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A Drupal development agency based in Kelowna, BC, Acro Media, is recruiting and will be hiring based on culture fit.
Students rejoice! Young professionals and savvy veterans unite! Gone are the days of the mandatory and arguably arbitrary years of experience in job applications.
Acro Media’s refreshing take on recruitment remains professional by valuing experience, prioritizing culture and creating a tantalizing opportunity that has modernized how employers evaluate their candidates in a way that infuses symbiosis with the existing team of people that, although this sounds cliche, are all unique in their own way.
This company has earned its high reputation over a span of 22 years by working incredibly hard to adapt to markets and persevere through recessions. Now, in the midst of a pandemic, Acro Media accelerates because they continue to focus on their clients and trust the team they’ve recruited and trained to help keep major brands on target by sharing their INSIGHTS. For a free trial of Acro Media's INSIGHTS, click here.
Everyone at this company unites over a common goal, which is the desire to take pride in their work, get the job done well and have a good time while doing it.
Does that sound like a culture fit for you? Keep reading to learn more about Acro Media and see some of the current job openings below.
Consider this: after you’ve found a job opportunity that interests and excites you, what’s the first thing you look at? It would likely be how much experience the employer wants.
For some, this becomes a skyscraping wall that halts your aspirations.
What Acro Media has done is chip away at this wall by defining their culture and creating a hiring process that breaks that barrier into nothing more than a minor speed bump.
In this regard, Shae Inglis, Acro Media’s CEO and co-founder said, “skills are important and can be picked up by the right person, but one thing you can’t train is the right attitude.”
Now that’s the type of statement any job-seeker would like to hear a leader profess of their profession.
This style of recruitment took root in 1998 when Shae and four others pooled together their savings and renovated a local skate and board shop, creating a full-service agency where they could provide everything from branding and marketing materials to custom software.
Bringing talent on board that fits their culture throughout these 22 years has allowed them to grow exponentially in becoming a Drupal development agency in Kelowna, BC with clients beyond the beautiful Okanagan Valley.
Aside from their team strengths, their excellence in enterprise e-commerce solutions and custom web development using the Drupal platform has helped Shae and the team create an encouraging creative space, build a positive work environment and become an employer of choice.
“We put a great deal of emphasis on culture in our hiring process and finding the right people that will be a positive member of a team,” said team member and Acro Media’s head of marketing, Stephanie Stefansson.
Another team member, Taylon Culling, Acro Media's Director of Project Management added, "To me, it's equally important to ensure that a potential hire has the right attitude and is a good cultural fit, as it is to make sure they have the right skill set for the position."
The hiring process at Acro Media is quite unique.
It’s more than just submitting a resume, having an interview and getting the job. They worry less about experience and skills and more about how you are going to fit with the team. The way they determine your fit in the culture is by taking their time to get to know you throughout multiple interviews and full-day job shadows.
And what’s great about this approach is that it gives you, the candidate, a chance to get to know and interview Acro Media yourself.
It’s rare that a company shows interest and invests their time so both you and the company can agree upon a mutual decision that’s going to be beneficial to both parties.
When you apply to Acro Media’s positions below, if you’re a good fit, they’ll start this hiring process by reaching out and potentially, you’ll be invited to see the inner-workings of Acro Media before you commit to spending the majority of your time there.
For a company, it’s commendable, admirable and falls in line with Acro Media’s success, which can be attributed to three key factors:
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Everyone understands the reason this business exists and not just what we do, but why we do it
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Every staff member understands how they impact and contribute to our company objectives
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We made a culture whereby everyone looks forward to coming to work every day
“I believe our continued success can be attributed to our drive to maintain that culture and passion we had back in those early days of 1998,” said Shae.
If you want to work with this exceptional group of people, in beautiful Kelowna, BC, be rewarded with numerous benefits and a terrific corporate culture, it's time to see where you fit in.
Acro Media is looking for the right people to fill the following positions:
Senior Drupal Software Developer
The role of Drupal Software Developer is to develop Drupal 8 and Commerce builds. Acro Media is looking for someone who can code like it’s their native tongue but still talk to our crew comfortably and sometimes even the odd client.
