Director, Technology

Company Description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers.  With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

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 work 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.

You 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.

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

Main responsibilities include:

[TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT/STRATEGY]

• Overall health, client satisfaction, and continuous success of multiple projects
• Lead a team of Technology Managers
• Develop and maintain relationships with the client IT, marketing, customer experience, and promotional review teams
• Organic growth of current client engagements
• Provide leadership and/or guide the implementation and activation of MarTech platforms; identify opportunities and provide recommendations for platform optimization through strong understanding of product roadmaps in correlation to client business goals
• Accurately estimating projects and large-scale engagements and writing scope documents
• Forecasting and maintaining right-sized technology staffing across projects
• Remove impediments from both daily projects and organizational progress
• Drive cross-capability team adherence to the SDLC process
• Collaborate with digital strategists during strategic development
• Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and project managers during the creation of requirements
• Collaborate with Creative and UX teams in the design phase of the projects
• Collaborate with the Technical Architects and client IT teams to design technical solutions
• Contribute to the Technology Management practice and the Technology capability's continuous improvement activities by bringing innovative ideas to the table
• Stay 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 experience
• 10+ years of work experience in