Role Summary 

We are seeking a highly experienced and versatile Senior Full Stack Developer with 6+ years of industry experience to join our innovative engineering team. This is a pivotal role for an individual who thrives on technical evolution and wants to make a significant impact on our clients' success.

You will be instrumental in developing and evolving our core technology stack, encompassing our existing PHP/Laravel backend and building out modern Node.js-based architectures (e.g., NestJS), alongside our cutting-edge React/Next.js frontend. A key aspect of this role involves integrating advanced AI capabilities into our products and enhancing our DevOps practices, ensuring swift responsiveness and robust solutions for our business needs.

We are looking for a proactive problem-solver, a strong collaborator, and crucially, an individual with a genuine eagerness to learn and adapt to an evolving technical landscape. If you're ready to push boundaries and contribute your skills to an extraordinary team, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Full Stack Development: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-quality, scalable applications across the full stack, utilizing both current and future technologies.
• Backend Evolution & Development: Lead and actively contribute to the development of our backend services, maintaining existing PHP (Laravel) systems while building out new services with Node.js (e.g., NestJS).
• Frontend Development: Develop and optimize responsive, user-friendly interfaces using React and Next.js.
• AI Integration: Research, evaluate, and integrate AI/ML models/APIs (e.g., LLMs) to create intelligent features.
• DevOps Enhancement: Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud infrastructure management (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Architectural Contribution: Collaborate on architectural decisions and technical designs for our evolving platform.
• Code Quality: Write clean, well-documented, testable code and participate in rigorous code reviews.
• Collaboration: Work effectively as one team with product managers, designers, and other developers, providing technical guidance as needed.
• Continuous Learning: Actively stay abreast of emerging technologies in Node.js, AI, and DevOps.

Role Requirements

Experience:

• 6+ years of proven experience in full-stack development.

Technical Skills & Knowledge:

• Frontend Expertise: Expert-level proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Backend Development:
• Proven experience with or strong desire to master Node.js (NestJS, Express.js experience highly valued) to drive our future backend development.
• Experience with PHP (Laravel) for maintaining existing systems.
• AI/ML Integration: Practical experience integrating AI/ML models or APIs and understanding of core AI/ML concepts (e.g., LLMs).
• DevOps Practices:
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with containerization (Docker).
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Database Management: Solid experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and familiarity with NoSQL databases.
• System Design: Strong understanding of RESTful API design and scalable system architecture.
• Software Engineering Principles: Adherence to clean code principles, design patterns, and testing methodologies.

Soft Skills & Attributes:

• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and debugging skills.
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate effectively within a diverse team, providing technical guidance as needed.
• Learning Agility: A genuine, demonstrable passion for learning new technologies and adapting to change.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications (Good to Have):

• Direct experience with NestJS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Experience with modular building in Content Management Systems (CMS).

What We Offer at Ogilvy Africa (WPP Scangroup):

• Impactful Work: Opportunity to shape and build our future tech landscape, leading critical initiatives that directly contribute to making brands matter and achieving impactful results for clients across Africa.
• Growth & Learning: A supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and professional development, surrounded by extraordinary people.
• Cutting-Edge Tech: Work with and help define our future tech stack (Node.js, React, Next.js, AI, modern DevOps).
• Collaborative Culture: Be part of a diverse, inclusive, and highly collaborative team where belonging and respect are paramount.
• Wellbeing: A commitment to employee wellbeing and a balanced work life.
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary, health benefits package.

Company Overview 

Ogilvy Africa is the largest network agency on the continent catering to 40 countries with a team of ~900 people across Central, East and West Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi - Kenya, Ogilvy Africa manages a portfolio of over 100 brands for clients such as AB Inbev, Airtel, Africa CDC, Bill & Melinda Gates, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Distell, Equity Bank, Exxon Mobil, Kenya Airways, Mastercard Foundation, Mondelez, NCBA, Nestle, Philips, PWC, SAB Miller, Sanlam, Standard Chartered, Total, Tullow, UNICEF, Unilever, Visa, Vodafone and WWF amongst others.

We offer services across the full spectrum of marketing domains including advertising (on and offline), Customer Engagement & Commerce, Digital Transformation, Shopper Marketing, Media, PR & Influence; all under one unified setup. We’ve also created proprietary marketing products in areas such as real-time marketing, social intelligence, virtual experiences, influencer management, e-commerce enablement and content hubs. Our unique operating model, One Ogilvy, allows clients and brands to cut the complexity of agency structures and create seamless omni-channel experiences for their consumers, across touchpoints. Fuelled by the holy trinity of content, data and technology; Ogilvy Africa strives to be the best-practice agency model, for Developing & Emerging markets.

