AddBloom is hiring an experienced Project Manager

SUMMARY

The ideal candidate is a well-rounded software engineer- or possessing a related technical background; an excellent communicator (spoken and written); an entrepreneurial thinker; a creative problem solver with attention to detail; experienced in software architecture and product development; a highly organized individual.

The role includes:

·      helping AddBloom onboard and support new customers from concept to delivery

·      quickly understanding client requests and proposing architectural solutions

·      using existing and cutting edge solutions

·      communicating requirements between the Client and the Development Teams

Experience in software development and programming is highly desirable.

Knowledge and experience with Blockchain projects is a definite plus.

Excellent written and spoken English is a must.

Minimum BS 5 years’ experience or equivalent is a must.

DETAILS

You must be equally comfortable designing and implementing complex customer solutions from the business as well as the technical aspect. You will be forming and growing relationships with our partners and our clients. A passion for problem solving, assisting customers in bringing use cases from design to production, as well as helping to direct the product towards increasing customer value will be essential for your success.

You must be a customer-facing (Zoom) problem solver who communicates extremely well. Computer science background, preferably a BS or better in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent is required. You must also be very comfortable speaking and writing to customers (English) and describing and diagramming technical concepts in a clear and concise way.

Experience working with customers to gather requirements for product development would also be a strength. You must have experience in implementing different types of solutions and coding (C/ , Java, Python, etc.). Importantly, you must be able to provide references willing to attest to your initiative, creative solution design, problem solving, and self-managing characteristics.

Responsibilities:

· Owning and managing customer relationships during pre-sales engagements.

· Communicating with clients during production and post production for follow-on sales.

· Working with the customer to earn a deep understanding of their environments and describing how the company’s solutions benefit those environments.

· Working closely with the company’s product development team and entrepreneurs/owners to describe feature requests coming in from the client, and to offer guidance in the design of new capabilities and usability features.

· Assisting customers in learning how to use products, which includes conducting training sessions and walk-throughs, helping improve documentation, etc.

· Ability to work with different time zones

· Ensuring that the technical evaluators of the company’s products gain an understanding of how the products are used and what value they offer, such that they are comfortable recommending and or purchasing them.

Qualifications: (candidates should satisfy most of the qualifications below)

· Strong presentation and conversational skills (English)

· High-level familiarity with Agile methodology

· Knowledge of enterprise Big Data, Data Warehouse, Analytics, and Data Integration solutions, including an understanding of how enterprises work and types of networks and various business types

· Familiarity with mobile application development and web platform development

· Knowledge of database systems work

· Experience working with ticketing systems to organize and track issues

· Knowledge of programming capability in C, C , Java, Python, or similar.

· Experience with networking, network troubleshooting, etc.

· Experience debugging software or hardware systems

· Ability to communicate effectively to both engineers and non-technical professionals

· Knowledge of documentation and diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, PowerPoint, etc.)

· Passion for solving customer problems and working with our software team to propose and help build cool projects.

AddBloom is recruiting a Media Planner/Buyer. You will be responsible for working with clients, suppliers and internal departments to plan buy and implement paid digital media campaigns, manage end-to-end campaign set up, activation and day-to-day client and stakeholder communication as well as analyze campaign performance, optimize, measure against KPIs and report

