Junior Front End Web Developer - YoYo Games

Dundee, Scotland (Remote in UK considered)

Come work with us

YoYo Games is looking for a talented and ambitious Junior Frontend Web Developer with a keen eye for detail and a flair for design. This is an amazing opportunity for you to take your first steps into your web development career with an exciting and rapidly growing company. YoYoGames.com is the global e-commerce website for the world famous GameMaker Studio2 game development engine.

You will be an integral part of our Production team, working with our Designers and Back End Web Developers to utilise new technologies in order to keep pace with our ambitious growth plans. You will also be heavily involved in the full life cycle of the architecture, development and maintenance of our web services and web site.

Working with us you will help to bring the dreams of aspiring game developers into reality. Join us to help shape the future of game development!

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop customer-facing websites using the latest technologies
• Maintain and expand existing websites
• Produce efficient, readable code in an agile development environment
• Turning design concepts and assets into reality on our website
• Implementing front-end functionality to support management objectives
• Evaluate, test, and iterate website user experience based on analytics

Requirements:

• Excellent practical experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of web standards, accessibility and good SEO practices
• Good understanding of UI/UX principles
• Experience of turning design work into responsive web pages
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and project management skills
• Willingness to learn new skills and to provide a high-quality result for our customers

Desirable skills:

• Experience using Vue.js or similar
• CSS preprocessors (SASS/LESS)
• Experience with version control (Git)
• Experience using REST APIs
• Familiar with build tools such as Webpack
• Exposure to MVC frameworks such as Ruby on Rails

Interested?

We will review applications on a rolling basis, apply now! Applicants must have eligibility to work in the UK

About us

YoYo Games joined the Opera family in January 2021. We believe in an open, relaxed and fun environment where creativity and talent thrive and is encouraged every day.

Opera is a global web innovator with an engaged and growing base of hundreds of millions of monthly active users who seek a better internet experience. Building on over 25 years of innovation that started with browser products, Opera is now leveraging its brand and highly engaged user base in order to expand its business into new segments. Today, Opera offers users around the world a range of products and services that include PC and mobile browsers, the newsreader Opera News, and apps dedicated to gaming, fintech, e-commerce and classifieds.

Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with major offices in Poland, China and Sweden, as well as a presence in many additional countries. Opera is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the “OPRA” ticker symbol.

Performance Marketer

Dundee, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Germany (Remote)

Come work with us

Join us to help shape the future of game development!

We are looking to recruit a talented performance marketer, with thorough knowledge of PPC on Facebook, Google, Microsoft. You will be self-assured, good at working across departments, quick thinking and mentally nimble.

You will be working on our exciting Opera GX, GXC and GameMaker brands.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute PPC campaigns
• Create and update adsets
• Create and update adverts

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in performance marketing
• Minimum 1 year’s experience in Facebook PPC
• Minimum 1 year’s experience in Google PPC
• A strong work ethic and ability to balance multiple projects
• A proactive nature and willingness to self-motivate
• Native level oral and written communication skills in English

Interested?

We will review applications on a rolling basis, apply now!

About us:

Opera is a global web innovator with an engaged and growing base of hundreds of millions of monthly active users who seek a better internet experience. Building on over 25 years of innovation that started with browser products, Opera is now leveraging its brand and highly engaged user base in order to expand its business into new segments. Today, Opera offers users around the world a range of products and services that include PC and mobile browsers, the newsreader Opera News, and apps dedicated to gaming, fintech, e-commerce and classifieds.

Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with major offices in Poland, China, Sweden and Scotland, as well as a presence in many additional countries. Opera is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the “OPRA” ticker symbol

Location:We are open to applicants all over Europe, but ideally you will work from one of our office locations in Norway, Poland, Sweden, Scotland or Barcelona. If you live in or are interested in relocating to any of these locations, this is your ideal opportunity!

At Opera, we make web browsers, payment solutions, news aggregation services, and data compression services while ensuring user privacy. Opera’s aim is to give our users the best Internet experience on any device and any platform to our 380 million users worldwide. Our passion is to create products and services which bring the whole world online.

About the role

An amazing opportunity has arisen for a talented, highly driven, creative, and passionate recruiter to join a fast paced, forward thinking Tech company in our first Internal Recruiter position. Dedicated to the Opera offices in Europe, this role will see you build strategic relationships with Senior Leaders within Opera. Through the power of headhunting and a passion for people you will help identify and attract the best talent globally to align with our ambitious business goals.

