Front-End Development Manager

We are looking to add an experienced developer, with process-driven management skills, to join our hard-working digital team.

This role is all about delivery. You’ll use your in-depth knowledge of development to get hands-on to deliver excellence, right-first-time, and you’ll use your experience to input ideas to drive the best customer experience across all projects. 

You’ll manage and schedule the day-to-day of the team, working alongside key stakeholders in the wider team to ensure the right people are on the right work, delivering it to time and budget. 

You should: 

• Be a seasoned developer that likes to keep hands-on, but is looking for more variety and the opportunity to impact projects from beginning to end 
• Have process-driven management skills 
• Have presence and ability to influence 
• Understand the importance of delivering excellence and right-first-time 
• Have experience in an agency environment 

Your responsibilities: 

• Planning & scheduling workflow, working with in-house and external developers with varying levels of experience 
• Working alongside client services, design and UX, in a fast-paced and agile environment to ensure dev’s recommendations are represented and absorbed 
• Working across multiple client projects at once, each being given the same level of enthusiasm and attention 
• Responsible for delivering the development milestones across the project lifecycle 
• Working specifically with UX and design to fact-check the vision to ensure its achievable, as well as giving ideas for the best possible user experience 
• Working specifically with client services to deliver against dev milestones 
• Interrogating, collaborate on and Interpret tech specs, allocate suitable resource once it’s in agreement 
• Managing the automated dev support ticketing system, to ensure client’s needs are met within agreed SLA’s 
• Taking ownership for trouble-shooting and resolving issues quickly and effectively 
• QC’ing all development work before it goes to client services, ensuring briefs have been met 
• Experience in managing end-to-end projects that involve development, bringing the vision alive and testing, 
• Managing the full build rollout process 
• Managing the monthly site maintenance (updates and security) 
• Helping to define, implement and champion best practice process 
• When the need arises, getting hands-on to ensure projects deadlines are met 

Expected skills: 

• Enviable knowledge of front-end and WordPress development 
• Excellent management and collaborative skills, with the ability to influence your peers 
• An impressive eye for detail and a methodical approach to QC 
• Good JavaScript ability 
• Good HTML/CSS ability 
• Good understanding of version control 
• Working knowledge of a CSS pre-processor, i.e. SASS 
• Experience with google analytics & event tracking 
• Good timekeeping 
• A desire to coach and develop the team 

What you’ll get: 

• You’ll be part of a hard-working & dedicated team within Think One – a communications company connected through marketing, technology and digital businesses 
• You’ll have influence to improve processes and the band–width to use your experience to make better business for our clients 
• You’ll have ownership of end-to-end management of dev projects, with the satisfaction of a job well done 
• We strive for a relaxed, friendly, collaborative approach to work 
• 28 days paid holiday 
• We run an evolving Think Perks scheme that includes bonus days off for outstanding work