Middle Seat is a full-service media and fundraising firm for progressive causes and candidates.

Whether it’s AOC or the ACLU, MoveOn or the Movement for Black Lives, the Working Families Party or the Women’s March, we work with progressive campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy organizations and causes that are on the front lines of important fights.

We also put a premium on honoring the authentic perspective of our clients, and support our clients taking principled stances even when that means pushing the envelope or shaking things up in the progressive space.

Our firm is values-driven. We are intentional with the decidedly left-of-center clients we work with — and we strive to make our work environment and benefits reflect that, including salary transparency, healthy work-life balance, and consistent employee feedback and communication. We’re happy to talk more about our company culture with prospective applicants.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Web Development Lead to manage our team of developers to efficiently deliver web development products that are high quality, on spec and on time.

This will involve managing personnel, projects and relevant client relationships, while also doing the business development and capacity-planning work to ensure the team is able to operate at full capacity on an ongoing basis.

While we do not expect the person in this role to spend a great deal of time coding, some coding ability is required (particularly proficiency in JavaScript, with WordPress, HTML, and CSS also being very helpful).

Are you a communicative and entrepreneurial person with a strong, client-facing background delivering web products who can do everything from running code review to scoping, pricing and pitching a project? Are you an effective team leader with great people skills and a track record of managing developers to deliver work on expedited timelines? Do you have a commitment to the visual integrity of your work and the ability to ensure pixel-perfect implementation of a design? If so, please read on.

Job Responsibilities

Client Work

Oversee large-scale web and design projects – delivering work on time and of an exceptional quality
Serve as escalation point for troubleshooting code issues or development tasks
Conduct code review on a regular basis
Establish and oversee best practices, systems, and processes for the development team to meet high standards for innovation, accessibility, communication, collaboration, and efficiency
Ideate and create tools and features that satisfy common client or internal needs
Create systems for iterating on Middle Seat’s starter theme to improve features and functionality
Build methods to document development best practices
Provide direction to technical team members to ensure best practices are executed
Incorporate emerging UI design and development best practices and help implement across Middle Seat teams
Develop process for thorough functional and design quality assurance on all technical work, including website projects
Maintain and direct a replicable, reliable system for managing web projects
Dive into the code and contribute to the development work as needed

Team Management

Supervise a team of web developers, taking responsibility for the performance of the team as a whole and the personnel management of the individual members of the team.
Recruit, hire, train, and retain development team members, manage a team budget for overhead and staffing, and set goals for the team.
Help Middle Seat grow its surge capacity by building a stable of contractors who can jump in quickly and cost effectively on client web projects
Guide team members to identify and work toward professional development goals, including by providing periodic performance reviews for all staff
Provide ongoing code review and performance management
Guide the development team’s ability to respond professionally to direction, constructive critique, and client feedback
Manage development requests and client web project work
Keep team informed about company-wide processes, policies, and priorities
Act as the development team’s ambassador to other teams

Capacity Planning

Delegate development responsibilities across both internal and external work and monitor progress of all projects and requests
Triage incoming client and internal requests, and ongoing development needs
Develop system for visibility into team capacity for forecasting and sales awareness

Business Development

Pitch prospective clients on development work
Attend new business meetings to assess needs, budget, and fit for potential client engagements
Develop strategies for packaging development services to clients
Onboard new clients and provide team members with relevant information to execute new work
Work collaboratively with leadership team members on full-service proposals when needed
Ensure sales documents for development work are maintained in adherence with established company processes
Other responsibilities as requested

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