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We Want You at SYNATECH AFRICA

We’re looking for hard-working, motivated individuals to join our team and help us in our mission of empowering our clients.

Synatech Africa is a place like no other. It’s a place of friendship and teamwork, where co-workers become close friends and you’re encouraged to innovate, learn, and improve every single day.

Working at Synatech Africa is a call to be better and to rise to any challenge you may encounter. We also believe good ideas and creative solutions can come from anyone. We hope that the next ones can come from you.

Ready to join the best team in marketing and technology? Browse through our open positions below
to find out what we’re currently looking for. We’re excited to see what we can do together.

OPEN POSITIONS

Job Overview

Synatech Africa is looking for a driven, analytical, strategic, creative and results-oriented Brand Strategist. We are looking for an expert in using, designing, analyzing and interpreting various research methodologies — secondary and primary, qualitative and quantitative — to discover key consumer insights and profiling to drive brand strategy and inform the marketing strategy. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter and clear communicator who has a leadership mentality. You must be confident, responsible, detail-oriented and strategic. The Brand Strategist should be viewed as a thought leader and have the ability to create big wins for our clients.
WHAT YOU WILL DO(Responsibilities):
  • You will lead brainstorming sessions with internal teams, maintaining strategic and creative thinking to develop innovative and actionable initiatives in a fiscally responsible manner
  • You will create and conduct stakeholder interviews with clients, interacting, uncovering, and presenting to clients
  • You will be able to present, or oversee the presentation of final strategic concepts, and obtain approvals for deliverables
  • You will be responsible for leading and participating in client work sessions
  • You will get to help with the sales process, scope of work, and proposals
  • As a Lead on our agency team, you will be responsible for mentoring incoming junior talent
  • You will develop a brand strategy, brand positioning, and brand architecture pieces
  • You will get to collaborate with our agency’s Creative Director, Marketing Strategist and other key team members in developing a brand strategy for clients
  • You will assess the client’s brand acumen and efficacy, and fill in the gaps by helping our clients discover, establish and drive the brand within Scorpion’s deliverables.
  • You will create and defend compelling, fact-based stories
  • You will write or edit the creative brief for every deliverable. Brief should include client background, business issues, details about the target audience and a concise, clear strategy to evaluate the creative work against.

Deliverable’s include:

  • Brand audit
  • “Why” statements
  • Consumer research synthesis
  • Brand positioning matrix
  • Brand positioning
  • Brand architecture
  • Consumer personas
  • Consumer journey mapping and analysis
  • Consumer insight analysis & interpretation

Experience:

  • Strategy experience within an agency
  • A solid background in data-driven strategy
  • A proven record in developing strategic plans that benefit your former and/or current clients
  • Must be a highly collaborative team player
  • The drive to thrive in both independent and collaborative work environments
  • Possess a strong understanding of analytics, branding framework and the media landscape
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills i.e. must have the ability to interact with executives, company owners, and founders
  • Track record of building strong brands
  • Ability to develop, communicate and execute an overall strategic vision for clients
  • Strong project management skills – ability to ensure deadlines and milestones are met by internal and external teams
  • As the representative of our company to clients, you must be personable, solution-minded, polished and results-oriented
  • You must have the ability to think big picture while building road maps to execute in a fast-paced environment
  • Creative briefs
  • Brand guidelines (sans graphic standards)

Job Overview

We are in active pursuit of amazing individuals capable of being the primary point of contact for their clients. This position is responsible for building long-term relationships with Synatech Africa target industries while helping them achieve all goals through strategic and effective online marketing campaigns. You must be a professional and constantly improve your skills to be an expert in all aspects necessary to best serve Synatech Africa requests, questions, and concerns and continuously execute and refine their customized marketing campaign to ensure their success.
The ideal candidate has marketing experience and a familiarity with SEO & SEM. A bachelor’s degree is required and an MBA is a plus. To be the best fit for this role, you must provide the ultimate professional experience, thus creating a partnership with our clients to prove that we are the best at what we do.
Your top priority, and a key area in which you will be evaluated, is retention; both value retention and overall client retention. The goal with every client is to make them a Synatech Africa client for life.

