Wordpress Developer

Location: Remote,USA

Title - Marketing Developer

At Wiley, we welcome you for who you are, the background you bring, and embrace individuals who get excited about learning whether online or by book. Learning is for everyone, and so is our workplace. Bring your experiences, your perspectives, and your passion. It is in our differences that we empower the way the world learns.

Wiley is seeking a Marketing Developer and Graphic Designer with experience in developing customer websites with associated marketing technologies. Be part of an extraordinary opportunity to transform the higher education experience!

As a developer for Wiley’s Marketing properties on WordPress and supporting technologies, you will build and maintain front end experiences that engage visitors, drive lead generation, and enhance the overall student journey.

With Wiley’s proven expertise as a trusted partner in higher education, you will have the opportunity to innovate and

create solutions that revolutionize the landscape of higher education technology and accelerate your career.

How you will make an impact:

• Participate in storyboarding and solution design sessions. Recommend alternate approaches, define technical
• impacts, and provide sizing estimates.
• Create designs for new product functionality on Wiley’s Marketing Technology stack. Design and mockup new sites including brand standards, typography, and colors.
• Develop product capabilities using WordPress and other technologies.
• Follow an iterative software development methodology and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle and support.
• Contribute to the development methodology.
• Perform unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing of new product functionality.
• Analyze and mitigate issues identified during testing.
• Collaborate on and inform cross-functional teams of new feature technical design, technical requirements,
• limitations, and implementation.
• Articulate development status to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Continually refine business acumen and establish domain / industry vertical expertise.
• Work closely with the marketing teams, including brand management, content, SEO, and UX to build front end experiences that meet the changing needs of our visitors and drive leads.
• To ensure understanding of the work, solution, and potential blockers in order to meet project goals.
• To ensure we have a clear vision on how feature requests will be solved and work with the business stakeholder to achieve sign off.
• Development efforts will follow best practices while working within the established agile SDLC to deliver the highest quality work on predictable intervals.
• To confirm quality of the work performed for the requested feature while ensuring connected systems also perform as expected. Issues found during testing will be logged, prioritized, and worked in priority order with the rest of the sprint’s work.
• To ensure work required by other teams or from other teams are understood, prioritized, and processed to achieve the project goals across multiple teams.
• To ensure stakeholders, both technical and not, understand the status of the project, updates, and any roadblocks that may prohibit the project from being successful.
• To establish subject matter expertise in the area of business in which you work. Establishing this knowledge builds trust with our partners and allows us to provide better guidance in the future.
• To build engaging customer sites that generate high quality leads for our business partners which ultimately convert to students.
  

We are looking for people who have:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Work Experience
• 2+ years’ experience WordPress design and development.
• 2+ years’ experience contributing as a direct resource on Marketing site deployments.
• Proficiency on front end web technologies including WordPress, WordPress plug-ins, various analytic platforms, optimization technologies, and marketing automation technologies.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SASS, Bootstrap, and Vue.js.
• Proficiency with fundamental back-end languages like PHP and MySQL.
• Familiarity with modern development workflow, including Git and Docker.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
  

• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work constructively with team members towards a common goal.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Great at multi-tasking and delivering quality solutions under deadlines.
• Knowledge of SEO best practices and experience with tools such as Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
• Natural affinity for website UX/UI and strong knowledge of responsive design and mobile-first development
• Is able to use technology to communicate efficiently and effectively (e-mail, telecommunications)
• Is able to use PC software (e.g., word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation) to save time and optimize personal and/or departmental productivity
• Considers financial implications when proposing the use of technology to solve business problems
• Understands platforms upon which products and services operate
• Understands the importance of data flow, data integrity, and business process efficiency, as well as the potential role technology, could play to improve or enhance them
• Sets goals, and develops strategies and plans for meeting those
• Is able to break down complex problems/ tasks into manageable parts, and allocates own time efficiently
• Follows-up in an efficient manner
• Extremely high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to adapt to new environments, specialties, and processes.
• Demonstrates active listening by conveying an accurate understanding of other’s messages
• Develops and maintains collaborative working relationships with peers, colleagues, management, and others
• Is open to influence and ideas other than their own
• Adapts well to changes at work
• Is aware of own strengths and development needs
• Capitalizes on own strengths and actively pursues, and takes responsibility for
• developmental opportunities
  

DESIRABLE

• Master’s Degree
• Experience with Sketch and Invision
• Experience building custom WordPress Gutenberg blocks
• Experience with AWS or Azure.
• Experience with Drupal
  

About Wiley:

We are in one of the most dynamic periods in our history as technology, globalism, and economic diversity create far-reaching changes in the world. As a learning business, Wiley makes meaningful contributions to research discovery and lifelong learning by helping organizations achieve their goals and people achieve success from education through their careers. We may have been founded over two centuries ago, but our secret to success remains the same: change with the times and adapt to meet the

ever-evolving needs of our customers. The company’s headquarters are in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate qualified applicants and treat all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or based on any individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV.