# \[JOB\] Director of Tech, New York City to 160k

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**Created:** [May 13, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/job-director-of-tech-new-york-city-to-160k/288282 "2009-05-13T17:46:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![OSS](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/oss/32/2373_2.png) [@OSS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/OSS)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/job-director-of-tech-new-york-city-to-160k/288282/1 "2009-05-13T17:46:09Z")

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\*\* 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
- \*\*\*\*\* 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](http://open-source-staffing.com)

Thank you,

Beau J. Gould  
Open Source Staffing  
[www.open-source-staffing.com](http://www.open-source-staffing.com)  
beau at [open-source-staffing.com](http://open-source-staffing.com)