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Head of Technical

J Walter Thompson Co Ltd

  • Company Industries:Advertising / Public Relations / Marketing Services

Job Information

  • Post Date:2017-02-16
  • Career Level:Senior
  • Location:Not Specified
  • Salary:Salary negotiable
  • Employment Type:Full Time, Permanent
  • Job Function:Testing / QA  Technical / Functional Consulting  Technical Writing  

Job Description

Reporting to the Director of Digital with a dotted reporting line to the Chairman of J. Walter Thompson Hong Kong. You will lead, manage, and oversee our technical development team, You will have a leadership role in our operations team, and will play a critical part in our continued growth and success.  Our ideal candidate will have a strong track record of building and leading technical development teams in agency with sounds and solid hands-on experience plus team management skills.

You will lead a young and talented team for the following:

 

Digital Marketing Communication Solution Delivery and Development

  • Oversee and manage programming production process, including managing other technical partners, identify/review vendors and potential partners. Performs code reviews and mentors junior developers.
  • Work closely with Account servicing & project team to assign work to staff members to maximize quality and efficiency by leveraging diverse skill sets of the department.
  • Work on budgets/costs, schedules and set goals/milestones for deliverables, monitor and manage progress, overcome obstacles, and lead team in delivering project on time and on budget.
  • Deliver quality work in accordance with industry standards under tight timeline and multitasking environment
  • Draft and implement test plan for various scale of projects.
  • Liaise directly with select clients for fulfillment of select projects.

 

Technical Expertise at the heart of the creative process

  • Actively explore latest technical best practice, trends and technology for digital marketing communication on web, mobile and beyond (e.g. touch technology, interactive TV)
  • Work closely with creative and translate the technical skill which sets inspirational ideas during brainstorming process
  • Base on your programming skills and trends knowledge, you should lead the team to develop coding designs and prototypes into cross-browser and cross-platform HTML5/CSS/JS with the emphasis on new technologies and progressive enhancement.
  • Confident in all the ins and outs of getting designs to work in a wide range of browsers from PC to mobile
  • A team player and love to collaborate, technical will be at the heart of the creative process in JWT, a good appreciation of usability and interaction design will be required.

 

Team Management

  • Hold regular status meetings with development team.
  • Facilitate effective team interaction.
  • Conduct performance review to your staffs
  • Effectively utilize each team member to his/her fullest potential.
  • Keep track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with team members.

 

About you

  • At least 7 years hands-on programming experience in pure play digital agency or 4As, which 2 years are at team leadership position.
  • Front end skills
    • Knowledgable in various programming languages ( e.g. HTML5 , CSS3 , PHP , ASP , AS3, JQuery) , understands the benefits of the various programming languages.
    • Confident developing within the Facebook page tab environment, developing applications and integrating with the Facebook graph API.
    • Have expert experience with accessibility, cross browser requirements, and progressive enhancement;
    • Understands techniques to improve search engine optimization
    • Experience working with digital video as source material
    • Intuitive about UX, with an eye for design.
    • Experienced in responsive web design, working mobile first, as well as modular design and code patterns
    • Understands web accessibility standards and their implementation methods
    • Possesses significant knowledge of bandwidth measuring/estimation techniques
  • Backend skills
    • Understands complex database concepts and effectively employs different database design techniques.
    • Proficient with PHP, MySQL and basic server-side technology.
    • Possesses significant knowledge of client/server and internet systems architectures.
  • Others
    • Have interest and/or knowledge in other emergent technologies.
    • Obsessive about detail
    • Able to function independently and still work well in a "team oriented" environment.
    • Self-motivated, and able to multi-task.
    • Able to take initiative to be productive and efficient, self-motivated and able to multi-task.
    • Able to be creative through the use of technology.
    • Experience in implementation of Adobe, Salesforce and other 3rd party solutions is a huge plus.

 

Interested candidates should forward their resume together with current and expected salary and contact number details to the Human Resources Manager at 38/F PCCW Tower, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong or by clicking "Apply Now"

All information received will be kept in strict confidentiality and only for employment-related purpose.

Company Info

A leading multinational advertising agency known for a wide portfolio of prestigious clients, a strong presence, as well as an outstanding brand building expertise.

We are looking for an Assistant Accountant who is cheerful and capable, responsible for daily routine accounting duties including preparation of bank payment, managing payable accounts, intercompany reporting, investment companies accounting books, reporting and other ad hoc assignments when required.

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