Web Architect - Amca

Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.

To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

Overview

[10-week contractor to start, with potential for FT conversion]

Amca’s Web Architect will be responsible for implementing and continuously upgrading our external (i.e., www.amca.com and other bespoke sites) and internal (i.e., internal platforms) front-end web presence. This person will be the front-end steward for all of our sites, ensuring they are fast, pleasant to navigate, and representative of Amca’s ambitions and brand. This person will report to Amca’s Senior Lead of Design, and work with the Senior Manager of Creative and Marketing, and the software engineering team.

This is a unique, hybrid role that blends UI/UX design and web development:

• UI/UX design — How do we implement our brand system into highly creative and easy-to-use web experiences across amca.com (for customers, recruits, and the general public)?
• Web development — Writing clean, fast code, focused on the front-end, in collaboration with Amca’s broader software engineering team. The right candidate is a creative UI/UX designer with the capacity and desire to create unique digital experiences (you probably look at Awwwards’ Sites of the Month; you probably are inspired by MSCHF’s websites), and a skilled web developer who can implement the ideas they design. They probably have a track record of building websites for design-forward brands.

Responsibilities

At Amca, we move fast. This person will have to hit the ground running and execute quickly. Given our pace, there’s a lot of room for growth.

This contractor role is clearly scoped with the potential for full-time conversion after the following things are complete:

• Collaborate closely with the Growth team on current site audit to define a new structure that captures our mission, our value proposition for customers, and our brand system.
• Create mockups alongside the design team for the site rebuild.
• Develop core Amca pages based on the created mock-ups.
• Develop product pages that are dynamic and easy-to-update as our portfolio grows.
• Create partner microsites that effectively integrate with Amca’s site.