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Flexible working hours and work from home. 30 days holiday. 2 hours a week dedicated to self-development. We’re looking for a Senior UX designer to join a well-known charity in London. What you’ll be doing  You’ll sit in the UX team which includes service design and research – reporting to the lead UX. As a team of 6 you’ll be creating products and services that will genuinely be changing people’s lives. Day-to-day this will be a varied role and work on each stage of the user experience lifecycle. You’ll be working with user researchers to ensure qualitative and quantitative data is understood and turned into improved services. Contribute to a growing design system by defining design principles and producing artefacts including wireframes and prototypes. Working closely with Product Designers and senior stakeholders you’ll also lead user research projects, testing activities. An important part of the role is lead internal workshops to bring stakeholders across the business on board with user experience. The UX team is established but still growing in size and capability and your voice counts! You’ll be encouraged to lead change across the organisation through research-sharing and introducing your findings. You’ll mentor and manage junior designers supporting and developing their skills. This is your chance to educate other teams in product vision and User experience, especially the importance of best practices. In this role you’ll be designing services that are used by an incredibly varied user base. You’ll be helping people from all walks of life get access to life changing support and by making information more accessible and user focussed - you’ll be making a big difference.  What experience you’ll need to apply   Good knowledge of UX design: from prototyping and defining best practices, to being able to spot opportunity from user insights.  User research methodologies & persona construction. Including running qualitative and Quantitative research sessions. Proven ability to design responsive website and apps. Past success in facilitating ideations sessions to create organisational change. User testing expertise and cross-functional, collaborative working skills. Figma / Sketch / Axure / Balsamiq and wireframing capabilities. Experience of mentoring more junior teammates.  Bonus points if you understand HTML & CSS! Top notch stakeholder management skills. Public showcasing/publication of your work would be a real advantage. Confidence and personality! What you’ll get in return for your experience  Work-life balance is taken very seriously here. So, you’ll get 2 hours a week for your own personal development, as well as work from home options, flexible working hours and a whopping 30 days holiday with 8 bank holidays. When you are actually in the office however, it’s fair to say, you’ll get an unparalleled start in your UX career, with a vast range of experience to be garnered here. What's next?If this role has your name on it, please apply with your CV and Portfolio.

Fast Growing App Based Business.  Lead a New Division.  One of the Most Exciting Businesses in Bristol!  Here is one of the rarer and more exciting opportunities you’re likely to find in Bristol.  An exciting and innovative app based business in central Bristol with significant financial backing, is looking for an exceptional individual to join them as their new Business Lead for the Visitor Solutions division.  This role calls for an experienced and collaborative leader to drive the Visitor Solutions Strategy, engaging with relevant destinations and developing a partnership that creates a more enjoyable visit to their customers.  This technology platform can benefit both the customer and the business in a number of ways, and it will be your role to promote this offering to expand the reach of the app.   What you’ll be doing  There is a clear remit within this role.  There are approximately 800 potential destinations across the Country who could benefit from this platform and who would then create a new userbase for the app.  You will work cross functionally, overseeing the budget and having team oversight across product, marketing, engineering and analysts; an agile team of 18 people.   You will be targeting businesses that currently follow a predominantly offline model and encouraging them to embrace a new fully digital solution.  As well as offering a strong online and mobile presence, this section of the app will also offer digital membership/ticketing solutions, provide the businesses with insights in to their visitors and behaviour, as well as visitor prediction and live reporting.   With some previous experience of taking a market from an offline to an online journey, you will need to build a scalable solution that also incubates and delights the early customers.  Marrying the long-term win with short-term customer demands to balance the team’s priorities and customer’s expectations is a key feature of the position.   This role has no place for prima donnas who just want to sit behind a desk and direct others.  You will be hands on, demonstrating leadership, creativity, willing to visit potential destinations to understand their offering, challenges, and showcasing ways that the app can be of commercial benefit to them.   What experience you’ll need to apply Leadership experience across Marketing, Product, Business Development and Engineering  Experience of taking a business from offline to online  Genuine interest in mobile apps and technology Senior leader who is willing to roll up their sleeves and be hands on  A natural curiosity, a desire to optimise campaigns and achieve the best results possible Exceptional communication skills Commercial and results driven with a hunger to succeed  Own vehicle to travel to clients What you’ll get in return for your talents This offers far more than simply financial reward.  With the significant financial backing of a single investor you will have all the tools and budget required to make this a huge success.  You will receive a competitive salary (circa £80k), 25 days holiday, flexible working hours, a beautiful working environment, and an incredible team to help deliver results.   What next This is a chance not to be missed.  If you believe you have the skills to target businesses/destinations who have not yet fully embraced digital technology, and believe you can create a partnership and offering that delivers results for all then hurry up and apply now!  

