Email Developer

Job Title: Email Developer
Location: London (Hybrid working policy, in office 3 days per week)
Contract length: 6-12 months (+ extensions if required)
Pay rate: Flexible (Inside IR35)

Job Summary:

• You will work closely alongside CRM brand team and CRM Centre of excellence team to design, develop, and maintain the emails that make up our full suite, including promotional, life-cycle, and transactional communications
• We're looking for someone who's excitement to design beautiful, user-focused emails is matched by their excitement to hand-code their designs in custom HTML/CSS that is fully responsive across devices and renders across email clients,
• This person is highly collaborative and enjoys assisting with projects in addition to owning their own.
• Prior experience in an in-house or agency design studio working on a range of design requests including HTML 5 assets.
• Familiarity with tools such as Dreamweaver and Adobe Creative Suite with a great eye for design, UX and experience working with email design framework.
• Experience with Taxi for email or equivalent email builders using liquid template language.
• Proficiency in testing email rendering across various email clients and platforms

Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Experienced in designing and coding emails,
• Ability to code fully responsive emails using queries that render correctly across all devices and email clients, including Outlook
• Experience designing a variety of different types of email templates, including promotional, transactional, category and lifecycle programs
• Building and maintaining responsive and accessible email components which follow email best practice
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in designing in adherence to a design system and modular HTML/CSS library, with a focus on responsive email coding
• Perform QA and troubleshooting rendering issues across various browsers, email clients and devices
• Working alongside with the CRM CoE team and CRM Brand mangers to ensure platform issues are raised and resolved
• Demonstrating a good understanding of back-end technologies
• Driving design and build best practice by consulting with the CRM CoE team and
• CRM Brand managers, providing strategic input on communication content and customer journeys
• Championing innovation, accessibility, technical updates and working with the CRM CoE team and third party vendor to develop innovative email modules that work within the brand's master templates
• Maintain emails by making edits to existing and new templates as the move through stakeholder feedback rounds
• Refine code to dynamically display email designs across all devices and email clients

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.