Frontend Development Manager, Marketing (Remote, Americas)

Company Description

Shopify is on a fast-moving mission to make the best products for merchants, buyers, and partners around the globe and engineers play a vital role in building that future.

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Job Description

Our Frontend Engineers in Marketing collaborate closely with designers, content strategists, product managers, data scientists, and our broader marketing teams to build incredible merchant and prospect-facing websites, campaigns, and developer-facing tools.

Youll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and work with Ruby on Rails to develop websites and web applications that scale and perform well on all devices.

Frontend Development exists across all of Shopify, from Product to Marketing, working closely with the teams that create performant experiences and communicate Shopifys impact on commerce to a global audience.

Collaborating with our Data, SEO, and Operations teams to make data-informed decisions, youll work on large-scale, multi-language, and localized websites to help drive new merchant acquisition and bring Shopify to audiences around the world.

As a Frontend Development Manager in Marketing , youll lead and inspire a team of Frontend Engineers that work on campaigns and initiatives across various marketing channels and touchpoints.

You will lead planning, resourcing, and executing projects, while providing mentorship and creating growth opportunities for your team.

Youll also collaborate across different crafts and leadership teams to help push the disciplines of Frontend Development and Marketing User Experience (UX) both within our team and across the company.

Qualifications

What youll do as a Marketing-focused Frontend Development Manager at Shopify :

Work on problems with your teams, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion, and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items.

Mentor and lead a small team of developers while also providing growth opportunities.

You understand that leadership is a craft, and know how to mentor your team members to help them grow and succeed.

Help your team ship exceptional user experiences and establish clear definitions of quality.

Build accessible, responsive, performant experiences, and educate teams across UX and Marketing on why this matters.

Evaluate and provide supportive and constructive feedback to your reports.

Partner closely with content design and marketing design leadership peers to strategize, problem solve, and take our teams to the next level.

The right candidate will have :

Proven senior leadership skills. Your management skills and technical depth allow you to develop and mentor other leads as well as build credibility with your team, while executing broader engineering strategies.

Strong communication skills and the ability to influence and advocate for the Frontend Development craft.

You feel comfortable diving into the code and interacting with developers at all levels of seniority and have a commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence, and results.

Experience building responsive, performant, and accessible web experiences that engage audiences through the use of animation and complex interactions.

Working with modern web stacks (transpilers, linters, build and CI tools, etc.).

Experience designing and developing APIs, working with Content Management Systems, and Design Systems.

A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships across UX, Engineering, Marketing, Leadership, Product Marketing, Data, and SEO teams distributed across multiple time zones.

You are comfortable working with senior stakeholders (Director level and up), both technical and non technical.

Has proven experience representing the front end development craft through presentations, workshops and articles.

It would be great if you had experience with :

Working in an agency or creative environment delivering large-scale, multi-language websites, microsites, landing pages, and campaigns with complex internationalization and localization requirements.

A deep understanding of one or more specific client-side areas like animation, web performance, or accessibility for example.

Experimentation and evaluation methodologies to help inform decisions with real-world data.

Additional Information

Shopify is now permanently remote, and were working towards a future that is digital by design. That location you see above?

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Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and / or people with intersectional identities.

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At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. Were dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team – so if your experience is this close to what were looking for, please consider applying.