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[Beau Gould (OSS)]

Director of Tech, New York City to 160k 

** 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 
* Asses 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 

Thank you, 

Beau J. Gould 
Open Source Staffing 
www.open-source-staffing.com 
beau at open-source-staffing.com