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops and manages effective integrated media plans and buys under the supervision of the Media Manager including objectives, strategies, placement and schedule of deployment
• Build budget recommendations, pitch decks and proposals including cost schedules to clients
• Document campaign evolution to monitor overall performance and identify best practices.
• Present account reviews internally as well as to clients
• Explore new opportunities to grow campaigns more efficiently and effectively
• Test new channels and trends to build credibility, remain competitive and have possess an added value 
• Ensure a data led approach to all activity, creating a clear test & learn strategy
• Applies knowledge of digital media and communication platforms to identify the most appropriate mediums for building awareness and increase visibility of a client's brand
• Identifies target audiences and analyses their characteristics, behavior and digital media habits
• Works with client and the Account Manager team to understand the client's business objectives and marketing strategy and supports account managers in managing client relationships
• Undertakes research and analyses data using industry resources
• Proofreads advertisement content before release
• Adjusts media schedules in response to the latest audience figures, manages and monitors budgets and updates clients on the effectiveness of campaigns
• Maintains media plans including changes, budgeting, execution, reporting and optimization
• Stays apprised of industry standards, new media programs/opportunities and can advise on new ways to reach targets by conducting extensive audience, industry and competitive research
• Tracks performance and optimizes Paid Media campaigns with respect to pacing, bid management, landing page and creative testing, keyword and ad copy analysis, ad schedules, and more
• Manage advertising budgets and maintain accurate records of spend 
• Creates for clients and AddBloom monthly Paid Media reports with analysis of performance of campaigns along with strategic recommendations for continual improvement
• Develops and maintains good contacts with digital media providers
• Selects the best service provider for AddBloom and its clients
• Coordinates with finance department for all digital media billing using monthly tracking reports and invoice reconciliation

• Other duties as assigned by management

Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of online media planning, implementation and optimizations
• Excellent knowledge Facebook Ads Manager, Google AdWords, Media Buying, Google Analytics, Google Tags Manager and Other Tracking Software
• Combines creative thinking with factual analysis to develop appropriate strategies to ensure that campaigns reach their target audiences as effectively as possible
• Expert in Excel, PowerPoint and Google Suite
• Understands how digital fits in the overall client marketing/media strategy %u2028
• Strong analytical skills and ability to relate results to client business objectives, providing a basis for measurement of the digital activities
• Proficient in using standard online media research and planning tools
• Proficient in deriving insights from data, fluent in slicing/dicing data
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong mathematical abilities required %u2028
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written skills as well as proven ability to develop well-written documents and presentations %u2028
• Capability to work effectively under pressure.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA in Marketing or any related field
• 3 to 5 years of experience in media planning and buying%u2028 | Performance marketing experience highly desirable
• Basic technical knowledge is a plus (HTML, reading ASP, PHP code...)
• Fluency in English and Arabic. French is a plus

Building and Developing web applications with proven software architecture experience.

Experience with: MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL databases, Building RESTful, JSON APIs and mocking services, developing with PHP, NODE.js, Angular.js, Backbone, Ember or React.js

Testing and delivering high-quality code reusable code Queue and Caching, and when to use them.
Domain-Driven Design and microservices.
Cloud platforms (AWS) and different hosting providers a plus.
Experience with Magento or similar eCommerce a plus.

AddBloom is recruiting a Full Stack Mobile API-Driven Developer
Requirements: 
• PHP 5 and PHP 7. 
• MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL databases.
• Apigee, Mulesoft or similar
• Composer and many of the major PHP frameworks (including Laravel and Symfony).
• Experience developing in a modern front-end framework, Angular.js, Backbone, Ember, Knockout or React
• Android and IOS experience a must
• Testing and delivering high-quality code.
• Queue and Caching, and when to use them.
• Building RESTful APIs and mocking services. 
• Domain-Driven Design and microservices.
• Cloud platforms and different hosting providers. 
• Automated deployments and Continuous Integration. 
• Proven software architecture experience
• Ability to work as a team member in a busy environment.

AddBloom is recruiting a Creative Graphic Designer with experience in digital media. We’re looking for talent who can take direction from written or spoken ideas and convert them seamlessly into images, layouts and other designs. The successful candidate should have an intimate understanding of how marketing campaigns work. We work in a fast-paced environment, so the ideal Graphic Designer will be able to hit the ground running as soon as we bring on a new client or project. Applicants with experience leading creative teams and designing with other professionals will be given prime consideration.