You can be young or raw, but you must have Drupal experience and be able to provide example work.
In the role of Acro Media's Senior Software Developer, you will be responsible for:
- Producing high-quality work adhering to Acro Media standards and following the Acro Media production process
- Implementing updates and revisions to web sites
- Contributing code back to the Drupal community, testing and responding to issues, maintaining modules
- Working independently on multiple smaller tasks or larger builds with shifting priorities and tight deadlines
- Adhering to and providing accurate estimates for the amount of time required to repair a defect, a build, or to add additional functionality to an existing application
- Providing efficient solutions in a timely manner for work requests, issues and defects
- Communicating well with Account Managers, Supervisors and Clients in regards to work requests, problems and defects
- Acting as both a peer/mentor to other Developers as well as be comfortable asking for help from team members
To learn more about this role and apply for the position of Senior Software Developer, click here.
Junior Software Developer
In the role of Acro Media's Junior Software Developer, you will be given many of the same responsibilities as your Senior compatriot.
Unlike the Senior Software Developer, the Junior Software Developer is not required to have prior Drupal experience to be considered for this position.
You will be successful if you have the ability to find and fix problems in code. Now this might not be your code and your only hint might be a cryptic complaint from a client, but you won't mind, you're happy to solve their problem.
Formal education or prior experience is NOT required, Acro Media just wants to know that you can code, so you’ll have to have some work you can show us (PHP, SQL, CSS3/HTML5, Javascript/jQuery, XML, with bonus points for C++/Objective C/C#/C)
To learn more about this role and apply for the position of Junior Software Developer, click here.
Project Manager
Acro Media is looking for a confident and organized Project Manager with experience in directly managing people and about 8 to 12 projects of various sizes and nature at any given time.
If you dig the culture and consider yourself some cool individual who loves organization, wrapping the process around the client, has great listening and creative problem-solving skills, loves fast-paced work environments and can think on their feet. Apply!
Also, this would help too:
- You can meet deadlines under budget and want the company to meet its goals
- Have education in creative, business or marketing – Acro Media has had great Project Managers come to them with Psychology degrees, so if you’re the next Freud, submit your details —particular degree/certificate not necessarily important, depending on your experience, your motivation and your attitude
- Minimum 2 years experience in project management, OR
- 2 years of team leadership experience with people answering to you is a must. It’s up to the Project Manager to give feedback on the internal team and deliver tough messages at times.
- Ability to have difficult conversations with your team and your clients.
To learn more about this role and apply for the position of Project Manager, click here.
Content Marketer
Got ideas? Know how to drive traffic, create engagement and support in lead conversion?
Acro Media wants to meet you.
For the role of Content Marketer, they're looking for a mixture of technical and non-technical skills that include:
- An ability to create content to drive leads, feature adoption, awareness, and/or other important metrics, while creating additional types of content using SEO best practices (examples include case studies, ebooks, blogs, whitepapers, case studies, infographics, guides, newsletters, webinars, etc.)
- Lead the development of a content strategy that supports and extends all marketing initiatives
- Maintain content calendar, including generating ideas, regular social posting and blog distribution
- Perform website reviews and audits that benchmark content breadth, organization and presentation
- Develop and execute an SEO strategy
- Support event planning and execution by developing content
- Provide marketing support for our business development team, as well as industry events, hosted events and webinars
- Attention to detail, team-player, positive outlook and good attitude
As Acro Media's Content Marketer, you'll join an inviting culture, lead and get to flex your creative muscles.
To learn more about this role and apply for the position of Content Marketer, click here.
Acro Media is persistently pushing forward and if you want to participate in their professional quest to provide the INSIGHTS and development online to retailers who need to optimize their technology for scalable growth and continuous innovation, KelownaNow encourages you to apply for these Acro Media job openings. To see the full list, click here.
Just let 'em know who sent you.
Good luck.
Acro Media offers consultation and development services that empower clients with the freedom to control their development roadmap and develop solutions tailored to their business needs. To learn more about the Acro Purpose Driven Development Method, click here.
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