Weidenhammer Systems Hiring for Director Web Development at Lyon Station, PA, United States Full Time

Summary

Hammer Marketing is 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.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

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 within Hammer Marketing
• 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

Supervisory Responsibility

This person will manage direct s and contractors when needed.

Required Education and Experience

• 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

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