consumer products like photobooks, calenders etc
Excellent analytical skills – ability to build excel models to aid in business decision-making
Ability to derive actionable business insights from quantitative analysis
Structured, logical thinking even when working in a fast-paced environment under tight timeframes
Creative problem-solver
Strong communication skills – both oral and written
Self-starter with the ability to drive projects from inception to completion
Excellent people manager that can build and motivate his team and bring them to new heights.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Director, European Content Strategy & Design £100k+ (Barcelona)

We’re recruiting a new, highly visible, strategic role for a senior marketing executive to lead and expand a European Content Strategy and Design team for a major International Brand. This team develops business strategies aimed at optimizing online design library to better meet the needs of our European customers while driving business value in the form of improved site conversion rate and average order value. Content consists of the thousands of designs we offer our customers to use in creating finished printed products.

To qualify for this exciting role you will have to be a very strong executive with a proven track record of driving value through customer centric strategies at a global company and have a unique blend of impressive analytic acumen and superior strategic thinking. By analyzing customer behaviour, evaluating key metrics, understanding market trends, and extensive testing, your talented team delivers on business objectives to optimize our European content strategy. It is your responsibility to recruit, train and manage those top performing talents. In this position you will also work with our site optimization teams to sponsor key website design initiatives aimed at optimizing design gallery performance and keyword search performance in order to improve conversion rates. The ultimate goal of this position is to turn content into a key competitive advantage, leading to increased conversion rates, revenue and noticeably higher customer satisfaction.

Roles and Responsibilities
Establish and drive content design strategy and optimize the design selection and keyword search in Europe
Define and track metrics that measure ease of customer design selection
Scale our existing European content strategy team, establishing long-term structure, roles and responsibilities, and processes
Establish a core team of content designers who will be responsible for creating design templates that meet the needs of European small businesses and consumers.
Prioritize projects using data analysis and forecasting techniques based on economic value to the company
Set metrics for measuring the success of new content after launch. Track and report new content sales results.
Track trends in key industries and among competitors. Conduct market research to use as input into overall strategy and creative briefs to Creative Team.
Coordinate with US-based content strategy and creative teams to optimize global/local strategies and ensure we maximize global value of our joint efforts.
Work with the Creative Team to generate new/upgraded content and get it posted to the websites on tight release schedules.
Work with User Experience Team to ensure that customers are able to find the content they are looking for and easily able to develop quality printed products with it—i.e. keywording and search, re-ranking of content, uploading pictures, development of new tools

Qualifications:
-10+ years of experience in a related field
-B.A. required, M.B.A. preferred
-Ideal experiences include advertising, promotion, or direct marketing agency experience, any kind of marcom experience, brand/corporate identity work, new product management.
-Strong experience in strategic development and analysis.
-Solid understanding of the European customer, including tastes and preferences
-High degree of creativity and good eye for style/design. You don’t need to be a graphic artist, but the position requires a balance of business/strategy skills and artistic sense.
-Adept at juggling multiple high-profile projects
-Comfortable in a tremendously fast-paced environment.
-Superior people skills and cross-functional relationship-building skills
-Excellent skills communicating to all levels of an organization
-Experience hiring, training, managing a large team of direct reports
-Some licensing/contract negotiation skills desirable.

If you’re interested in leading a major International brand then please do get in touch for more information.

Salary in the region of £100k + £30k Bonus + Relocation expenses (based in Barcelona)

Front End Developer £30-40k, Exciting Startup in Surrey

We’re working with an exciting new client, a startup brand backed by a leading name in eCommerce, which will be breaking through into the UK and International markets in 2010. They’re currently building an energetic new brand in the entertainment industry and aim to revolutionize the way we access and buy our entertainment media and digital assets.

They’re searching for a talented Front End Developer to join the team, someone that is passionate about Digital, Technology, Pushing technical and creative boundaries and have the ability to build technically challenging platforms and applications.

Skills:
- Hands on Developer with experience across the web.
- Ideally 3-6 years experience in web development using Advanced HTML, CSS and Javascript for commercial websites
- Familiar working in a LAMP Environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Excellent communication, team-work and problem solving skills
- Excellent SEO experience.
- Ensure required standards met and deliver creative output and marketing effectiveness.

Sal to £30-40,000 + Package

For more details on this exciting Front End Developer role, please apply and include your cv and portfolio/examples of sites worked on.

Senior PHP Developer £30-40k, Surrey

We’re working with an exciting new client, a startup brand backed by a leading name in eCommerce, which will be breaking through into the UK and International markets in 2010. They’re currently building an energetic new brand in the entertainment industry and aim to revolutionize the way we access and buy our entertainment media and digital assets.

They’re searching for a talented PHP Web Developer to join the team, someone that is passionate about Digital, Technology, Pushing technical and creative boundaries and have the ability to build technically challenging platforms and applications.

Skills:
- Hands on Developer with experience across the web.
- Ideally 3-6 years experience in web development using PHP for commercial websites
- Solid understanding of object oriented programming (and MVC Frameworks)
- Develop / maintain applications using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Excellent communication, team-work and problem solving skills
- SEO experience.
- Ensure required standards met and deliver creative output and marketing effectiveness.

Sal to £30-40,000 + Package

For more details on this exciting PHP Developer role, please apply and include your cv and portfolio/examples of sites worked on.

Flash / Actionscript Developer £40k, London

We’re working with a leading brand in online entertainment and gaming based in central London; they’re currently looking for a Flash / Actionscript Developer to join their London based development team.

They’re looking for a talented Flash / Actionscript developer to develop and maintain AS3 applications for a variety of interactive gaming environment and experiment with new tools as they arrive from this Adobe family of tool (ie AS3, AIR etc). The right candidate will ideally have worked in a role building games or interactive applications of another kind and be aware of the requirements that this market brings with it.

The Ideal candidate will be strongly skilled in, and have had previous professional experience with:
• ActionScript 3
• OOP PHP and design patterns
• Using a revision control system (such as SVN)
• Developing inside and outside the Flash IDE
• Developing image editing intensive applications
• Flash Player security model
• Multiple Application Domains
• Apache ANT or other build system

For more information on this opportunity to join in leading brand and challenge yourself in a demanding and rewarding role, please get in touch with you CV and be ready to talk about why you have the right skills!