Digital Product Manager for Fashion Site

New York Media is seeking a creative, passionate and tech-savvy Product Manager, preferably with a love for fashion (runway to street to celebrity style), to expand NYMag's fashion vertical and build an immersive fashion/beauty site. Applicants should be passionate about creating innovative, editorially-driven products and have experience defining product features, driving audience growth, and generating revenue opportunities for digital properties. The role will include both web and mobile projects.

On a daily basis, the Product Manager work in a small agile team with designers, developers, editors, and project managers to build world-class fashion products. The position will be responsible for gathering and documenting requirements from consumers, business owners, editors, and other members of the product development team; prioritizing a backlog of features and building aggressive release plans; keeping business owners apprised about progress; writing use cases, business logic, and training documentation; defining acceptance criteria; and helping to test new products and train business owners. In addition, Product Managers will regularly assess and report on competitive properties, partnership opportunities and new technologies.

Applicants must have at least seven years experience as an online product manager with a record of success in launching compelling digital products. They should have strong organizational and communication skills, as well as the temperament to build productive partnerships with editors, developers and designers. Prior experience working on fashion websites (editorial, social or ecommerce) is highly desirable.

Please note: This is an online product development role not a marketing, advertising or editorial role.

The position will report to the Executive Director of Product Development.

To apply: Please send resume, cover letter, and three to five product ideas for one of the New York Media properties to product-jobs@nymag.com. Please put "Fashion Product Manager" in the subject line. No calls please.

Creative Strategy Manager

Position Overview: This position is the creative liaison in the development and execution of consumer-facing marketing and social media campaigns. Acting as a central point of contact for the Audience Development team, he/she will help ensure the creative messaging and overall campaigns are on-brand, well planned out, and properly executed in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and develop integrated online communication strategies designed to grow digital audiences and support social media initiatives. Work closely with the Creative Services and Audience Development teams to develop innovative strategies based on input from social media monitoring tools, competitive analysis and editorial feedback.
• Coordinate the development and execution of both the copywriting and design of the digital marketing campaigns under the guidance of the Creative Directors. Promotions will encompass all marketing channels including on-site units, display ads, email and print along with various efforts within the social media domains.
• Generate production schedules, manage deadlines, coordinate updates, and secure internal approvals. This will be required for all marketing campaigns and related testing.
• Manage the development of traditional marketing materials such as those needed for Circulation marketing efforts and for the magazine in general.
• Assist in other facets of marketing campaign management including the deployment of promotions, analysis, determining ROI and making both test and rollout recommendations.
• Maintain awareness of new social media marketing techniques being used by others, as well as look for opportunities to innovate and provide fresh approaches for ongoing online marketing initiatives.
• Track success of social media marketing programs and organize those results and findings into documents which can be shared company-wide.
• Help New York Media find success with unique and timely promotional campaigns featuring incentives to join the social communities such as exclusive content, contests, insider access or other opportunities. Regularly propose new ideas to consider.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 3-4 years online/interactive experience delivering comprehensive creative marketing campaigns. Clear demonstration of strong direct marketing instincts.
• Experience developing and executing social media marketing campaigns
• Excellent copywriting skills, visual communication and editorial sensibilities
• The ideal candidate will have an expert understanding of emerging media technologies with experience finding creative uses of those technologies.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to multi-task to perform in a fast-paced, dynamic work atmosphere.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite as well as a solid knowledge of Best Web Practices and HTML are essential. Experience in Apple iWork, Dreamweaver and Adobe CS Suite a plus.

To Apply: Send a résumé and cover letter to hr@nymag.com with "Creative Strat Mgr - NYM" in the subject line. Please include salary requirements in your cover letter.

Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please regard your resume as having been received unless your email is bounced back. No phone calls, please. EOE.

Social Media Coordinator

Position Overview: Reporting to the Manager of Social Media, this position executes the day-to-day social media efforts of New York Media including daily content creation. The top priorities of this position are to grow the Company's social media communities and improve consumer engagement.