Sitting within the HR team, you will report directly to the Global Senior HR Director and work closely with HR colleagues in the European offices. Moreover, most of your time you will be working side by side with the business unit leaders to understand the teams and the emerging needs.

This is a great role for someone who is a real people person, passionate about recruitment in the tech and internet industries and looking for an opportunity they can make their own and hold a lot of autonomy in how they run their day.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining effective relationships with our EVPs and Senior Leaders to understand their recruitment needs
• Understanding the business targets and goals and be able to identify superstar talent that could benefit Opera outside specific searches
• Building a network of top talent leads relevant to Opera’s tech products and solutions and make the leads and candidates excited about our company
• 360° management of the candidate journey and experience in line with best practice
• Conduct screening interviews
• Designing innovative sourcing strategies and comprehensive recruitment campaigns to attract talent internationally
• Suggest new specialist hiring tools that are suited to our current and upcoming business needs
• Collaborate closely with HR Business Partners and other functions in HR to ensure a smooth transition towards the onboarding process
• Oversee the use of external recruiting firms, understand the cost per hire and have the ability to optimize usage and cost
• Define new selection processes and improve current ones
• Remain well networked externally to ensure you keep up to date with the rapidly changing recruitment landscape
• Represent our company at recruitment fairs and external events
• Ensure Diversity and Inclusion is at the forefront of recruitment practices
• Recruitment reporting - provide an accurate report on recruitment activities

To be successful in this role, we believe you have

• A passion for technology and a desire to work alongside leaders across the organization to understand and anticipate the needs of a rapidly changing environment
• 5+ years of proven international recruitment experience as an in-house recruiter
• An international mindset
• Highly professional communication and self-presentation skills
• Experience leading and coordinating full recruitment processes
• Proficiency in the use of ATS systems, LinkedIn recruiter, Job Boards and other sourcing tools and techniques
• Motivation to create innovative sourcing strategies
• A confident and friendly demeanour
• Fluency in English is a must

What we offer

• We offer you a challenging work experience in an evolving company
• The opportunity to be part of a multi-cultural and easy-going work environment in a flat management structure
• An exciting opportunity to pioneer the global recruitment team and help us establish best recruitment practices
• Exposure to work side by side with top management and deep dive into the day to day business of a fast moving tech company
• Competitive salary and benefits

Interested?

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, apply now!

About Opera

Opera is a global web innovator with an engaged and growing base of hundreds of millions of monthly active users who seek a better internet experience. Building on over 25 years of innovation that started with browser products, Opera is now leveraging its brand and highly engaged user base in order to expand its business into new segments. Today, Opera offers users around the world a range of products and services that include PC and mobile browsers, the newsreader Opera News, and apps dedicated to gaming, fintech, e-commerce and classifieds.

Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with major offices in Poland, China, Estonia, Scotland, and Sweden, as well as a presence in many additional countries. Opera is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the “OPRA” ticker symbol.

Opera is a global software company that engages, entertains and connects people around the globe. From web browsers to news applications, we provide the best consumer products to enjoy online content regardless of location or platform. Today, over 380 million people use Opera’s products on a monthly basis, making us one of the largest app publishers in the world. We present advertisers with the opportunity to reach and engage a global audience who spend an average of 28 mins with us daily.

About the position

We are looking for a highly motivated and strategic Account Manager to support and scale and grow our Performance Team. The main responsibility of this role will be the day-to-day management of key advertising accounts from medium to large corporations and multinationals Globally. You will be responsible for driving client success and ensure their marketing and business objectives are effectively met using Opera's advertising solutions.

As an Account Manager, you will report to the Advertising Operations Director. You will have ample experience on the publisher and/or agency side working with multiple advertisers to build digital ad strategies and execute campaigns using the latest digital advertising tools and technologies. You will be passionate about understanding campaign intricacies and how to improve performance whilst understanding the range of Opera’s advertising products. You possess strong analytical ability, and will develop deep expertise in Opera's products and proprietary metrics to design and implement winning campaigns, optimising performance to derive insights and meet our advertisers’ needs.

Location(s)The ideal candidate is in any of the following locations: Ireland, UK, Spain or Malta. - Remote OK(If it is your case we encourage you to apply!)

