Marketing Associate
You will assist the Marketing Director in supporting sales, product and corporate initiatives.
This is a hands-on, "can do” job and you will be the go-to person in a fast-paced environment.
You should be able to work independently or as part of a team. This job requires a sound
understanding of communication, marketing, and production practices; comfort level in a
tech culture; facility across diverse media channels; solid people skills; and appreciation
for the publishing industry. Ideal candidate will be a quick study, self-motivated,
even-tempered with a creative mind, business head, and sense of humor.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Help produce ads, content, collateral and presentations by generating materials or serving as
liaison between internal customers and creative providers
- Help prepare elements for trade shows and events; interact with show coordinators and vendors
- Handle aspects of PR outreach and follow-up – with media and potential partners
- Help create processes and infrastructure to promote department efficiencies
- Provide ongoing updates for newsletters, data sheets, web pages, boilerplates
Required Skills:
- Strong writing skills a must – for print and web: sales copy, editorial, pr, ghost writing
- Word, Powerpoint, Excel
- Ability to research information, spot promotional trends and pursue opportunities
- Ability to develop, maintain, and adhere to event and production schedules
- Ability to work across department lines, anticipate needs, deliver on time/on budget
Desired Skills:
- Basic design skills using Quark or In Design, Photoshop helpful
- Familiarity with HTML, AV/e-letter software, direct response, statistical data a plus
- Education/experience in media, marcom, pr, publishing, circulation, advertising preferred
- At home among web resources, social media and blogging networks an advantage
Job Details:
- Full-time, salaried position located on-site in Southborough, MA
- Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, paid vacation, 401(k) plan
- Small department (chance to do and learn a lot); casual environment; free parking
- No agencies, contractors, or consultants please. No relocation compensation.
Candidates responding to this posting must currently possess the eligibility to work
in the United States and must live within driving distance of Southborough, MA.
No relocation is available. Texterity offers competitive benefits, including medical
and dental coverage, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts,
life and disability insurance, and a 401(k) retirement savings plan.
Email is preferred. Send a cover note, resume, and writing/creative sample to
Director of Account Management
As the Director of Account Management, you will manage a team of Account Managers and
provide superior customer service and support to a base of magazine publishing clients
including developing and executing account plans for customers. The job includes managing
service issues, customer relationships, managing revenue and service renewals,
and monitoring the consistency of services and offering solutions that enhance the customer's programs.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Managing a growing account management team on a daily basis to ensure Texterity is providing superior,
and pro-active, customer service to all existing customers
- Act as the key liason between the account management function and operations.
- Pre-Sales Support: Assist sales representatives as subject matter expert by providing knowledge of
services and standards to customers. Ensure contract compliance for prospective customers. Coordinate
and follow up on all pre-sales actions for the team.
- Post-Sales Support: Meet via phone or face-to-face with customers on a scheduled basis, and develop
and manage strong relationships within each customer’s department and with upper management levels.
Coordinate on all issues between the customer and operations team, and provide "end to end”
service to ensure that the client is satisfied.
- Revenue Management and Retention: Proactively manage client renewals and obtain advanced preparedness for renewals. Help evaluate the profitability of customer deals as required, based on revenue opportunity and cost to support.
Qualifications:
- BS / BA or equivalent work experience required
- 3 years + of manager level or higher field sales or account management experience.
- 4 years + experience in a "customer-facing” service-oriented position emphasizing a service or leadership role
- Experience with relationship management, including management-level interactions with customers
Required Skills:
- Strong Microsoft Office (e.g., Word, Excel) skills
- Strong CRM (salesforce.com) data maintenance and reporting skills
- Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken) in a customer-facing role
General Skills:
- An ability to work within a consultative sales process and a team environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Excel and CRM systems such as salesforce.com
- Self sufficient with computers and managing workload as a mobile user
- Knowledge of the magazine publishing industry in a circulation, production, or sales capacity is a plus
Candidates responding to this posting must currently possess the eligibility to work
in the United States and must live within driving distance of Southborough, MA.
No relocation is available. Texterity offers competitive benefits, including medical
and dental coverage, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts,
life and disability insurance, and a 401(k) retirement savings plan.
