Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time
Location: #307 – 1788 West 5th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6J 1P2
Department: Sales & Marketing Division
Job Code: 2175 - 012
Reports to: Business & Operations Manager
Application Deadline: October 15, 2008
Start Date: November 3, 2008
Job Summary
We are at it again! Sitemasher needs to pimp up its Web Development team, so we are on the hunt for a Web Developer, aka Masher Guru, to join the team. Tons of variety in this position! The individual will be creating our customer’s sites on the Sitemasher platform, liaising, supporting, & training our clients, & performing sales support. This individual should not only be familiar with website development, but they have a stellar personality that is charismatic, fun, & customer relations oriented!
Sitemasher is a start-up company focused on moving websites from the server room to the conference room by creating an innovative SaaS product for building, managing, optimizing, & hosting sophisticated websites, without the need for programming. What does this mean? It means forget everything you know about building & maintaining websites & start Mashing!
The company’s culture is an invigorating and stimulating environment with smart colleagues and challenging/flexible work, giving all of us the opportunity to do some of the best work of our careers. Located in the fabulous and trendy Kitsilano area, we also strive to take on an environmental and socially responsible mentality. Our ideal candidate is an individual that embraces these ideals, is a creative, multi-dimensional person who just wants to get to business and would jump at the chance to join a “Work Hard, Play Hard” team.
Welcome to a new era….
Duties and Responsibilities
Sitemasher Product Expert
• Create websites for Sitemasher customers
• Support sites being built by Sitemasher for customers
• Widget creation or demo site creation
• Find & report issues/bugs/inconsistencies found
• Clarify issues (providing detailed information if necessary) found to other members of development team
• Test new features as they are developed for usability & completeness
• Working with software testing team to troubleshoot complex issues
Client Support
• Working with clients on their issues & resolving them over the phone
• Providing client training (on site if necessary)
• Working with outsourced support providers
• Working in either Forums, Knowledge base, email or other technology to support & communicate with client
Sales Support
• Coming to demonstrations as required
• Online demos as required
• Creating sales support videos or HOW TO’s as required
Requirements
• Completion of a college diploma in New Media Design/Development, computer science, or graphic arts
• Experience building websites using tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator
• A solid understanding of web usability & W3C standards with regards to commonly-used concepts, best practices, & procedures to produce multi-page website
• Experience splicing & dicing graphics as well as implementing them in html & CSS
• Understands the basics of designing a site in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) & not table layout
• Knows the differences between a blog, forum & wiki & can support in the layout & usability
• Experience with “skinning” 3rd party tools (blogs, forums and CMS) connected to your websites to give it your own look and feel
• Understands evolving website technologies
• Attention to detail
• Fluent communication in English both verbal & written
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Highly motivated
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools i.e. Outlook, Word.
Sweetness Factor
• Fluent communication skills in French both oral & written
Location
Person should be located in the Vancouver area
What Next?
Please send your resume to Courtney's attention and reference "Web Developer, Job Code 2175 - 012, Techvibes" in the subject line.
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