Director e-Commerce

Position Summary:

Thrive in the fast paced start-up environment and make your ideas count. Join one of the fastest growing and exciting on-line job search and career management start-ups while enjoying the benefits and backing of a larger public company as corporate parent. The Director of eCommerce has the mission of growing America’s Job Exchange (AJE) by maximizing on-line self service sales goals and lead design, development and marketing of products and shopping experience targeted at recruiters and hiring managers.  This is a key position responsible for overall product and technology strategy and execution of the employer experience and along with on-line sales goal. This position carries a fixed base salary along with variable pay based on monthly/quarterly and annual goal achievement. Position level and compensation is flexible based on candidate’s background and impact potential.

Who We Are:
About America’s Job Exchange:

America’s Job Exchange (AJE) is where America goes to find a career.  We are one of the fastest growing start-up in the on-line career search space zooming into the top ten in less than 2 years of launch. Our brand and traffic have grown substantially and we are profitable.

AJE is  a pioneer in job search and on-line recruiting, specializing in diversity centric and middle-income jobs and poised for market leadership. Thousands of employers use our portfolio of recruitment and media advertising solutions to reach job seekers at affordable prices while also obtaining OFCCP compliance related services. Millions of job seekers use its fast and easy search capabilities to find jobs from its database of more than half a million jobs, and utilize a broad range of career management content and tools to advance their careers. For more information, please visit: www.americasjobexchange.com.

NaviSite (Nasdaq: NAVI), the parent company of the Americas Job Exchange, is a leading provider of managed cloud, enterprise hosting and application services.

Benefits:  The position offers a compensation package that includes a competitive fixed salary and variable earnings based on achievement of individual and team performance targets goals, and includes full medical/dental/life/disability insurance and 3 week’s vacation.

What You’ll Do:

(A)    Lead design & development of recruiting  products and eCommerce shopping experience

•    Prepare business and technology requirements for recruiting relatedtargeted for use by corporate hiring managers and recruiters
•    Prepare specification and technology roadmap for on-line shopping experience as weel as technologies related for customer engagement and interactionon-line shopping experience to grow on-line transactions, new customer acquisition, site conversion rate, order size and cross-selling of products
•    Guide development team to successful implementation of business requirements. Research and recommend appropriate technology approach and architecture with a goal of maximizing performance on key metrics as described below
•    Be theecommerce expert and contribute in the overall development of technology strategy. Monitor and incorporate industry best practices, emerging technologies and web 2.0 principles  

(B)    Rapidly grow sales and key metrics of the self-service eCommerce channel, as well as employer product portfolio
•    Define and monitor relevant metrics for ecommerce sales and related site performance indicators e.g. conversion rate, traffic etc, and initiate site changes to maximize monetization performance of the employer web site
•    Develop and maintain on-line marketing and price-promotional calendar, and work with marketing team to execute in support of  on-line sales goals

What We’re Looking For:

•    Deep expertise in eCommerce products and technologies with deep understanding of web related  technologies and experience with development architectures and platform
•    Familiarity with on-line marketing and other relevant technologies and platforms including social media, multivariate testing and other methodologies
•    Entrepreneurial drive and desire to build an on-line business and a ‘make it happen’ attitude of accountability
•    7-10  years of internet product development, eCommerce technology and on-line marketing experience with strong understanding of latest technologies and tools.
•    Bachelors degree or higher

Other Skills and Abilities:
•    Strategic thinker with operational skills
•    Superior verbal and written communication skills
•    Aggressive and goal oriented person with high personal drive, integrity and energy
•    Strong time management, organizational and decision-making skills are critical
•    Ability to work with minimal supervision
•    Team player