Drive Digital Growth for a Premium Brand: E-commerce ManagerJoin a growing international brand crafting premium, minimalist products since 2013. We blend innovative technology with contemporary style, achieving significant global recognition in the premium yet accessible space. We're seeking a dynamic E-commerce Manager to lead our digital strategy and accelerate online growth. Location: 📍Based in Milan, we welcome applications from candidates who can commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in our office. Travel expenses will be covered. About You:You're a results-driven e-commerce expert passionate about elevating brands in the premium yet accessible market. You excel at optimizing the online customer journey, boosting conversion, and building customer loyalty for product-focused businesses. The Role:You'll own our entire digital presence, from website experience (Shopify) to user engagement and retention. Your focus will be on improving key metrics through A/B testing, merchandising, cross-selling, and implementing a loyalty program. This is a hands-on role requiring a strategic and commercial mindset to capitalize on the unique opportunities within our brand and market position. Key Responsibilities:Develop and execute the e-commerce strategy to drive significant revenue growth in the premium yet accessible sector.Optimize the Shopify Plus website for an exceptional user experience and conversion.Implement A/B testing, cross-selling, and a loyalty program.Develop engaging product stories to connect with our audience.Collaborate with other teams to enhance customer engagement.Analyze online consumer behavior and implement UX best practices. What You'll Bring:Proven success in managing and growing e-commerce for product-centric brands, ideally within the premium yet accessible space.Strong understanding of the online customer in the premium-yet-accessible market.A track record of achieving significant digital revenue growth (ideally taking a brand to £7-20 million  digital revenue, representing at least 25% of total revenue).Expertise in website optimization, UX, and conversion rate optimization.Strong analytical and commercial acumen.Proactive, self-driven approach with a passion for building and improving processes.An appreciation for design and the arts. Sounds like you? Great, I would love to speak with you 😊

Software Engineering Tech LeadWe've partnered with a high-growth London based software business who are looking for an experienced Tech Lead to join the team. They've seen some fantastic success in around 30-40% year on year growth and are secure enough to not require investor backing to continue their expansion. It's the kind of organisation where each individual can have a meaningful impact to shape the culture of the business moving forward. Collaboration is something that is absolutely crucial to my client. Communication and consistent feedback across the business are what drives their high engineering standards. They're looking for someone who cares about high quality code, good design decisions and someone who will tackle problem solving head on. The focus here is on having a big impact within a smaller organisation and being proud of that impact. Desired technical skills: Extensive PHP experience (frameworks wise Laminas and Mezzio are preferred)Good AWS environment experience using tools like CloudformationGood JavaScript and jQuery experienceHands-on work with Varnish and ApacheTechnical lead experience both in terms of leading projects and leading other engineers on the teamThe role is hybrid in Central London. If you're interested in applying, send across your CV immediately or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info.

Animator – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAPDuration: 18 MonthsLocation: 1-2 days in Twycross & 3-4 days working from homeRate: £300 - £332 per day PAYESummary:Technical animators are responsible for supporting the technology used to play animations in game. As part of the Technical Animation team, you will work directly with the Engineering team, and you will support the Art, AI, and Game teams to build animation systems for runtime. You will be using Unreal to create higher standards of animation across a wide variety of our clients’ unique and stylised characters. They are also invested in ongoing R&D into new and emerging animation technology. This role is a real opportunity for a problem solver with a creative technical mindset.Skills:Several years of experience working as technical animation in the videogame industry (doesn’t have to be Triple AAA)Unreal Engine experienceExperience in Animation blueprints (Locomotion)Demonstrable experience in the development of locomotion and character control systemsProved ability to work on engine animation blueprints including overlaying, IK, control rigs or similar technologies.To have completed at least one full game development cycleDemonstrated good collaboration skills.Demonstrable ability in the use of revision control softwareResponsibilities:Work with design and engineers to understand and implement gameplay animation features.Support engineers and game teams to fix game issues, troubleshooting animation graphs and artwork.Be aware of the performance issues and be responsible for performance improvements.Participate in R&D into emerging animation technologies.Advise and create tools to improve workflows and asset quality.Support engineers and game teams to fix game issues, troubleshooting animation graphs and artwork.Desirable Skills:Knowledge of 3D maths and creative problem-solving skillsProgramming or scripting skillsExperience with motion matching and other data driven systems

