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Working at Flight means working with passionate people that push the boundaries of what’s trending. We’re crazy about making the complicated simple. Coming up with ideas that work harder. Turning the boring into interesting. And exploring our curiosity, daily. We’re all about making life easy for our clients, their customers and ourselves. We show up to do great and feel good. It’s more than just a job, it’s a place to grow. Come hang out with us - you know you want to.
Get in touch at careers@flightdigital.co.nz.
Current open roles.
Senior Developer
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Senior Developer
As a Senior Developer at Flight, you are responsible for architecting and delivering high-performance applications using modern technologies like Sanity CMS, headless architectures, and API-driven front-end frameworks. This role also includes a strong focus on eCommerce solutions, particularly Shopify development, including Liquid and headless Shopify implementations.
Your expertise in JavaScript, React, Next.js, and API-first development is essential, as is your ability to contribute to technical strategy, mentor other developers, and refine development processes to align with industry best practices. You are expected to drive innovation, scalability, and efficiency in digital products while ensuring seamless collaboration across teams.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Innovation
- Architect and develop scalable, high-quality applications using React, Next.js, and headless CMS solutions.
- Lead the development and optimisation of Shopify themes and storefronts using Liquid, JavaScript, and Shopify APIs.
- Implement API-driven architectures to create flexible and efficient digital solutions.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to a high standard.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of best practices, emerging technologies, and industry trends.
eCommerce & Shopify Development
- Customise and enhance Shopify themes to meet client and business requirements.
- Develop and manage headless Shopify solutions, integrating with modern front-end frameworks.
- Optimise performance, security, and user experience for eCommerce projects.
- Stay updated with Shopify advancements and best practices to enhance eCommerce capabilities.
Collaboration & Process Improvement
- Contribute to refining Flight’s technical processes for improved efficiency and quality.
- Work closely with designers, strategists, and marketers to deliver seamless user experiences.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for clients and internal teams.
- Mentor and support junior and intermediate developers, fostering professional growth within the team.
Requirements
- JavaScript/Typescript knowledge with solid experience in React JS and TypeScript
- Extensive knowledge of modern best practice development methodologies (webpack, gitflow etc)
- Experience working with QA teams and processes
- Excellent communication skills, both internal and external
- Strong understanding of responsive & adaptive design principles, including experience with responsive frameworks
- Strong working knowledge developing cross platform/browser compatibility (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.) for dynamic web applications
- A desire and willingness to learn new things
- Pride and ownership in what you create
- Enjoy collaborating as part of a team
- 5 years working with Sanity CMS, React, Netlify, Gatsby
Location and hours
The position is located at 16-18 Beresford Square Auckland CBD and is primarily between the hours of 8.30am and 5pm, in the office from Monday to Friday. The role is full time permanent and requires 40 hour work week.
Remuneration The salary range for this role is $90,000NZD to $110,000NZD. The final salary will be determined based on the level of expertise and experience the applicant brings to the organisation.
Intermediate Developer
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Intermediate Developer
Flight is seeking an ambitious intermediate developer to join us on our mission to craft digital experiences that transform the way brands connect with their customers. Flight’s developers are passionate about their craft, curious about the possibilities, pragmatic in their delivery and courteous in their mentoring. In this role you’ll be responsible for scoping, planning and delivering future-ready solutions for our clients. You’ll be a proactive technical solutions expert who can apply previous experience and expertise to deliver solutions for our clients and projects. You’ll help to create and implement processes that continue to grow technical standards and efficiency of our work amongst your peers.
Primarily we design, architect and develop using the JAMStack methodology, producing headless CMS experiences with react (Gatsby) front ends. You will be joining a team of talented creators responsible for delivering innovative solutions across a wide range of disciplines. If this sounds like you, please, keep reading.
Responsibilities
- Work as part of a development team to create market leading web and mobile applications.
- Collaborate with project managers, designers and marketers to help deliver practical and engaging development solutions for clients
- Actively contribute to Flight’s company culture
- Work closely with other web developers on larger projects
- Challenge and be a key contributor in developing our technical processes to help us innovate and improve our operational efficiencies
- Design front-end architecture that integrates with other systems and technologies.
- Help translate technical solutions to an understandable format for both clients and the internal team
Requirements
- JavaScript knowledge with solid experience in React JS and TypeScript
- Extensive knowledge of modern best practice development methodologies (webpack, gitflow etc)
- Experience working with QA teams and processes
- Excellent communication skills, both internal and external
- Strong understanding of responsive & adaptive design principles, including experience with responsive frameworks
- Strong working knowledge developing cross platform/browser compatibility (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.) for dynamic web applications
- A desire and willingness to learn new things
- Pride and ownership in what you create
- Enjoy collaborating as part of a team
- 3 years working with Sanity CMS, React, Netlify, Gatsby or similar
Remuneration The salary range for this role is $75,000NZD to $100,000NZD. The final salary will be determined based on the level of expertise and experience the applicant brings to the organisation.
Hours
The role is full time permanent and requires 40 hour work week.
