PANMA - Philadelphia Area New Media Association

Location: Center City Philadelphia

We are looking for someone with strong working knowledge of project and/or technical management to join our growing company as a Project Manager. This full-time position will report to the Sr. Project Manager, and will work extremely closely with our entire team.

Responsibilities will include:
- monitor and report daily on project statuses and estimates as well as employee time tracking and performance
- allocate resources in collaboration with PM staff to ensure a smooth workflow
- act as first line of communication with clients
- maintain client relationships
- monitor and facilitate Sr. Developer communication and help to prioritize client responses
- take part in daily “stand-up meetings”, including keeping good notes
- keep track of RFPs we receive, proposals we are working on, and responses from potential clients
- assist with sales and marketing, including writing proposals, preparing for (and eventually leading) meetings with potential clients, and doing research (for example investigating markets that Drupal has not penetrated yet)
- assist with client billing and relations
- help with financial planning and sales projections
- help craft and execute our Social Marketing, Social Networking, and SEO strategies
- help organize company events

The ideal candidate should be:
- familiar with agile/scrum development, but open to maintaining a flexible project development method
- eager to learn more about Open Source Software and technology trends, and to contribute to the Open Source communities that Zivtech is a member of.
- hard working and self motivated (i.e. a “go-getter”)
- very quick to pick up new systems without needing to be trained more than once
- VERY well organized
- smart, nice, outgoing, and easy to work with
- good with computers and technology in general

The ideal candidate must have:
- a Bachelors Degree
- real life experience with project management
- lots of experience with a variety of web platforms (google apps, facebook, youtube, feed readers, twitter, etc.)
- an inquisitive and open mind

Items that are a big plus:
- experience with Web Development, especially LAMP-driven CMS’ like Drupal
- experience with Agile/Scrum development
- mastery of Microsoft Excel
- experience with illustration, mind maps, or any other way of visually expressing yourself
- experience with event organizing
- experience with client relations
- interest in progressive politics, transformative technology, and/or robots

Who we are:
Zivtech is a four-year-old Open Source web development company located in Philadelphia, PA. We specialize in building robust interactive websites and online applications using Drupal, a Content Management System & Development Framework, and various other Open Source web technologies. Our services include site architecture, site building, design, theming, training, deployment, & site migrations. In addition, we love to help build the Drupal community and so we promote Drupal at various events, and train all levels of users and developers, either in our classes or in individual client trainings.

How we work:
Most of the 20 people at Zivtech work at our Philadelphia offices, though we have a couple of people who work remotely. Our offices are currently located at 32 Strawberry Street in Old City, but we are soon moving to The Philadelphia Building, at 1315 Walnut St. We work in an “Agile” fashion when we can, and we have a tight knit team of developers and designers who take on different roles for different projects as needed. While our work can be pretty intense, we try to maintain a fun and comfortable work environment.

Pay will depend on experience, and will include our standard benefits package (4-weeks vacation/personal days, federal holidays, health/dental/vision benefits, an occasional folding bike, a well-stocked fridge, Sixers tickets, etc.)

If you want to apply for this job please send AN E-MAIL to jobs@zivtech.com with the following:
- a resume
– a cover letter
- salary requirements
- you MUST include a link to your LinkedIn page- if you don’t have an account, please sign up for one before you apply
- URLs for any other Social Networking/Web 2.0/Online Community accounts you have (i.e. Twitter, Drupal.org, etc) that might help us make our decision

And please: NO RECRUITERS. NO PHONE CALLS.

Contact: jobs@zivtech.com

Location: Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA

Company Profile

O3 World is an Interactive agency specializing in online marketing strategy, web and mobile design and development, and eCommerce development. We handle the full cycle of Interactive projects from discovery and positioning, through development, to ongoing strategy, maintenance and support. Check us out at www.o3world.com.
Our team strategizes, plans, designs, builds, and supports websites, web applications, and systems integrations for businesses of all sizes and from a variety of industries. We also provision and tune reliable, scalable infrastructure that our clients can own or leverage SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS infrastructure if preferred. We primarily work in open source based technologies even if they have commercial versions or licensed products. The majority of our projects are built on WordPress or Drupal, and Magento for eCommerce. They also commonly include form management, CRM and Lead Systems integrations, social integrations, and various other marketing and measurement aspects.

