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About Palo
Alto Software
Does the idea of working at a thriving company that values your expertise and creativity sound stimulating? Palo Alto Software is a 70-employee strong software-development company now in its 4th decade.
Our products, publications, and customer support are all guided by our mission: to help people succeed in business. We're best known for our world-class business planning software, LivePlan, and our team email product called Outpost. We're proud to have served over 1.5-million paid customers, and that more than 2-million people a month read our free expert articles on entrepreneurship.
We're located in beautiful downtown Eugene, Oregon—a vibrant college town where you can live the Pacific Northwest lifestyle without the expense and traffic of Seattle or Portland. Combine that with easy Pacific Ocean access to the west and the Cascade mountain range to the east, and you have the ultimate place to live and work.
Because we're constantly expanding and innovating, we're eagerly seeking talented and motivated individuals to join our team. We value independent thinking, creative problem-solving, family and work-life balance, and a rewarding work culture. Does this sound like a fit for you? If so, check out the jobs below.
Company Culture
- We rely on data
- We solve for the customer
- We're transparent
- We give you the autonomy to be awesome
- We're picky about our peers
- We value community
Benefits and Perks
Medical, Dental, & Vision
401k
Personal Time Off
Modern Workspace
Family-Friendly
Flexible Work Schedule
Gym Benefit
Free Books
Company Events
Transportation Reimbursement
Living Here
Open Positions
Palo Alto Software is looking for an experienced Marketing Project Manager to join our team.
The Marketing Project Manager is responsible for working with our team of marketers, designers, and engineers to implement new online marketing projects. The Marketing Project Manager shepherds projects from idea and design stages, through to implementation with our engineering team. A strong candidate for this position will have skills in project management, organization, communication, and marketing while also having experience and expertise working with an engineering team.
About our company and Eugene, Oregon
We’re a friendly team of more than 70 diverse, world-class experts. Each team member demonstrates our company values while adding positive contributions to our culture. Please review all the information on our culture at this link before applying to find out if it's a place where you can thrive.
Please visit liveplan.com to learn how our products help achieve our mission to help people succeed in business. We believe that when we help one small business owner grow their business, we’re helping an entire community.
Our employees are independent thinkers and creative problem-solvers who enjoy work-life integration and full, interesting lives. We believe in candor with kindness and work that matters.
Our location in Eugene supports access to interesting and challenging work in a growing tech scene in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Eugene’s commute times and our drinking water from the McKenzie River Watershed are some of the best in the nation, and homes are more affordable than you’d find in Portland, Seattle, or the Bay Area.
Benefits we provide
- Competitive salary
- Health / vision / dental / ortho
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Generous paid vacation and holidays
- Paid community volunteer time
- 401(k) with a match
- Relocation reimbursement
- Flexible work schedule
- Discounted gym membership
- Fun company events
- A diverse and inclusive environment
- Values-based company culture
- Hybrid remote/in-office work
- And much more
About our Marketing team
We are a data- and performance-driven digital marketing team of specialists focused on growing top-of-funnel exposure, leads, conversions, and lifetime value to our SaaS (software-as-a-service) product and content properties. To that aim, we leverage a number of best-in-breed inbound marketing, A/B testing, paid advertising, data analysis, and project-management platforms. We develop and iterate our marketing initiatives using an agile process and a rolling planning cycle
The Marketing Team values
- Collaboration – Working together as a united team brings the best results and makes individuals feel included, involved, and proud to be on a team with such a great amount of knowledge and expertise.
- Communication and clear expectations – When we are transparent and trust each other, it empowers us to feel confident that we know exactly what everyone’s thinking and feeling and what our objectives are and what they are not.
- Character and camaraderie – Working with people we respect, admire, and enjoy being with makes our time together worthwhile.
- Creativity and innovation – Our autonomy to be awesome gives us freedom to explore and create new and better ways of doing things.
- Coordination and well-managed process – Our carefully designed processes for proposing, planning and implementing new projects protects the sense of order and organization we’ve developed over time.
- Customer-focus – What matters to our customers will be central to everything we do. By gaining in-depth understanding of the people we aim to reach with our messages, products, and services, we can better serve their needs and ultimately, better help them succeed in business.
