We Love is looking for a super talented Senior Tech Lead to join the family (Perm). To help grow the team’s technical and industry skills and take We Love to the next level.

You have been working in the industry for at least 7 years. Defining and shaping teams and projects. Making magic happen for top tier clients at top agencies. You know the pressures and complexities of the job and of a client’s needs. You know how to stay on top of it all – managing expectations and communicating them at every turn.

You will be working across a multitude of top tier clients and projects ranging from Apps to dotCOM to Campaign. You have a love of all things digital – see the beauty, reason, logic and commercial behind yours and others work. Someone who brings ideas to the table, and the processes to make them happen. You can see opportunity to improve and have a desire to do so. You want to develop the team and raise their game… You have a natural hunger for success and the desire to help develop the creative output across the company as a whole. You may be looking for the next step up in an agency that is going places.

This role is not all about management. You can handle a development from start to finish on your own or in a small team environment. You care about the Go Live and make sure that every pixel is perfect, every animation is thought through, every link is tested, so that at the end of the day you can leave the office proud of a job well done, knowing the code is as good as it possibly can be.

You understand commercial considerations, offering good insight into company development, while at the same time seeing technical solutions that can benefit the smallest of projects. You are visionary.

Technical Skills:
Front and backend superstar… with all the usual languages / skills. Obviously, you will have leanings… but show us what you got. We adapt to the right people.

Stuff we use…
AS3   //   Flash   //   HTML  & XHTML   //   Javascript and JQuery   //   CSS3   //   ASP.net   //   PHP   //   Python   //   Ruby (on Rails)

Be able to define and improve processes, as well as technical development, with the knowledge to document this. You are capable of QA your own work as well as your teams – always improving, always aware – and able to pass that learning on to others.

People skills:
You will be client facing, managing a team and responsible for inter-team communication. So being able to communicate – up, down and sideways – being able to listen, and know what to say and when, is an absolute necessity. You will be able to manage yours and your team’s time whilst ensuring a project’s plan, risks and status are fluidly communicated – keeping PM’s happy and the client even happier.

Stress? What stress? You’ve seen and done so much within this industry that nothing is going to surprise you.

And as always… a sense of humour is mandatory.

About We Love:
Born just two and a half years ago by two creatives, when agencies were playing the safe game, we had the vision to do things differently, letting our creative do the talking and the results speak for themselves. We create space for our staff to become the best they can possibly be… and then help them raise their game even further. We lead with intelligence, never leaving the creative process at home; we strategise, design and build thoughtful and robust digital for our clients. Always taking one step forward and changing the game.

We’ve already won numerous awards and accreditations, including: Chamber of Commerce ‘Most Promising New Business 2010′, we’ve been shortlisted for ‘Star Start Up’ in the HSBC awards and were placed No. 5 in the Top 100 Global Creative Agency Annual in 2009.

Our aim. To be a top 100 NMA agency by 2012. Leading the digital space and producing award winning work for our clients and ourselves.

Benefits:
• Good and competitive salary… especially for outside London
• Bonus scheme in place
• Training allocation per year
• Social events
• Pension scheme
• 5 a day fruit bowl
• Office massage
• Magazine subscriptions

Join our family. Apply now with CV and Folio >

Are you game? Are you ready to stop being a student? Do you want to kick start your career? If yes / yes / yes. Then you are ready for an internship here at We Love…

We are looking for people who are hungry for it. Who love the industry, who don’t want a bog standard 9 til 5, who have talent in buckets and want the opportunity to work with some proven gurus. To gain experience on real projects, work with real deadlines and budgets. To gain insight into this great industry of ours.

We are looking for 2 bright sparks. A designer and a developer, both must have a love of digital, a desire to learn and be brilliant. Internships will be a minimum of 3 months. You will work across a multitude of projects, taking ownership of some with guidance from others. There may even me a position offered at the end… who knows… it is your opportunity to shine!

Apply to James@welove72.com to join the We Love… Academy

Last Friday, I, along with several other Kent agency representatives, went to a Creative Strategy meeting organised by MediaTree and The Kent County Council. The objective: How best to strengthen Kent’s creative proposition in the short, mid and long term.

