The Details:

• Be a professional liaison between clients and development, collecting technical specifications and assets related to web and app projects.
• Meticulously oversee operational details and start-to-finish project management processes, including QA, code review, security review, cross-browser compliance, launch prep, and support requests
• Project planning skills – including timeline creation, resource allocation, project estimating, creation of project specifications from business rules for developers, testing and launch
• Provide oversight to improve and document internal development processes and stay up to date on industry best practices and development trends
• Process planning
• Managerial skills to lead, guide and instruct developers
• Ensure projects are completed on time
• Help direct and lead our growing development team in the creation of new internal applications and expand our portfolio of agency projects

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional WordPress/web development experience, including experience managing teams
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree; additional certifications a plus.
• Strong debugging, code inspection, and QA skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of WordPress, Bootstrap, Git, CSS, JS/JQuery, security protocols, plugins, experience implementing custom apps; working knowledge of other CMS framework installations such as Joomla, and Drupal; good understanding of standards such as XML, SQL, various web frameworks; infrastructure knowledge including InMotion and other hosting environments; and PHP programming languages among others
• Ability to build/guide the development of additional PHP scripts; knowledge of other languages such as Ruby, Python are a plus
• Excellent communication skills are a MUST
• A desire to learn, motivate and cultivate a team within in a fast-paced, creative ad agency environment
• A solid foundation of design fundamentals including typography, color, and layout
• Experienced in Adobe’s Creative Suite and Sketch