Job description
Description Riverside is the all-in-one studio-quality recording platform trusted by Spotify, The New York Times, NBC, CNN, and iHeartMedia. We're hiring a Web Developer to own our marketing website end to end - not just the code, but the people, process, and roadmap behind it. A note on the role: this is a hybrid developer-lead position. Roughly 70% of your time goes to coordination, prioritization, and managing external developers; about 30% is hands-on building. If you love shipping web projects through other people as much as writing code yourself, this is for you. What you'll do: Own the website work pipeline - Act as the single point of intake for website requests from teams across the company (marketing, product, brand, and more) - Scope, classify, and prioritize incoming tasks - decide what to build yourself, what to delegate, and what to push back on - Keep stakeholders informed on status, timelines, and trade-offs Manage our external development team - Lead a team of 2-3 freelance web developers (external, not employees) - Run sprints: plan, assign, and distribute work, review deliverables, and hold quality and deadlines - Own vendor relationships, capacity planning, and QA across everything they ship Lead the website rebuild - Lead the upcoming ground-up rebuild of riverside.com on Webflow - structure, CMS architecture, and migration - Coordinate design, content, SEO, and dev workstreams; own the timeline and keep the project on schedule - Make it fast, scalable, and easy to maintain Stay hands-on - Build responsive, pixel-perfect pages from Figma designs - Design and maintain Webflow CMS structures that scale with our content roadmap - Own site performance, Core Web Vitals, SEO, CRO, and accessibility best practices - Contribute to platform and architecture decisions as the stack evolves Requirements - 4+ years building production commercial websites - Deep hands-on Webflow experience - complex builds, CMS architecture, and integrations (experience with additional CMS platforms is a plus) - Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals - Proven ability to run multiple projects in parallel and lead them to completion on deadline - Excellent stakeholder communication - you can take a vague request from any team, turn it into a clear task, and manage expectations along the way - Highly organized and process-driven: boards, sprints, and priorities stay in order because you keep them that way - Strong ownership and independence - you take full responsibility for the site without needing close guidance - Hands-on experience with analytics and tagging tools (Segment, GA4, GTM) - Sharp eye for visual detail, motion, and responsive design Nice to have: - Experience managing freelance developers, agencies, or external vendors - a significant advantage - Experience migrating or rebuilding sites at scale - Animation libraries (GSAP, Lottie) - A/B testing tools (VWO, Optimizely, Convert) - Technical SEO and structured data - WordPress/PHP experience The role reports to the Head of Marketing Operations Manager, within the Growth Marketing team.