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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 a Visual Designer to join our marketing team. Your job will be to use design to tell the story of how our products and services can help our customers succeed in business. You’ll effectively communicate interaction and design concepts across all critical customer touchpoints (from mobile to desktop). The Visual Designer understands the goals of the asset –– as well as the user mindset –– and combines those to create stunning, compelling experiences that engage, educate, and enlighten prospects and customers. 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 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
- 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 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.
Core values of the Marketing team:
- 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, exempt position in downtown Eugene, Oregon reporting to the Director of Marketing. The Visual Designer at Palo Alto Software is the designer and steward of all of our visual marketing assets including web pages, design language, iconography, and print work. Spanning our various products, sales channels and services, the Visual Designer establishes the look and feel that defines the user experience and conveys the brand objectives defined by Marketing. They collaborate closely with both Marketing, Product Marketing, Business Development as well as the Development team to create and manage their design frameworks.
What success as the Visual Designer at PAS looks like:
- Strong designs – Design assets such as website designs, landing pages, forms, banners, print media, etc. that are not only are functional and attractive, but critically address users’ questions and move them through the buyer’s journey.
- Work scope – Both able to quickly and successfully complete small urgent tasks; and scope, plan, and deliver large ground-up design projects.
- Communication – To ensure design product reflects stakeholder and development requirements, establish and maintain strong communication with the Marketing, Web Development and Product Design teams. Be a part of daily/weekly stand-ups and present work to peers.
- Tools – Stay current with modern tools, technologies, and design approaches, including how to manage design components.
- App design collaboration – Bridge the design language and experience between the Marketing work the Visual Designer owns, and the product’s design for LivePlan for a unified customer experience.
Essential duties include, but are not limited to:
- Support asset design – Composing banner ads, illustrations, icons, animations, and the like that aim to provide important contextual information for users in their buyer journey.
- Print Marketing materials – Provide clean designs representing our products or other corporate initiatives in a way that’s high-quality, easy to comprehend, and with a design point of view consistent with our overall brand standards. Examples include but are not limited to: print brochures, banner stands, magazine advertisements, and one-sheeters.
- Manage brand visual assets – Creation and unification of all visual elements (logos, color treatments, fonts, etc.) as they relate to content, video, social, email, landing pages, print, focusing on typography, layout, imagery, iconography, and brand consistency. This role is responsible for the housing and dissemination of all created brand units.
- Professional development – Seek out marketing, design trends, and best practices, and leverage educational opportunities to build expertise and leadership skills.
Education, experience, & skills required:
- 3+ years experience in digital design, preferably web-based.
- A solid foundation with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (or similar tools).
- Experience with Figma or other prototyping tools.
- A strong understanding of web design including responsive design and browser usability.
- A strong understanding of usability and interaction design principles.
- Experience working with established brand style guides.
- The ability to create and organize design assets.
- The ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Design creativity.
- Expertise in tools for digital and print media creation.
- A strong understanding of typography, layout, and design.
- The ability to communicate and problem solve with marketing and development.
- Gather the information needed to define a project, and self-manage the steps to delivery.
- Serve as the design expert for Marketing, providing consultation and direction when solving
- Marketing problems.
- REQUIRED: Portfolio featuring examples of visual interaction design work (please link a personal website or portfolio).
Education, experience & skills preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a design-related major.
- Experience with animation tools such as After Effects.
- Basic web coding knowledge preferably: CSS, JavaScript.
- Experience with design component libraries.
- Experience with atomic design principles and tools, like PatternLab.
- SaaS or eCommerce experience.
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.
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 7, 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.