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 >

I love digital. Its what makes me tick. The ability to extend a brand online through interaction and engaging content. The ability to touch your audience in ways which were unthought of just 10 years ago.

And lets face it it is still the early years for digital. We are still stumbling around in the dark making sense of technology and behaviours that are entirely new to us complex and unique bipeds.

However, there is one thing that humans have being doing for a long long time… and that is story telling. We love a good yarn, be it to pass down life’s learnings to our offspring or to just entertain. So to celebrate here are some brands that ‘do story telling’ really very well.

Phillips:

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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…

Nice… 2 of our newsletter made the hit list for dzineblog’s top 30…

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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…

James and Myself were busy at IKEA this weekend. I say busy… it was mainly me walking round with a shopping list trying to get everything for our extended offices as quickly as possible… Yep 2 trolleys and 5 flatbed trolleys full of goodies to make our 3 new rooms at the manor a shiny happy place. As for James… it was amazing to see how easily distracted (and amused) he became by small shinny nonsense. Our backs are truly broken!

Now we just have to build it all. Great.

We are now looking for a couple of talents to join our family (Full Time / Perm) at the fast growing and creatively focused agency We Love.

Based in Maidstone, in a Manor House overlooking the river Medway, we strive to put the love back into the creative process developing ideas that work through the line for a varied mix of clients and getting shortlisted for and winning recognition awards for our efforts.

Clients include Vichy, L’Oreal, On Demand Group, Sony Ericsson among others… ah look around the blog…

We are looking for talented individuals who are top of their game, who want the ownership of a project, who want to prove what they are capable of.

So if you are bored of being over managed, bored of banging out a million banners for a single client, bored of being told what to do by an excel sheet each day and have something to prove in this industry of ours then apply to:

work@welove72.com.

Snr Developer:

Developer superstar geek wanted with a few years agency experience under their belt. Has seen dotCOM or campaigns from start to finish and loves the challenge. Can AS3 the ass off Kylie, HTML like a loon and AJAX it with the best of them. ASP.NET is a bonus and PHP, Python are bonuses. A love of code… A talent who understand the importance of pixel perfectness in a build, who can suggest, direct and manage a build, making it his/her own. Someone who is proud of creating beautiful code. Manage a team if need be or work solo. Someone who can communicate up and down the line.

Must be a visionary while being able to actually DO the job! If you are the one and are looking to step it up then apply now.

Snr Digital Designer:

Snr Digital Designer with agency experience with a good spread of work (dotCOM and campaigns). Someone who can understand a brief, with good business acumen, concept and generate ideas which push the boundaries. An individual who knows when a design is perfectly balanced and right for the market, understand the interaction, see the animation and speak about everything with authority. And can own a project right from start to finish and manage a team. Be accountable and responsible for the growth and expertise of themselves, the agency and others.

Super skills apply! Do you have the minerals… apply now.