Technical Director

Salary£55,000 - £70,000
LocationLondon and the South East
Date Posted10/06/2010
Job RefDNAAW443
ConsultantAli Wallace

The Role

Technical Director - London - £55K - £70K

This marketing agency are experiential specialists with a global blue chip client base. As a forward-thinking agency they know they need to put Digital at the heart of the agency, over the last 2 years they have been building a focussed digital team and are now looking for a Technical Director to join them and strengthen their digital offering.

As Technical Director your primary role will be to define and lead the technical department, managing and developing the technical team, and producing strategic technical solutions to satisfy a growing client demand in the UK and Internationally.

Key responsibilities:

  • Provide full technical scoping for all digital projects, including new business pitches.
  • Ensure accurate estimation, costing and time reconciliation of the technical solutions.
  • Provide relevant roadmaps and architectures for all digital projects.
  • Support projects in production by providing expertise and advice to aid problem solving and advancement.
  • Promote the agency's technical skills and expertise offer to clients, acting as representative in all technical areas of a client relationship.
  • Work closely with the Creative Director, Executive Producer, Head of Development and Creative Services Director to develop Digital processes and procedures.

The Candidate

The successful Technical Director must have significant experience working at a senior level within a digital agency. As leader of the technical department, you'll be expected to maintain excellent knowledge of emerging technologies, trends and frameworks within the digital and interactive sphere.

Knowledge and experience in the following is essential:

  • Backend and Front end technologies, including - .NET, PHP, Action Script,
  • Standards for accessibility, SEO and interactivity.
  • A wide variety of CMS systems, database and server integration.
  • A wide variety of social network API's such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
  • Flicker, Blogs, Myspace etc.
  • Phone apps (iPhone and Android).


If you think you tick all the boxes and like the idea of leading a technical department within an experientially focussed agency as Technical Director, get in touch.

Although we try to respond to all applications, unfortunately due to the high number we receive we are unable to respond to all of those that are unsuccessful.

The Salary

£55K - £70K