About this role
This is a full-time, permanent, exempt position reporting to the Director of Marketing
What success looks like
Process:
- A successful Marketing Project Manager brings forth and manages an efficient process for tracking and managing web development
- The role works actively to increase development efficiency through Marketing and Web Development, starting with project planning and measurable by production throughput, story/specification quality, and bug volume
- The role is responsible for capacity tracking during the project selection process, and working with the Web Development Manager to report on development production
- The role is able to adapt processes, tools, production, and reporting related to Marketing development and design needs
Planning:
- Building and managing an active plan of development work for the current period and a backlog of future work
- Working with key stakeholders to define project scope, and continuously manage against it to prevent creep and ensure appropriate development ROI
- Managing the pipeline of work, estimating capacity, and facilitating project selection
Production:
- Work is clearly identifiable in our development work management platform (currently JIRA)
- Production by prioritized work can be seen, along with other metrics including velocity and forecasting capacity
- The Project Manager involves the right resources so each project gets the full support needed
- The role leads with story development
- Completed stories are cooperatively managed through the development queue with the Web Development Manager and QA
Visibility:
- The role communicates actively with Marketing stakeholders, working with them through the project lifecycle to adjust work and schedules as needed.
- The Director of Marketing and Leadership team gain a clear view into the department’s production and roadmap, determine if the department is meeting the planned objectives, and understand trade-offs if a course change is needed.
Essential functions
- Understand and help manage the business objectives set forth by Marketing leadership
- Understand current and upcoming priorities and schedules across teams
- Collaborate with the Director of Marketing to define and manage the Marketing operating plan based on business objectives, priorities, development capacity, and consensus agreement by key stakeholders
- Help Marketing team members bring their expertise to projects
- Working with the Web Development Manager, manage an efficient and predictable development and QA work pipeline
- Manage an agreed-on capacity for unplanned work
- Maintain a wide view on Marketing activity; connect related efforts; clearly communicate roadmaps and progress to the company
- Working with Marketing stakeholders and developers, identify and solve problem areas in the design/development process
- Improve and build processes/documentation/tools/training as needed to support the above responsibilities
- Stay connected with app team product managers to share knowledge and learnings
What you bring to the job
- Objective and measurement-based approach to production
- Strong project management skills and a delivery mindset
- Experience owning high-level objectives
- Able to evaluate work in terms of the best use of available resources
- Able to operate as an influencer across teams without direct supervisory relationships
- Thirst for continuous learning
- Strong communication and time-management skills.
Required education and experience
- 3+ years experience in a project or operations management role
- Familiarity with software development and/or web design
- Experience with project and development management tools e.g. JIRA, Monday, Asana, Basecamp
Apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Palo Alto Software is looking for a Front-End Web Developer to join our team. We are accepting applications from candidates with a wide range of experience from junior to senior level.
About our company and Eugene, Oregon
We’re a friendly team of 70 diverse, world-class experts. Each team member demonstrates our company values while adding positive contributions to our culture. Please review all the information on our culture at this link before applying to find out if it's a place where you can thrive.
Please visit liveplan.com to learn how our products help achieve our mission to help people succeed in business. We believe that when we help one small business owner grow their business, we’re helping an entire community.
Our employees are independent thinkers and creative problem-solvers who enjoy work-life integration and full, interesting lives. We believe in candor with kindness and work that matters.
Our location in Eugene supports access to interesting and challenging work in a growing tech scene in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Eugene’s commute times and our drinking water from the McKenzie River Watershed are some of the best in the nation, and homes are more affordable than you’d find in Portland, Seattle, or the Bay Area.
Benefits we provide:
- Competitive salary
- Health / vision / dental / ortho
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Generous paid vacation and holidays
- Paid community volunteer time
- 401(k) with a match
- Professional development support
- Relocation reimbursement
- Flexible schedule and hybrid remote/in-office workplace
- Discounted gym membership
- Free books
- Fun company events
- Family-friendly office
- A diverse and inclusive environment
- Values-based company culture
- Well-stocked break rooms
- And much more
About our Web Development team
We are an agile WebDev team that uses PHP, JavaScript, Sass, MySQL, Redis and Apache for our marketing sites for our LivePlan business planning software and Outpost email collaboration tool. We hold weekly work estimation meetings, and use the kanban method to prioritize and streamline. Our workflow process is constantly evolving as we identify pain points and efficiencies, and we hold monthly team retrospectives to identify successes and areas for improvement. To encourage personal and professional growth, team members have weekly one on one meetings with the lead developer. Each member of our team makes valuable contributions to figuring out how to do things in the best possible way.
