Position Description

Artifex is seeking a part-time marketing team member to assist our growing department and company. The ideal candidate will bring a mix of marketing experience to this new role, including business analysis, product management, marketing communication and digital (web, social, other) marketing skills. Working closely with the Vice President of Marketing, this person will contribute to shaping and enhancing our company’s product marketing capabilities.  This role is currently scoped as a 20-25 hours/week position. Location: Novato, CA.

Role/Responsibilities

The person filling this role will cover a variety of assignments, including the following areas:

Product Marketing – Contribute to product optimization and success via the following efforts

• Monitor industry and key competitors to identify/report trends, activities and developments
• Develop and maintain competitive product analysis
• Assist with product documentation development and maintenance
• Oversee app store product offerings; optimize app store product pages and marketing efforts

Web site – Multiple responsibilities including

• Translate on-going site performance analysis (via Google Analytics, other metrics) into actionable improvements in web site
• Basic site maintenance and updates, including content updates and optimization efforts
• Assist with major site update projects

Marketing activities and programs – Assist with

• Social media monitoring and management
• Program development in variety of channels including PR, E-mail marketing and newsletters, Trade shows
• Development of product videos for deployment on web site and other channels
• Development of monitoring system to evaluate marketing program performance

Other marketing related projects as assigned

Qualifications/Skills

• College degree
• Experience in product management, marketing and/or digital marketing highly desired
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as strong research skills
• Strong organizational and task management skills; an eye for detail and accuracy
• Experience in/familiarity with technology marketing, particularly mobile apps, a major plus
• Experience and working knowledge of web site and digital tools, including social media (e.g., Hootsuite, Twitter, LinkedIn), WordPress, Google Analytics, etc. a major plus
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite a plus
• Ability to work on-site in beautiful Marin County, CA is a must.

Other Qualities We Seek

• Honesty and integrity are paramount – it’s core to who we are as a company
• Resourceful – able and willing to work without significant infrastructure/support
• Team player and collaborator
• Personable, sense of humor, fun

Interested candidates should contact Ted Simon at: ted.simon@artifex.com or call +1 415-492-9861

Qualifications

MSCS or equivalent
8+ years experience in software development
PDF or PostScript interpreter design or implementation helpful
Must be comfortable working independently
Must be competent in English

Responsibilities

This position will require working independently much of the time, while cooperating with, and consulting with others on the technical and marketing staff via phone and e-mail. The primary focus of this position will be development on Artifex®’s PDF interpreter. Since this interpreter is based on the Ghostscript® graphics library, support and development design will require in depth knowledge of many areas of the graphics library, which will be learned by individual study of the source code and documentation as well as by consultation with other developers. It is expected that effort will be approximately 80% development and 20% in sales support. During the initial learning period, there may be more time on support tasks.

Other considerations include:

• Ability to work independently.
• A problem analysis test to be given to all candidates.
• Also, since Artifex is a small, efficient organization, it is expected that this engineer will participate in business development discussions, contributing from his or her experience and perspective to the improvement of our products and the growth of the company.

Interested candidates should contact Miles Jones at: miles.jones@artifex.com or call +1 415 492-9861