Location and hours
The position is located at 16-18 Beresford Square Auckland CBD and is primarily between the hours of 8.30am and 5pm, in the office from Monday to Friday.
Senior Account Manager
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Senior Account Manager
About the role:
As a Senior Account Manager, you are deeply involved with our clients’ businesses acting as their advocate and partner throughout the relationship. You are responsible for nurturing and growing your clients’ business, as the face of Flight in the agency-client relationship. You will focus on long-term strategic partnerships and become advisors for your clients with a deep level of understanding of their priorities, challenges and vision. As a Senior Account Manager, you will ensure that the work we deliver provides real value, measurable results for the client (and ourselves) and commercial success for the agency. You'll drive team focus, promote accountability, and mitigate risks. With a forward-thinking approach, you'll plan for success and proactively address any issues.
What are we looking for in a Senior Account Manager? What’s really important?
- Experience managing multiple accounts, and projects in digital and/or media sectors
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- First-rate presentation skills
- Genuine passion for what you do
Extra points for the following, but not necessarily required:
- Have a mix of skills; be it digital marketing, brand or website development process
- Understanding of content management systems
Responsibilities:
- Clear Communication: Comfortable using a broad range of communication styles across different audiences in diverse situations.
- Client Partnership: Partners with our clients for the long-term, and as their trusted advisor to not only generate new opportunities but to maximise their impact. Interrogate and challenge briefs, and drive feedback to ensure clarity, thereby setting up the agency to produce next-level websites and campaigns.
- Delivery Management: Oversee accurate scoping and delivery of projects and campaigns and ensure business objectives are met. Identify and escalate risks and propose mitigation options.
- Resource Allocation: Balance resources between projects and campaigns, considering client needs, commercial aspects, and team satisfaction.
- Financial Management: Track and report on project and campaign budgets, highlighting potential overruns and resolving financial issues promptly.
- Tracking and Reporting: Implement effective tracking methods, identify unhealthy projects/accounts, and provide operational insights to your direct report.
- New Business: Support the Head of Client Services by participating in new business opportunities and contributing to acquiring new clients.
- Technical Solutions: Collaborate with the production team to deliver innovative technical solutions.
To request a full position description, pop an email over to careers@flightdigital.co.nz
SEO Specialist (contractor)
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SEO Specialist (contractor)
We’re seeking an experienced SEO specialist who will be responsible for leading and managing the execution of SEO activities such as content strategy, link building, keyword strategy and technical implementation to increase exposure on behalf of our clients. You will have a good understanding of the wider Google Product Suite and be comfortable working within Google Ads, Google Analytics, Search Console and third-party tools.
You will have the confidence and ability to make data-driven decisions in real-time and offer quality feedback to our team around the performance of creative, comms, user experience and technology. You’ll be someone who thrives in a meritocratic working environment, who isn’t afraid of pushing the boundaries, asking the hard questions and celebrating the wins.
Responsibilities:
- Develop optimisation strategies that increase a website's organic search results rankings and monitor performance metrics to understand SEO performance.
- Conduct research to assist in the writing of high-quality website content or optimise existing landing page copy for SEO success.
- Recommend and update website content and links for maximum optimisation and search engine rankings with the assistance of internal and external partners.
- Perform ongoing keyword discovery, expansion and optimisation with internal and external teams to drive SEO in content creation and planning.
- Employ user experience (UX) and conversion rate optimisation methods to turn visitors into more active users and to help improve website performance.
- Uncover opportunities to optimise website architecture٫ content٫ linking and other factors in the interest of improving SEO positions for target keywords.
- Develop content marketing strategies alongside creative and tech teams to ensure SEO best practices are met.
- Recommend changes to website architecture, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions for target keywords.
- Work with the development team to ensure SEO best practices are properly implemented on newly developed websites.
- Through the use of tools such as SEMRush, Moz and Screaming Frog audit and make recommendations for an implementation plan to improve SEO performance.
- Contribution to the development of Flight Digital as a business, offering feedback and recommendations for systems, processes and efficiencies.
- Assist in strategy workshops as well as strategy documentation.
- Develop and drive growth and performance plans, processes, and strategies that improve results for clients, while assisting the growth of the client portfolio.
- Work closely with our client services team to develop proposal/presentation content and strategy for new business pitches.
- Work to stay current with industry trends and best practices to proactively sell fit-for-purpose solutions and innovation.
- Own the success and performance of a portfolio of the business.
Experience required
- 3-5 years of proven SEO experience in a data-driven, technology-enabled performance marketing agency or similar, in the search environment.
- Understanding of Google Suite (Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Search Console etc).
- Solid understanding of performance marketing, conversion, and online customer acquisition.
- Up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in SEO and SEM.
- Understanding of search engine algorithms and ranking methods.
- Collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure SEO best practices are properly followed in the development of a website.
- Have the ability to review an existing website and interrogate elements such as website architecture, landing pages, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions for target keywords.
- Experience in SEO tools such as SEMRush, Moz, Screaming Frog.
- Strong time and expectation management skills.
Get in touch at careers@flightdigital.co.nz .
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