Unique progressive start-up ready to scale rapidly, remote working. Key technical role offering the opportunity to fast-track to CTO. Work with PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, Linux, AWS. One of the South-West’s most exciting start-ups have developed an awesome product for people looking to pick up short term work quickly whether it be decorating, labouring, farming or even window cleaning! Now is the time for them to grow an in-house team starting with the appointment of a Lead Developer who can be based anywhere in the South-West working from home. They need someone who can share their passion, refining the current product and who can help launch exciting, revenue unlocking new functionality. What experience you’ll need   You’ll be confident and experienced using PHP, Laravel. Experience with JavaScript, Apache, Linux, PostgreSQL and AWS.  Great communication skills and time management. Passion to collaborate with wider team and put forward new technical solutions. Aspirations to become a CTO with potential to build supporting development team. Any experience with Angular(v6), WordPress, Google Suite and UX/Design basics is very desirable. What you’ll be doing You will be joining a start-up at a pivotable moment of growth, propelling the business into scale-up through the refinement of their current product as well as the development of multiple exciting new products/services. You’ll work closely with the CEO and CFO to identify key development areas and tech to support growth as well as sharing a passion for tech that helps people find work quickly. Much of the role will include back-end development of the current product, looking after the AWS set-up and contributing new ideas on features and iterations to improve membership. Code quality and standards are high so they’re keen to find someone with a meticulous eye for detail and someone with self-motivation who can pick up new skills as they go. There is a fantastic opportunity for personal development with the founders keen to find a technically skilled leader to take on the role of CTO where you will be tasked with growing out a team to support development needs. What you’ll get in return for your talents The salary on offer ranges from £55K-£70K depending on experience and existing skillset. Alongside this you’ll have 25 days holiday, flexible/remote working for 4/5 days a week as well as the introduction of a new employee share scheme. This truly is a very exciting start-up to be a part of and you’ll be in right from the start, making key technical decisions and shaping technical strategy on the path towards CTO. What’s next? If you’d like to be immediately considered, please send your CV to Sarah (sarah@adlib-recruitment.co.uk) or for more information call 01179269530.

Greenfield design and build. Architect data infrastructure for a cloud-native company. Great engineering culture, tech stack and family atmosphere. This scale-up technology firm is growing rapidly through both organic growth and acquisition. They require a Data Engineer that is up to the challenge of owning the design, build and management of their cloud data infrastructure. What you’ll be doing As the Data Engineer, you will evaluate serverless database technologies that will effectively host, integrate and migrate current and future customer data. You will design and architect the data pipelines, suggest different tools and continually improve the set-up. This role requires a variety of engineering activities including; prototype development, architecture, ETL, process automation and more. What you’ll need to apply Experience with Python/Java/Scala etc. Experience with Cloud e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure Ability to design, build and manage data infrastructure Experience of working on greenfield projects desired Ability to communicate problems and solutions to stakeholders What you’ll get in return for your experience A base salary of up to £75,000 plus benefits including work from home, training and investment in your skills and much more. What’s next Please get in touch with Scott with an up-to-date-cv today. Please don’t hesitate to email/call to discuss the finer details.

