Senior Web Development Manager

Location:

Remote within 3 hours of Kansas City, MO or Pittsburg, KS (required monthly in-office presence in Pittsburg)

Eligible metro areas include:
Kansas City, Overland Park, Wichita, Joplin, Springfield MO, Tulsa, and Northwest Arkansas (Bentonville/Rogers/Springdale)

Employment Type:

Full-time (no freelancers or agencies)

Lime Light Marketing is seeking a Senior Web Development Manager who has actually built and led high-performing development teams—not just supervised them. This role requires someone who has hired developers, established development standards, implemented processes that improved output quality, and coached team members through meaningful growth.

You'll inherit a small team that needs experienced leadership to level up. The right person for this role has been in the trenches, knows what good looks like, and can articulate a clear path to get there. You're still technical enough to architect solutions, review code meaningfully, and step in when complex problems arise—but your primary value is multiplying the effectiveness of others.

Our work spans multiple platforms and technical environments:
Shopify and Big Commerce for ecommerce, Word Press for content-driven sites, .NET for custom applications, and increasingly, data processing and transformation work that supports our marketing intelligence capabilities. You don't need to be an expert in every stack, but you need working fluency across them and genuine depth in at least one.

AI-assisted development is central to how we work and how we expect to grow. You should be actively using AI coding tools in your own workflow and have a clear perspective on how to train and enable a team to maximize their output through these tools. This isn't about replacing developers—it's about multiplying their effectiveness and accelerating the entire team's capabilities.

This is a fast-paced agency environment where communication comes from multiple directions simultaneously—clients, project managers, developers, leadership. The ability to context-switch effectively, prioritize decisively, and maintain clarity amid competing demands is non-negotiable.

This is a hands-on leadership role with significant client interaction. You'll join sales calls as the technical voice, translate business requirements into technical specifications, and own the delivery quality of everything the development team produces.

• Build a development team capable of delivering complex projects on time and within scope across multiple technology platforms
• Establish clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and manage underperformance directly
• Create career development paths and mentorship structures that retain strong talent
• Implement code review processes, QA standards, and documentation practices that elevate output quality
• Lead the team's adoption of AI-assisted development practices—identifying the right tools, establishing effective workflows, and training developers to maximize output quality and velocity

• Architect solutions across diverse platforms: ecommerce (Shopify, Big Commerce), CMS (Word Press), custom applications (.NET), and data transformation projects
• Write technical specifications detailed enough for developers to execute without constant clarification
• Make sound build-vs-buy decisions and evaluate technical tradeoffs across different technology stacks
• Own site performance, security posture, and technical debt management across the client portfolio
• Stay current with platform updates, emerging tools, and development practices—particularly AI-assisted coding tools—and translate that knowledge into team capabilities

• Serve as the technical lead on sales calls and scoping conversations across all service lines
• Translate client business objectives into development requirements regardless of platform
• Manage client expectations around timelines, complexity, and tradeoffs
• Ensure projects deliver on time with minimal scope creep or rework

• Manage your own time effectively in an environment with competing priorities and…