Junior Campaign Developer (AJO)

dentsu; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Spanish/English lessons

Free life and health insurance

Career development through Merkle/uni

2 volunteering days per year

Flexible salary compensation scheme

Hybrid home office

Job summary

dentsu in Barcelona is seeking a specialist to help develop and integrate campaign platform technologies. You will build journeys and campaigns in AJO, personalize content, and run QA checks before presenting results in client sessions.

The role emphasizes hands-on design/work with AJO and a focus on ensuring templates render correctly across channels, with hybrid working conditions and generous employee benefits.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the AJO canvas: journey vs campaign, events, conditions, wait, split, actions and email HTML/CSS to fix templates.
• Understanding XDM schema, dataset, audience and real-time profile in AEP read-only.
• Detail-oriented, careful with checklists, comfortable saying "I don't know".

Responsibilities

• Build journeys and campaigns in AJO from provided designs.
• Author emails, SMS and push content using Journey Optimizer designers, templates and content fragments.
• Apply personalization using profile attributes and helper functions.
• Execute test plans: proofs, test profiles, dry runs, link and render checks.
• Log defects, document builds, and keep the tracker current.
• Attend client sessions to take notes and learn the domain.

Skills

AJO canvas knowledge

AEP read-only navigation

Checklist-driven

Tools

HTML/CSS for email

Job description

Purpose

The purpose of this role is to assist in the development and integration of campaign platform technologies.

Job Description

Day in life: Your morning starts with the build tracker and a journey design by your colleagues. You spend the first couple of hours in the AJO email designer, assembling a welcome message from an approved template, wiring in the personalisation tokens listed in the spec, and fixing the padding that collapses in Outlook. Before lunch you push the journey into the dev sandbox, set up four test profiles, and run through the QA checklist - every link, every fallback value, every render. Two things fail, so you screenshot them, log the defects, and flag one to the mid-level consultant because you can't tell whether it's your build or the underlying schema. In the afternoon you sit in on a client working session, mostly listening and writing notes, then update the build documentation so the design and what actually exists match. You finish by reading the latest AJO release notes because your certification exam is in three weeks.

Responsibilities

• Builds journeys and campaigns in AJO from a design produced by someone else
• Authors email, SMS and push content using the Journey Optimizer designers, templates and content fragments
• Applies personalisation using profile attributes and helper functions
• Executes test plans: proofs, test profiles, dry runs, link and render checks
• Logs defects, documents what was built, keeps the build tracker current
• Attends client sessions to take notes and learn the domain.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of the AJO canvas: journey vs campaign, events, conditions, wait, split, actions HTML/CSS for email, enough to fix a broken template rather than only use one
• Understands what an XDM schema, dataset, audience and real-time profile are - can navigate AEP read-only
• Careful, checklist-driven, comfortable saying "I don't know".

Additional information

• Whether it's the joy of working with people at the top of their game or the Merkle social calendar, people love working here - and we hope you will too
• Attractive compensation package.
• Spanish/English Lessons
• Free Life and Health Insurance
• Career development through Merkle University
• Day off on your birthday
• Annual wellness days
• Merkle Care Employee Assistance Program
• Merkle Benefits Club
• 2 volunteering days per year
• Flexible salary compensation scheme
• Flexible hybrid home office work conditions
• *At dentsu, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is central to our vision: "To be at the forefront of people-centered transformations that shape society."
• We cherish the unique talents and perspectives of all individuals, welcoming applicants regardless of gender, gender identity, nationality, religion, ethnicity, cultural background, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental ability.
• By embracing diverse perspectives, we create meaningful change and sustainable growth for our people, clients, and society.
• Our hiring decisions are guided by qualifications and role-specific requirements, ensuring a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

Location and Contract

Location: Barcelona Brand: Merkle Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Barcelona Brand: Merkle Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

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