Production Director

Company Info

Company Name: 

Yodle

City: 

New York or Charlotte

State: 

New York

Postal Code: 

0

Yodle provides local businesses with a simple and affordable way to get new customers and phone calls using online advertising. Yodle, a company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is transforming local online advertising by connecting local business owners with consumers in a simple, measurable and relevant way. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. Yodle is headquartered in New York, NY with a presence in 18 major cities across the United States and has hundreds of employees helping thousands of customers.

Position Overview
Do you want to be part of a dynamic, fast paced, high growth startup? A position where you will have an excellent opportunity to leverage your project management and technical operations background to take our production team to the next level? How about a position that will highlight your accomplishments to our executives and directly impact our bottom line?

Did I mention the company is in one of the hottest industries and experiencing 700% year over year growth?

Yodle, a leading provider of local search advertising and online lead generation services to small and medium businesses is seeking a Production Director to provide hands-on management to our production team. Reporting to the VP of Client Services, this newly created position will support our huge growth and offer a unique opportunity for the right candidate. This position supports the advertising needs of both Yodle and the thousands of merchants (advertisers) in the Yodle Advertising Network.

Responsibilities

• Project manage the design and content development of web templates and other interactive promotions such as e-mails, banner ads, and Yodle adverPage web properties.
• Perform A/B testing and multivariate testing.
• Experience managing an offshore web design and web development center
• Implement wireframes for new web -templates and guide junior staff with their own designs
• Understand design best practices and call-to-actions for different industries
• Collaborate with client implementation and account management teams to ensure accounts are successful
• Work with and make recommendations to product development on ways to improve Yodle’s Content Management System
• Become an expert in Yodle’s products and services so you can quickly and confidently recommend areas of improvement and opportunity

Qualifications:

• Proven mentoring and team building/coaching skills of a web production team to provide clear creative direction and inspiration
• Strong technical and user centered design skills with demonstrated success in past projects
• Experience as a project manager; specifically managing a high number of small projects at once
• In-depth experience in developing web based creative solutions and online advertising campaigns.
• Experience managing a queue
• Knowledge of Visio or Omnigraffle for purposes of mockups/wireframes persuasive online copywriting skills that drive action (or the ability to direct copywriters in this manner
• Experience / Knowledge of HTML, CSS
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Marketing, Fine Arts or Graphic design

Compensation
What we offer to you:

• An opportunity to further enhance your skills and refine your talent
• Competitive base
• Attractive Stock Option Plan
• Health/Dental benefits, 401 (K) plan
• Great work environment - we have fun!
• Accessible and open-minded leadership
• Opportunity to work with smart people and learn a lot about one of the fastest growing industries

To Apply, please send your resume to prusso@yodle.com and reference “Production Director” in the subject line.