Site Reliability Engineer – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAPDuration: 18 MonthsLocation: RemoteRate: £300 - £329 per day PAYE Summary: As an SRE your main purpose is solving for scale through collaboration and automation, bringing engineering principles to infrastructure and operational problems. You will work closely with the different teams to help improve manual tasks, operational processes, lower complexities & risks, break down team silos through improved communication and really get involved with them to reinvent how they work to help them succeed.You will work with a scaling platform, maintaining its programmable infrastructure and maximising the availability of the workloads that run on it, both at a live production & deliverable lifecycle level.With constant improvement and automation as core principles, a lot of this role is thinking about inefficient and time-consuming things that are happening and putting a stop to them as soon as possible. You will always arrive at most problems by saying “I’m going to take the time to automate this right now and stop anyone else from having to do this painful thing”Skills:Experience within C#, Azure, DevOps & BicepManaged/implement large scale distributed server systems within Azure.Worked on modern release pipelines – CI/CD (Octopus Deploy/Azure DevOps/TeamCity)Knowledge of Azure monitoring, alerting, message queuesUnderstand or worked within an Incident Management Process (ITSM)Responsibilities:Minimising downtime to products & servicesEnsuring the platform is stable, scalable, and completely automated.Helping to improve and shorten development/process lifecycles.Applying effective monitoring & alerting in placeSupporting release through stable and automated pipeline processes

Marketing Associate – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 12 Months Location: 3 days per week in London office, 2 days per week remote workingRate: £245 - £300 per day PAYE Summary:Our client is looking for an exceptional Partner Enablement Manager to take on a key role in driving our channel marketing strategy & execution with EMEA mobility partners like Vodafone. Reporting to the Director of Partner Enablement for EMEA, this experienced channel leader will be responsible for all marketing operations for bringing all RL products and services to market, including retail/channel marketing budgets, experiential programs, customer acquisition and retention, and measurement while continually improving our toolset and processes to meet our goals. You will need to feel comfortable in a fast-paced environment with democratized information and working across Product Management, Business Development, Marketing, and Operations teams and at the same time, working with our customer’s cross functional leadership teams. Responsibilities:Develop go-to-market EMEA retail channel marketing strategy in concert with our RL Category and Product Marketing teams.Focus on building programs that optimize awareness, trial and conversion and retention of our clients’ users across multiple products and services.Lead & execute marketing and merchandising initiatives with EMEA retail partners within agreed upon budgets and KPIs Continuously measure, manage, and optimize marketing programs to drive efficiency recommending tools development and processes as necessary to achieve these goals innovation.Oversight and management of channel co-marketing and OPEX budget, focusing on performance and delivering against agreed upon metrics.Present key marketing programs to retailer partners, executives, and business development teamsManage content & campaign activities across retailers ensuring our content meets brand standards and is in service of overall strategy.Always be innovating and partnering.Identify new channel marketing opportunities in EMEA and in partnership with other geographic leaders and position these opportunities for review to drive to a decision.Coordinate and manage marketing elements of regularly scheduled marketing reviews e.g. (Quarterly Business Reviews) including regional share, context & performance across our business channels and partners.Deliver and receive candid feedback on both sales/marketing metrics and personal performance.Key Skills:4 years’ experience in a Channel Marketing or similar fieldCandidates should have a demonstrable achievement and success with a consumer technology brand.4 years’ experience in building go-to-market strategies, planning and execution across digital and physical retail channels.4 years’ experience working directly with online retail partners with demonstrable knowledge of key advertising metrics and programs. CPC (Cost per Conversion), CPA (Cost per Acquisition), LTV (Lifetime Value) and ROAS (Return on Advertising Spend) as examples.Knowledge in Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI), inventory turns, etc.Demonstrate presentation skills.Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Economics, or related fieldExtremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail, able to detect inconsistencies and errors.Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.Highly effective at managing conflict.Can address issues between stakeholders swiftly to maintain a positive team spirit that is consistent with Facebook values.Strong interpersonal skills, approachable and flexible.Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure vary.Understand how to create and manage project trackers.Excellent communicator, superb verbal, and written communicationExperience with challenger/new business technologies that have changed the way human beings work and socialize e.g., Uber, Nest, Apple iPad.Creative/ Design background a plusExperience within a brand executing a direct-to-consumer physical retail strategy.Experience in bringing projects from concept.

