Front End Lead
Front End Lead
Brand: VML
Capability: Technology & Innovation
Expertise: Enterprise Solutions
Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Last Updated: ${ new Date('2026-06-04T14:27:49-04:00').toLocaleDateString() }
Requisition ID: 16577
Who We Are
VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
Sobre WPP
WPP es el socio de crecimiento de confianza para las marcas líderes del mundo. Unimos inteligencia de medios de vanguardia y soluciones de datos, creatividad de clase mundial, producción de próxima generación, soluciones empresariales transformadoras y asesoramiento estratégico experto en una única empresa, impulsada por talento excepcional y nuestra plataforma de marketing agencial, WPP Open, para ayudar a nuestros clientes a navegar el cambio, capturar oportunidades y generar un crecimiento transformador. Para más información, visite WPP.com.
We are looking for a WEB Front End Lead developer goal oriented, with strong development skills and focused on best practices. The role is client facing and in a consultative position, integrating client needs with a FE development team and coordinating with BE and UX/UI teams for project with first world clients and cutting-edge technologies. Needs to be able to couch other team members in technology and consultative mindset. You’ll serve as the go-to for front end technology recommendations and implementation leadership on our CMS and e-commerce platforms. Your day-to-day responsibilities will range from developing, leading front end development methodologies, estimation, sprint planning, cross-team collaboration, and communication.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ATTRIBUTES
- Work in collaboration with VML’s Visual Designers to turn their vision into functional HTML experiences (mark-up/JS/CSS) integrated into the respective platforms
- Work in collaboration with VML’s server-side developers to ensure proper implementation of website data and functionality
- Help manage projects through the design, development, and QA processes
- Continue to expand knowledge of new technologies, as well as strengthen current knowledge base
- Build responsive sites for mobile and desktop web experiences with great performance.
- Follow the latest advancements in frontend technologies and techniques
- Identify front end development activities necessary to deliver on project goals
- Identify and estimate changes and additional features to your project as needed
- Functionally deconstruct large tasks into smaller ones for work delegation
- Review code and mentor other developers on best practices for front end development
- Consult and present deliverables to clients as needed
REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- 6+ years of FE development experience working with large scale web projects and platforms.
- Able to balance between management and coding as needed by a project.
- Fluent in HTML5/CSS3 and able to develop valid client-side markup.
- Solid knowledge of CSS support for both modern and legacy browsers
- Good understanding of websites performance and how to improve.
- Experience with CSS preprocessors such as LESS or SASS
- Experience and strong knowledge with JavaScript libraries/frameworks like React or VueJS.
- An impeccable eye for detail with the ability to match your UI to any design in a cross-browser environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an affinity for problem-solving
- Ability to self-manage during projects and proactively raise issues/concerns to the team
- Goal focused, client facing, consultative mindset, proactive and self-learning.
- Experience working with traditional and headless architecture FE approaches.
- Great communication and leadership skills.
- Knowledge and experience in accessibility standards implementation.
- Experience implementing marketing tools in websites as analytics or targeting.
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Experience with enterprise CMS systems such as AEM, Drupal, or Bloomreach
- Experience with Frontend build tools such as Webpack, Vite, Parcel, Gulp etc.
- Experience with ES6+ and the advancements of the JavaScript language
- Experience using established CSS architecture patterns for code reuse and modularity.
- Experience working with Typescript.
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