In our 20+ years in Africa, we have won the highest number of regional and global awards for the region including Cannes Lions, Clio awards, Dubai Lynx Festival, SABRE Awards (Global and Africa); to name a few.

Ogilvy is a leading global creative network of WPP. Launched by David Ogilvy over 70 years ago, it’s referred-to as the Agency of Giants, by several industry experts.

Ogilvy Africa Beliefs

• People need regular OS upgrades: Even the best OS will be obsolete tomorrow unless its constantly upgraded. Same is true for people.
• We need more cows than milk men: We are a culture of practitioners, not managers. We contribute before we comment.
• Creative about creativity: Creativity is, and will always be, our differentiator. Creativity now includes holy trinity of Data -Content -Tech.
• Diversity is a competitive advantage: New profiles, new skills, new styles of leadership make us a stronger company.
• Collaborative advantage > Competitive advantage: Find partners who are on top of their game at the skillset we need. It’s the only way to scale at the speed without pretending to have all the answers.
• Team > Individual: You get a lot more done when everyone stops worrying about who gets credit at the end. Teams Succeed, individuals fail.
• Fail often, fail fast: We see entrepreneurs in all our people and encourage a culture of pilots. Test, succeed and scale; or fail-fast learn, learn from the failure, and start something new.

Are you passionate about turning ideas into compelling visuals that tell a story and inspire action?

ALX Kenya is looking for a talented and fast-moving Graphic Designer to join our marketing team and support creative production.

This role will be responsible for designing high-quality marketing assets used across digital campaigns, social media, program launches, and events. The designer will work closely with the marketing team to translate campaign ideas into compelling visuals that attract and engage prospective learners.

Because our campaigns run across multiple programs and platforms, this role requires someone who can produce a high volume of creative assets quickly while maintaining strong design quality and brand consistency. Experience with video editing is strongly preferred, particularly for editing short-form video content.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the visual storytelling of a fast-growing education brand empowering young people across Africa. Experience working with youth-focused, education, technology, or digital brands is a strong advantage.

About ALX Africa

ALX Africa, a non-profit organisation under the ALX Foundation, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. Formerly part of Sand Tech Holdings, we've embarked on an independent journey to provide world-class tech skills training and career acceleration programmes. Our mission is to bridge the digital divide, upskill and re-skill talent, and create a generation of innovative leaders. By 2030, we aim to empower 2 million Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.

With hubs in 8 cities across Africa and counting, we provide safe access to quality learning and a dedicated network of expert instructors. Our innovative programmes equip learners with the practical skills and knowledge needed to succeed in today's rapidly evolving tech industry. Through a combination of rigorous coursework, industry partnerships, and hands-on projects, we prepare our students for in-demand roles in software engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.

We achieve this by:

• Providing young professionals with access to the most in-demand tech skills that will power the future.
• Empowering the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders through challenging, real-world coursework.
• Building a lifelong, impactful community of tech professionals that support them at all stages of their career journey. 

Our impact thus far:

• 347k+ graduates since 2020
• 257k youth in work
• 31k youth starting own ventures
• 60k youth in jobs created by entrepreneurs

 Visit our website www.alxafrica.com to learn more about our digital revolution.

Role Summary

ALX Kenya is seeking a highly creative, agile, and execution-oriented Graphic Designer to support the production of compelling visual assets.

This role is ideal for a designer who can translate campaign strategy into high-quality creative output that strengthens brand visibility, drives audience engagement, and supports learner acquisition. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing marketing assets used across digital campaigns, social media, programme launches, and events, while ensuring consistency with ALX’s brand identity across markets.

This role requires someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can manage high-volume creative production, and is able to deliver quickly without compromising quality. Basic video editing capability is strongly preferred, particularly for short-form digital content tailored to youth audiences and performance-driven channels.

This is an exciting opportunity for a designer who wants to shape the visual storytelling of a fast-growing education brand that is empowering the next generation of African talent.