Working in an open and accessible team Flexible working hours Great career progression An award-winning financial services company is looking for a Security Consultant to join their growing team in Cardiff. You will be providing security expertise that will support the business in understanding their security risk exposure and supporting a developed understanding of the security risks at hand. Your work will enable the business to effectively prioritise the necessary activities and provide adequate investment for their security functions. This is a business that prides themselves on their people centric culture and their ability to provide a healthy work/life balance. What skills you’ll need Strong security consulting background. Ability to explain complex, technical information to a variety of audiences. Experience performing risk assessments Ideally you will have experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) Certifications such as CISSP, CISM etc would be desirable but not essential   What you’ll be doing You will be responsible for reviewing Information Security risks and putting the appropriate controls in place to help mitigate these risks. You will support the delivery of security projects and provide mentoring and support on information security topics. You will look into emerging trends through reporting and collating your findings. Provide security advice for new products or areas of business expansion.  You will be tasked with dealing with any internal information security queries that come through and facilitate regular security risk reviews.  Part of your role will also be to develop and maintain stakeholder relationships across the group. What you’ll get in return for your experience  On offer is a salary between £50,000-£70,000, you will also receive a generous benefits package which includes share scheme, pension 6% matched contribution, life assurance, travel season ticket loans, gym membership, free parking, cycle to work scheme, parental perks and more. As well as this, they are committed to your professional development and can offer an in depth training and development plan.   What's next? Sound great? Send in your CV now for more info to Paige or call 01179 269 530.

Exciting time to be joining a company who are currently going through a big digital transformation Great benefits package, flexible working hours, 12% pension, annual bonus Influence over the emerging technologies that will be implemented     A financial services company is looking for a Security Architect to join their team in Cardiff. They are a global business and they are currently going through a big digital transformation.  They are a business that value their employee’s well-being and ensure that they provide a great work life balance. Within this role there is a key focus on identity management, authentication and authorisation. This opportunity is ideal for someone who is looking for a challenge, that is hands-on and who can bring gravitas to the role. What skills you’ll need Solid background in Security Ideally Oracle IDM experience or something similar Ability to research and suggest emerging tech that can be implemented Experience with ISO27001 Ability to communicate at all levels What you’ll be doing You will be the Security Architecture go to for the company’s largest transformation programme to date. You will define security solutions that coincide with the strategic security architecture. You will redevelop the Access Control measures for the businesses systems. You will cooperate with third parties on security related design. Creating awareness across the wider business for security best practice. You will keep up to date with advances in security, technology and what implications this may have for the business and cyber security in general. You will communicate with technical and non-technical parts of the business and provide practical advice on best practices and policies. What you’ll get in return for your experience On offer is a salary up to £78,000, you will also receive 12% pension, annual bonus, 27.5 days holiday, life cover 10 x salary, salary sacrifice scheme (private dental, health insurance, retail vouchers, cycle to work scheme), on-site gym and a discounted staff restaurant. What's next? Sound great? Send in your CV now for more info to Paige or call 0117 926 9530.

PHP/WordPress Developer. Interesting Project. Bristol - 3 Month Initial Contract. 3 month initial contract opportunity for a PHP/WordPress Developer to redevelop an interesting website for our Central Bristol client. What you'll be doing Working for a busy web company based in Central Bristol - developing niche interest PHP/WordPress sites, for a relatively large audience. What experience you'll need to apply for this role PHP (Expert). WordPress (Expert). JavaScript (Experienced). React (Desirable). What you'll get in return for your experience The daily rate is up to £350 p/day - However, all quotes from suitable candidates will be considered.  What's next? Please apply with your most up-to-date CV and I will be in touch to discuss further.