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on Opera's solutions and adapt recommendations based on advertiser needs.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, key business partners and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with sales teams to identify business opportunities amongst existing business partners and within territories.
• Work closely with performance advertisers to understand their business, marketing challenges and objectives.
• Develop campaigns based on short and long term strategies for clients to succeed with Opera Ads.
• Manage advertising contracts using internal systems.
• Collaborate with advertisers to design and implement tracking, attribution and retention strategies for web and app based campaigns.
• Ensure the timely and successful delivery of business partner solutions and strategies.
• Plan, implement, maximise and optimize advertising spend as well ROI for direct advertisers.
• Set commercial goals and grow advertisers' spend with Opera.
• Monitor campaigns, troubleshoot issues, resolve discrepancies and escalate to trafficking, optimisation and engineering teams using internal task management systems.
• Build compelling advertiser campaign feedback presentations detailing successes, insights, recommendations and ROI.
• Optimise campaign performance and identify trends for insights and documentation (case studies).
• Educate and train advertisers on our advertising solutions, reporting systems and metrics.
• Understand Opera reporting systems and generate reports on demand.
• Provide sales support through timely delivery of requested data, documentation and contact sharing.
• Participate in weekly meetings with the sales team, as well as other internal teams, to showcase results and optimisation recommendations for advertising campaigns.
• Clearly communicate the progress of initiatives to internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in monthly billing and 3rd party financial reconciliation.
• Proactively come up with ideas and solutions for product and process improvements based on experience and data.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 5+ years experience in digital advertising on publisher or agency side
• 2+ years minimum of experience in performance marketing
• Competitive, driven, enthusiastic, cooperative personality aspects
• Track record of managing performance campaigns
• Prior experience with GAM, Facebook ads, Google Ads, or other ad servers
• Excellent understanding of ad tech, programmatic advertising and web technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational and social skills
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify trends and insights; and optimize spend and performance based on these insights
• Able to manage multiple projects and campaigns with conflicting priorities in a deadline-driven environment
• Relentless and proactively focused on growth
• Good project manager with discipline and accountability
• Conceptual thinker and able to come up with bold ideas
• Must be a self-starter; able to work with minimal supervision to initiate and complete tasks
• Able to collaborate and communicate expertly, both internally and externally at all levels
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint and Google Slides.
• Familiarity with key advertisers, publishers and agency landscape locally is a plus
• Must be enthusiastic, friendly and comfortable to work under pressure

Interested?

We will review applications on a rolling basis, apply now!

About us

Opera is a leading global internet brand with an engaged and growing base of over 380 million average monthly active users. Building on 25 years of innovation, starting with our browser products, we are increasingly leveraging our brand as well as our massive and highly active user base in order to expand our offerings and our business. Today, we offer users across Europe, Africa and Asia a range of products and services that include our PC and mobile browsers as well as our AI-powered news reader Opera News and our app-based fintech solutions.

Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with major offices in Poland, China, Estonia and Sweden, as well as a presence in many additional countries. Opera is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the “OPRA” ticker symbol.

With a global user base of over 360 million, Opera is an international internet company that has expanded into product areas beyond our popular browsers. Our product portfolio includes web browsers, fin-tech solutions, news aggregation services, as well as data compression and privacy software.

Opera Software is looking for a Product Manager to join the growing Opera Fintech team located in Wrocław and Warsaw, Poland or Tallinn, Estonia.

The Product Manager is responsible for a product development concept – through setting up business and technical requirements to delivery to the market. In addition you create buy-in and alignment throughout the organization in your own and other business units. You are also in charge of negotiating and driving a cross-functional team, including front – and back-end developers on a daily basis.

Desired qualifications

• 3+ years of Software Product Management experience
• Experience in leading a cross functional team
• A proven track record of product launches where you have taken a product from concept to launch: defining go-to-market strategy, driving UX decisions, and steering technical implementation discussions
• In-depth understanding of the markets, competition, and user requirements for mobile and web apps
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Beneficial skills & knowledge

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Economics, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in building consumer facing products at scale
• Experience in building banking or payments systems / platforms is an advantage

What we offer

• To become part of rapidly growing fintech business
• To work with many smart and ambitious people across Europe
• Highly competitive compensation package
• Good opportunities for self-achievement and - development