Job Title:
Web Development Specialist
Job Location:
San Jose, CA
Duration:
04+ months (Possible Extension)
Job Description/
Day to Day Activities
Role/Project Description:
• The Email Marketing & Web Development specialist will be responsible for the successful execution of North America Relationship Marketing email campaigns and landing pages.
• The position requires the ideal candidate to work closely with creative, targeting, and strategy teams from concept to actual delivery.
• This will require the individual to leverage content & concepts and build customized email communications by gaining expertise in the email marketing tools to prepare, test, stage and send email programs to pre-defined segments of the user base.
• In addition, create and rollout landing page experiences to the customer website.
Responsibilities:
• Work independently, assembling marketing email campaigns & landing pages.
• Code the emails and landing pages in HTML/CSS/JS, ensuring cross-compatibility with various email clients, web browsers & operating systems.
• Analyze provided HTML assets and revise code where necessary to integrate with deployment tools and render properly across multiple platforms.
• Troubleshoot HTML & CSS rendering issues and make suggestions for coding improvements to ensure accurate rendering across a wide range of popular e-mail clients & browsers.
• Complete and Test/QA campaign setups, content and change rounds in rapid succession with minimal errors.
• Functional programming and database knowledge to create highly customizable and targeted campaigns utilizing conditional logic & dynamic content.
• The ideal candidate is a self-starter and quick learner who is creative, extremely detail-oriented and energetic. The individual must enjoy a fast-paced work environment and be able to manage many projects simultaneously.
Required Skills:
• 1-3 years of web development or email marketing experience, preferably in the Internet or Retail landscape or equivalent.
• Knowledge of email best practices
• Must have strong skills and knowledge of HTML & CSS and demonstrates ability to hand-code utilizing traditional nested tables, as well as CSS styling without relying on the use of a visual editor
• Experience with and grasp of JavaScript & JQuery
• Familiarity with responsive design for mobile clients
• Familiarity with source control systems & practices (ClearCase, Git)
• Extremely detail oriented, striving for 100% quality execution, in rapid succession
• Follow through on commitments; meeting and exceeding targets & deadlines
• Demonstrates a willingness to be flexible and versatile in their production role
• Experience with web production software (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively and innovatively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Fun, highly energetic personality; great team player.
Additional Skills to have:
• Server side includes - Perl variable/resource string usage
• Scheduled code releases - Working within QA/Staging environments
• Web Accessibility Standards - Internationalization / Localization