Our client is an award-winning digital agency and apps business made up of talented, driven digital enthusiasts based in SW London. They work across a variety of sectors with brands that include BBC, Tesco, Nestlé, Channel 4, and they are looking for a Digital Designer; an enthusiastic, curious and talented Creative who is overflowing with ideas.

To be right for this role, you will bean innovator with a ‘can-do’ attitude but won’t lose sight of the fundamentals of good communication. You will have that infectious curiosity that makes you different, in a good way. You love to think bigger, wider, more cleverly and get a kick from knowing your work made a difference.

This person will work with other designers, developers and the Creative Director to produce work across avariety of content types including websites, online advertising, mobile, web applications, socialmedia, email and everything else in-between.

Your experience will include working across multiple platforms and multiple audience needs.You will need to have solid agency experience, and you will know that design isn’t about trendsand fashion, but about communication and marketing.

Required:

• 2-3 years agency experience working with name brands on Campaigns, not just websites

• Fluency in Photoshop, Illustrator and Mac Technology

• A conceptual and ideas driven portfolio of digital design and user experience work

• Strong typography skills

• Some mobile experience

• Good knowledge of HTML and CSS

• Bonus skills are video editing / 3D, Flash or Motion GFX

• Good communication skills – you should feel confident when in front of the team

• An appreciation of technology. You will challenge and collaborate with our developers

• Attention to detail

• To be aware of the marketing and commercial needs of clients

• Be able to meet the demands of deadline-driven work

• To own your designs from concept to completion (although the process is collaborative)

• A real passion for digital; in touch with current innovations and ideas

• Enthusiasm and a good sense of humour

Salary is c£30k with negotiation dependent on experience

Please apply to Steve Ward at steve@cloudninerecruitment.co.uk

Our global client is expanding their international online presence. As part of this, they are recruiting an Online Marketing Manager for the German market. The role is based in London.

Key objectives and responsibilities for this role are:

- Develop and implement a strategy to drive (qualified) visits and exponentially increase the demand through PPC and Display activities.
- Optimise all paid search activities for on a ROI-basis.
- Constantly testing and optimising ad copy as well as landing pages in a highly systematic way to improve CT and CR rates, working closely with the Web Analyst.
- Negotiating and managing partners and portals for display campaigns (incl advertorials) and strive to a CPO-deal where possible. You closely monitor and optimise creatives as well as targeting to reach target ROI’s.
- Initiate other activities within the Search and Display space to scale and expand rapidly, but profitably.
- Provide constructive and critical feedback to the team to maximise effort on topics like SEO, funnel optimisations, site usability.

The ideal person will have:

- Minimum 3 to 5 years relevant specific PPC/Display experience in a Business-to-Consumer e-commerce environment.
- Strong educational background
- Experienced in controlling budgets and deliverables
- Expert working knowledge of Omniture / Google analytics abilities.
- Bilingual German and English (Fluent in both)

Salary range is £40-50,000 dependent on experience.

Please apply to steve@cloudninerecruitment.co.uk

Our client is looking for a skilled writer for a new role as Web Content Specialist/Copywriter in their Sussex offices. Working with the Head of Technology & Content and Editorial Executive who want someone to join them in their ongoing quest to create the world’s most engaging social PR campaigns for clients such as Majestic Wine, TomTom, RSPCA, EMC and more.

Key skills required are…

• Talent to turn creative ideas into stories, headlines and status updates that sing
• 2+ years experience in comparable role
• Proven creative copywriting expertise across a variety of subjects and for different online platforms
• Excellent written English, spelling, punctuation and grammar
• Immaculate proofreading and editing talent
• Ability to work to tight time limits and deadlines
• Ability to work as part of small and large teams, as well as independently
• Comfortable liaising with external sources (freelancers, clients if necessary)
• Good understanding of content management systems (primarily WordPress)
• Social media native
• Understanding of content strategy in the context of the digital PR landscape
• Good knowledge of all social media and online publishing platforms

It would be helpful if you had…

• Knowledge of SEO principles and techniques
• Knowledge of HTML
• Experience of commissioning visual and multimedia content
• Interest in tech and IT sectors

The role will involve…

• Producing a variety of written content, including news articles, blog posts, press releases, meta data, visual content briefs and more, for a variety of B2B and B2C audiences
• Working closely with freelance designers and copywriters, ensuring that budgets and deadlines are adhered to, and that briefs are clear and concise
• Performing research in conjunction with our R&D team to ensure that content is accurate and relevant
• Working with the Engagement team to ensure that content is right for our audience
• Attending off-site client meetings for events, video shoots, away days etc.
• Contributing to internal company and client planning meetings on a regular basis

Please apply to Steve Ward at steve@cloudninerecruitment.co.uk with 1. Links to examples of your work – including details on what you delivered and how you addressed the brief; 2. Links to your social media profiles; 3. A short covering note to explain how and why you will change our client’s world for the better

Salary guideline: £18-22k depending on experience.

Our client is a leading management, IT and technology consulting firm. Independent, award-winning and employee-owned. Working closely with the Head of Global Marketing, they require a Copywriter who will contribute to the overall marketing mission through the development and delivery of a proactive approach to an overall corporate communications strategy, plan, and budget.

