Rich Media Developer.Monks India is looking for a Rich Media Developer to safeguard and monitor the smooth performance of our development projects, people, and processes. In this specialized position, you’ll play a key role in a specialist team that is producing fantastic rich media ads for one of our biggest global clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ad Creation & Development: Utilize your expertise to design and develop compelling display ads for various platforms.
- Motion Graphics & Animation: Leverage your understanding of motion graphic design and animation to enhance ad effectiveness.
- Technical Proficiency: Use your coding skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including the GSAP library) to ensure smooth ad functionality.
- Platform Adaptability: Adapt and learn technical specifications for diverse platforms such as Google Studio, DV360, and Adform.
- Software Skills: Bring your experience with Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere to create visually striking advertisements.
- Creative Excellence: Work within creative and technical constraints to deliver top-tier ads, ensuring they meet low file size requirements while maintaining quality.
- Team Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with team members and clients to meet project deadlines.
- Focus & Passion: Maintain focus and thrive under pressure in a fast-paced work environment. Show enthusiasm for learning new skills and exploring new media formats.
- Attention to Detail: Demonstrate a keen eye for detail in visual design.
Desirable Skills:
- An interest in creative automation technologies.
- Advanced knowledge of expressions in After Effects.
- Experience with DCO productions including setting up dynamic templates and managing dynamic input sheets.
Development skills (in order of importance)
- Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Solid experience using JS Frameworks (jQuery, Greensock, etc.).
- Familiarity developing with CSS preprocessors (LESS, SASS, etc.)
- Besides proficiency in programming, practical experience with developing interactive banners and rich media ads is a must.
- A deep understanding of ad-serving platforms such as DV360, FlashTalking is part and parcel but can be learnt on the job
- While DoubleClick certifications aren’t essential to your application, it is considered awesome and is something that’ll be required at a later point
- Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
- Deep understanding of cross-browser issues and code solutions
- Understanding of client-side performance optimization
- Mastery of version control systems and code repositories (SVN/GitHub etc.)
Design and Animation skills (in order of importance)
- Proficiency with Figma & Adobe Creative Suite
- You’re able to work from a given design and translate it ‘pixel perfect’ to a full-fledged HTML execution
- Some experience in timeline based animation tools such as After Effects or Adobe Animate (formerly Flash, if you’re oldschool) is a big plus
- Excellent typographic skills
Requirements
- Comfortable wearing different hats, you have experience in one or more of the following roles: rich media developer, front end software engineer, product manager
- Working as part of an international operation, you need to have good English communication skills, as well as have good communication knowledge of rich media.
- Process is your middle name and your love for precision and spreadsheets is unrivaled.
- You’re excited by the operational side of the role as a team and process leader.
- You’re just as thrilled by the production side of the role focusing on deadlines, deliverables, and more.
- You’re solutions-oriented and analytical in your approach at all times.
- While you consider developing your natural habitat, you excel at spreadsheets and at interfacing with human beings in real-time: you know how to coach and motivate people to get things done.
Past work
- Portfolio with relevant samples
- Examples of responsive web design, HTML Rich Media and animation
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
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