Company Description
Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.
Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health
Job Description
Our advanced Technology capability delivers cutting-edge, high-impact digital products and platforms by bringing or core offerings to bear. These offerings include marketing technology strategy, platform and tool recommendations, full-stack software/platform development, quality assurance, business analysis, and managed services.
We have strategic partnerships with the world's leading marketing and technology companies that allow us to leverage the top platforms and tools for our clients. Through collaborating with Digital Strategy, Experience Design, Creative, Data and Analytics, Project Management, and Account teams, our technologists are paving the way for innovation and transforming the marketing landscape. You'll work with a diverse group of highly qualified people with various backgrounds, who bring qualities such as intellectual curiosity, determination, and creativity to our client work.
We're searching for a Technology Director to lead technology projects through their complete lifecycle delivering transformative success for our clients. You'll play a leading role with both technical and non-technical teams by providing technology education, perspectives, and recommendations and how they affect the holistic project.
You will have a collaborative nature and strong work ethic. Someone who can gather, digest and translate technical requirements, clearly and succinctly communicate ideas, decisions, and reasoning to both a technical and a non-technical audience, and who has a self-driven desire to keep abreast of the latest sites, gadgets, trends, and innovations.
This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.
Main responsibilities include:
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Overall health, client satisfaction, and continuous success of multiple projects
Lead a team of Technology Managers
Develop and maintain relationships with the client IT, marketing, customer experience, and promotional review teams
Organic growth of current client engagements
Provide leadership and/or guide the implementation and activation of MarTech platforms; identify opportunities and provide recommendations for platform optimization through strong understanding of product roadmaps in correlation to client business goals
Accurately estimating projects and large-scale engagements and writing scope documents
Forecasting and maintaining right-sized technology staffing across projects
Remove impediments from both daily projects and organizational progress
Drive cross-capability team adherence to the SDLC process
Collaborate with digital strategists during strategic development
Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and project managers during the creation of requirements
Collaborate with Creative and UX teams in the design phase of the projects
Collaborate with the Technical Architects and client IT teams to design technical solutions
Contribute to the Technology Management practice and the Technology capability's continuous improvement activities by bringing innovative ideas to the table
Stay current on emerging digital marketing technologies, best-practices, and trends
Aiding in managing and developing the capability to adapt to changing environments and needs and drive and coach teams to successful solutions and continuous skill development and growth
Qualifications
To qualify, you'll need:
Four-year degree (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) or equivalent work experience
10+ years of work experience in the marketing technology or IT space
7+ years of leading complex technology projects
2+ years of experience in delivering enterprise omni-channel connected marketing solutions and experiences
Deep expertise with software development processes and conventions
Expertise with the foundational elements of web page anatomy and building blocks such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
Expertise with the marketing technologies such as websites, emails, banners, databases, and experience management platforms
Expertise with business and technical processes to enable technology solutions
Experience identifying and communicating project and team risks to leadership and clients
Experience leading client meetings, presentations, and new business efforts
Experience leading multiple simultaneous projects
Experience working within multiple project management methodologies, e.g., Scrum and Waterfall
Experience with standard business software such as Microsoft Office Suite, web browsers, etc; and industry-specific tools JIRA, Sketch, Zeplin, automated testing, etc.
Understanding of accessibility (WCAG) best-practices
Ability and willingness to learn about several marketing technologies and platforms
Be flexible and tolerate ambiguity while still operating effectively
Excellent written and verbal skills
To be a highly motivated individual with a strong record of professional achievement
Creative agency experience a plus
Pharmaceutical industry experience a plus
You will be asked to be open to travel
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Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected] .
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.