Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, award winning and fun environment where you can make a difference? ICAN are an award winning digital agency. For 15 years we’ve been leading the way, integrating traditional and digital marketing channels.

ICAN is seeking a User Experience (UX) Designer to join our growing web design and development offering, ICAN Web. You’ll enjoy a challenging variety of project types and working with a team of committed people who live and breathe digital projects.

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Job Description

The PPC & Performance Media Manager will work with other Media Account Managers to plan, implement, optimise and analyse marketing activities across search engines and other performance-based digital channels. This person is key to the future growth of the agency and will be responsible for the top-to-bottom management of pay-per-click (PPC), facebook & Real Time Bidding (RTB) strategies.  The ideal candidate must have experience of planning and implementing highly effective Google Adwords and Facebook campaigns and have knowledge and keen understanding of the use of RTB technologies.  This role requires the ability to operate on both a strategic and tactical level, touching all aspects of performance media including campaign design, keyword management, bidding strategies, creative testing, reporting and analytics.

 This is a key role in a very busy team within the agency with excellent opportunity for growth and continued career progression.

 Job Specification

•  Act as a strong manager of the paid search requirements of all clients by tracking, reporting, and analysing all PPC initiatives and campaigns.
• Develop short and long-term PPC account strategies, and implement day-to-day tactics that increase revenue, site traffic, conversions and ultimately ROI for clients.
• Manage the day-to-day search marketing activities across multiple search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing, etc.) including campaign planning, implementation, budget management, performance review, and optimisation of campaigns.
• Responsibilities include keyword research (discovery and expansion), review and editing of ad copy, review and analysis of campaign performance metrics, and ongoing optimisation of campaigns.
• Identify and report on key performance indicators, and opportunities for improvement on a regular basis.
• Work closely with other Account Managers to genuinely integrate Performance Media strategies and recommendations into other campaign activity – including advertising, web development and creative development.
• Have experience implementing campaigns across other performance media channels including social media channels – Facebook advertising.
• Have experience with developing Real Time Bidding campaign strategies and managing these – either in house as part of an Agency Trading Desk or in partnership with external third parties as part of a managed solution.
• Become a thought-leader in Performance Media understanding the hot issues and new developments in the market and applying these to help retain and grow existing clients and acquire new clients.
• Drive continued innovation and best practice implementation, regularly sharing your knowledge with Media Managers, the Web Projects Team and the wider agency.

Knowledge & Skills

• Min. 3+ years experience managing paid search programmes for well-established clients.
• Should hold some combination of the following certifications: Google Adwords Certification, Google Analytics Certification.
• Fundamental knowledge and experience with web analytical tools and interfaces, i.e. Google Analytics.
• Requires hands-on knowledge of best practices in PPC and a proven track-record of delivering qualified traffic from both an acquisition and conversion point of view.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to drive meaningful actions and insights from data.
• The ability to clearly and concisely articulate results, insights and recommendations – internally to colleagues and externally to clients – both verbally and in written form.
• Ability to directly liaise with clients to update them on campaign performance and manage client expectations.
• Proficiency in MS Office (especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint.)
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• An organised individual with great attention to detail and focus on quality of results.
• A self-motivated individual; a good team player.
• Takes accountability and ownership of his/her own work.

Please e-mail CVs to patrick@ican.ie

The successful candidate must be capable of producing innovative and proven online marketing strategies, achieve results and manage client expectations. You must be a self starter who inspires and leads through your account direction and vision. Highly confident, personable and articulate you will have strong passion for things digital and creative.

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ICAN, an award winning web agency is looking for an experienced Web Developer. The role is a mix of front-end development and LAMP, and is an excellent opportunity to join a motivated and collaborative team designing innovative websites and mobile applications.

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Are you on top of technology trends?

Can you make stuff with code?

Do you have a flair for design?

Can you inspire?

Can you collaborate?

Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, award winning and fun environment where you can make a difference? ICAN are an award winning digital agency. For 11 years we’ve been leading the way, integrating traditional and digital marketing channels.

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ICAN is seeking an experienced User Experience (UX) Designer with project management skills to join our growing web design and development offering, ICAN Web. You’ll enjoy a challenging variety of project types and working with a team of committed people who live and breathe digital projects.

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ICAN, an award winning web agency is looking for a Web Services Technical Analyst tomanageHosting, Domains and the Support Desk system for its Web Clients.

This is a mixed role (Development & Client Support) and a great opportunity.

Duties:

• You will be responsible for the setup of hosting and domains for client’s web sites.
• You will have the opportunity to own the hosting and domains services, working closely with the Head of Web on the development of potential new domain and hosting services, automation of tasks, consolidation and optimization for performance and value.
• You will be responsible for working with our service partners (Amazon and Pair Networks) to ensure the uptime and availability of our services, and act as the internal point of contact for managing any issues that arise.
• You will be responsible to initiate the trouble shooting for any web service problem, loss of service, incidents, updates, assessing their impact to the client, and providing resolution directly or in collaboration with Lead Developer.
• You will manage the on-going support and maintenance tasks for clients, ensuring agreements are kept up to date and completing monthly reporting – managing client expectations
• You will provide internal monthly reports on support, maintenance and Service Level Targets vs SLA and KPIs, with trending over time.
• A core % of your time will be physically reviewing and monitoring LAMP servers/websites, completing server maintenance tasks and scheduling resources as required with the Head of Web/Snr Developer for the resolution of any issues highlighted.
• A key component of your job is to help ensure SLAs are delivered and to maintain a backup & disaster recovery strategy for all web systems.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• LAMP environment installation, setup and optimization.
• Advanced knowledge of internet services: DNS, SMTP, SSL, etc.
• Database optimization: MySQL
• Object oriented programming experience: PHP and exposure to PHP MVC Frameworks: CodeIgniter, Cake
• Experience in dealing with high traffic dynamic websites: Load balancing
• Systems Monitoring applications: Nagios or similar
• Good analytical skills with a strong understanding of SQL
• Target driven with excellent communication skills

Contact: david@ican.ie

We are looking for someone who wants to work on cutting edge Flash campaigns for top level brands such as Paddy Power, Airtricity, permanent tsb, Setanta Sports and Jameson Irish Whiskey. You will be joining our creative technology team who work on everything from viral microsites to rich media banner ad campaigns.

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