Web Development Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Description

Alta Planning Design is seeking a Web Development Lead to join our dynamic team in Portland . This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong web development expertise and leadership experience who is passionate about creating innovative digital solutions. As a key member of our Creative Services team, you will lead the development of responsive, accessible, and optimized websites, as well as support our mission to create sustainable, multimodal transportation systems. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and work on projects that have a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you!

About Alta

Alta Planning Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education / encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation with over 200 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

Role Overview

The Web Development Lead will lead our web design and development team, overseeing the creation and maintenance of high-quality, responsive websites and digital tools. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Marketing, GIS, and Civic Analytics teams, to develop digital platforms that advance Alta’s projects and client work. This role also involves strategic leadership, team management, and contributing to the advancement of Alta’s market position through innovative digital solutions.

Day to Day

As the Website and Digital Services Lead, your day-to-day responsibilities can expect to include :

• Client-Facing Work (65%) : Lead web development projects for internal and external clients, ensuring alignment with project goals, budgets, timelines, and technical requirements.
• Strategic Leadership & Team Management (15%) : Manage the web development team, balancing workloads, conducting QA / QC, and fostering skill development.
• Corporate Marketing & Research (15%) : Support Alta’s marketing initiatives by creating digital tools and web-based platforms that enhance our internal and external marketing efforts.
• Workload Balancing (5%) : Oversee the distribution and coordination of resources across multiple digital projects, ensuring timely and secure deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

Qualifications

Required

This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to

Technical Expertise :

Leadership Skills : Ability to mentor and manage a team, overseeing workload distribution, project timelines, and deliverables.

There are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to :

What We Offer

Flexible Schedule

Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

Compensation

The pay range for this job in Portland is $90,000-$110,000 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Benefits

Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees :

Salary : $90,000 - $110,000