Position Responsibilities:

• Assist in the execution of New York Media's social media strategies and look for ways to both increase interactions and improve post virality. Contribute a high volume of posts on a daily basis across multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts.
• Under the direction of the Manager of Social Media look to establish best practices for each account with respect to the tone, subject matter, frequency, and timing of posts.
• Help the company find success with unique and timely promotional campaigns featuring incentives to join the social communities such as exclusive content, contests, insider access or other opportunities.
• Fully understand the Company's social media audiences and advise the Editorial, Product Development, Marketing, PR, Advertising and Business Development departments on ways to improve their performance with initiatives that cross into social media.
• Monitor trends via real-time reporting and identify ways for the company to leverage current topics of interest to a higher degree.
• Make recommendations on the interactive areas of the New York Media websites where there is potential to inspire more engagement with content. Present rationales for specific changes based on available data and industry best practices.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 1-2 years experience developing and executing social media strategies (preferably not agency experience);
• Background in publishing, ideally in editorial or public relations roles at news media companies;
• Excellent writing skills and editorial sensibilities;
• Strong communication skills;
• Candidate must have a familiarity with industry technologies that facilitate comment moderation as well as those that support social media publishing.

To Apply: Please send a résumé and cover letter to hr@nymag.com. Please put "Social Media Coord - NYM" in the subject line. No phone calls, please. Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please regard your resume as having been received unless your email is bounced back. EOE.

Freelance Web Producer

NYMag.com is looking for a freelancer producer to work 8-10 hours a week. Responsibilities include producing magazine articles in an in-house CMS, tagging content, writing web-friendly display copy, and ensuring accuracy of photo credits/captions. Additional hours may be available throughout the year on seasonal special projects.

Requirements: CMS familiarity, experience packaging content for web, and a copy editor's eye for style and formatting errors. Dreamweaver experience a plus. Flexible schedule and Friday availability are a must.

Rate: $15-$17/hour, depending on experience

To Apply: Please send a resume and cover letter to nymjobs@nymag.com. Put 'Freelance Web Producer' in the subject line. Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please regard your resume as having been received unless your email is bounced back. EOE.

Freelance Production Artist

NYMag.com is looking for a Production Artist with photo editing experience to join our team.

Primary responsibilities of the position are to select and crop artwork for our blogs and online features, color-correct and optimize photos for digital publication, help maintain the photo listings database, and keep track of photo department budgets. The ideal candidate must be able to come up with creative solutions for artwork requests from web site editors including creating photo-illustrations. This position requires careful attention to detail and thoughtful execution.

The ideal candidate will have 1 to 3 years of applicable work experience and should be organized, able to work well with a variety of different personalities, able to prioritize tasks quickly and efficiently, and be comfortable with a fast-paced work environment. Strong experience with Photoshop is required, as is experience working in a web environment with tools such as Dreamweaver. Illustration skills are a big plus. Photographers, web designers, and illustrators with an interest in web production and photo editing are encouraged to apply.

Requirements:

• 1-3 years of applicable work experience
• Strong experience with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop
• Experienced and comfortable working on a Mac / OS X
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Bonus Points:

• Illustration/photo-illustration skills
• HTML/CSS
• Familiarity with image management systems

To apply: Please e-mail resume and cover letter to designjobs@nymag.com with the subject line "Freelance Production Artist." No phone calls, please.

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

New York Media seeks an experienced Linux Systems Administrator with five or more years of experience to administer our Linux environment. The Administrator will be responsible for maintaining a scalable, reliable, secure and highly available environment, joining a team responsible for 24x7 web environment.

Responsibilities:

• 6+ years experience administering Redhat or other Linux operating systems
• Strong experience administering Apache and other web technologies
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Strong diagramming and documentation skills
• Experience managing storage devices such as SAN and NAS
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong scripting experience (shell scripting and/or Perl, Python, etc)
• Mastery of the command line
• Experience with open source technologies
• Automation configuration management tools such as CFengine and Puppet
• Repository tools such as SVN and GIT

Requirements:

• Apache and MySQL administration
• Propose and implements system enhancements
• Keep all existing installs up-to-date with the latest patches and OS versions
• Work closely with the development team to identify requirements and implement solutions
• Deploy software developed by the development team to production
• Manage storage network and NFS servers
• Build, configure server hardware and associated devices.
• Monitor systems in our datacenter (CPU, Network IO, Disk IO, Application Health)
• Manage BigIP F5 load balancers
• Manage system-level security of our servers
• Maintain/write shell scripts, manage cron
• Manage DNS
• Manage backup strategy
• Manage Amazon EC2 Server Farm

A Plus:

• Adobe CQ5 administration
• VMWare
• MySQL database administration
• JBoss administration
• Monitoring tools such as Cacti or Nagios
• Networking experience (routers, switches, firewalls)

Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer.

Send a résumé and cover letter to hr@nymag.com with "Systems Admin - NYM" in the subject line. Please include salary requirements in your cover letter.

Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please regard your resume as having been received unless your email is bounced back. No phone calls, please. EOE.