Join a specialist agency with deep sector knowledge. Work with worldclass brands in FMCG. Learn from an experienced team. We’re looking for a Creative Artworker experienced in packaging and in-store artwork collateral to join a specialist agency in Bristol. The agency is open candidates at a junior level or those that are a little more established.   What you’ll be doing  For more than 20 years this agency has been collaborating with the biggest names in FMCG to put great creative ideas on the shelves up and down the UK. You’ll be joining an experienced team of design, artwork and client services people based in a fantastic office space on the outskirts of Bristol.  As a Creative Artworker within the agency your focus will primarily be on producing branded packaging artwork but will also include artworking point of sale executions and shopper marketing collateral when needed. This is largely a technical role so you’ll be working with designers to artwork their ideas but you will have the chance to get creative and work with others to adapt branded assets for a variety of different formats and design approaches.   As the agency delivers packaging artwork for world class FMCG brands you’ll need to bring some experience of artworking for on pack creative with you; you’ll need to know how to work up solutions for front and back of on shelf products. You’ll also need to be organised and have great attention to detail with your work; you’ll manage a wide variety of creative assets, prepare files for reprographic print standards and proof check / approve finalised designs.  What experience you’ll need to apply •    Previous experience in a technical artworking or creative artworking position.•    Have worked with packaging and in-store creative in the past.•    Aa expert user of the Adobe Creative Suite.•    Be able to evidence commercial artworking projects in the portfolio.•    Have great attention to detail and knowledge of on pack design.•    Be passionate about good design craft and excellent execution, always take pride in your work.•    Be a team player and great communicator. What you’ll get in return for your experience   In return for your experience you’ll join an agency team that knows FMCG and packaging inside out. You’ll be working alongside experienced people (including the directors) so plenty of opportunities to learn from others and develop your career. The agency has a great culture so you’ll enjoy working with a sociable team and being part of a tight unit that has eachothers back. You’ll enjoy a contemporary and nicely kitted out agency space to call home.  What's next? Please apply with an up to date CV and portfolio of relevant artwork to be considered. 

Front-End Developer. Bristol - 3 Month Initial Contract. £475 p/day "Inside IR35". 3 month initial contract opportunity, for a Front-End Developer to develop an interesting website, for our Central Bristol client. What you'll be doing Working for a Digital Agency in Central Bristol - using: ES6 Vanilla JavaScript, HTML, CSS & Sass - to build responsive UIs and component libraries. What experience you'll need to apply for this role ES6 Vanilla JavaScript (Expert). HTML (Expert). CSS (Expert). Sass (Advanced). What you'll get in return for your experience The daily rate is up to £475 p/day and the role has been determined "Inside IR35". What's next? Please apply with your most up-to-date CV and I will be in touch to discuss further.

Diverse and exciting client base, variety of web challenges. PHP, CMS, dynamic web applications. Fun, positive, R&D driven team, access to tech events and training. One of Bath’s most progressive digital agencies are looking for a talented PHP Developer to join their amazing team to produce high quality solutions for some mind-blowing clients. What skills you'll be needing Competent building quality PHP websites. MySQL. PHP MVC (e.g. Laravel, Symfony, Yii or other). Integrating templates into CMS (e.g. WordPress, Craft etc). GIT. 3rd party API integration. Any experience of working on eCommerce websites would be great but not essential. Solid front-end tech skills with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/JQuery. What you'll be doing As PHP Developer you’ll help to create award-winning websites for some truly fantastic clients.  The role will involve all elements of project work from planning, building, testing, delivery and support working closely with the front-end developers to create high quality content-managed sites and dynamic web applications.  They’re keen to find someone who enjoys collaborating and sharing their experiences, passing on your skills to others and picking up knowledge is key to success in this role.  You’ll manage your own time and day, they’re not into micro-management here; project deadlines are very reasonable and work-life balance is a key part to the success of the business. What you'll get in return for your talents As well as working on projects for some really cool brands, working with new and emerging tech, you’ll be supported by a really friendly and knowledgeable team.  You’ll get a competitive salary (up to c£35K), pension, conference access, flexible/remote working, training opportunities, socials, trips, beer, cake and fruit as well as the chance to make a real contribution in the evaluation and selection of tech the business will use.  This is a really great company going places where job satisfaction and genuinely interesting project challenges are abundant. What's next Like the sound of this one?  Send in your CV now to Tareek (01179269530) now for immediate consideration.