It was a good session that dealt with the issues of being ‘outside of London’, the diverse cultural variations of a large county, defining what makes working in Kent attractive (and what doesn’t), adopting European mindsets – where the focus of  an industry isn’t so centered around a single locale, getting creative at a grass routes level, Kent’s Brand (or lack of), identifying and retaining the talent and support from our local government to grow what is an already important industry to the county and country.

After years of working in London, as well as all over the world for top tier agencies, I walked away with even more conviction of what I already believe to be true – knowing that creative Kent has a growing and relatively untapped creative potential. And, as potential is core to success, that this should be explored via inter-agency thinking with council support to help activate and encourage ideas. That there are companies in Kent that are making a difference to our industry, that push boundaries without the blinkered and repetitive approach of many London based agencies. That here is a place that allows exploration of idea and space to grow. An alternative, and a good one at that.

That people who fail to understand what Kent has to offer, that beat the London drum far too loudly, are in fact intimidated by the challenge. Who wish to be just another number, rather than a valued player. Someone who hides behind others decisions and doesn’t really want to think for themselves. There is ample opportunity to work for the ‘Big Brands’ in Kent… and to ‘own the project’ with it. They just have to open their eyes.

I look forward to continuing these conversations with MediaTree, the KCC and likeminded agencies. Expect more. The Future is Digital Kent…

This has been pinging round the web for just a week… and already has over 7 million views…

Why… because this is completely brilliant piece of film. So hats off to Nike Football for commissioning it, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for conceptualising it, and Alejandro G Inarritu for directing it and making the beautiful game a little more beautiful…

I love it…

A big hello to Melissa who joined us this week as our resident copywriter extraordinaire.

She joins us after working at a multitude of agencies where she performed magic for NS&I, Friends Provident, Cancer Research and Lexus (among others)… oh and she likes coffee. Ace. Get them in!!

Due to our recent success in winning new work from new clients and more work from our existing ones we are looking for a couple more gurus to join the family (Full Time/Perm).

So if you are an ace digital copy writer who can work both campaign and dotCOM / help bring pitch work together / get right under the skin of a brand and bring it life / be happy writing headlines or body / brainstorm and concept / and generally be brilliant and have the room to be brilliant then please ping us a mail here with CV, salary expectations, examples of work.

And if you are a seriously bright UX / IA who can make a campaign sing or define dotCOM user experience – see beyond the norms and not just follow the crowd. If you have the ability to get to understand the technicalities of integration and work with 3rd parties, work with and inspire designers and developers, think at tangents as well as knowing when to be linear, can lead workshops and have experience of testing and client presentations… then do send your CV, salary expectations, examples of work to us.

work@welove72.com

I look forward to you joining…

Hi all, Long time no speak.

It has been super busy here at We Love… what with the Sony Ericsson 3GSM site going live and a few others to launch oh so very soon… (not forgetting to catch up on the PR of other work that has already launched / been delivered… but that is for another time…)

What this little digital gossip / heads up is all about is that we are now on the hunt for some new talent to join us at the manor… specifically a digital Snr Designer and a Snr Developer with the skillz to blow us away.

You must have agency experience and a few years under your belt, and know how it all works… You must illustrate creativity (no matter how ‘dull’ the project was)… Have sweet business acumen and most excellent people and management skills. Worked for some sweet brands, be at award winning level – top of your game – and have the energy and get up and go to really drive We Love forward.

Got what it takes? Then email CV, URLs to work@welove72.com

ta ta for now pips!

With any financial downturn comes a shortage of creativity, where agency and client alike fall back on the tried and tested to sell their product or service in order to protect their job or position. It’s a safe option and one that always adopted during hard times, even though we know that in reality it should be the reverse (look at BMW in the ’80’s – ’90’s – Doubled their marketing spend and took over the world) – we should be playing smarter and harder to distinguish our clients from their competition.

So knowing that we are due an influx of rubbishy adverts that include cute animals, hot women, or stupid cartoons we present Nando’s latest offering… the only thing… I sort of like it

Who fancies a Nando’s?

For such graphic violence… nice titles too…

Onesize: Playground Titles from E. Devin Vander Meulen II on Vimeo.

Came across this rather interesting competition which poses the question what would society look like if the internet was switched off. Would it be as simple as just turning back the clocks prior to broadband… and what of the brands that have raised their mega-heads over the past 10 years, how would they cope with the change…

I have included one example here, but to have a good smile. Click Here>>