What you’ll do /Responsibilities:

  • Acknowledge client requests & questions and continuously execute and refine the client’s customized marketing campaign to ensure success
  • Providing ultimate professional experience and creating partnerships with Synatech Africa clients to prove that we are the best in the industry
  • Continually interacts, provides updates of good news and of work performed, educates and suggests new campaign strategies based on any uncovered information
  • Ability to meet with (at Synatech Africa or elsewhere) clients and conduct productive and positive business meetings
  • Providing a comprehensive monthly report covering the performance of the campaign, future plans, etc.
  • Supply client updates regarding areas of opportunity to grow existing agency relationships and revenue
  • Update client on new industry trends/news, as well as internal Synatech Africa changes

Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred
  • 3+ years of work in the Digital Marketing field or similar
  • PPC and SEO knowledge
  • Customer service
  • Sales experience
  • Internet marketing in a specific industry is an experience a major plus

Attributes:

  • Strong organizational, project and time management skills, able to address multiple projects/requests and meet tight deadlines with ownership and accountability
  • Customer-oriented, positive focus with a high standard of service and professionalism
  • Proven presentation and relationship management skills
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, manage multiple priorities and deadlines, be detail-oriented and work independently as well as in groups
  • Ability to work and react quickly in a fast-paced environment

Skills:

  • Excellent verbal & written communication
  • Rapid problem-solving
  • Conflict resolution
  • Able to interpret raw data to improve client campaigns
  • Willingness to travel long distances when needed (5% travel for this position)
  • Willingness to work more than 40+ hours
  • Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint

Qualifications:

  • Excellent verbal & written communication
  • Proficient in Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
  • Strong organizational, project and time management skills, able to address multiple projects/requests and meet tight deadlines with ownership and accountability
  • Customer-oriented, positive focus with a high standard of service and professionalism
  • Proven presentation and relationship management skills
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, manage multiple priorities and deadlines, be detail-oriented and work independently as well as in groups
  • Ability to work and react quickly in a fast-paced environment
  • Rapid problem-solving and critical thinking skills
  • Willingness to travel long distances when needed (5% travel for this position)

Job Overview

We are seeking individuals who can be a go-to and reliable asset for our Project Managers.
Without you, our PM’s wouldn’t be able to sufficiently service all their clients.
This position requires flexibility and the desire to help with any and every task.

What You’ll do / Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for behind-the-scene deliverables
  • Keeping Project Managers organized
  • Basic website updates
  • Setting up Google Analytics accounts if necessary
  • Coordinating with clients to get login information on existing accounts
  • Working on directories
  • Scheduling

Experience:

  • 2+  years of experience in a support-type role, i.e experience with scheduling, coordinating, creating minutes or documents for meetings, assisting Executives or Managers, travel coordinating, display coordinating, social media content calendaring, etc.
  • Experience in a digital marketing environment a plus
  • Attributes: organized, pro-active, flexible, positive and reliable
  • Excellent people skills to interact with staff, colleagues, and cross-functional teams
  • Meticulous attention to detail

Job Overview

We are seeking a B2B marketing expert to expand our brand awareness, drive marketing engagements and inbound leads within our target audiences.
The position will report directly to the Chief Marketing Officer, and you will also work closely with other members of the corporate marketing team and broader organization.

Responsibilities:

  • You will develop and execute our go-to-market strategy for driving targeted engagements and leads in our home services vertical.
  • You will be responsible for architecting cohesive marketing strategies across multiple channels, including: digital, social, direct, content, email, conferences and events, and more.