You will have immaculate English language skills and passion for writing, and a proven ability in internal/external communications.

You will:

- Write online and offline content within a global professional services environment, e.g. Thought Leadership papers, press releases, presentations, speeches, web ogs, and new media such as podcasts

- Write, design, deliver and evaluate a programme of creative, responsive, and agile marketing communications activities to identified clients in sectors and to the sector in general, ensuring a joined-up approach globally

- Coach the Corporate teams to write better internal communications and write communications on behalf of PA`s CEO and leadership team

- Devise differentiated ideas to position PA and its brand values clearly in market

- Demonstrate a work approach that optimises your strengths in creativity, logical thinking, collaboration, client relationship building, prompt delivery (very often to a tight deadline), multi-tasking (prioritise and deliver a varied and high-volume workload), and pragmatism (i.e. recognise the commercial imperatives behind their work)

Qualifications: Degree level or equivalent. Recognised/accredited Marketing qualification or similar.

Key requirements for the permanent role include:

- Stakeholder management ability (a critical factor, particularly resilience in this regard and an ability to challenge constructively).

- Pragmatic (i.e. must recognise the commercial imperative behind their work and so not defensive or precious about changes proposed or made to their written work by others).

- Resilient (able to deal with a varied and high-volume workload)

- Immaculate English language skills (particularly written)

- Very logical thinker

- Objective

- Interest in Professional Services style environment, this can be the different sectors addressed or the variety of work (e.g. Thought Leadership, Annual Reports, Press releases, offline and online/web site page content).

Salary is in the region of £35-40,000 plus excellent benefits and discretionary bonus.

Please apply to Steve Ward at steve@cloudninerecruitment.co.uk

Here is a latest list to summarise the roles we are chiefly searching for right now, in our specialist zone of Social Media & Digital, mainly in London and Brighton, but some other surrounds.

Social Media Strategy & Insights Director, up to £50k, London

Digital Content & Copywriter c£22k, nr Brighton

Group Account Director (Social Media) £70-75k, London

Social PR Executive, £22-24k nr Brighton

Account Manager (Social Media) c£30k, London

Community Manager £35k, London

Online Marketing Manager £50-60k, London

Copywriter £35-40k, London

Social Media Analyst £25k, London

Web Analyst £40k, London

Online Marketing Exec £25k, London

Head of Social Media c£50-60k, London

Senior Account Manager/Social Media Manager £40-45k, London

Social PR Consultant c£45k, London

Website Manager (Charity) £30k, London

Account Director (Social Media) c£50k, London

Part-Time Web Designer (WordPress) c£35k, London

Senior Social Media Analyst £35-38k, London

Well, there’s just a few… Please apply by getting in contact by email to info@cloudninerecruitment.co.uk

Our client is a fast growing and highly reputable Social Media and Online PR agency near Brighton. They are recruiting a PR Executive.

The ideal person will be a PR professional with at least two years experience of working in a press office or Online PR agency/consultant environment

You must be Social Media savvy with excellent writing, communication and creative skills

Responsibilities would include devising and seeding Web content – from Facebook Pages to Social Media bulletins and blog posts, building relationships with bloggers and other Online influencers and coming up with creative campaign and feature ideas for B2B and B2C brands

Salary £22-24k

Please apply to Steve Ward at steve@cloudninerecruitment.co.uk

Sociagility Talent; a new collaboration for In-house Social Media expertise between CloudNine and Sociagility; is pleased to present this fantastic opportunity:

Our new client is a leading management and technology consulting firm. Independent, award-winning and employee-owned. As a key component of the overall marketing strategy, their E-Marketing team is focused on the delivery of a range of initiatives across social media, online desktop and mobile sites, email marketing, online videos. They are looking for an E-Marketing Advisor to lead the Social Media presence development.

Your passion for social media will be evident from your active presence as a ‘digital citizen’ on multiple channels. Combined with your online digital background you should be well positioned as our e-Marketing Advisor to…

• Implement an integrated social media strategy and operational framework at the firm level (developed by the e-Marketing Manager).
• Educate, train and provide guidance to a variety of stakeholders, particularly specialised marketers and senior consultant colleagues (UK and overseas) on how to use social networks in order to generate business leads and to obtain their buy-in to support the social media initiatives.
• Identify the relevant tools to monitor conversations, broadcast content and measure KPIs.
• Integrate the social media initiatives with the existing offline or online marketing channels (events, off line collateral, website, mobile site, search, email marketing, online video, online advertising, etc.).
• Achieve social media related objectives measured ultimately in the number of business leads.

Once an enhanced and effective existing social media framework is in place, the e-Marketing Advisor will also collaborate with the e-Marketing team to provide strategic and tactical support on other e-Marketing initiatives – closely related or not to the social media activities.

This requires someone with defined professional social media and/or Digital marketing experience ideally from a B2B angle, and be able to demonstrate vast social media activity across channels and in an effective manner. Ideally your professional experience will incorporate some work within the professional services realm.

