Web Development Manager

Hunter Industries is seeking a Web Development Manager to lead the strategy and development of the Landscape Division's global websites. This role develops and maintains the technical vision and standards for the company’s web ecosystem, primarily built on Drupal and integrated with marketing automation, analytics, and backend business systems. They ensure high performance, security, and accessibility while driving modern web practices and digital innovation in collaboration with marketing, product, and IT stakeholders.

Demonstrates behavior that is consistent with the company’s values of Customer Satisfaction, Innovation, Family, and Social Responsibility.

• Oversees the web development and design team and provides leadership and project management of all web related projects; is responsible for hiring, training, performance management, and other people leadership activities.
• Leads development, maintenance, and optimization of global marketing websites using Drupal (7/10) and related frameworks.
• Establishes and enforces coding standards, deployment pipelines, and governance for multi-site Drupal environments.
• Manages all web-related projects including new site builds, migrations to new technology (e.g., Drupal 7 to Drupal 10), and ongoing proactive maintenance projects.
• Collaborates with international marketing teams to support translation workflows and global content strategy.
• Partners with domestic marketing teams to support product launch campaigns, national campaigns, regional campaigns, promotions, and lead-generation initiatives.
• Works with other divisions and business units to align and support corporate web content strategies.
• Collaborates with IT stakeholders to ensure proper global domain configurations, SSL certificates, and security standards are implemented and maintained.
• Ensures websites meet defined uptime, performance, and reliability targets through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and vendor collaboration.
• Guides implementation of component-based front-end development using modern frameworks (e.g., Twig templates within Drupal, Bootstrap, Vue).
• Develops web solutions by formulating objectives; planning project life-cycle deliverables and resource availability and application; preparing installation and modification specifications; leading the exploration, evaluation, and design of technical solutions.
• Oversees technical integrations between Drupal, CRM, analytics, DAM, and marketing automation platforms.
• Mentors developers’ technical and non-technical skills as well as on best practices for PHP, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, front-end frameworks, and security.
• Accomplishes work requirements by orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching employees; following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying work process improvements.
• Maintains and enhances web applications including Single Sign-On, Content Management Systems, Learning Management System, and in-house developed applications.
• Utilizes web analytics to prioritize improvements to the Hunter and FXL websites.
• Collects internal and external customer feedback to drive continuous improvement of all digital applications.
• Research emerging technologies in web design and technologies, providing recommendations applicable to existing products and to the initiation of new programs.
• Protects the Hunter brand image, integrity and consistency wherever it appears internally, publicly and electronically, maintaining a defined set of graphic standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Web Development, Information Technology, a related field, or a combination of education and relevant work experience.

• Minimum 8 years of experience in website development and design.
• Minimum 3 years of supervisory experience.

• Expert knowledge of Drupal (7–10) architecture, site building, theming, and module development.
• Strong proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap, Vue).
• Familiarity with Twig templating, Composer, and Drush for modern Drupal workflows.
• Knowledge…