Director of Web Development

Job Description

Job Description

Director, Web Development

Are you ready to break free of the mundane?

• Seeking a clear path to grow?
• Seeking a career with purpose that will bring value to the community, people, and organizations?
• Giving the opportunity to continuously innovate? Where you can be part of a company that knows developing an amazing team makes all the difference, where each day brings a new challenge?

Look no further!

We are searching for a leader for our web development team. The Director of Development leads the web development practice, while balancing development work of their own. This self-starter will strategize, develop, and manage both project-based and recuring development clients.

This role requires a highly organized, detail-oriented individual who can balance the hard skills and soft skills of managing a team in parallel to their own development projects. The right candidate will enjoy both managing the team and building best-in-class websites. Great interpersonal skills will allow this person to build lasting relationships with coworkers and clients.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage development staff and related contractors
• Mentor development staff to grow team abilities
• Own the vision and business plan for the development practice
• Stay current on industry trends and best practices to evolve our development services, tools, and platforms
• Implements methodology to ensure development tools, frameworks, and libraries remain fresh
• Establish processes, standards, and documentation for the development practice and updates as needed
• Maintain and evolve our agency base theme
• Plan and execute development projects from start to finish in an efficient way
• Develop custom WordPress websites based on provided design prototypes. This includes custom themes and plugins.
• Conduct website audits as needed
• Support business development efforts by means of website quote preparation and discussion with prospects

Requirements:

• Robust experience managing a development team
• Expert level WordPress development
• Experience strategizing and executing website plans
• Ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical clients and team members
• Preference for open-source tech stack in LAMP environment
• Expert in current version HTML, CSS, and PHP
• Comfortable knowledge in JavaScript/jQuery
• Custom WordPress theme development
• General understanding of Git
• General understanding of Gulp or other asset compilation technology
• General understanding of dependency management using Composer and NPM/Yarn
• Comfortable in hosting environment areas such as cPanel and WHM
• Exceptional attention to detail

Physical Requirements:

• Safely and effectively lift, carry, and move objects of varying weights.
• Bending, stooping, kneeling, reaching, climbing, balancing, standing, and walking, for extended periods and maintain the necessary physical dexterity and coordination.
• Work in various environmental conditions, which may include exposure to varying temperatures, weather, and noise levels.

Achieve the requirements & responsibilities by :

• Initiating new, creative ideas.
• Having a willingness to be flexible - adapting to new paths
• Strong problem solving / troubleshooting practices.
• Able to manage multiple projects.
• Being a team player and working cross-functionally.
• Managing resources and relationships - internally and externally.
• Consistently evaluating processes, automate, recommending changes when appropriate.
• Supporting all business operations, value in - value out.
• Adapting to and realizing workflow can, will change as our business grows.
• Communicating throughout organization.

Looking forward to getting to know you...

We are, and work with clients that are equal opportunity employers and considers all applicants for positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.