Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.
The Company:
Hogarth Worldwide is a leading creative production company, producing advertising and marketing content for many of the world’s most famous brands, across all media around the world. Hogarth was founded 10 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 4,000 people, across 28 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.
The Role:
The Front-End Developer needs to build/modify responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. based on the visual briefs. The Front-End Developer will work on localization of the page based on the assets provided which includes, updating links, images, and text, in accordance to the client’s coding standards.
They must be enthusiastic about technology and constantly be looking at the next innovation. On top of possessing strong communications skills, interpersonal and organizational abilities, you must be able to work in a fast-paced environment. Flexibility and tolerance are a necessity. They will be rewarded with training and mentoring from the senior development team within an excellent team atmosphere.
*This position requires coming to the office for the preliminary preparation period, which will be held several times a year. And it is suitable for completely freelancers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop new digital assets as identified by supervisor and management
- Modify existing code to accommodate for a locale – including changing image paths, server-side includes (SSI), file names, directories, other elements, and other development tasks
- Ensure all your work is performed according to the brief and minimum requirements for each client.
- Develop fast and efficiently to meet tight deadlines
- Produce digital assets in several languages
- Update and amend existing assets
- Maintain client digital assets to the best of your ability using clean, accessible mark-up according to the latest web standards
- Help and advise project managers with client’s digital requests
- Keep an eye on the latest trends to help boost development efficiencies
- Awareness of the client's mobile platform with the ability to build solutions that take advantage of the latest operating system features while remaining performant on the latest devices
Requirements:
- Living in Istanbul
- Minimum of 2 years commercial development experience
- BA degree in computer science, MIS, or related experience with a grasp on data structures and algorithms
- Able to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines
- Minimum Upper Intermediate proficiency in English written and oral, due to the nature of the work
- Minimum Upper Intermediate proficiency in Arabic written and oral, due to the nature of the work
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented and organised
- Experience using Subversion (command-line)
- Understanding of branch management
- Experience of working ticketing systems such as JIRA and how to break down tasks
- Knowledge of FE pre-processing (Sass and Browserify)
- Expertise in web languages and standard technologies, including version control systems (SVN and GIT), repositories, and build tools (Grunt, Gulp)
- Expertise in HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3 and JavaScript/JQuery
- Good JS debugging skills
- Responsive development experience
- Experience working with Front-End Frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation)
- Image manipulation software (Photoshop, Fireworks) and able to slice elements out of a PSD
- Accessible and SEO based coding
- Self-starter who is able to hand-code front-end NOT using any WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver and keen to learn new technologies
- Clear understanding of Usability
- Proficient in developing to W3C Standards
- Knowledge of the challenges of Email newsletter builds
- Progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
- Experience in working with Bash shell
- Experience with optimization for mobile devices and familiarity with responsive and adaptive methods
- Excellent attention to detail
- Must be able to travel as required, sometimes for several weeks at a time
Hogarth Values
Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.
Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.
Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.
Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humor.
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WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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What We Do
Born to make the best work, brilliantly.
We combine craft insight and technology to bring your creative work to life.
Hogarth was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 6000 people, across 35 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.
