Saturday 3 November 2018

Exciting Career Opportunities at Creative Y&R (November, 2018 Recommended)

Creative Y&R is an advertising agency dealing in branding, SEO, printing, design, advertising, web and digital, publishing services in Nairobi Kenya.

Graphic Designer

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience2 years
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Media / Advertising / Branding

As Graphic Designer, you will be tasked with offering specialized support to the Creative Team / Department in the creation and production of graphic design and creative services projects. The day-to-day tasks will include delivering on allocated work or project tasks, contributing to idealization and conceptualization of designs to meet client needs as well as execution of plans as allocated.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Graphic Design
  • At least 2 years’ hands-on experience in a similar role (within an Agency preferably)
  • Passionate for excellent results
  • Highly able to conceptualize unique ideas and graphics
  • Knowledge and use of Graphic Design tools

Back-End Web Developer

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience2 – 5 years
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field ICT / Computer

We are looking for a Back-End Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your coworkers into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Indicative Experience: 2-5 years’ experience working as a Back end developer.
  • Expert knowledge in WordPress
  • Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
  • Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
  • Intermediate to advanced experience in Drupal
  • Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
  • Experience developing responsive design websites from HTML files
  • Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
  • Understanding of web hosting and server administration

Good to have

  • Knowledge in JAVA and/or C#
  • Frameworks: Laravel, .NET
  • knowledge of the DOM, its objects and their properties.

Account Executive

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Sales / Marketing

The Account Executive will be part of the Client Service team, tasked with providing day-to-day support/services to assigned clients under the supervision of the Account Manager. The day to day tasks will include proactive communication with clients and internal teams to get jobs delivered, attending status meetings, creating and updating reports as required, maintaining an updated list of all client contacts within the allocated portfolio. The AE will be reporting to the Account Manager.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration / Commerce or equivalent (Marketing Concentration preferred)
  • At least more than 1 year experience in a similar role within an Advertising Agency
  • Excellent written and spoken communication (English Language Primary)
  • Proactive and passionate about excellent customer service

UI/UX Designer

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field ICT / Computer

The main purpose of this job is to effectively translate ideas into design executions, ensuring a consistently high level of design quality.

Job Responsibilities

  • Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with account managers, content developers, web developers and other key stakeholders.
  • Facilitate product vision through research, usability testing, sketches, wireframes, prototyping and user-experience research.
  • Develop technical and business requirements and always strive to deliver intuitive and user-centered solutions.
  • Combine creativity with an awareness of the design elements.
  • Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback.
  • Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images.
  • Optimize existing user interface design

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role
  • Portfolio of design projects
  • Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Wireframe.cc and InVision)
  • Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
  • Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
  • Good time-management skills
  • BSc in Design, Computer Science or relevant field

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