Jobs at Salt South Africa

Job Description

We’re looking for a digital marketing manager with small agency experience to join a boutique digital marketing agency in Johannesburg. The agency is doing some exciting things in the tech space and has loads of super innovative clients. This role is a hybrid of a marketing coordinator and account manager with a smidge of content creation.

Requirements

• 2+ years small marketing agency experience;

• Experience with Facebook & LinkedIn ads manager;

• Experience with Google Analytics;

• Experience with CRM / email campaign platforms (Preferably Active Campaigns etc)

• As well as content creation for social media and email campaigns (mostly copywriting, not design)

Responsibilities

• Coordinating campaigns and results with clients;

• Coordinating with internal designers, web developers, and other team members;

• Coordinating with external service providers;

• Managing social media pages and scheduling posts;

• Adjusting and tweaking the marketing strategies to achieve results;

• Managing ad spend and campaign budgets;

• Compile end-of-month (EOM) marketing reports

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Software Engineering:

Our team of software engineers is responsible for designing, implementing, delivering and supporting software systems. Some of our systems have dependencies on services we don’t control so we need to consider things like separation of responsibilities and testing strategies carefully. We also have a collection of software systems that we are in the process of moving and modernizing, in part, through containerization. We have a continual stream of business requirements lots of which necessitate new projects which we integrate to our collection of systems. We’re continually looking for ways to work in a more automated and streamlined way and we’re passionate about delighting our customers as well as debating our favourite text editor.

Software Engineering:

•  Making sure they have the knowledge of the system they are working with
•  Understanding the requirements and identifying conflicts or potential risks before coding
•  Designing a solution and presenting to the team so it can be polished if required and owned by all
•  Being comfortable with legacy systems and compromises, but aiming for the change in the right direction
•  Being responsible for creating a deployment plan which includes valuable tests and ensures stability

Things you’ll need to know about:

•  Java 8, Spring, SpringBoot, Spring Cloud
•  Testing tools like Junit. Wiremock and Cucumber are on our horizon too.
•  Relational databases.
•  Containers and container orchestration. Currently we use Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
•  Version control – we use git.
•  Agile, in particular scrum.
•  The ability to communicate effectively, whether it’s spoken, written or collaboration over documentation.

 …and most importantly – a willingness and ability to learn new things!

REQUIREMENTS

•  Degree
•  Passionate about quality code;
•  Excellent verbal and written communication skills
•  Experience implementing scalable software systems and platforms
•  Expert knowledge in building REST APIs
•  Exceptional problem-solving skills

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Introduction
Analyse basic user requirements, design, implement and support less complex technical systems. This is a permanent position based at the Head Office in Cape Town.

Job description

•  Analysis, technical design and development aligned to team processes & requirements
•  Develop technical specifications from systems specifications.
•  Design and code programmes of greater complexity and size from technical specifications.
•  Maintain and support existing systems
•  Interpret user requirements and translate into systems design.
•  Investigate and solve systems issues.
•  Ensure systems documentation is kept up to date.
•  Ensures effective operations
•  Implement approved changes as per change control and security process
•  Plan, organize and control own work effort, including regular progress feedback to areas
•  Contribute to the ongoing improvement of processes, technology and architecture.
•  Utilize problem-solving skills & techniques to drive the resolution of issues
•  Ensure systems conform to IT governance and information security requirements
•  Provide input into systems related Risk Management Strategies and risk mitigation

Minimum requirements

•  3 year IT Diploma
•  Specific analysis and development skills
•  MySQL relational database
•  AWS Cloud front
•  Postman (JSON language, retail services are RESTful)

Additional Criteria

•  Operational/system support background
•  Java / J2EE
•  E-commerce or M-commerce industry experience
•  2-5 year’s programming/analyst programming experience
•  Ability to use technological equipment, programs, and applications to enhance productivity
•  Displays an innate willingness to learn and keep abreast of current methodologies and technologies
•  Identifies the information needed to solve a problem
•  Sets priorities with an appropriate sense of what is most important for effective delivery
•  Participates in planning sessions that affect own team
•  Prepares basic presentations that are logically structured.
•  Works well with people from diverse backgrounds
•  Responds to change with an appropriate sense of commitment and enthusiasm
•  Actively engages in change to better understand the effects on own role

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Job Description

• The Agency I am recruiter for builds digital products powered by cloud technology with a reputation for building scalable and secure technology, great business with Design minded leadership

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, direction and experience

• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off of full high fidelity designs

• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity to complex design roadblocks

• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, static prototypes and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas

• Present designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders

• Contribute to establishing and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

• Attend client demos and meeting to discuss the initial design briefs and direction.

• Understand how designs can be applied to all applicable device types and screen sizes starting with mobile and working out toward the desktop.