Title: Fullstack Developer Contract: 6 Months Type: Hybrid Location: Cork, Ireland Join a collaborative and fast-paced environment where innovation meets impact. We’re looking for a Full Stack Developer who thrives on both front-end finesse and back-end precision. If you're a self-starter who loves solving complex problems and building scalable, user-friendly web applications—this could be your next big move.Front-End Development:Build responsive and intuitive user interfaces.Work primarily with React JS (Vue.js, AngularJS, or similar also welcome).Collaborate closely with UI/UX designers to deliver polished web pages.Back-End Development:Develop robust APIs and business logic using Python (preferably with Flask).Ensure smooth integration between the UI and server-side logic.Database & Cloud:Manage and optimise relational databases like MySQL and Snowflake.Deploy scalable applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (experience with Apple Internal Cloud or similar is ideal).Experience required:Proven experience with React JS or similar JavaScript frameworks.Strong Python skills with hands-on Flask development.Solid understanding of database design and performance tuning (MySQL).Experience with containerisation and cloud-based deployments.Strong attention to detail, self-motivation, and excellent problem-solving skills.Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams.

Site Reliability Engineer – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 18 Months Location: Remote Rate: £300 - £332 per day PAYE Summary: As an SRE your main purpose is solving for scale through collaboration and automation, bringing engineering principles to infrastructure and operational problems. You will work closely with the different teams to help improve manual tasks, operational processes, lower complexities & risks, break down team silos through improved communication and really get involved with them to reinvent how they work to help them succeed. You will work with a scaling platform, maintaining its programmable infrastructure and maximising the availability of the workloads that run on it, both at a live production & deliverable lifecycle level. With constant improvement and automation as core principles, a lot of this role is thinking about inefficient and time-consuming things that are happening and putting a stop to them as soon as possible. You will always arrive at most problems by saying “I’m going to take the time to automate this right now and stop anyone else from having to do this painful thing”Skills:Experience within C#, Azure, DevOps & BicepManaged/implement large scale distributed server systems within Azure.Worked on modern release pipelines – CI/CD (Octopus Deploy/Azure DevOps/TeamCity)Knowledge of Azure monitoring, alerting, message queuesUnderstand or worked within an Incident Management Process (ITSM)Responsibilities:Minimising downtime to products & servicesEnsuring the platform is stable, scalable, and completely automated.Helping to improve and shorten development/process lifecycles.Applying effective monitoring & alerting in placeSupporting release through stable and automated pipeline processes

Live Content Manager  Location: West Midlands, UK (Hybrid – 1 onsite meeting/month after onboarding)Duration: 18 Months  Pay type: PAYE through Trust in SODA  Are you a content management pro with a sharp eye for detail and a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences? We’re looking for a capable Live Content Manager to join our client's team working on a popular and evolving live-service game. This is a cross-functional role that offers a great opportunity to make an impact by coordinating and publishing in-game content that reaches millions of players worldwide. What You’ll Be DoingManage and schedule in-game content using our proprietary Content Management System.Collaborate with internal teams to coordinate content publishing that aligns with our Live Service schedule.Partner with testers and service engineers to ensure content is tested, verified, and deployed reliably.Communicate progress and blockers to stakeholders across the business.Build a deep understanding of our CMS tools to help troubleshoot and support other teams.Maintain and expand documentation to support continued tool usage and adoption.What We’re Looking ForProficiency in content management tools and publishing processes.Experience working with regular content delivery schedules (daily or weekly).Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Proven track record of delivering work to deadlines.Bonus Points ForWillingness and ability to quickly learn new tools and processes.Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.Basic knowledge of JavaScript or experience working with technical systems.Passion for video games or live digital experiences.Basic Photoshop or editorial skills for occasional light edits or copywriting.