Traffic Manager

What we need:
We are looking for super organised, confident, process driven, proactive, logical thinker to fill the role of Traffic Manager. From conception to execution you’ll need to be able to liaise with client services, project managers & production to ensure work is moving from department to department within a set timeframe for that phase and finished on time, within budget.

You will have ideally worked as a Traffic/Studio Manager in a agency environment for 2-3 years and ideally had experience with Synergist (www.synergist.co.uk) as well as an understanding of the project lifecycle within a digital environment.

You must also possess excellent oral and written communication skills, be highly organised, interpersonal, comfortable with multitasking and be flexible and adaptable to rapid change.

Key Responsibilities:
You’ll be holding weekly status meetings, monitoring processes to ensure they are adhered to and reporting any issues to the relevant parties.

You’ll also be working with the senior team to improve project delivery, ensuring processes are adhered to while identifying potential resource gaps with resource planning in line with business requirements and project deliverables.

- Producing weekly/monthly forecasts reporting on capacity, overrunning jobs etc.
- Daily/weekly schedules for 15-20 staff.
- Maintaining and communicating the project delivery schedule to all relevant teams.
- Managing ad-hoc or ( and not being phased by) unplanned project resource requests effectively and efficiently through the studio.
- Checking time sheets are completed.

What you’ll get:
- Working in a fast paced creative environment in a fantastic Grade II character studio
- Regular training, conference & exhibitions for you to attend
- Well stocked bookshelves with space for other books you’d like us to add
- Summer holiday weekend event
- A studio with a full fridge, proper coffee machine and lots of fruit and snacks
- Free gym membership, or annual cinema pass or subscription to Spotify
- Invitation into the company profit share scheme after 1 year.

Progression:
Head of Traffic
Creative Services Manager

Applying

If you'd like to apply for this job then please attach your CV and send to jobs@383project.com

Middle Weight Designer

We’re on the hunt for a middleweight designer to join the growing creative team at 383 Project. If you think you tick the following boxes, then drop us a line and include your portfolio and relevant experience.

- Strong digital edge with a solid understanding of interaction design.
- An interest in user experience and the ability to work with a developer from wireframes through to final execution. This doesn’t mean you need to code, but it does mean you’ll know the parameters a developer works within and be a UX whizz.
- Experience designing the following; Facebook apps/tabs, iOS and mobile, web.
- Experience and understanding of campaign driven advertising work.
- An aptitude for taking a big above the line brand message and activating that cleverly within digital.
- A knowledge and understanding of different design mediums including some print.

Nice to have’s would also include;
- An ability to explain sketch/illustrate ideas quickly
- Experience with motion work (After effects)
- Experience on photo and video shots and with production.

What we’re not after
- Coders.
- Those with pre-dominantly print backgrounds
- A portfolio which is weighted heavily towards branding.

Applying

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Search Engine Marketing Exec / Content Strategist

Manage ongoing day to day activity for SEO (on page, off page) and PPC (account set up, bid management and conversion optimisation).

Up-sell the service into new and existing clients and input into proposal documents.

To research and report on the key words and phrases to be targeted, agree the correct selection with the client and work with the in-house team to deliver.

Deliver improved search capabilities into web builds and campaigns for clients.

Produce reports on search criteria and performance against competitors with suggestions for improvements.

Plan and source content around the right link/content strategy.

Work with IA/Design/Dev team to ensure that what we build is optimised and generally improve our standards around building for Search.

Offer insight as part of a broader campaign piece for clients – how to drive traffic linked to specific campaigns (not just search engines but from Social).

Stay on top of current trends in Search and share this with the team.

Improve agency websites performance on search engines.

Experience in the following areas:

Content Strategist / SEO

PPC
- PPC Campaign (managed)
- Reporting Ranking
- Facebook Ads
- Conversion Optimisation
- E-Commerce Journey

SEO
- On page SEO
- SEO Ranking monitoring
- Link Building of page

Analytics
- Reporting
- Competitor Analysis
- Keyword research

New business
- Pitch
- Research

Development
- Implement frontend change

Content
- Sitemap planning
- Sourcing content
- Content expiration

Insight / Opportunities

Changing internal processes

Content
- Sitemap
- Content Audit

Applying

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Project Manager

We’re a dynamic and forward thinking agency made up of talented thinkers and doers with an enviable client base spanning fashion, automotive, media and government. Based in a stunning studio in the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery quarter, we help our clients to create meaningful reasons for people to love brands. These reasons deliver tangible and often award-winning results.

With our client list growing rapidly, we’re looking for a talented (and occasionally geeky) project manager to join our team. With plenty of room to grow professionally, an atmosphere that encourages entrepreneurialism and special clients who trust us with their brands, you’ll be coming on board at an exceptionally exciting time.

You will be a strong organiser, capable of developing relationships and maintaining commercial awareness. You will be responsible for managing and delivering a range of development projects including sites, applications and campaigns with an obsessive eye for detail. You will co-ordinate projects and resources to ensure that our award winning work is delivered on time and within budget. Working to help shape the creative, technical and strategic direction of projects, you will create and maintain project plans ensuring that both internal and external teams are kept up to date.

Key duties will include:

• forming water-tight project proposals and detailed schedules
• closely monitoring, managing and reporting on project timelines
• ensuring stringent quality assurance processes are adhered to
• managing and prioritising client requests and work requirements
• preparing status and contact reports for client meetings

Previous experience with working on complex digital projects, a project management qualification and a minimum of one years experience with an interactive agency are preferred. Naturally you’ll live digital and breathe creativity, a passion for both is crucial.

Applying

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Web Developer

383 Project are looking for a talented PHP developer to join our ever growing team. You’ll be part of a team who strive for perfection, delivering results that exceed client expectations and are more importantly delivered on time.

You won’t shy away from coming up with new ideas and will work well in a team consisting of designers, strategists and front end developers.

We’re after an enthusiastic individual who enjoys building their own projects (examples will be required) and can talk passionately about their work and career goals. For the interview process we require all candidates to create a simple Facebook application that does something interesting with a status update and image of a user.

Ideally you’ll have at least 3 years experience in an agency and will have a Computer Science, or Multimedia based degree or qualification. Whilst not essential, a knowledge of ActionScript 3 or Objective C would make you stand out from the crowd.

We work mainly with WordPress, CodeIgniter and our own custom built Facebook framework, so a good understanding of OOP practices is a must, aswell as experience building on the Facebook platform.

Working as part of a team means that you will often be working with another developer on the same project so a working knowledge of GIT (and SVN for some of our older projects) is essential.

As well as being a pro with PHP, you’ll also need to have command line knowledge, knowing your way around at least Ubuntu, CentOS and RedHat and have the ability to set up a server from scratch. Not critical, but desirable is a working knowledge of Amazon Web Services, notably EC2 and S3. With regards to databases, we use MySQL and MongoDB and run our sites on either Apache or nginx. You should be able to configure Apache at least, whilst nginx would be a bonus.

We build highly scalable apps for some well known global brands, so being able to use memcache, ec2, and varnish together to ensure high availability is something you should have experience in.

Whilst we have front end developers at 383 Project who will take care of turning a PSD into standards compliant markup, you should have expert knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript and well as being able to edit PSDs.

Required experience:

• Expert knowledge of LAMP.
• Expert knowledge of (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (particularly the jQuery library).
• Prior experience of developing for WordPress (themes and plugins)
• Experience with other server-side languages and web frameworks.
• A working knowledge of Photoshop & Flash Actionscript is a bonus.

Applying

If you'd like to apply for this job then please attach your CV and send to jobs@383project.com