Experience:

  • 3+ years in B2B marketing experience crafting campaigns directed at SMBs
  • Analytical and metrics-driven, with a focus on defining and hitting KPIs while maintaining positive ROI
  • Demonstrated success with multiple forms of demand generation, including content marketing, paid search, direct mail, inbound marketing techniques, email marketing, SEO, and social media
  • Hubspot and/or Salesforce ( Preferred)
  • MailChimp or similar email marketing platform (Preferred)
  • Google Analytics and AdWords
  • Facebook Ads

Qualifications:

  • Team player, highly analytical, competitive, creative and organized 
  • Strong analytics capability
  • Strong project management
  • Excellent written and verbal communication 

Job Overview

We’re looking for highly motivated, customer-focused Salespeople who want to bring the absolute best Digital marketing products and technology services to local businesses across East Africa Region (ok, more specifically the 47 Kenya Counties right now). We deliver businesses more new customers from the Internet by providing them with everything they need to succeed. Our solutions include website design and development, software technology, search engine optimization, social media marketing, reputation management, and paid advertising through Google Adwords, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook and Yelp. Most importantly, we empower our customers by giving them an army of Synatech Africa Marketers who constantly work to help generate new business on their behalf so they can focus on running their business, and getting a little more rest in between.
We have big targets, huge targets actually. As a professional salesperson at Synatech Africa, you’ll achieve monthly and quarterly performance objectives. You’ll receive an aggressive compensation plan that includes a base salary, per-sale commissions, quarterly performance bonuses, up sell generation commissions, and monthly sales games. Most importantly, you’ll be joining a group of individuals who have chosen to work together as a team to accomplish something amazing and rarely accomplished in today’s business climate.

Responsibilities:

  • Achieve monthly and quarterly performance objectives
  • Social media networking
  • Structuring, developing and managing a sales pipeline
  • Formal sales presentation creation and delivery
  • Managing prospects

Experience:

    • 2-5 years inside sales experience, preferably in digital media, internet marketing and/or technology sales
    • Experience selling solutions over the phone and in person
    • B2B sales experience preferred
    • Track record of exceeding sales goals and quotas
Qualifications:
  • Call center software application and telephony knowledge preferred
  • Strong communication skill, written and oral
  • Strong working knowledge of communication channel operations (phone, email and live chat systems)
  • Proficiency with Excel and Word
  • Practical skill level with CRM software such as SalesForce, HubSpot, Zoho, GoldMine, etc.
  • Extremely competitive
  • Ambitious
  • Outgoing
  • Persistent

Job Overview

We are seeking individuals who can be a go-to and reliable asset for our Project Managers.
Without you, our PM’s wouldn’t be able to sufficiently service all their clients.
This position requires flexibility and the desire to help with any and every technology task.
As an SEO Manager,  you will be responsible for the success of up to 75 high-value client accounts. This is not a leadership role, but instead a manager of external client accounts. You will work closely with the Marketing Director and marketing leadership to build effective strategies for these accounts, employ them, and communicate them to the client. You are responsible for being an expert in Search Engine Optimization. You will be expected to focus your SEO efforts on organic KPIs as well as client retention, which  means you are expected to be not only an expert in SEO but in communicating SEO to your clients. Your top priority is retention (both value retention and overall client retention) and doing everything within your power to provide the highest value of SEO strategy to each client.

Responsibilities:

  • Local SEO Specialists will interact directly with both clients and vendors, will create, maintain, claim, and fix required listings
  • Local SEO Specialists will work to ensure all of their clients have an accurate, comprehensive, and complete online footprint and will help build valuable back link profiles for all of their clients
  • Completing an in-depth SEO analysis of the client’s current website including sitemap recommendations (structure, page names, redirects, etc.), copied content analysis and domain analysis/recommendations
  • Understanding the client’s SEO goals and expectations (communicating with the marketing team to uncover SEO goals and ensuring client’s keywords reflect their business and SEO goals)
  • Developing and completing contracted monthly strategies for each client
  • Sending custom, monthly SEO updates and reports to internal marketing team
  • Managing SEO requests from clients (delegating or executing)
  • Responding to questions about SEO and client campaigns from team members
  • Managing On-Site SEO performance by checking and improving on-site optimization; checking and improving internal link structure; checking and fixing potential indexation issues; and  reviewing, improving, and adding valuable content
  • Managing Off-Site SEO performance by ensuring all mandatory listings are claimed, verified and accurate
  • Monitoring all critical listings (i.e., Google My Business) for accuracy over time keeping up-to-date and taking advantage of new features on critical listings
  • Ensuring Google Search Console and Google Analytics are setup and accurate
  • Researching and proposing new ideas for locally and industry relevant back link opportunities
  • Manual outreach for the creation of structured citations, unstructured citations, and mentions

Experience:

  • 2+ years of experience in a professional environment handling data-driven, problem-solving or detail-oriented tasks
  • 1+ years of SEO related experience is required
  • Digital marketing experience required and agency experience preferred
  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred
  • 2+  years of experience in a support-type role, i.e experience with scheduling, coordinating, creating minutes or documents for meetings, assisting Executives or Managers, travel coordinating, display coordinating, social media content calendaring, etc.
  • Experience in a digital marketing environment a plus
  • Attributes: organized, pro-active, flexible, positive and reliable
  • Excellent people skills to interact with staff, colleagues, and cross-functional teams
  • Meticulous attention to detail

Qualifications:

  • Touch-type 50 + WPM
  • Basic English and grammar competency with ability to write well
  • Strong verbal & written communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to duplicate without error
  • Must be professional, self-driven, and organized—and, most of all, they must be driven by a desire to see their clients succeed
  • Excellent written & verbal communication
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Precise critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Proficient knowledge of Google Docs, Google Sheets and Outlook

Job Overview

As the Content & Social Manager, you are responsible for developing and defining social media strategic marketing campaigns for your clients. You are the owner of the overall execution, production, and task management of your assigned clients. You are a copywriter, graphic designer, strategist, and customer service representative — able to adapt quickly to an ever-changing environment.
All content should creatively market the client and satisfy the client’s expectations. Synatech Africa has very high standards for both our clients and ourselves. All content should be stylistically polished and edited for factual accuracy and grammatical correctness.
Please include at least two sample Facebook posts, three Tweets and one blog writing sample in your portfolio when applying for this position.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and execute strategies for Content Marketing campaigns for assigned clients (including but not limited to: Facebook posts, Tweets, LinkedIn updates and blogs)
  • Manage 20+ clients and write between 2-5 blogs monthly per client
  • Report on Content Marketing campaigns to clients
  • Create promotions and boosts as needed for client campaigns
  • Monitor & respond to your client’s audience on social platforms
  • Collaborate and brainstorm with SEO managers and other writers on your team
  • Monitor & analyze social media and website metrics, making improvements accordingly
  • Stay on top of new technologies and industry news
  • Actively participate in all team & department meetings

Experience:

  • 2+ years of work
  • Personal or professional ongoing writing, related education or job experience
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred

Qualifications:

  • Strong written communication
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Typing speed of 60 wpm or higher
  • Able to leverage social media content to increase client’s engagement and awareness
  • Self-driven learner (investigates new digital media technologies)
  • Witty and fun!

Job Overview

Synatech Africa is looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full Stack Developers are responsible for developing and designing front end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties.

Full Stack Developers will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

  • Developing front end website architecture.
  • Designing user interactions on web pages.
  • Developing back end website applications.
  • Creating servers and databases for functionality.
  • Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
  • Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
  • Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
  • Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
  • Designing and developing APIs.
  • Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
  • Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Requirements:

  • Degree in Computer Science.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills.
  • Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  • Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React and Amber.
  • Proficiency with server side languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, PHP and .Net.
  • Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills.
  • Good problem solving skills.
  • Attention to detail.

Job Overview

We are seeking an Angular Developer who is innovative, collaborates well with others, and has a track record of success in meeting milestones. As our Angular Developer, you’ll work closely with other senior and junior level Developers, Product Designers and Managers to deliver on some exciting new user-facing products set to launch this year. You will be creating visually appealing web pages/interfaces as well as creating, editing, or modifying templates for our CMS, mobile app and web development framework.

Responsibilities:

  • Building efficient front-end systems that drive complex web applications, and write clean, fast, compatible, easy-to-use, automated-testable React JSX to realize our ideas.
  • Helping to create our UI framework to help us create applications to interact with our data—code, widgets, and all—and help us identify and document its emergent rules
  • You should be able to program cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device compatible web pages
  • Staying up to date on the latest and best coding strategies
  • Mentoring colleagues and junior-level talent on best practices and methodologies

Qualifications:

  • You must be highly organized
  • You must be adaptable to workflows
  • You must have enduring attention to detail
  • You must have self-direction and refined critical thinking
  • We want you to be a team player who is motivated and passionate about coding!

Requirements:

  • 2+ years of experience using Angular 2 + (we’re currently using Angular 8)
  • 6+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Experience with managing state using Redux or NGRX a must.
  • Experience using any back-end technologies, i.e. Node, SQL, etc
  • Solid understanding Restful APIs and dealing with JSON formatted data
  • Experience with Jasmine or Ionic framework preferred

Job Overview

We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of Front End Developer. Front end Developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.

Front End Developers are required to work in teams alongside Back end Developers, Graphic Designers and User Experience Designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Determining the structure and design of web pages.
  • Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
  • Developing features to enhance the user experience.
  • Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
  • Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
  • Building reusable code for future use.
  • Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
  • Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
  • Maintaining brand consistency throughout design.

Requirements:

  • Degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Understanding of key design principles.
  • Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
  • Understanding of server-side CSS.
  • Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator.
  • Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
  • Understanding of SEO principles.
  • Good problem solving skills.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills.
  • Good interpersonal skills.

Job Overview

We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-end Developer who will work with team members to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The Back-end Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users. You should have excellent communication, computer, and project management skills.

To succeed as a Backend Developer, you should be focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating a better end-user experience. You should be knowledgeable, collaborative, and motivated.

Responsibilities:

  • Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
  • Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
  • Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
  • Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
  • Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
  • Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
  • More education or experience may be required.
  • Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.
  • Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
  • Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
  • Excellent project and time management skills.
  • Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently or with a group.
  • Willingness to sit at desk for extended periods.

Job Overview

Synatech Africa is seeking to hire a skilled Software Developer to help with the development of our current projects. Your duties will primarily revolve around building software by writing code, as well as modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interfaces. You will also be involved in directing system testing and validation procedures, and also working with customers or departments on technical issues including software system design and maintenance.

To be successful in this role, you will need extensive knowledge of programming languages and the software development life-cycle. A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree is required.

Responsibilities:

  • Modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interfaces.
  • Directing system testing and validation procedures.
  • Directing software programming and documentation development.
  • Consulting with departments or customers on project status and proposals.
  • Working with customers or departments on technical issues including software system design and maintenance.
  • Analyzing information to recommend and plan the installation of new systems or modifications of an existing system.
  • Consulting with engineering staff to evaluate software-hardware interfaces and develop specifications and performance requirements.
  • Designing and developing software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and design consequences.
  • Preparing reports on programming project specifications, activities, or status.
  • Conferring with project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree.
  • Knowledge of the software development life-cycle.
  • The desire to work in fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to develop unit testing of code components or complete applications.
  • Creativity is always a plus.
  • Must be a full-stack developer and understand concepts of software engineering.
  • Experience working on a variety of software development projects.
  • Deep programming language knowledge.
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