Senior Email Developer

The Senior Email Developer (SED) is responsible for designing and writing code and providing support for building responsive email designs.

They need to know HTML, CSS, and media queries. The SED can work on independent tasks, assuming ownership of the required design and programming. The SED should handle the code very well to develop a responsive email; this individual will rely on existing designs. The SED should also be able to provide accurate estimates for his tasks. Guide and inspire new hires.

You will

• HTML and CSS oriented for email development.
• Propose solutions and provide estimations on projects.
• Work with the design team, tech leads, and PMs.
• Ensure emails follow best practices.
• Develop responsive email design.
• Coach and support other Email Developers in fulfilling their tasks and improving their skills.
• Ensure that implementation matches the design.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Create and update templates (basic to complex level).
• Analyze complex email testing to improve solutions to environmental issues.
• Knowledge of ADA implementations for emails.
• Perform code reviews; develop and adhere to coding standards
• Optimize Images, HTML, and CSS code to achieve maximum performance with minimum size.
• Ensure desktop and browser engine compatibility.
• Research online marketing resolutions.
• Stay abreast of ever-emerging technologies and techniques
• Being aware and having a proactive, mindful “eye” to problem identification and mitigation (associated with executing HTML Email Campaigns); capable and confident problem-solving skills.
• Using the following programs: Adobe Creative Suite (Dreamweaver and Photoshop), MailChimp, HTML/CSS Skills.

You have

• English Proficiency (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation
• At least 3+ years email email-specific development experience
• Must have a digital portfolio, covering dynamic email samples
• Familiar with ad publishers (eg. Salesforce, Engage, Marketo, Silverpop, etc)
• Knowledge on pixel perfect implementation on htmls.
• Knowledge for MSO compatibility and issues related fixes.
• ADA compliance knowledge.
• Dark mode and fixes.
• Experience dev skills in HTML, CSS
• Concept of live text vs images
• Knowledge in W3C Standards (or able to learn quickly about them).
• Image optimization
• Independent, responsible, and proactive with the ability to learn and achieve superior results.
• Understanding of media queries for responsive layout
• Experience working with mobile and web templates
• Basic HTML and simple/nested table structure
• Hands on QA experience utilizing Litmus or similar.
• Photoshop proficiency required to manipulate assets
• Detail oriented, organized, and the ability to meet deadlines while working with some projects at the same time.
• Proven experience with modern web standards and cross-browser compatibility issues
• Familiarity with MSO code
• Implementation of Email templates.
• Pros and cons of using different attributes that impact the rendering in popular email clients like gmail, yahoo etc. vs native apps like outlook especially for windows
• Knowledge using repositories (eg. GitHub o Bitbucket).
• Ability to work with IDEs (Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code is required)
• Experience with front end, JavaScript and frameworks.
• Experience on digital development skills and experience (landing pages, banners, etc).
• Knowledge and experience in graphic design for web, Photoshop, and Illustrator is a strong plus.
• Exposure to JavaScript and CMS (eg: Drupal and/or WordPress) is a plus
• Knowledge of pre-processed CSS styling (SASS, LESS).
• Experience with GULP as email builder
• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience

What We Offer:

• Maternity and parental leave extra days
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts
• And more…

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.  If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationships.
Increase employee engagement

This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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