FLEX Manager, Front-End Developer, Digital Merchandising

JOB SUMMARY   This is a temporary position.     Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Digital Merchandising, the Manager, Front-End Developer, Digital Merchandising will build experiences through Adobe Experience Cloud that are targeted, interactive, and consistent across all digital form factors. This technical, hands-on position will not only have a sense of craft in execution but will assist in the advancement of the marketing and merchandising capabilities across the digital owned channels incrementally. This role will be 60% deployment, 30% new functionality/capabilities, and 10% orchestration across merchandising placements, and will work across teams to collaboratively arrive as unique and targeted experiences across all digital touch points.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Business or IT, or equivalent education and related training
• Minimum of four years of development or IT support experience
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Working knowledge of above-code technology, ideally across multiple products in Adobe Experience Cloud (e.g. Adobe Analytics, Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Target etc.)
• Working knowledge of Adobe Campaign Classic architecture, DB best optimization, Snowflake
• Working knowledge in JavaScript platforms, AJAX, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, and SQL
• Experience testing cross-browser compatibility and implementing UI/visual designs within ADA and security principles
• Familiarity with DOM/Object-Oriented Design, Web Services (REST/SOAP), and Multimedia Content

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Maintaining Goals
• Sets and maintains personal development goals; working across shared MBOs and KPIs
• Collaborates to achieve program, global marketing, brand, and technology timelines and business objectives

Managing Work, Projects, and Policies
• Provides accurate estimates as to needed time to complete work to feed project plans (and therefore personal deadlines)
• Meets deadlines once agreed upon
• Reports impediments to completing work and meeting deadlines
• Provides regular status updates to manager
• Successfully manages multiple assignments at once
• Works based on priorities and requests clarification if priorities are not clear
• Critiques work of others in a helpful and professional manner
• Communicates in a timely and appropriate manner with teammates

Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge
• Deploy interactive, scheduled programs on owned channels; develop and deploy temporary code fixes across experience
• Collaborate with platform product to ensure stable releases, functional alignment, and appropriate unified release cycles
• Work closely with brand, loyalty, and marketing to plan and deploy new capabilities in an evolving platform
• Ensure personal availability to deploy hot fixes and maintain system up-time for capabilities deployed within environment; working to resolve outages quickly and effectively
• Deliver capabilities to modernize tech stack capabilities on owned channels, aligned with the latest industry trends
• Great care and craft for designing systems and building campaigns correctly from day one, with appropriate planning and communication of delivery and updates
• Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job

Additional Responsibilities
• Works independently with minimal supervision, but knows when issues should be escalated to manager
• Develops relationships with members of other teams, and leverages those relationships to answer questions
• Presents work with clarity and confidence; explains complex matters so that others can understand them
• Uses appropriate communication mechanisms (i.e. in-person conversation, Microsoft Teams chat, email, phone call) for each situation
• Demonstrates self-confidence, energy, and enthusiasm
• Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manager

MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES
Leadership
• Adaptability – Maintains performance level under pressure or when experiencing changes or challenges in the workplace.
• Communication – Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods.
• Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.
• Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company