Core values of the Web Team:
- Accomplishment - Getting the job done well requires step-by-step planning, execution (including good communication), a clear conclusion, and personal recognition
- Good Communication - Active listening, candor, and empathy with context and sometimes compromise, centered around a clear goal leads to understanding
- Healthy Relationships - Working with people who make us feel good makes work meaningful and positive
About this role:
This is a full-time, permanent, exempt position reporting to the Web Development Manager.
The Front-End Web Developer works in close collaboration with their team to consistently deliver value to our customers. They are engaged in the big picture, constantly growing in their understanding of our customers’ needs, growing in their relationships with others on the team, taking ownership of problems they see, and challenging their team and themselves to refine our abilities to deliver websites and services that delight our visitors and meet marketing objectives. The Front-End Web Developer contributes to the implementation and maintenance of our designs, frameworks, tests, components, databases, and content in our systems. They have an understanding of our codebase, frameworks, build pipeline and deployment infrastructure. They strive to create the best user experience and stay current with the industry.
What success as a Front-End Web Developer at PAS looks like:
- Page designs are high-quality, accessible, fast and bug-free
- Users of our websites are delighted and the objectives of our marketing strategies are achieved
- Knowledge is shared across the team through pairing, collaborating, documenting, and demonstrating in the interest of continuous improvement
- As a team, we're discovering, validating, and relentlessly executing good solutions to hard problems to create world-class products and be a world-class team
- Potential problems are prevented by proactive attention to warning signs
- Each individual is contributing to a safe team environment: bringing their whole self to work, showing up with kindness, sharing thoughts, opinions, and needs candidly, and nurturing relationships with teammates so that you can all do your best work and take risks
Essential duties include but are not limited to:
- Collaborating daily and communicating proactively with your fellow developers, manager, product manager, QA, and stakeholders to ensure that the work you’re doing creates value
- Maintaining a holistic view of our sites, with priorities on simplicity, quality, and usability
- Writing sound code that runs efficiently and meets all project requirements, and creating websites that are fully responsive, fast, and accessible across devices & browsers
- Squashing bugs!
- Writing up bugs, stories, functional requirements, and documentation on new methods, classes, and procedures
- Participating in team discussions on how we can improve our processes, questioning the status quo
- Engaging in ongoing learning activities to expand knowledge of our products, development languages, tools, current trends, and best practices
- Translating wireframes and mockups from designers into fully realized user experiences
- Promoting mobile-first methodologies
- Utilizing reusable code and libraries
- Creating and implementing A/B tests in custom PHP and WordPress environments
- Implementing solutions that integrate with multiple systems
- Designing new, modifying existing, and retiring obsolete components
- Taking ownership of delivering successful projects
- Self and peer-reviewing code, testing, documenting, and giving and taking constructive critique
Education, experience, & skills desired:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field) is valued, but equivalent experience is just as relevant
- At least one year full-time web development experience
- Passion for Front-End development with an interest and willingness to become an expert in one or more of the following:
- Developing design system components that thrive in the wild (Ex: Pattern Lab, Storybook)
- Theming for a CMS (Ex: WordPress)
- Gutenberg Components
- Having attention to detail, comfort with frequent change, and being solution-oriented
- Knowledge and experience with web development tools and concepts. Some that would be most helpful to be familiar with are HTML5, CSS3, CSS/Sass, JavaScript, ES6, MySQL, and Image optimization.
- Some familiarity with layout technologies and design systems such as Bootstrap, Flexbox, or Atomic Design
- Some familiarity with mark-up language templating like Mustache, Handlebars, or LightnCandy
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions
- Experience using browser inspection tools like Chrome Developer Console for troubleshooting
- Familiarity with code version control, preferably Git
- Ability to write code logically, succinctly, and with high reusability
- Understanding of SEO principles, assessment criteria, and development approaches
- Ability to rapidly build mockups and prototypes to support the design journey
- Excellent communication skills with technical, design, and marketing teammates
- Familiarity with containerization and able to interact with docker containers for local development
- Functional ability to use the command line (for running bash scripts, and interacting with Docker, Git, Dart Sass, AWS, etc.)
- Knowledge of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, GIMP, or similar
- An end-user and quality assurance mindset
- Familiarity with testing frameworks (Cypress, Jest)
- Knowledge of test-driven development (TDD)
- Awareness of the fundamentals of web application security
- Knowledge and understanding of full-stack LAMP development, such as OOP PHP 8, AJAX, REST, or JSON
Apply today! Please explain in your cover letter why you're interested in this position and our company and what makes you a great addition to our team.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.