Innovation Developer - Digital Innovation & Product

at  Dentsu

The purpose of this role is to provide technical guidance and suggest improvements in development processes. Develop required software features, achieving timely delivery in compliance with the performance and quality standards of the company.
Job Description:
Introduction
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.
Dentsu International is a global leader that specialises in Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Retention to enable clients to keep “winning” whilst ensuring customer growth and experience is at the very forefront for their businesses.
We’re hiring an Innovation Developer as part of our team in Manchester working on a hybrid basis.
Purpose of the Role
The Innovation Developer will be building tools and scripts that enhance ways of working for the Media teams at Dentsu. Collaborating closely with the specialism leads, wider Innovation developers and alongside the Product Manager, they will support in brainstorming, defining and building appropriate solutions. This could be anything from an interface that speeds up how the teams research different creative routes, a report that queries multiple APIs to give a single viewpoint or a browser extension that helps teams understand the performance of a campaign.

Job description

• With the support of a full-stack developer and product manager, leading the development of tools and scripts across the full software life cycle - from conception to scoping, deployment and ongoing maintenance
• Working alongside UX/UI designers to develop user experience
• Supporting brainstorming sessions to establish new solutions and products as well as proactively identifying opportunities to improve processes within the Media teams
• Maintaining development best practices (including infrastructure and documentation)
• Maintaining any tools or scripts as well as debugging production issues
• Supporting back-end engineers with creating and integrating APIs with user interfaces
• Collaborating with our internal Security teams to ensure compliance with dentsu’s Security Policies and standards

Candidate Profile
We’re keen to meet anyone who’s comfortable with most of the below and are flexible if you have strengths or weaknesses in particular areas.

Professional

• Good communication skills and ability to communicate complex ideas
• Ability to comprehend business challenges and then articulate potential solutions
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized
• Ability to self-manage, working as part of the wider team
• Believe in clean coding and simple solutions
• Experience in data science/data analysis

Technical

• Experience deploying frontend solutions using HTML, CSS and JavaScript as well as React
• Comfortable working with databases like MySQL
• Experience in API design and development
• Well versed in agile methodologies, git and version control best practices
• Experience in testing responsiveness, performance, and resilience of applications
• Well versed in agile methodologies, git and version control best practices
• Any back-end development experience with JS or Python (optional)

What we offer
This is a permanent role. The team is based from our UK office in Manchester on a hybrid working basis.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs which includes:

• Ongoing Training
• Unparalleled professional development
• Company-provided Medical Healthcare
• Generous Pension provisions
• Health and Wellness benefits
• Life Assurance
• Working in diverse teams where you can make a real impact.
• Exciting and rewarding environment.
• Varied work across industries

Great additional benefits

• 25 holidays per year, plus bank holidays, additional Christmas leave and your birthday off. We also offer 2 paid volunteer charity days and 3 well-being each year

Inclusion and Diversity
Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.
About dentsu
Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy – our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.
Location:
Manchester - Bonded Warehouse
Brand:
Dentsu Media
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanen

Please refer the Job description for details