General Description

The role of Web Application Development Manager is a crucial addition to our growing development team. It is diverse, challenging, and ever expanding. As such, you will be responsible for the day-to-day duties of the development staff, the quality and timeliness of their project deliverables, and the development process and tools in addition to contributing directly to projects yourself. We are seeking a highly motivated self-starter with solid experience implementing content driven, eCommerce, and mobile/tablet websites. You will motivate and mentor other developers while working alongside them to produce amazing results. You will partner with the Director of Technology, Creative Director, and Project Managers to assist in requirements gathering, project scoping, resource planning, and governing our process to deliver projects on time and on budget. This position reports to the Director of Technology.

Specific Duties:

• Take ownership and responsibility of the full development process in the organization.
• Manage the day-to-day duties of a small but growing development team to fulfill project deliverables.
• Ensure the team optimizes and tunes web sites for best performance.
• Ensure the team troubleshoots and debugs issues in a timely manner on projects as well as support and maintenance tickets.
• Effectively execute decision making authority as technical issues and challenges arise.
• Communicate effectively with development staff, project managers, and department managers.
• Manage multiple development projects in production at any given time.
• Partner with project managers for resource planning.
• Act as a development resource for projects, in some cases being the front-end or back-end resource for the project, in other cases assisting another developer.
• Effectively work with the necessary tools for team communication, project management, time booking, customer support, bug tracking, and collaboration.
• Contribute to project discovery, requirements gathering and scoping of projects.
• Plan, implement, and enforce programming and documentation standards, peer review, testing, and quality assurance practices.
• Control quality and testing of both Front-End (HTML/CSS/JS) and Back-End (PHP/CMSs/XML/APIs/Integrations/MySQL/MSSQL) code.
• Apply best practices in implementing a software development management system suite to improve on existing version control system (SVN), testing, peer review, and quality assurance practices (Jira, Pivotal Tracker, etc).
• Contribute to maintaining our development environments and assist in planning for growth and new technologies.
• Partner with Director Of Technology to grow and formalize our “development operations” (DevOps) practices and procedures for provisioning, configuring and controlling development, staging, and production environments for all projects.
• Be available to support web-sites 24×7 as needed.

Administrative Duties:

• Administer employee performance reviews and setting of goals.
• Assist the Director of Technology in budget planning.
• Plan for employee growth, training, and career development for yourself and development staff.
• Participate in content creation for proposals, marketing materials, process documentation, and support materials.

Skills For This Role:

• Minimum 3 years prior experience managing a development team in a similar environment, with similar technologies is required.
• Interactive agency experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years experience with PHP and/or Object Oriented PHP is required. Zend Framework experience is desired.
• Minimum 5 years experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript and related front-end technologies.
• Prior Drupal and Magento experience strongly preferred.
• Specific experience with at least two of the following CMS and eCommerce systems: WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, Magento, Interspire Shopping Cart, Volusion, osCommerce, ZenCart, Shopify.
• Specific Javascript knowledge related to closures, callbacks, asynchronous methods, jQuery, and Mootools.
• Ability to write custom javascript a major plus.
• Strong understanding of OOP, MVC, and REST architectures.
• Experience working with API and web service integrations for various purposes using SOAP, JSON, XML, oAuth, etc, as well as custom development of web services and/or APIs as needed. Examples: (Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Custom Search, Gigya, Pinterest, Facebook, etc.)
• Strong understanding of the LAMP stack, but also alternative web servers like NginX and Lightspeed. Must be comfortable on the command line.
• Prior experience building sites and web applications for high traffic, high availability using tools like PHP bytecode caching, page caching, content delivery networks(CDN), multiple web-heads with load balancing, clustered database solutions, etc.
• Understanding and respect for web standards, validation, compatibility and prior experience with associated testing tools.
• Experience with source control systems, SVN and Git preferred.
• Experience with software development management systems like Jira or Pivotal Tracker required.
• Experience providing project estimates and technical specifications.
• Outstanding communication and problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail, highly organized, with focus on quality of work.
• Computer Science degree preferred or related curriculum required.

Local candidates only please. If you are relocating, awesome, Philly is a great place to live and work…but we can’t assist with relocation expenses. You must be able to legally work in the US. Recruiters and staffing companies NEED NOT contact us. We’re serious about this.
Please email a copy of your resume and relevant work experience to employment@o3world.com. Links to your work, portfolio site, LinkedIn or anything else to help us get to know you are appreciated! Do not fax your resume as it will result in immediate disqualification and humiliation as we Tweet about your inability to follow directions.