Salary is £30-35k in range, with a bonus of 15% salary and a generous benefits package.

Based in London (Victoria)

Please apply to Steve Ward at steve@sociagility.com

I went to 2 events last week where the speaker on show was Mark W Schaefer; TechMAP and BLOOM Worldwide’s Return on Influence event. Mark wrote a book on Return on Influence some time back, and was in the UK on tour; talking about the effect of anyone gaining Klout personified influential status – the `Citizen Influencer` as he calls it, and the “democratization of influence”.  It was in many ways, some kind of Social American Dream in action.

Mark is an engaging speaker, and a genuinely nice chap. He epitomizes an element of the regular person who hit on something that went `kaboom`, and now he ranks amongst the most prominent of social media speakers and commentators on the circuit.

Did he deliver meaningful insight to 2 knowledgeable audiences last week? Not so much. Twitter comments at TechMAP suggest many were listening to thoughts from 2008 and – as was wisely commented by Simon McEvoy – much of the genuine insight came from the ensuing panel at the Bloom event. It’s all well and good providing some business theory and extraordinary case study from a consultative angle that will ignite the thoughts of upcoming students (Schaefer is a lecturer at a University in NY); but the real depth of thought came from the likes of Giles Palmer from monitoring business Brandwatch – who applied some practical sense to the argument by emphasising the limitations of the Klout model, and how genuine human analysis is required to establish the depth and authenticity of opinion and purpose in social comment.

So here it is then. I said it. Authenticity.

So. We measure influence to varying degrees of accuracy with the likes of Klout. From this comes some kind of recognition of advocacy. Influence + Public Positive support = Advocacy, right? – albeit in varying degrees dependent on the level of influence. 

But how will we ever measure Authenticity?

The question was raised at the Bloom event, and many times over before – how can we trust influence? – particularly when there are ever increasingly rewards for influence status? If Audi send Schaefer’s leading `citizen blogger` example Calvin Lee to the MTV awards with 7 of his mates to have a wail of a time and be pictured on the arm of beautiful women; and he writes asmazing stuff in response; but still drives a BMW – what is he really saying? Simply that Audi are a nice company. He’s not saying that they have great products. Audi genuinely do have great products, as it happens – but for many rewarded incentives to support – there is a falseness about opinion.

I read a really great piece today by Michael Brito, which talks about his apprehension towards influence and about shifting the conversation to advocacy. I concur with his thoughts. The obsession with influence is missing half the point. Authenticity in Advocacy comes as Michael says, from searching out actual customers with genuine opinion, and sure choose the ones with the greatest influence – and generating sentiment from those guys. Actual users, rather than bought or rewarded users.

I love the past 2.5 years I have spent treading the social media boards and plying my trade within it. The one thing I dislike is faux influence. I see real `pro` social media-ites working the floor of the influence crowd, grooming mutual appreciation, contradicting themselves for specific circumstances, gaming influence metrics, hopping on prominent hashtags and taking story-telling to the extreme to engender support and affection. They are brilliant at it. I dislike it, but it’s there, and you have to admire aspects of their application of the social influence game. We’re all doing to it to a degree; that’s social media in business; but the greatest long term support will come from authenticity. But Klout doesn’t measure authenticity or trust. We have to work that one out for ourselves.

As Seth Godin puts it “The influencee has to give you permission to influence him on a certain topic. He has to be receptive to that influence.” - When social influence as we know it now, becomes a little old hat and over-exercised, surely only the ones we, the influencees learned to trust, will remain. That’s our choice, and no influence measurement tool or famed speaker is going to be able to tell us which ones we choose. Maybe then influence can seriously become authentic.

Our client is looking for a Part-Time Web Designer who can do a little front-end coding, initially on  a 3 days per week basis.

You’ll be working on a variety of projects, including work for central government and work on products that they’re developing. They are currently working on a product for cloud-based WordPress hosting that they are very excited about, and they are doing some very cool projects for central government.

My client does lots of work with WordPress, so WP experience is a strong need. Ideally, you’ll be pretty comfortable working with themes and plugins and will have put together a few WordPress sites already.

You’ll need to have a keen visual sense, a good grasp of usability and designing for the web, and a strong desire to make beautiful, useful things.

You’ll also need a good working knowledge of HTML and CSS, and the ability to take on coding tasks as needed, with support from developers when required.

The successful applicant will probably have a good working knowledge of most of:

• Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Basic PHP
• Basic Ruby
• WordPress/BuddyPress
• User-centred design and usability

The successful applicant will be:

• Proactive and able to work independently
• A proponent of agile methodologies
• Able to respond quickly to changing requirements and to JFDI when necessary
• Keen to learn and improve

Initially, we’re looking to find someone to work three days a week in their offices in London, with a good chance that the role will become full time at some point in the future. Salary from £35,000pa pro rata, dependent on experience.

When you apply, please tell us a little bit about yourself and link us to your portfolio, or some examples of your work. Applications without a portfolio or examples of previous design work will not be accepted. It doesn’t need to be commercial. Just something that shows us what you can do.

Contact Steve Ward at steve@cloudninerecruitment.co.uk to apply.