Career Opportunities
Our Culture
Global-Z International is a close-knit team that has worked together for many years from our home base in Southern Vermont. Global-Z possesses a unique environment combining individual empowerment with a strong team culture. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, a physical and geographical environment that emphasizes quality of life, and a dynamic and challenging workplace.
Our Benefits
- Medical insurance subsidized with a Health Reimbursement Account
- 401(k) plan with match
- Generous paid vacation, personal and sick time off
- Flexible spending accounts
- Discounts at local fitness center
- Birthday cake and lots of it!
Global-Z is growing quickly, and we are constantly looking for smart, hard working, self-motivated, ambitious individuals who place strong values on ethics and interpersonal interaction. For more information on any of these job opportunities, or to submit your application, email us at jobs [at] globalz [dot] com.
IT Product Development Manager
Global-Z International, a growing IT service provider in southern Vermont, is a world leader in global marketing data quality services. Over our 30-year history we have cultivated a strong list of dedicated multi-national enterprise clients who rely on our proprietary technology and superior service levels to manage and grow their global marketing efforts, and better understand their customers.
We are seeking a “hands on” IT Product Development Manager to help us at the forefront of creating new solutions to grow the next stage of our evolving business. The position (post Covid-19) will be staffed at our Bennington, Vermont headquarters, and entails the following key responsibilities:
- Technical Product ownership, partnering with our Business Product owners.
- Product development lifecycle management – developing and executing on product roadmaps
- Product specification and engineering – providing technical leadership
- Full-stack development (APIs, backends, frontends)
- Project management – coordinating with both internal and third-party resources
- Support for product integrations with third party solutions (e.g. Salesforce)
- Tier 2/3 Product related operational support
- Helping define and implement our IT dev/ops strategy
- Serving as the interface to technical engineer representatives for client specific needs/customizations
We’re looking for the following qualifications:
- A 4-year degree in IT or a related field
- 3+ years of full-time work experience in IT or a related field preferred
- Demonstrated solutions development experience, with a preference for a background with development using Java, Python
- Database development and management (PostgreSQL experience preferable, including database tuning and query performance optimization)
- Expertise with full text search and indexing (i.e. Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch)
- Expertise with Object Oriented Programming, preferably Java
- Familiarity with Messaging and Queuing solutions, and tuning approaches
- Expertise with application testing methodologies
- Strong project management skills
- Strong understanding of IT and secure coding practices
Interested candidates should submit a resume and detailed cover letter with responses to the following questions to jobs [at] globalz [dot] com:
- In your experience, what has been the most positive aspect of working as part of a team, and what has been the biggest challenge? How did both change the way you approach work?
- What is the hardest adjustment you have made during the Covid-19 period, why?
Global-Z possesses a unique environment combining individual empowerment with a strong team culture, in a physical and geographical environment that emphasizes quality of life, flexibility, and a dynamic and challenging work environment. We take good care of our employees; employees benefit from a comprehensive benefit package that includes health insurance, flexible spending account, paid vacation and holidays, paid personal and sick days, 401K with a company match, and many other excellent benefits.
Thank you for expressing an interest in a career with Global-Z International. We look forward to hearing from you and learning more about you and your career interests.
Global-Z International is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status.
Client Non-Solicitation Policy
Global-Z will not knowingly consider for employment any candidate who is currently employed by a Global-Z client, or who has been employed by a Global-Z client within the past 6 months. An organization is considered to be a client of Global-Z if that organization has done business with Global-Z within the past 12 months.
