Jobs at Crayon

Responsibilities

• Developing front end website architecture
• Designing user interactions on web pages
• Developing back end website applications
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Designing and developing APIs
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages

Requirements

• Strong focus on creating products that are user-friendly, effective and appealing
• Thorough understanding of React.js, Node, Python and their core principles
• Experience with state management patterns and libraries (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity integrating with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JWT
• 3 years’ + work experience in software development
• Excited to work in an environment that’s passionate about changing the world by marrying techsolutions to real-world problems
• A good communicator that relates and works well in a team
• Detail-oriented to an irritating degree, so that we can sleep easy knowing there are no hard-coded cells lurking where they shouldn’t be
• Ensure your outputs are up to standard - the design solution needs to be simple yet innovative, the build timelines need to be short, the implementation needs to be drama-free and the maintenance needs to be minimally disruptive
• Keen to stay up-to-date with whatever is the latest and best trends in software design

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Responsibilities

• Develop effective and meaningful ideas, content, copy and scripts by: 
• Working with the creative leadership and agency teams to understand the client and create award winning creative work
• Using key messages and client understanding to research and develop work for multiple communication channels, both ATL and digital, as well as any further copy required by the project (including social media content taglines, video end taglines, copy for print and web)
• Working within a team to produce award-winning creative executions
• Producing a variety of high quality copy solutions, from punchy short-form to persuasive long-form and scripts
• Developing concepts and approaches based on their understanding of the client’s communication requirements
• Develop and execute outstanding work across ATL/BTL
• Contribute to proactivity and innovative thinking on brands
• Push your craft to make the work shine
• Understand the strategy and business context, and always aim to do work that performs
• Build a strongly collaborative relationship with broader team, partners and clients

Requirements

Essential knowledge and skills

• 5 years’ experience in copywriting for advertising or marketing agencies
• Knowledge/understanding of storytelling principles in traditional ATL channels and digital
• A portfolio that contains conceptual ideas that demonstrates an understanding of TTL comms

Essential skills

• Communication skills
• Writing skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Ability to influence people through creative ideas and written work
• Multi-tasking skills (ability to handle multiple jobs at the same time)
• Relate well to people and show evidence of good teamwork
• Interpersonal skills
• A passion for culture, both internally and externally
• Financial Services experience a plus