[Job] Director of Development
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:52 pm
Director of Development
The Director of Development will provide the strategic vision for enhancing our creative development services and client technology offerings. The director will be a member of the senior management team and will work with the team to set company priorities and implement processes that will help improve our creative development.
The Director of Development will be responsible for overseeing our current technology team as well as serve as the senior-most developer on the team. The ideal candidate will be a good translator between technology and the business, creative and strategy. The ideal candidate will be energetic, positive and outgoing, and have demonstrated success integrating rich-media and broadband technologies at a high caliber interactive marketing or advertising firm. In addition, the Director of Development must be a strong mentor of more junior level staff.
This role will hold influence over all technology initiatives for IQ Interactive client projects and will be able to roll up their sleeves and execute flawlessly if needed. We also expect this individual to build relationships with vendors, contractors and external companies for all our creative development related initiatives.
The type of individual we seek will have experience working with small to mid-sized broadband marketing agencies, and will be comfortable with evolving their strategy within a dynamic and exciting, client-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Advise. Provide advice on creative technologies, strategy, and structure.
Value. Provide analysis and opinion on the value of creative technology offerings, applications, and skilled staff.
Vision. Build a vision for what technology will make possible, how it will impact a client's business objectives, and act as the thought-leader for our development technologies.
Communicate. Communicate the vision of IQ Interactive to its own creative technologist staff, to industry groups, and to the technical trade press
Lead. Lead the Research and Development process and creative development function for IQ Interactive clients and projects. Build internal expertise in new areas and mentor new leaders within the creative development team to grow and progress professionally.
Innovate. Participate in research and product creation directly. Be a significant part of innovative products.
Requirements:
Bachelors degree or higher in related computer science, digital media and or comparable technical and business areas
Typically requires 8+ years of interactive development experience and related management experience
Understand project management methodologies and tools and have a strong knowledge of applicable business areas, the supporting technology architecture, and applicable processes.
Additional requirements include strong knowledge of relevant applications and development life cycles, general knowledge of professional services vendors, and tools and experience overseeing geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups.
Strong influencing/negotiation skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, knowledge of business and technology trends and strong interpersonal/relationship management skills.
Candidates must have extensive experience executing broadband/rich-media development using the following technologies:
Actionscript 1.0/2.0/3.0
Flex 2.0 or higher
AJAX
One or more of the following:
PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, J2EE
Linux, Apache, IIS
One or more of the following:
RDBMS – MSSQL, MySQL and/or Oracle
For consideration, please forward resumes with work samples to work@iqinteractive.com.
IQ Interactive offers a highly competitive compensation package - salary + perfomance bonus, health benefits paid 100% by the company, 401k, a generous paid time off and flexible working policy, life/work balance, training and professional growth opportunities, casual work environment, fun and collaborative culture and the opportunity to work with highly-talented, smart individuals without egos. We just want to do great work and have a great time doing it.
The Director of Development will provide the strategic vision for enhancing our creative development services and client technology offerings. The director will be a member of the senior management team and will work with the team to set company priorities and implement processes that will help improve our creative development.
The Director of Development will be responsible for overseeing our current technology team as well as serve as the senior-most developer on the team. The ideal candidate will be a good translator between technology and the business, creative and strategy. The ideal candidate will be energetic, positive and outgoing, and have demonstrated success integrating rich-media and broadband technologies at a high caliber interactive marketing or advertising firm. In addition, the Director of Development must be a strong mentor of more junior level staff.
This role will hold influence over all technology initiatives for IQ Interactive client projects and will be able to roll up their sleeves and execute flawlessly if needed. We also expect this individual to build relationships with vendors, contractors and external companies for all our creative development related initiatives.
The type of individual we seek will have experience working with small to mid-sized broadband marketing agencies, and will be comfortable with evolving their strategy within a dynamic and exciting, client-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Advise. Provide advice on creative technologies, strategy, and structure.
Value. Provide analysis and opinion on the value of creative technology offerings, applications, and skilled staff.
Vision. Build a vision for what technology will make possible, how it will impact a client's business objectives, and act as the thought-leader for our development technologies.
Communicate. Communicate the vision of IQ Interactive to its own creative technologist staff, to industry groups, and to the technical trade press
Lead. Lead the Research and Development process and creative development function for IQ Interactive clients and projects. Build internal expertise in new areas and mentor new leaders within the creative development team to grow and progress professionally.
Innovate. Participate in research and product creation directly. Be a significant part of innovative products.
Requirements:
Bachelors degree or higher in related computer science, digital media and or comparable technical and business areas
Typically requires 8+ years of interactive development experience and related management experience
Understand project management methodologies and tools and have a strong knowledge of applicable business areas, the supporting technology architecture, and applicable processes.
Additional requirements include strong knowledge of relevant applications and development life cycles, general knowledge of professional services vendors, and tools and experience overseeing geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups.
Strong influencing/negotiation skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, knowledge of business and technology trends and strong interpersonal/relationship management skills.
Candidates must have extensive experience executing broadband/rich-media development using the following technologies:
Actionscript 1.0/2.0/3.0
Flex 2.0 or higher
AJAX
One or more of the following:
PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, J2EE
Linux, Apache, IIS
One or more of the following:
RDBMS – MSSQL, MySQL and/or Oracle
For consideration, please forward resumes with work samples to work@iqinteractive.com.
IQ Interactive offers a highly competitive compensation package - salary + perfomance bonus, health benefits paid 100% by the company, 401k, a generous paid time off and flexible working policy, life/work balance, training and professional growth opportunities, casual work environment, fun and collaborative culture and the opportunity to work with highly-talented, smart individuals without egos. We just want to do great work and have a great time doing it.