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Director, Web Development
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
New York, NY, United States
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The Company Consumer Marketing Development group is seeking a Director of Web Development to join their team. The role will be responsible for leading technical decision making on consumer-facing digital properties and platforms, developing new online, mobile optimized sites using technical best practices, as well as manage and mentor an agile development team.
The ideal candidate must display excellent written and oral skills with demonstrated interpersonal and organization abilities. An ability and willingness to communicate with and to forge productive partnerships with business owners/stakeholders and non-technical team members is essential. The role will be responsible for ensuring quality of execution by the development team to meet strategic goals.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Maintain and enhance existing Word Press websites and work with other internal teams (especially IT) to see that systems are properly integrated and that best practices are followed in line with the existing digital infrastructure
• Develop websites using RWD and build in partnership with design in an agile team setting
• Design and implement user-focused templates and interfaces to maximize usability, accessibility, and customer experience
• Leverage internal and external APIs, databases, and other data sources
• Develop in a Word Press environment (templates, themes, database tables, core files, etc.)
The Ideal candidate will also possess the following skills:
• Able to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented and organized
• Passion for quality
• Takes ownership of unit testing and collaboration with QA team to ensure high quality releases
• Hands on experience in a LAMP stack
General Qualifications:
General Experience/Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related experience
• Minimum of 8-10 years experience working in web development
• Prior supervisory experience, strong preferred
• Proven experience with PL/SQL and relational databases
• Expertise in Word Press, PHP, JSON
• Experience any of the following a plus: Python, ESPs, and CRM integrations
Architecture and Infrastructure Experience/Education:
• Facilitate decision making around questions of architecture, scale, caching, security, hosting and configuration that relate to development projects
• Experience with AWS CloudFront, Apache, NGINX, a plus
• Experience with source control technologies (e.g. git)
• Experience with Company website, grunt, LESS/SASS, or other build automation
• An understanding of Web-Services including an understanding of eCommerce
Front End Experience/Education:
• Familiarity of SEO best practices frontend and backend
• Understanding and practice of standard UX concepts, progressive enhancement, etc.
• Hands on experience developing using JavaScript (JQuery, React, Vue, Ember, etc.)
• Hands-on experience developing web based applications using HTML5/CSS, AJAX
• Experience with responsive libraries like Foundation CSS, or Twitter Bootstrap
Other qualifications:
• The ability to partner with stakeholders to aid in the definition and negotiation of work to be performed by the development team
• The ability to communicate and guide/support non-technical users
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Respond proactively to training, technical support and customer service needs in line with provided guidelines
• Familiarity with the publishing industry nice but not necessary
Please submit a cover letter and resume to be considered for this position.
Company is the leading adult and children’s publishing house in North America, the United Kingdom and many other regions around the world. In publishing the best books in every genre and subject for all ages, we are committed to quality, excellence in execution, and innovation throughout the entire publishing process: editorial, design, marketing, publicity, sales, production, and distribution. Our vibrant and diverse international community of nearly 250 publishing brands and imprints include Ballantine Bantam Dell, Berkley, Clarkson Potter, Crown, DK, Doubleday, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, Little Golden Books, Knopf, Modern Library, Pantheon, Penguin Books, Penguin Press, Company Audio, Penguin Young Readers, Portfolio, Puffin, Putnam, Random House, Random House Children’s Books, Riverhead, Ten Speed Press, Viking, and Vintage, among others. More information can be found at Company website/.
Company values the array of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.