Web Developer

Responsibilities
  • Develop highly interactive and robust user-facing features across desktop and mobile web platforms
  • Continually identify areas of opportunity to optimise client-side performance and scalability
  • Collaborate with product managers and other engineers and thrive on feedback, critique, and iteration

What we're looking for
  • Experience of writing code in one or more programming or scripting languages, such as PHP or JavaScript
  • Experience of working with open source technologies – Such as WordPress and Drupal
  • Experience with Front end frameworks such as Bootstrap or Foundation
  • Basic understanding of front-end performance tuning, best practices and techniques
  • Basic understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them
  • Extremely thorough, detail-oriented, organised, with the ability to be effective with your time.

SEO Specialist

Responsibilities
  • Be the in-house SEO expert and evangelize SEO best practices throughout the company, responding to issues and questions as they arise across product and marketing
  • Clearly define SEO requirements and recommend site enhancements designed to increase our average ranking and drive traffic, trials, new stores and revenue.
  • Maximize organic traffic growth by establishing a robust SEO target keyword list and working closely with marketing colleagues across all channels, including content, email, web, PR and social.

What we're looking for
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Strong presentation skills
  • A strong metrics-driven mind-set
  • Strong working knowledge of and proficiency with Web analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, MixPanel
  • Deep understanding of how search bots crawl websites
  • Good understanding of CMS environments such as WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal
  • Sound knowledge of HTML and CSS to identify code-based optimization opportunities


Social Media Manager

Responsibilities
  • Implement and grow the social media strategy that aligns with company goals and raises brand awareness, generates a positive buzz, creates conversation and ultimately delivers website visits and conversions (leads & signups)
  • Daily creation of targeted content for use across different social media outlets
  • Syndication of existing content across different social media outlets, amending for different audiences/platforms as necessary
  • Daily management, monitoring and evaluation (under supervision of Head of Communications) of the Group social media channels
  • Listening and reacting (when required) to segmented groups of customers, prospects, influencers and competitors
  • Drive measurable engagement across all social media channels and demonstrate the value on monthly basis
  • Develop new engagement programs for social media outlets and embrace new outlets for distributing content excellence based upon solid data driven decisions

What we're looking for
  • Proven track record of building and maintaining a loyal following across social media outlets by generating unique and relevant content for that environment, giving users a reason to become a fan and constantly engaging them
  • Success in generating results in the social media space and proficient in Google Analytics to track success of campaigns
  • Experience using social media monitoring and scheduling platforms
  • Obsessive true social media user and expert - across all major platforms
  • Consumer awareness - quick to understand a brand`s audience
  • Extensive knowledge of current and future channels
  • Excellent written, verbal and numeracy skills
  • Team player, hard-working with can-do attitude

Anyone interested and qualified should contact jack@designvillage.co.ke.