Requirements:

• Proven UI experience in a digital agency environment

• Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio of past client work

• Some experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and sitemaps

• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript fundamentals and the principles of rapid prototyping.

• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction

• Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders.

• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively in conjunction with engineering and product teams.

• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies

• Certified qualification in Interaction / Graphic Design, or related fields

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process specifically within an agency environment

Technical Skills:

• Understand basic fundamentals of iterative software / web development processes and procedures

• Familiarity with common Agile practices, scrum processes, service-oriented environments, and development methodologies

• Competency with various design techniques, styles and resources

• Fluency with design tools, particularly Sketch, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator, Abstract or similar.

• How to extract artefacts and styles from UI designs as technical specifications for development execution.

You need at least 1 year of experience.

Reach out to me with your portfolio and resume, [email protected]

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What you’ll do Stakeholder Management…

• Represent Design at a Product level when deciding roadmaps and key objectives

• Act as the point of contact for any major design concerns, queries or unforeseen work. This includes when design input is required for decision making at a senior management level

Design Strategy…

• Identify design work that needs to be completed outside of strict business objectives for scale and performance monitoring (personas, customer journeys etc.)

• Develop key performance metrics for the team and for specific projects to measure overall performance, as well as the performance of individual designers

• stems at all times

UX Research…

• Contribute to the discovery phase of the product development framework, alongside other stakeholders, to understand and define the user problem

• Work closely with product managers, designers, beta users and other stakeholders to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as other discovery/research inputs

• Define, plan and conduct user research for existing products/ features as well future opportunities

• Analyse and gather insights from data teams and tools, customer-facing support teams, as well as from own quantitative research to drive evidence-based design decisions

• Present customer pain points and insights to relevant stakeholders to motivate for particular directions and decisions, as well as to inform future product roadmaps.

UX Design…

• Design, optimise and own user flows and processes

• Work with product and dev stakeholders to ensure scope, tech capabilities and accessibility are all being met.

• Design and prototype hi-fi screens from UI library

• Conduct usability testing to ensure the effectiveness of design decisions

• Handover lo-fi’s to UI designers for optimisation

• Handover and support dev team

• Act as the user advocate during the planning and development process by offering implementation suggestions from a user-centred perspective.

Experience and Passion…

• 5+ years of user experience design and leading a team

• Passion for user experience, technology and business

• Passion and empathy for product and people

• You’ve shipped many consumer products and understand what it takes to build awesome products and experiences

We are always looking, no specific project or start date, just get in touch with your resume and portfolio at [email protected]

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My client is an innovative digital financial service provider who specializes in fast, flexible loans and funeral cover policies.

The ideal candidate for this role will be responsible for the analysis, project management and product ownership within our Platform area; act as liaison between the business and IT and will deliver on business objectives through technical and design innovations and enhancements.

Key Performance Areas

Business analysis

• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders and analyse user requirements
• Compile artefacts needed to complete development tasks (documentation)
• Compile wireframes and flow diagrams
• Conceptualise and document solutions and features that will be developed in our products
• Effectively liaise with different business units (engineering, customer services, marketing, credit risk) to enable the delivery of comprehensive specifications

Product management

• Be the custodian of the product vision on behalf of your stakeholders
• Build a strategic roadmap for the product
• Conduct data driven analysis that informs product roadmap and feature decisions
• Analyse user data and trends and compile reports for analysis
• Manage the specification backlog to make sure that specs are ready for development
• Facilitate the release management of the product

Product ownership

• Facilitate agile sprint planning, daily scrum meetings and day to day team delivery
• Responsible for the Quality of the Product
• Define user stories and success criteria
• Engage with customers to understand how your product is used

Testing

• Collaborate with the testing team on test schedules for the complete system(s) to test if the outcome and results meet the business requirements
• Training
• Provide adequate support and documentation for the training to users of the new and approved system(s) and procedures

Requirements    
Qualifications & Accreditations

• BSc / BCom / IT Degree
• Analytics Certification

Experience & Skills

• A minimum of 5 years’ business analysis experience
• 3 Years’ experience within a financial services environment
• Good working knowledge of agile development practices
• Good working knowledge skills with Microsoft Office Products, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Confluence, Draw.io
• Experience in the development and implementation of standards, procedures and guidelines to support operational processes
• Experience in a Product Owner role within a FinTech business will be a great advantage

Attributes & Behaviours

• Strong communication (verbal & written) and interpersonal skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Mature self-starter with high energy levels and strong time management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Great attention to detail
• Ability to create logical and innovative solutions to complex problems
• Flexible, delivery focus and self-motivated
• Independent with a proactive entrepreneurial app