Contact: employment@o3world.com

Compensation: Negotiable depending on experience

Location: Center City, Philadelphia

Job Description

Seeking a talented front end developer experienced with Java web application development experience. The ideal candidate needs to demonstrate that they can effectively plan & execute objectives as shown through previous work experience. This is a full-time on site position.

Salary is based on experience.

Skills & Requirements

Education and Experience

5+ Years professional experience in Java based web development.
Experience with front-end website development with cross-browser compatibility required.
Familiar with setting up and working with website or web application infrastructure (domain, hosting, DNS, Linux, Apache.)
Experience in Java web programming technologies and environments.
Experienced with writing unit/integration tests.
Responsibilities include:

Development of technical specifications for web applications
Developing, maintaining and updating websites and web applications
Setting up and configuring website or web application infrastructure
Translating visual designs into websites
Execution of various quality control procedures
Technical troubleshooting and providing technical support
Execute various technical procedures for website and web application deployment
Needs to have experience with:

Java
Apache
Tomcat
Spring
Spring MVC
JSTL
JSP
HTML
CSS
Javascript
JQuery
JSON
JUnit
Ideal candidate would also be experienced with:

HTML5
CSS3
Ajax
Tiles
JQuery-Mobile

Our company is on the forefront of developing a progressive and user friendly solution for healthcare. Our ideal candidate will be passionate about working in a fast-paced, agile, startup environment.

Contact: health2cloud@gmail.com

Compensation: TBD

Location: Saint Joseph’s University

Saint Joseph’s University Videographer position posted at
https://jobs.sju.edu/postings/search

Contact: https://jobs.sju.edu/postings/search

Location: Wayne, PA

It’s time for self storage to get smart. U-Store-It, now CubeSmart, is redefining expectations.

CubeSmart is looking for an innovative and highly motivated Internet marketing professional to join a dynamic team and help to continue building a leading Internet presence in the self-storage industry. Internet marketing and innovative consumer web presences have become key differentiators in a highly competitive industry, and CubeSmart is a leader who continually pushes the boundaries in this field. If you enjoy a fast paced, challenging work environment, are energized by working with a collaborative, intelligent, and driven team, and have the internet marketing, copywriting, and analytics expertise to be a key contributor in a world-class marketing organization, then this is an excellent career opportunity with a growing industry leader.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Directly manage relationships with industry and complementary partner sites, developing innovative solutions in order to gain presence, traffic, and market share.
• Work directly with an external agency to develop, execute, and consistently optimize Internet marketing campaigns.
• Work directly with an external agency to develop high quality content that is consistent with CubeSmart’s brand guidelines and standards.
• Collaborate with other analysts to gather CubeSmart’s Internet marketing metrics, delivering timely and accurate insights.
• QA new website features and Internet marketing initiatives to ensure that functionality and tracking requirements are being met.
• Analyze A/B and multivariate tests to continuously improve CubeSmart’s traffic sources and website.
• Monitor the marketplace, competitive landscape, industry trends, and third party data sources to constantly identify new marketing opportunities and/or potential threats.
• Act as liaison between Internet marketing, in-house sales center, and store managers to communicate new features and initiatives and gather feedback.

Requirements
Desired Skills & Experience

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of directly related experience required.

• Experience building collaborative and mutually beneficial advertising relationships with 3rd party websites and managing SEM, SEO, IYPs, and social media.

• Direct experience with managing Internet marketing and website analytics, utilizing tools such as Omniture, Coremetrics, or Google analytics.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality web copy under aggressive deadlines with minimal oversight.
• A high degree of energy, a can-do attitude, a strategic and analytical mindset, and a competitive and results focused nature.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work well with individuals across all departments and levels.

PREFERRED INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: consumer Internet, hotel, rental, travel, retail

BENEFITS:

A career with CubeSmart offers a fun working environment & many great benefits:

- Full Benefits Package – starts after only 60 days!

- Paid Training Program – we’ll teach you what you need to know!

- Paid Time Off

- 401k retirement plan with match

- Independent & friendly work environment

Most important, our business has remained consistent and stable during the current economic conditions.

If you enjoy a fast paced, challenging work environment and are committed to being successful and providing excellent customer service, this is a great opportunity to join a dynamic industry leader.

CubeSmart is an Equal Opportunity Employer; M/F/D/V

Background & Drug Screen Required

Contact: KMehta@cubesmart.com