The Content Author Lead (CAL) is responsible for designing templates and components, performing peer reviews, developing technical documentation and becomes a key contributor in their team and project. A Content Author Lead acts as a technical leader in projects, ensuring that the team maintains high levels of performance, and builds and strengthens the relationship with the client. The CAL will work closely with clients, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts and end users.
You Will
- Debugs or troubleshoots complex or critical issues that cannot be handled by junior positions and provides root cause analysis.
- Owns content release activities, including but not limited to reviewing code changes, client demos, QA hand-offs, and presenting solutions and justifications for tasks.
- Mentor and enforce guidelines and best practices for the designated team
- Helps coordinate the team’s technical communication with other groups such as Creative, Business and Management.
- Responsible to setup regular one-on-one meetings to provide coaching, feedback, career development, and status reporting.
- Overview peer reviewing and unit testing practices
- Gathers new user and business requirements, maps them to appropriate technical solutions and estimates the associated authoring tasks.
- In charge of presentations to clients, directly working with other groups such as Creative, Business and Technology.
- Ensures concise and clear documentation is maintained by all peers for the projects as dictated by each Capability’s guidelines and best practices.
- Creates training programs for technologies within fields of expertise.
- Actively participates in Capability activities and initiatives.
- Act as a web content lead in a project and point of contact for other members of the team.
- Be involved in the recruiting process and perform interviews when needed.
- Participate actively in client meetings and technical discussions.
You Have
- At least 6 years of experience working with AEM, along with leadership experience guiding teams.
- The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JS) and experience applying SEO best practices to optimize content.
- Strong problem-solving skills are very important especially when it comes to debugging, troubleshooting.
- Experience automating or improving processes to boost efficiency
- Someone who genuinely enjoys mentoring others, building strong cross-functional relationships, and fostering open communication.
- Comfort with change, proactive mindset.
- Collaborative and solution-oriented person
- Proficiency with data transfer formats and protocols popular in web applications (e.g. JSON, XML, HTTP).
- Knowledge of popular JavaScript frameworks and cross-browser compatibility.
- Experience with Front-End technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript).
- Knowledge of pre-processed CSS styling (SASS, LESS).
- Work experience implementing SEO guidelines and best practices to CMS pages.
- Experience troubleshooting, debugging and doing root cause analysis of web platform issues.
- Capable of designing and choosing a quality assurance process for the project including guidelines for unit tests, load testing, performance testing.
- Knowledge of recent development patterns and practices (Mobile First, MVC, Object Oriented development).
- Desirable: BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline; or equivalent experience as Software Developer.
- Desirable: Experience in Digital Agencies projects, Web development projects, SCRUM/Agile software projects.
- Desired: SCRUM Fundamentals Certification or equivalent practical experience.
- Desired: Six Sigma Fundamentals Certification or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced English Proficiency (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation).
What We Offer
- Maternity and parental leave extra days
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
- Access to online services for families and new parents
- Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
- And more…
At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!
The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.
The Ask Stems From Our Want To
Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationships.
Increase employee engagement
This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.
Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.
Critical Mass uses artificial intelligence in our recruitment process to enhance job postings, filter keywords during the review of prospective candidates, and, in some cases, transcribe interviews with our recruiters. Human review remains central to the process, and all hiring decisions are ultimately made by our team.
The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.
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Skills Required
- At least 6 years of experience working with Adobe Experience Manager and leadership experience guiding teams
- Solid understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience applying SEO best practices to optimize CMS content and pages
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills for web platforms
- Experience automating or improving processes to boost efficiency
- Proficiency with data transfer formats and protocols (JSON, XML, HTTP)
- Knowledge of popular JavaScript frameworks and cross-browser compatibility
- Knowledge of pre-processed CSS styling (SASS, LESS)
- Ability to design and choose QA processes including unit, load, and performance testing
- Knowledge of modern development patterns and practices (Mobile First, MVC, OOP)
- Advanced English proficiency (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation)
- BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- Experience in digital agency projects, web development projects, and SCRUM/Agile environments
- SCRUM Fundamentals Certification or equivalent practical experience
- Six Sigma Fundamentals Certification or equivalent practical experience
What We Do
We’re Critical Mass. We are 2,000 inspired humans across 14 offices, setting the right path—not just the next one—for our clients, their customers, and our own colleagues. We work with the best, Apple, Adobe, BMW, Nike, Diageo, Airbnb, BNY and many more, to power connected ecosystems that make brands stand out by driving performance with data, technology, AI, creative and media. We’re a global marketing agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. We’re driven, uncompromising and we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Learn more at criticalmass.com.
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