Job Description:

Are you looking for an opportunity to help lead and grow a web team as a technology leader? Does the prospect of using advanced technologies to build mission-critical and highly scalable services get you excited? If so, you could be our next Web Development Director. In the role, you?ll have the chance to lead the team to maintain our current web ecosystem as well as the excited opportunity to build and ideate our next big internal tech that can take us to new heights.

As an integral part of the Web team, you?ll provide technical leadership working closely with all the other functional teams, such as Marketing, Sales, IT, and Creative Services, to develop the best possible front-end web pages and web based tools while maintaining high standards of quality and performance.

Job Duties:

• Lead web development scoping, planning, and technical architecture for all projects involving UI and Web based systems development.
• Manage a small team as well as hosting partners and third-party developers (contractors) to ensure technical quality, product quality, and efficient use of resources.
• Take a hands-on development approach to creating new pages and features across the whole stack, with a specific focus on the presentation layer.
• Maintain relationships and connections to other teams to ensure that integrations are maintained and enhanced.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement new technology that is beneficial to the digital goals of the organization.
• Perform root cause analysis on product and process deficiencies, and define and implement changes.
• Ensure the development team is effectively engaged and that products in development match resources available.
• Regularly communicate with the digital marketing leadership, marketing directors, sales leadership, and content staff to discuss direction, strategy, and priority.

Requirements:

Eligible candidates should meet the following criteria.

• 5+ years of web development, including experience on large-scale web products
• 2+ years managing a team and technology vendors.
• Strong knowledge of the modern web environment?from the presentation tier (HTML/CSS/JS) through webservers and caching, reasonable knowledge of server-side development including PHP and database development, and the management of hosting infrastructure.
• Desire to work for mission-driven company

Preferred:

• Strong knowledge of Git, CDNs and agile development
• Must also have strong technical, organizational and communications skills, and a passion for user-centered technology
• Netsuite / Magento / or other CMS / ERP Web based admin platform management experience