Specific Responsibilities

Creative Asset Production and Design Execution

• Lead the design and production of high-quality visual assets across key marketing channels, including digital campaigns, social media, programme launches, and events.
• Create static ad creatives in multiple formats and dimensions to support a wide range of programme marketing needs and platform requirements.
• Develop multiple creative variations to support A/B testing, campaign optimization, and audience segmentation strategies.
• Translate campaign briefs and marketing concepts into compelling visual storytelling that drives attention, engagement, and action.
• Ensure all creative output is aligned with ALX Africa’s brand standards, visual identity, and messaging consistency.
• Support additional design needs across the business, including event collateral, promotional materials, learner-facing assets, and broader brand marketing initiatives.
• Deliver work at speed and scale while maintaining a strong eye for detail, design quality, and accuracy.

Brand Stewardship and Creative Consistency

• Uphold and strengthen the visual expression of the ALX brand across all marketing touchpoints.
• Ensure consistency in typography, layout, imagery, and overall design language across campaigns and channels.
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to ensure creative output reflects campaign objectives, audience needs, and brand positioning.
• Contribute to the evolution of creative templates, design systems, and asset libraries that improve efficiency and consistency over time.

Video Editing and Motion Content Support

• Edit short-form video content to support learner acquisition, brand storytelling, and campaign performance across digital platforms.
• Produce light video edits for testimonials, promotional content, social media clips, and event highlights.
• Add simple motion graphics, text overlays, transitions, and basic animations where needed to enhance engagement.
• Prepare video assets in platform-appropriate formats for channels such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and other digital distribution platforms.
• Work with the marketing team to ensure video content is aligned with campaign messaging, audience behavior, and creative direction.

Cross-Functional Creative Collaboration

• Partner closely with the marketing team to bring campaign ideas to life through compelling and conversion-oriented visuals.
• Collaborate with internal teams across programmes to understand creative needs, timelines, and audience requirements.
• Contribute to fast-turnaround campaign cycles by responding quickly to business priorities and evolving marketing needs.
• Support a culture of creativity, responsiveness, and continuous improvement within the broader growth and brand function

Skill Requirements - Essential

• 3 to 5 years of professional experience in graphic design, ideally within marketing, digital media, brand, or agency environments.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality design work across digital campaigns, ad creatives, and brand marketing materials.
• Proven experience designing for paid digital campaigns and working across multiple asset sizes, formats, and audience use cases.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in high-volume creative production environments with fast turnaround expectations.
• Strong visual storytelling capability, with the ability to turn strategic messaging into engaging, audience-relevant creative.
• High proficiency in industry-standard design tools, including Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Familiarity with Figma and Canva is advantageous.
• Experience editing short-form digital video content for marketing or social media use.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar video editing platforms.
• Ability to add light motion design elements and prepare video content for different platforms and viewing behaviors.
• Candidates must be based in Nairobi or willing to relocate to Nairobi.
• This is an in-person role and the successful candidate will be expected to work onsite as part of the Nairobi team.
• Legal authorisation to work in Kenya.

Person Specification/Attributes

• Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges.
• Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others.
• Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey.
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond.
• Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger.

Portfolio Requirement

Applicants must submit a portfolio of previous work, including examples of:

• Digital ad creatives
• Campaign visuals
• Brand marketing work

Employment Type

This role is a full-time position.

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JOB PURPOSE – SUMMARY

We are seeking a Junior Client Performance & Analytics to own end-to-end client performance management, analytics oversight, dashboard governance, and insight delivery across our CRM performance and Marketing Intelligence platforms. This role consolidates client success management, performance reporting, dashboard customization, and advanced marketing analytics into a single accountable position.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

Client Success & Account Stewardship (CRM Platform)

• Lead enterprise client engagement: Act as primary contact, lead reporting/governance sessions, and manage stakeholder communications to ensure smooth delivery across markets.
• Oversee performance & analytics: Direct campaign and CRM reporting, ensuring data quality and consistency in multi-market environments.
• Manage operations & SLAs: Coordinate technical escalations with Engineering/DevOps, monitor SLA adherence (incidents, MTTR, ticket resolution), and mitigate operational risks.

Digital Media Reporting & Dashboard Customization (Marketing Intelligence Platform)

• Design audience-specific dashboards: Translate stakeholder requirements into KPI frameworks and tailored dashboards for C-suite, marketing leaders, specialists, and agencies.
• Ensure reporting depth & consistency: Deliver granular, cross-channel reporting (campaign to audience level) while maintaining standardized, reusable templates across clients.