• Work simultaneously on 5 projects based on current client workload
• Create visual aspects of marketing materials, websites and other media, including infographics
• Put together disparate elements of a design created by another professional, such as the icons, photographs and other components necessary for a website design
• Consult with clients’ marketing, copywriting and sales teams to create cohesive designs that reflect our clients’ corporate cultures and goals

Required Skills:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art Design, Graphic Design or related field
2. Experience with Creative Design for Social Media Channels (Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Google Banners etc.)
3. Experience with motion graphics (video editing, stop motion, animation) a PLUS
4. Extensive experience with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, specifically with mockups, web design and multimedia presentation
5. Adaptive design eye and skill
6. Excellent communication skills
7. Ability to absorb and apply constructive criticism from peers and client

Apply Today!

Paid full-time (in-office) internships with the possibility of eventual full-time employment in the following roles:

-Social Media Management

-Graphic Design

-Paid Digital Media

-E-commerce

-Software Development

Want to join AddBloom but don't see an opening in your field?  Apply here.  

Do you have what it takes to join the digital revolution?  AddBloom is looking for the best of the best to help us transform and grow businesses across the Middle East.  We have positions open in Beirut and Dubai. If you are in another country, apply anyway, we may be expanding where you live soon.

AddBloom is recruiting Strategic Account Directors and Account Managers.  

As part of your role, you would be required to manage the overall client-agency relationship, ideate and create proactive digital strategies and guide your team to execute them in an efficient manner and closely monitor the campaign execution process to ensure outstanding performance.

As a consultant, strategist, mentor and team liaison, you’ll have the opportunity to build long-term client partnerships while collaborating internally with design, content, and community management and digital media team members on a daily basis to help understand/define client KPIs and generate innovative and strategic solutions to meet those goals.  

You will lead your team to oversee campaigns throughout every development phase - from concept through execution and beyond, reporting on key insights and offering data-driven recommendations for ongoing optimization and performance improvement.

As the primary point of contact, you will be instrumental in shaping strategy, driving performance and identifying opportunities to generate additional revenue and new business growth. Your primary responsibility would include liaising with clients on a day-to-day basis to form strong, long lasting relationship with them. While promoting business expansion, you would assist key clients to confront their digital challenges through the right selection of technology and strategy.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Results-Driven Digital Advertising Strategist: Critical thinking skills to understand performance analytics and interpret digital campaign data into meaningful insight/actionable next steps. You must be comfortable utilizing analytics dashboard platforms to report on performance.

• Superior Account and Time Management Skills:  Experience onboarding, and managing accounts:
• Generating toolkits (Project Proposals, scopes of work, project plans, reporting dashboards, roles & responsibilities, etc.). Ad or Digital Ad agency experience required.
• Demonstrate ability to prioritize and use sound judgment in managing time to achieve maximized productivity.

• Confident & Persuasive Leader:  Possesses an innate ability to present new ideas with sound rationale, while establishing and sustaining credibility/trust with clients and colleagues.

• Outstanding Communicator/Presenter: Consensus-building and negotiation skills should be second nature, along with the ability to develop thoughtful, well-written and accurate documentation that serves to interpret client needs and translate them into specific directives.

• Committed to Flawless Execution: Focused on quality and detail, while mindful of time-to-market - inspiring others to do what it takes to get projects out the door on time.

• Technological Aptitude: High level of comfort using MS Office Suite (especially Word, Excel & PowerPoint). Google AdWords and Facebook Business Manager a definite plus.

Solution-Oriented: Desire for choosing a highly collaborative approach to problem resolution.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 5 to 10 years’ digital account management experience (ad agency experience with major accounts preferred)
• Proven competency managing large-scale online projects involving a sophisticated digital marketing product mix
• Demonstrated analytical skills and high degree of comfort overseeing metrics-driven marketing campaigns
• Facebook Business Manager Aptitude and Google AdWords a major plus.
• Must thrive in a dynamic, evolving and fast-paced environment