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and developing advanced content management solutions supporting a wide variety of content delivery platforms including web, mobile, tablet and syndication services
• Involved in full life-cycle development of solutions
• Interfacing with business users to gather requirements and participate in product development conversations
• Working with a team of five to eight developers consisting of front end and back end as well as working closely with designers, project managers and product owners
• Create and contribute to the high-level architecture of the various content management systems
• Provide mentoring and leadership to junior developers through code reviews, leading "lunch and learn" sessions, and staying abreast of emerging technologies

Experience:

• 5+ years of Java Development or experience in similar Object Oriented programming languages
• Experience in building large scale, complex web applications
• Experience in development and integration of Content Management Systems
• Back end development experience
• Experience developing and maintaining a SOA including XML, SOAP, REST, JSON
• Experience working with multiple web application frameworks such as Django, Rails, Spring MVC, Play, etc.
• Experience with analysis, diagnosis and implementation of application performance measurements and improvements

Required Skills:

• BA in Computer Science, Masters a plus
• Strong analytical and problem solving
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Java/J2EE technologies such as Servlets, JSP, JSTL, Custom Tags, JDBC, JPA, XML, and XSLT.
• Development Experience on Linux platform
• Experience with ORM framework such as Hibernate
• Experience with Adobe's CQ5 Web Content Management Platform is a plus
• Experience with JCR framework such as Apache Sling is a plus
• Experience with Search engine technologies such as SOLR, RIAK or similar is a plus
• Python/Django Experience a plus
• SVN, GIT, Maven, Team City experience a plus
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environment

Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer.

Send cover letter and resume to hr@nymag.com. Put "Senior Software Engineer" in subject line. Please include your salary requirements in your cover letter. No phone calls, please.

Quality Assurance Engineer

New York Media, owner of New York Magazine, nymag.com, and menupages.com, is looking for a proactive quality assurance engineer who is a consummate team player and thrives in a fast-paced web environment. The ideal candidate possesses a natural curiosity and knowledge of how web code works. He/She is a stickler for detail and will sign off on nothing but the best code possible. We're looking for someone who loves the challenge of finding the most elusive defects and making sure our website is the best in the industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create test scripts for automated testing tools
• Perform user acceptance/browser testing across multiple platforms and browsers.
• Implement quality assurance tests and assist in building out the full Regression Test Suite

Additional Responsibilities:

• Analyze and document the existing web projects for nymag.com.
• Ensure compliance with general programming best practices, accepted web standards, and those standards set forth by upstream sources.
• Implement application regression tests; translate product requirements into test scripts; create test scripts from scratch (interview developers and other resources to refine scripts); other deliverables.
• Experience working within an agile development methodology (SCRUM).
• Participate in estimation, sprint planning meetings, and daily stand-up meetings.
• Design, implement, and document QA/testing procedures.
• Other duties as assigned by the Quality Assurance Manager.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• BS/BA in computer science, engineering, or technical area (or equivalent).
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing quality assurance testing procedures.
• Strong proficiency with web development platforms, standards, and best practices (XSL/XML, CSS, HTML).
• Experience with scripting and using of functional testing software (Selenium HQ preferred).
• Experience with defect reporting software (JIRA preferred).
• Experience with CQ Content Management System by Day is a plus.
• Strong familiarity with social networking platforms such as Facebook a plus.
• Experience in writing test scripts for automated testing software.
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills.
• Must be energetic, detail-oriented, curious, and well organized with a blend of technical and analytical skills, initiative, and independence, including the ability to make judgment calls and to respond tactfully in all situations.
• Experience producing expansive technical documentation is a plus.
• Experience with documenting procedures and publishing vehicles such as wikis.
• Experience working with dynamic web applications and platforms such as JS and AJAX.
• Experience with automated testing software/scripting

Please send resume with salary requirement to Sandra_landsman@nymag.com.

UI Engineer

Are you passionate about design, user experience and front-end technology? Want to work with award-winning entertainment, fashion and local content enjoyed by millions of people? New York Media is seeking a UI Engineer to join our elite UX Development team – the front-end masters of NYMag.com, Vulture, and Grub Street. In addition to getting to build some of the best designed products in the industry, we are offering qualified candidates a competitive compensation packages, a personal budget for training and conferences (including SXSW), plenty of paid time off, and a nice hardware setup (Macbook Pro with a Cinema Display) to work with.

