Digital Development Lead

Digital Development Lead

Wordsley, Stourbridge, DY8 4FA

Salary £30/35K based on experience

An opportunity to join a thriving and established design agency based near Stourbridge, West Midlands with a broad client base of both Blue Chip and SME clients.

We are looking for a digital maestro who can lead and develop this side of the business. From web development and site maintenance, through to digital asset creation, we have the scope to give the right candidate a chance to make the role their own and shape further development of the team.

About You:

You have several years digital development experience already under your belt and are looking for a chance to manage and build your own digital team.

You will be accustomed to agency life and happy to work on multiple projects.

You are happy working in a small team and ideally will come from a creative background.

You’ll likely enjoy design and aesthetic development and have a comprehensive understanding of how it can be translated technically for optimum results.

A great people person you will love meeting with clients, taking time to understand their brief and develop strategies that deliver results. 

You will be responsible for creating the infrastructure needed to grow digital sales and will work closely with the MD to achieve this.

We’re looking for: 

• Ability to translate existing designs / brand assets / print documents / visuals from studio into digital formats.
• Skills in HTML(5) and CSS(3)
• Experience working within Digital Design/Creative Design/UX Design/Graphic Design
• Excellent Adobe Creative Suite skills / Google Web Designer
• Excellent graphic design experience creating or altering graphics for use in websites, mobile, landing pages and programmatic banners
• Experience creating responsive and adaptive digital designs
• UX-UI Design skills and experience – customer client journey
• Experience creating and editing existing style guides
• Motion Graphic skills for social media advertising
• Mail Chimp and other CMS knowledge
• Experience of problem solving on multiple devices / browsers / iOS Android 
• Knowledge of server side setup / domain transfers / registrations / email accounts
• Excellent working knowledge of WordPress, Java Script, jQuery A track record of generating new business