Jr. Website Developer

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Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. We seek to inspire, inform, and connect audiences as a scalable, growth focused media and digital marketing solutions company. We endeavor to deliver essential content, marketing solutions, and experiences for curated audiences, advertisers, consumers, and stakeholders by leveraging our diverse teams and suite of products to enrich the local communities and businesses we serve. Our current portfolio of trusted media brands includes the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprised of the national publication, USA TODAY, and local media organizations in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom. Our digital marketing solutions brand, LocaliQ, uses innovation and software to enable small and medium-sized businesses to grow, and USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures, our events division, creates impactful consumer engagements, promotions, and races. Gannett open roles are featured on various external job boards. When applying to a position at Gannett, you should be completing an application on Gannett Careers via Dayforce. Job postings directing you to complete an application on other external sites may not be valid. To connect with us, visit www.gannett.com

What is LocaliQ?

LocaliQ is a digital marketing platform to helps local businesses find, convert, and keep customers. Part of Gannett, a global media company, LocaliQ is changing how businesses understand local consumers and where to find them.

How? With decades of data and experience with digital media and technology, the LocaliQ platform optimizes any marketing budget to deliver more relevant messages to local consumers with a suite of marketing automation, channel campaign management, CRM, and insight tools.

A Bit About The Team...

In this digital world, we are on a mission to keep small businesses growing and thriving because the health of local communities depends on it. Our people know they're here for a good cause, bringing this to life every day by providing exceptional solutions and services to our customers – and having fun while doing it.

That is why we are a 3x Google Quality Account Champion award winner, a Microsoft Elite Advertising Partner, a Google Premier Partner (putting us in the top 3% of all Google Partners), and a Meta Business Partner.

Bring your talent and we'll equip you with exceptional sales tools, technology, and world-class products. With opportunities for training and continued learning, you will have the tools and skills to succeed in your new role. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and build something that unites local businesses and the world of Martech.

About This Position

Reporting to the Director of Website Strategy & Growth, the Jr. Website Developer will support our growth goals through the optimization of our existing web infrastructure across our two key websites – LocaliQ.com and WordStream.com.

This position will provide a talented and motivated Website Developer with an opportunity to engage with a tech stack of leading digital marketing and analytics providers, including WordPress, Cloudflare, and VWO. You’ll work on established websites, that receive millions of monthly site visitors, ensuring that every experience is a positive one by leading the implementation of vital performance updates, developing code that eliminates potential for technical debt, and leveraging existing analytics processes to enable the larger marketing team in tracking key metrics.

Base Salary: $65,000 - $70,000, candidate will be required to work central time zone hours

What you’ll be doing

• Support ongoing website development to ensure customer journeys that lead to CTAs
• Work closely with our Creative Director to turn mockups into functional web pages
• Write quality code and help find the best technical approaches possible
• Gain hands-on experience, reviewing and repairing inefficient code by implementing spot fixes that eliminate risk and performance issues
• Implement analytics tracking scripts to diagnose conversion and performance issues
• Be responsible for deployments of website updates
• Work on testing the connection between our websites and subdomains utilized by our product team to ensure user experience is seamless with new product launches
• Participate in sitewide initiatives that further expand our website’s capabilities and accessibility across devices and platforms
  
  

Who should apply

• Experience in website development
• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar
• Experience and knowledge with HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, SASS, and JavaScript/jQuery
• Wordpress and/or Divi page builder experience is a plus
• Knowledge of working with version control systems (SVN, GIT) and multiple-tier deployment (Dev, QA, Stage, Production)
• Capable of working within an agile scrum or KANBAN development environment
• Working knowledge of Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager is a plus
• Ability to play a major role in complex projects, including site redesigns
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, where projects frequently involve ambiguity and flexibility
• Team player who is focused on collaboration, making sure that all work we put out as a team has been QA-ed, fully actualized, and aligns with company goals
  
  

The annualized base salary for this role will range between $65,000 and $70,000.  Base compensation is reflective of many factors, including, but not limited to, the market in which one lives/works, individual education level, skills, certifications and experience. Note: variable compensation is not reflected in these figures and based on the role, may be applicable.

Gannett Co., Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a diverse workforce. As such, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment and do not discriminate in connection with employment decisions on the basis of an applicant or employee’s race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance (including height and weight), sexual orientation, family responsibilities, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), education, genetic characteristics or information, political affiliation, military or veteran status or other classifications protected by applicable federal, state and local laws in the jurisdictions where Gannett employs employees. In addition, Gannett Co., Inc. will provide applicants who require a reasonable accommodation, as a result of an applicant’s disability or religion, to complete this employment application and/or any other process in connection with an individuals’ application for employment with Gannett Co., Inc. Applicants who require such accommodation should contact Gannett Co., Inc.’s Recruitment Department at Recruit@gannett.com.