Performance Analytics & Insight Generation

• Analyze performance & ROI: Conduct cross-channel ROI and attribution analysis, diagnose performance drivers, and investigate anomalies across spend, CTR, CPA, conversions, engagement, and sentiment.
• Deliver actionable insights: Provide structured weekly “Insights & Actions” summaries with clear optimization recommendations aligned to Marketing Intelligence pillars.
• Report impact & value: Prepare executive-ready Proof of Value reports to demonstrate results and support trial-to-enterprise conversion.

Data Governance & Integrity

• Ensure data accuracy & validation: Regularly verify agency and client data across ATL, digital, social, web, and mobile sources.
• Maintain governance documentation: Document assumptions, definitions, and data dependencies to ensure transparency and consistency.

Commercial & Strategic Contribution

• Partner with Product and Engineering to enhance platform functionality based on client needs.

Success Measures (KPIs)

• SLA adherence and incident resolution performance (including MTTR)
• Reporting accuracy, consistency, and timeliness
• Quality, clarity, and actionability of insights delivered
• Reduction in reporting turnaround time
• Contribution to renewals, retention, and trial-to-contract conversion outcomes

PROFESSION, TECHNICAL SKILL AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Marketing Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.

Experience

• 2+ years in a combination of:
• Digital marketing analytics
• CRM performance reporting
• Dashboard configuration and data visualization
• Experience supporting enterprise clients (banking/telecom/insurance strongly preferred).

Technical Competencies

• Advanced knowledge of Google Ads, Meta Ads, and programmatic platforms
• Strong understanding of CRM campaign reporting and measurement
• Experience with Google Analytics and/or Adobe Analytics
• Advanced Excel and strong analytical skills
• Dashboarding/BI experience (marketing intelligence platforms preferred)
• Strong understanding of attribution models and performance measurement

Behavioral & Leadership Competencies

• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Clear storytelling with data (C-suite-ready insight delivery)
• Structured, detail-oriented, and operationally disciplined
• Commercially minded and ROI-focused
• Strong cross-functional collaboration (Product, Engineering, DevOps, agencies)

OGILVY AFRICA – COMPANY OVERVIEW

Ogilvy Africa is the largest network agency on the continent catering to 40 countries with a team of ~900 people across Central, East and West Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi - Kenya, Ogilvy Africa manages a portfolio of over 100 brands for clients such as AB Inbev, Airtel, Africa CDC, Bill & Melinda Gates, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Distell, Equity Bank, Exxon Mobil, Kenya Airways, Mastercard Foundation, Mondelez, NCBA, Nestle, Philips, PWC, SAB Miller, Sanlam, Standard Chartered, Total, Tullow, UNICEF, Unilever, Visa, Vodafone and WWF amongst others.

We offer services across the full spectrum of marketing domains including advertising (on and offline), Customer Engagement & Commerce, Digital Transformation, Shopper Marketing, Media, PR & Influence; all under one unified setup. We’ve also created proprietary marketing products in areas such as real-time marketing, social intelligence, virtual experiences, influencer management, e-commerce enablement and content hubs. Fuelled by the holy trinity of content, data and technology; Ogilvy Africa strives to be the best-practice agency model, for Developing & Emerging markets.

In our 20+ years in Africa, we have won the highest number of regional and global awards for the region including Cannes Lions, Clio awards, Dubai Lynx Festival, SABRE Awards (Global and Africa); to name a few.

Ogilvy is a leading global creative network of WPP. Launched by David Ogilvy over 70 years ago, it’s referred-to as the Agency of Giants, by several industry experts.

BELIEFS AT OGILVY

• People need regular OS upgrades: Even the best OS will be obsolete tomorrow unless it is constantly upgraded. The same is true for people.
• We need more cows than milkmen: We are a culture of practitioners, not managers. We contribute before we comment.
• Creative about creativity: Creativity is, and will always be, our differentiator. Creativity now includes the trinity of Data–Content–Tech.
• Diversity is a competitive advantage: New profiles, new skills and new styles of leadership make us a stronger company.
• Collaborative advantage > Competitive advantage: We partner with those who are best at the skills we need. It’s the only way to scale at speed without pretending to have all the answers.
• Team Individual: You get a lot more done when everyone stops worrying about who gets the credit at the end. Teams succeed; individuals fail.
• Fail often, fail fast: We see intrapreneurs in all our people and encourage a culture of pilots. Test, succeed and scale; or fail fast, learn, and start something new.