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WordPress Designer & Developer

🌍 100% RemoteFull-Time

Posted April 21, 2022

Headquarters: New York, NY
URL: https://www.beamjobs.com

Hey there! Thanks for stopping by.

Can you design a killer blog post? Make an article look as stunning, stellar, and super as a landing page? Know how to implement and develop those designs in WordPress?

Cool. Keep reading cuz we d like to talk with you.

Who the Heck Are We?

We re BeamJobs helping job seekers navigate the often frustrating, ambiguous process of finding and landing a new job throughout each step of the search.

Here s where we re at:

We launched our resume builder in June 2020
Since then, we ve helped over 500,000 job seekers across the globe improve their resumes
We get over 450,000 visitors to our blog content each month
We re a bootstrapped team of 3 full-time employees (including the 2 co-founders) and 7 contractors
We work 100% remotely
We re just getting started

We have a stellar content team who writes gripping, expert content on topics related to job seeking and resume improvement (we rank #1 in Google for search terms like software engineer resume, teacher resume, accountant resume, etc.). The design of our blog posts, however, has been a team effort (this is a nice way of saying we have a lot of room for improvement).

That s where you come in.

WHY WE'RE EXCITED TO WORK WITH YOU

We re migrating our blog over to WordPress from our current CMS, and we need someone who can own that migration. From the visual design of the blog posts (this is of highest importance) to implementing interactive features to ensuring pages load quickly to anything else you think would be valuable as long as it s consistent with our brand you ll be in charge of your domain.

Here s What You Bring to the Table

THE SKILLS WE CARE ABOUT MOST

That you can design attractive blog posts with high attention to detail, responsive design, and quick page loads.

WHAT ELSE?

As we said earlier, our content has lots of room for visual improvement. You ll take our existing posts (like our How to Write a Resume guide) and make them more visually appealing in WordPress.
A lot of our content follows a similar template. For example, here s our software engineer resume guide and our attorney resume guide. We ll need you to design new templates (I think they call them themes in WordPress?) and improve existing ones.
Ensure lightning-fast page load speeds. Most of our traffic comes from SEO and Google cares about Core web vitals (our hope is you have experience with these metrics, though it s not a strict requirement).
Own your domain: Think proactively about both short- and long-term projects, and be excited to contribute, make recommendations, and collaborate with us.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS

Experience designing blog posts in WordPress
- If you can link us to at least 1 blog post (preferably a portfolio of blog posts) that looks good that you ve worked on, you check this box.
Experience building and implementing custom themes and plugins in WordPress (using PHP, CSS, and HTML)
Experience with a design tool like Figma
Meticulous attention to detail
Written and verbal communication in English

The Perks

$60 70K USD salary upon hiring
100% remote & flexible schedule
Awesome work-life balance
3 weeks of vacation a year (plus US federal holidays and a 2-week winter break)
Equity in the company (.1-.3%)

Wanna Join Us?

We think you shouldn t be asked to work for free. Ironically, we also don t think your resume tells your whole story.

As such you re invited to participate in a paid short trial to design a short section of our content that you deliver via Figma, and if that works out, you ll move to a more complex final trial (also paid) where you ll design a page and implement your design in WordPress.

INTERESTED IN JOINING US AND GETTING STARTED?

Email lisa@beamjobs.com (Lisa is our content manager) with the following:

Link us to at least 1 blog post (preferably a portfolio of blog posts) that looks good that you ve worked on in WordPress.
Please send us your portfolio or some samples of your web design work.
Take a look at our brand guidelines and let us know in a couple of sentences why you d be a good fit for this role as it relates to our brand.

Look, we know cover letters are nonsense. All we re looking for here is that you clicked the link, read some part of it (or this job description), and can incorporate why you re a good fit in 1 to 2 coherent sentences.

P.S. If you take the time to respond to this request, we guarantee a response to your email. Ghosting is for dating apps, not job applications.

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