Head Of Digital Full Time

Square One Resources

Job Title: Head Of Digital
Location: Richmond (London)
Salary: Up to £90,000
Start Date: 15/02/2023
Job Type: Permanent

Company Introduction
We now have an amazing opportunity with one of the top luxury vacation providers in the industry, with hotels and villas spread around southern Europe and a focus on providing first-rate service to its discerning customers. Your contribution will be essential to the company’s success as it enters a phase of growth and transition to update its technical systems and increase its clientele.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• You will be in charge of gathering and comprehending business requirements and translating them into development work for our agile in-house development team and QA.
• Design and specification of Front End and Back End solutions for pressing business needs
• Interacting directly with business teams to gather requirements and translate them into actionable work tickets for the development team.
• Ensuring that the work tickets include quality assurance features such as acceptance criteria and testing requirements.
• Ensure that non-functional requirements, such as performance, security, compliance, and technical debt, are taken into account.
• UAT should be provided in collaboration with business digital champions.
• Participate in sprint cycle meetings, stand-ups, and retrospectives, as well as lead the sprint planning process.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Good commercial expertise in the consumer travel sector as a product owner
• Good practical experience working with agile development teams
• Experience with web analytics beyond basic GA tracking in a ROI or Yield focused environment.
• Experience of structured testing and quality assurance approaches
• Able to propose solutions to complex technical or business problems
• CMS experience ideally with Umbraco

Benefits & Perks
The company offers standard corporate benefits, including:

• Company pension
• Performance-related bonus
• Annual worldwide travel insurance policy (excluding ski)
• 25 days’ annual leave (increases to 28 with length of service)
• Generous holiday concessions
• Friend and family discounts
• ‘Cycle to work’ scheme
• Educational trips

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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