This position is full-time and based at our SoHo office in New York, NY.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Designers and Software Engineers to create and build next generation products
• Write code that pushes the limits of modern browsers while degrading gracefully for the older ones*
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks
• Champion best practices for front-end development

Requirements:

• Advanced experience with front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Java, etc.) and related frameworks
• Extreme attention to detail, driving for pixel perfection
• Expert knowledge of OO JavaScript programming with and without frameworks (we use jQuery)
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code for UI components
• Committed to great user experience

Bonus:

• Experience or interest in iOS native app development
• Prior experience with agile product development
• Relevant experience includes self-started personal projects
• Love what you do

Local candidates only. Please send your salary requirements, CV and cover letter to hr@nymag.com with the subject line "UI Engineer - NYM". Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please regard your resume as having been received unless your email is bounced back. No phone calls, please. EOE.

*Except for IE6. We no longer support that hunk of junk.

Integrated Sales Development Director

The Integrated Sales Development Director is a member of the Creative & Marketing Services department and reports to the Executive Director, Creative & Marketing Services. The focus of this position is to create and develop strategic marketing programs to drive print and online advertising and sponsorship revenue for the company. Successful candidates must be highly creative and innovative, have strong writing and presentation skills, an excellent communicator and solid analytical skills.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Integrated Creative Services Director and marketing team to develop new signature programs.
• Strategize with management to develop sales, marketing and promotional strategies/tactics to increase advertiser revenue for key ad categories that are targeted for growth.
• Analyze existing marketing programs and assess their ongoing value and/or recommend and develop new ones.
• Spearhead and manage execution of select advertiser programs and new signature initiatives.
• Write and oversee development of sales collateral for new marketing programs.
• Work with Special Events team and sales to identify sponsor prospects for the New York Events division and to develop creative activation ideas for clients.
• Foster and manage new marketing partnerships that can help drive ad revenue.
• Create, manage and oversee key RFPs for large-scale cross-platform marketing programs.

Skills:

Strong Excel, Powerpoint skills required. Keynote knowledge a plus.

Requirements:

BA/BS degree required with a minimum of 10-15 years experience in marketing, media and/or business development; print & digital media experience required.

Send cover letters and resumes to hr@nymag.com. Please include salary requirements. No calls, please.

Integrated Marketing Manager

The Integrated Marketing Manager in the Creative Services Department of New York Media develops multiplatform marketing strategies to meet and exceed the needs of our clients and help generate new business in assigned categories. Acting as a central point of contact for New York magazine and nymag.com advertising sales staff, he/she will leverage the broad range of New York Media brand assets—print, digital, and events—to create engaging, multiplatform opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualizing and articulating creative ideas in response to RFPs from clients and for overall sales development initiatives
• Oversee the delivery and execution of several programs with multiple advertisers at any given time
• Maintain and monitor proposal logs and budget allocations
• Generate production schedules, manage deadlines, handle client updates, and approvals
• Oversee requests to the art department for creative materials, including invites, signage, recaps, sell sheets, microsites, etc.
• Position reports to the Integrated Creative Services Director

Job Specifications:

• 3+ years digital/print/interactive experience delivering multi-channel communications programs
• Creativity and flexibility in a fast-paced, dynamic work atmosphere
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to multitask for multiple clients
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with all support departments
• Familiarity with digital and print media planning, buying and billing
• Magazine publishing and agency experience helpful

Send cover letters and resumes to hr@nymag.com with the subject line "Intg Mktng Mngr – NYM". Please include salary requirements in your cover letter.

Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please regard your resume as having been received unless your email is bounced back. No phone calls, please. EOE.

Integrated Spirits, Food & Beverage Account Manager

Position Overview: New York Media's Integrated Advertising Department is expanding and we are seeking an Integrated Spirits, Food & Beverage Account Manager to sell both print and online. We seek people who thrive on having a direct contribution to the success of the business, and have the ability to think entrepreneurially. We are looking for strong prospectors and closers who are as comfortable at client meetings as they are in writing proposals and answering RFPs.

Requirements:

• Two or more years of cross-platform/integrated advertising sales experience
• Strong sales development skills to break new accounts
• Excellent interpersonal, technical, verbal, and written communication skills
• Must have Spirits, Food & Beverage contacts
• Must have experience with Salesforce, DSM, DPF, Excel and Powerpoint

To apply: Please send an email to hr@nymag.com with subject line "Integrated S, F&B Account Mgr - NYM". Include the following information in your résumé and cover letter:

• Name
• Brief description of your work experience as it relates to the position
• Brief description of your education
• Any additional skills you believe will contribute to our organization
• SALARY REQUIREMENTS

Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. Please regard your resume as having been received unless your email is bounced back. No phone calls, please. EOE.