Email is preferred, no phone calls please. Send resumes to
Project Manager
Texterity is looking for a Project Manager to manage multiple projects.
This role demands a person who is customer service oriented, highly organized,
analytical and committed to delivering quality products on tight schedules.
Primary Responsibilities Include:
- Manage client relationships by serving as customers’ primary contact
to establish schedules, gather feedback, resolve issues, etc.
- Oversee the digital issue creation process, including scheduling, tracking
and delivery of issues to clients and subscribers
- Interact with internal production teams to ensure work is completed on time
- Coordinate the review and incorporation of client feedback of our sites
- Understand and clearly articulate our products capabilities; identify
opportunities for increased use of Texterity products and services [This work
would be done in cooperation with our Best Practices Team.]
- Ensure that project issues and status are communicated with team members
and appropriate levels of management
- Generate invoices and provide revenue forecasting information to the Sales Team
Additional Responsibilities Include:
- Occasional implementation of small customizations of client sites
- Configuring HTML, XML and graphic files for setup of online publications using custom-built technology
- Sporadic print production work, preparing PDF files, QA of magazine websites
Required skills:
- Strong communication, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
- Client management experience
- Demonstrated organizational skills and attention to details
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, adapt to change and juggle numerous projects simultaneously
- Ability to master new concepts quickly
- Ability to work independently
- Hands on troubleshooting experience
- Proven analytical/critical thinking/deductive reasoning abilities
Experience: 2-5 years
To apply for this job, please send a resume to . No phone calls, please.
Senior Software Developer - Java & Web Technologies
Texterity seeks an experienced Java and web developer to build innovative web applications.
The Products Group is responsible for a web reader application, comprised of template-driven
web interfaces and middleware, driven by back-end systems serving the magazine content,
and performing usage tracking and content security. We are looking for individuals who
will contribute to our roadmap by dreaming up new ways of doing things and
driving to make those real.
Minimum requirements:
- 3+ years of Java Web development (Tomcat/Struts/JSP/Tiles are a plus)
- Fundamental knowledge of web application architecture, database design (MySQL), JavaScript, HTML
- Knowledge of Perl or comparable scripting language
- Knowledge of DHTML, XML, CSS, DOMs, Schemas, and parsers
- Strong knowledge of UNIX or Linux
- Ability to work with a team in a collaborative environment
- Good written and verbal communications
- BS and 4+ years of experience in software engineering
Desired skills:
- Experience with high availability server systems using load balancing, caching and optimization techniques in a multi-tiered environment
- Working knowledge of web application authentication and security methods
Other details:
- Experience with Struts 2, Spring, Hibernate or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with Perl or comparable scripting language
- Experience with high availability server systems using load balancing, caching and optimization techniques in a multi-tiered environment
- Experience with Template Toolkit or similar tool
Email is preferred. Send resumes to
Software Developer - Java & Web Technologies
Texterity seeks an experienced Java and web developer to build innovative
internal systems and web applications. The Publishing Technology team is
responsible for the back office server farm and workflow development,
including software written in several languages and running on multiple
architectures. The team also develops tools for our Operations group to
manage the digital publishing process, from receipt of files from publishers
to emailing and tracking subscriptions. We are looking for individuals who
will contribute to our roadmap by dreaming up new ways of doing things and
driving to make those real.
