Director of Tech, New York City to 160k ** Local candidates only please
This position requires the ability to direct a variety of diverse - and sometimes conflicting - requests, priorities, and activities. Candidates will need management skills combined with the flexibility to interact with people at all levels. RESPONSIBILITIES * Manage a team of developers and provide leadership in design, delivery, and support of all online products, sites and applications * Appropriately identify and assign tech leads to clients and/or projects * Develop and manage effective working relationships with other departments, with whom work must be coordinated or interfaced * Work with project managers and tech leads to assign accurately evaluate project scope and budgets, and assign development resources to projects * Asses the hosting needs of current and future sites/apps/widgets * Creates and monitors the set of policies that establish standard coding practices, deployment frameworks, tools, and methodology * Continually mentor and evaluate the development staff * Establish and define a standard methodology for quality assurance, to ensure that all deliverables are bug-free * Management of SVN version control system * Work with Analytics team to define/implement tracking CLIENT CONTACT * Attend meetings with account heads to assess client needs at a high level from a technical perspective * Ability to answer questions in real time regarding best practices for building sites, apps, banners, etc * Liaise with the tech leads on the client side QUALIFICATIONS * 6 years of interactive development experience * 4 years experience in managing technical professionals * Bachelor's Degree, ideally in computer science or equivalent experience * Experience in a large media, technology or internet company * Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget * Deep understanding of all web technologies, including Flash, XHTML, PHP, mySQL, XML, JSON, CSS, Actionscript 3, AMF * Ancillary knowledge of mobile technologies: iPhone SDK, Android, FlashLite 3.1 * Knowledge of social media APIs and mechanisms: Facebook, Clearspring, Twitter, flickr, etc * Working knowledge of video in Flash and on the web in general * Ability to work/compile Actionscript in Eclipse, FDT. And/or Flexbuilder * A sound understanding of content management systems * Server command line interaction To be considered, please submit your resume along with your salary requirements to beau at open-source-staffing.com Thank you, Beau J. Gould Open Source Staffing www.open-source-staffing.com beau at open-source-staffing.com _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Jobs Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
