Director, Technology

Company Description

Publicis LifeSpeed is a fully integrated, cross-discipline team that provides best-in-class services in a fluid and modular way. With our clients at the center, we create brand movement at the speed of people’s lives by connecting real-time data with world-class creative, content, and media in service of growth and ROI. 

Publicis LifeSpeed is a “power of one” solution, encompassing data, media, and production. By drawing from across the vast Publicis Groupe network, we are uniquely positioned to deliver innovation and specialized skills to our clients, as well as enriching opportunities and inclusive benefits to our employees. We pride ourselves on combining the energetic atmosphere of a startup company with the stability and experience of a global leader.

Job Description

Our advanced Technology capability delivers cutting-edge, high-impact digital products and platforms by bringing or core offerings to bear. These offerings include marketing technology strategy, platform and tool recommendations, full-stack software/platform development, quality assurance, business analysis, and managed services.

We have strategic partnerships with the world’s leading marketing and technology companies that allow us to leverage the top platforms and tools for our clients. Through collaborating with Digital Strategy, Experience Design, Creative, Data and Analytics, Project Management, and Account teams, our technologists are paving the way for innovation and transforming the marketing landscape.  You’ll be working with a diverse group of highly qualified people with various backgrounds, who bring qualities such as intellectual curiosity, determination, and creativity to our client work.

We’re searching for a Technology Director to lead technology projects through their complete lifecycle delivering transformative success for our clients.  You’ll play a leading role with both technical and non-technical teams by providing technology education, perspectives, and recommendations and how they affect the holistic project.

The ideal candidate will have a collaborative nature and strong work ethic. Someone who can gather, digest and translate technical requirements, clearly and succinctly communicate ideas, decisions, and reasoning to both a technical and a non-technical audience, and who has a self-driven desire to keep abreast of the latest sites, gadgets, trends, and innovations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Overall health, client satisfaction, and continuous success of multiple projects
• Leading a team of Technology Managers
• Developing and maintaining relationships with the client IT, marketing, customer experience, and promotional review teams
• Organic growth of current client engagements
• Providing leadership and/or guiding the implementation and activation of MarTech platforms; identifying opportunities and providing recommendations for platform optimization through strong understanding of product roadmaps in correlation to client business goals
• Accurately estimating projects and large-scale engagements as well as writing scope documents
• Forecasting and maintaining right-sized technology staffing across projects
• Removing impediments from both day-to-day projects and organizational progress
• Driving cross-capability team adherence to the SDLC process
• Collaborating with digital strategists during strategic development
• Collaborating with business analysts, product owners, and project managers during the creation of requirements
• Collaborating with Creative and UX teams in the design phase of the projects
• Collaborating with the Technical Architects and client IT teams to design technical solutions
• Contributing to the Technology Management practice and the Technology capability’s continuous improvement activities by bringing innovative ideas to the table
• Staying current on emerging digital marketing technologies, best-practices, and trends
• Aiding in managing and developing the capability to adapt to changing environments and needs and drive and coach teams to successful solutions and continuous skill development and growth

Qualifications

To qualify, you’ll need:

• Four-year degree (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) or equivalent work experienc
• 10+ years of work experience within the marketing technology or IT space
• 7+ years of leading complex technology projects
• 2+ years of experience in delivering enterprise omni-channel connected marketing solutions and experiences
• Deep expertise with software development processes and conventions
• Expertise with the foundational elements of web page anatomy and building blocks such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Expertise with the m