Minimum requirements:
- 2+ years of Java development (JDBC and JAXP are a plus)
- Fundamental knowledge of web application architecture, database design (MySQL), web servers (Apache), JavaScript, HTML
- Knowledge of DHTML, XML, CSS, DOMs, Schemas, and parsers
- Experience building technical tools/workflows with web interfaces
- Strong knowledge of Linux or another Unix-like OS
- Ability to work with a team in a collaborative environment
- Good written and verbal communications
- BS and 2+ years of experience in software engineering
Desired skills:
- Experience with Struts 2, Spring, Hibernate or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with Perl or comparable scripting language
- Experience with high availability server systems using load balancing, caching and optimization techniques in a multi-tiered environment
- Experience with Template Toolkit or similar tool
Other details:
- Experience with Struts 2, Spring, Hibernate or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with Perl or comparable scripting language
- Experience with high availability server systems using load balancing, caching and optimization techniques in a multi-tiered environment
- Experience with Template Toolkit or similar tool
Email is preferred. Send resumes to
Web Design Developer
Texterity seeks an experienced HTML/Javascript designer to create innovative web
applications and extend visual design templates. The Products Group is responsible
for a digital edition web reader, a portal for browsing and searching across many
magazines, and a lead generation product which gives easy and intuitive access
to valued technical content. We need an engineer who can take ownership of the
look, feel, and usability of these applications. A strong candidate will have
great design sensibility, excellent web development skills, and will sweat the
small stuff when it comes to getting a web interface just right. He/she will
drive innovative use of new techniques across our suite of products.
A candidate with experience working on enterprise-level web and e-commerce
applications would be the strongest fit.
Minimum requirements:
- Strong knowledge of HTML/DHTML/Javascript, and CSS.
- Fundamental knowledge of web application architecture,
- Knowledge of JSP, Template Toolkit or other templating tools
- Knowledge of UNIX or Linux
- Ability to work with a team in a collaborative environment
- Excellent written and verbal communications
- Bachelor’s degree
Desired skills:
- Experience with Flash and ActionScript, and other multimedia formats.
- Participation and experience with a Software Engineering Process Methodology (e.g., Agile)
- e-commerce and enterprise-level web application development
- Experience with source code version control tools
Other details:
- Full-time, salaried position located onsite in Southborough, MA
- Flexible hours
- Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, paid vacation, 401(k) plan, and stock options.
- No sponsorship or relocation available
- No agencies, contractors or consultants
Email is preferred. Send resumes to
QA Engineer
Texterity is looking for an enthusiastic Software QA engineer to join our quality team.
With a number of industry-leading applications deployed, our goal is to drive quality
and reliability to a new standard. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and fun
group which cares about doing things right. You will be working on critical, high-visibility
systems and the results of our work is directly felt by our customers. The QA team uses
a variety of systems to get the job done; Wintel, Mac and Linux.
The person we have in mind might match this profile:
- 2-4 years of SQA experience, ideally in a web-centric company
- Fanatical attention to detail (must enjoy finding needles in haystacks)
- Strong SQL/database skills (we use MySQL)
- Familiarity with Linux
- Familiarity with Perl, Javascript, CSS a big plus
- Have a sense of humor and be outspoken
- Always keep the customer's needs in mind
Other details:
- Full-time, salaried position located on-site in Southborough, MA
- Flexible hours
- Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, paid vacation, 401(k) plan, and stock options.
- No sponsorship available
- Only local applicants, please (will not relocate)
- No agencies, contractors or consultants
Email is preferred. Send resumes to
Systems Engineer / Systems Administrator
Texterity is looking for a Systems Engineer / Systems Administrator willing to learn the ropes
of maintaining and deploying our highly available, industry-leading applications. This is
an opportunity to join a successful small company in a rapid growth mode. Primary
responsibilities will be Help Desk for our Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Finance/HR staff.
You will be learning and working on critical, high-visibility systems and the results of your
work are directly felt by our customers. Job duties will also include being a member of a 24
hour on-call rotation to respond to customer needs and inevitable system failures.
The person we have in mind might match this profile:
- 1-3 years of Systems Administration experience (university help desk counts)
- Expertise in Linux, Windows, Mac platforms
- Experience using and configuring Apache, JBOSS, Tomcat or other web/application servers
- Strong SQL/database skills (we use MySQL)
- Familiarity with Perl, Java, shell scripting a plus
- Experience using Open Source Software to solve real world problems
- Recent college grad with a degree in a relevant field (CS, Maths, Engineering, etc)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Have a sense of humor and be outspoken
Other details:
- Full-time, salaried position located on-site in Southborough, MA
- Flexible hours
- Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, paid vacation, 401(k) plan, and stock options.
- No sponsorship available
- Only local applicants, please (will not relocate)
- No agencies, contractors or consultants (we really mean it, don't call or write if you are one of these)
Email is preferred. Send resumes to
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