Email Front-End Senior Developer

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

We are looking to hire a Senior Email Front-End Developer who focuses on HTML and CSS to deliver our customer-facing marketing communications. You will use your expertise to solve complex problems, find technical unique solutions, and optimize the authoring process to support better speed-to-market content changes.

In this role you will work with our Verizon business teams to build email and direct mail communications for our home and mobile businesses. You’ll help deliver messaging that provides awareness of products, updates on services and offers to customers. Additionally, you will work with the larger development team to identify authoring opportunities and implement AEM development solutions.

Your efforts will inspire customer loyalty, grow Verizon's revenue, and enhance the overall customer experience by developing highly personalized customer communications that deliver more than 10 billion touches annually.  

Responsibilities includes:

• Leveraging wireframes, designs, and components to transform business requirements into email or mail communications development using HTML, CSS, and AEM components.

• Developing more complex custom HTML projects that require high-touch communication with stakeholders.

• Developing and consulting on multiple concurrent projects.

• Advising and working with marketing teams and other stakeholders to address capability gaps and recommend solutions.

• Thoroughly test all work to ensure adherence to functional and design requirements.

• Working with QA testing resources to troubleshoot and resolve defects.

• Collaborating with PMO and Team Operations to provide work estimates, establish timelines, and communicate statuses.

• Consulting on process and technology innovations that enhance capabilities or increase productivity within the AEM ecosystem.

• Mentoring junior developers on email development best practices.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Development experience using current HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• Experience with AEM 6.5 building blocks such as the following: templates, components, dispatcher and workflow.

• Experience building emails. 

• Experience with project management tools such as Jira.

• Experience working with a Digital Asset Management system.

• Proficient in G-Suite (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Forms, etc.)
   

Even better if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related discipline preferred.

• AEM Certification.

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

• Experience working with content management systems or software.

• Experience with the Adobe suite of communications products.

• Knowledge of Adobe AEM component development and best practices.

• Knowledge of content modeling.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.