Mariah Szarek

Director, Digital Marketing - (Head of Digital Experience / Websites)

For our direct client, a highly successful and well-established company at a pivotal moment in its digital evolution—including the launch of major new eCommerce initiatives—we are seeking an experienced digital marketing leader to join their team. This newly created Director role will play a critical role in modernizing the customer journey and driving measurable business impact.

At its core, this role is about end-to-end ownership of the company’s digital experience, with a primary focus on website strategy, performance, and conversion. The ideal candidate will combine strategic vision with hands-on execution to transform the website into a best-in-class, revenue-driving platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the company’s website as a core digital asset, with full accountability for performance, user experience, conversion rates, and ongoing optimization.
• Define and lead the website roadmap, including UX enhancements, content strategy, personalization, and feature development in support of business and eCommerce goals.
• Drive digital conversion and optimization strategy, improving lead quality, funnel performance, and revenue generation.
• Design and execute A/B and multivariate testing across the website and digital funnels to continuously improve performance.
• Partner closely with IT and development teams to ensure seamless execution of site enhancements, functionality, and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with paid media teams to ensure SEM, SEO, display, and social efforts effectively drive high-quality traffic and align with on-site conversion strategies.
• Translate web analytics and customer behavior data into clear insights, KPIs, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
• Play a central leadership role in the company’s upcoming eCommerce launch, ensuring the website is optimized as a primary sales and engagement channel.
• Manage and hold accountable external partners, including web development vendors, UX consultants, and media agencies.
• Lead and develop a small team while remaining deeply hands-on in execution.

Experience and Skills Desired:

• 7–10+ years of progressive experience in digital marketing within a consumer-facing environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of website strategy and performance, with strong expertise in CRO, UX optimization, and digital analytics.
• Proven track record of driving measurable improvements in website conversion and customer journey performance.
• Experience influencing or partnering on paid media strategy; strong understanding of how acquisition channels integrate with on-site experience.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar CRM platforms; GA4 required, Tableau a plus.
• Proven ability to lead complex digital initiatives end-to-end, including direct collaboration with technical teams.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in luxury goods, hospitality, travel, or premium consumer brands strongly preferred.

Why This Role:

• Newly created position with true ownership of the company’s digital and customer experience
• High-impact, highly visible role shaping the future of digital and eCommerce for a respected luxury brand
• Opportunity to build and optimize a modern, high-performing website that directly drives revenue and customer engagement
• Hybrid work model (3 days onsite) and strong benefits; collaborative culture with long-term employee tenure and loyalty

Company HQ is in the Norwalk, CT area, and in-person collaboration (3 days/week) is essential for success in this role. Relocation support will be considered.

If you’re a digitally fluent leader who thrives on owning and optimizing the full website experience—and wants to make a tangible impact—this is an exceptional opportunity.

Send your resume today for immediate consideration.

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IT Director Our direct client, A growing investment firm seeks an experienced IT Director to assess, refine, and elevate their entire technology function. This is a newly created leadership role for a firm that is scaling rapidly, preparing for increased operational and regulatory demands, and viewing technology as a key lever for growth across the business. The successful candidate will be hands-on, highly articulate, and comfortable advising senior leadership. This individual will be both a builder and a doer—while also operating as a technical expert. The IT Director will own the IT function, develop a forward-looking technology “playbook,” and work cross-functionally to drive measurable outcomes across finance, compliance, investment, and operational teams. Responsibilities • Lead key technology initiatives, including onboarding and integration of new platforms and optimization of existing systems, with particular focus on implementation of a firm-wide data warehouse, enabling front-office investment processes, portfolio monitoring, and investor data management. • Ensure technology, processes, and controls align with SEC requirements, investor expectations, and industry best practices; play a key role during fund raising in supporting LP diligence, including drafting and responding to DDQs and participating directly in investor conversations. • Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the current IT environment, including MSP performance, cloud infrastructure, information security programs, data architecture, and application ecosystem; deliver a prioritized roadmap for improvement and remediation. • Lead vendor and product (e.g., CRM, investment management systems, compliance platforms, security tools) evaluations and due diligence, with a focus on scalability, integration, and long-term value. • Review and strengthen cybersecurity programs (MFA, data-loss protection, email security, backup policies, endpoint protection, identity/access management), elevating the firm toward a best-in-class security posture. • Partner closely with firm leadership (including Finance, Portfolio Operations, Legal/Compliance, and Investment teams) to assess needs, prioritize initiatives, and execute solutions across areas such as investor relations, fund accounting, legal entity management, and reporting. Required Experience & Skills • Experience working within a private equity firm is strongly preferred • 10–20+ years of experience in IT, including demonstrated success owning or leading the technology function in a growing organization (80+ users). • Proven experience operating in a build-and-scale environment, assess and create clarity, define a roadmap, align stakeholders, and execute. • Familiarity with RIA/SEC regulatory requirements, investor due diligence processes, and hands-on experience responding to DDQs and supporting fundraising activities. • Experience contributing to or leading data architecture and integration initiatives, including data warehouse design and establishing a “single source of truth.” • Understanding of AI-related workflows and emerging use cases within financial services. • Strong background managing and evaluating MSP providers, including holding vendors accountable and driving improvements beyond standard SOW constraints. • Experience administering and enhancing a cybersecurity program, including Incident response planning, vendor risk management, SOC2 and related control frameworks, pen testing processes, remediation planning, and implementing security controls in regulated environments.

• Hands-on knowledge of common financial-services technologies, such as:

  • Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Office 365)

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Financial platforms i.e. Netsuite

  • CRM and Deal Pipeline Platforms

  • Data/analytics and investment platforms

  • Compliance platforms

  • Email security tools, Identity /Access Management

• Strong verbal communication skills.  Capable of clearly explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and influencing senior leadership and investors. • Self-starter with a low-ego, high-impact mindset; able to “figure it out,” bring people along, and operate effectively in a highly collaborative environment.

This role is hybrid on-site, 3-4 days per week, in the Midtown Manhattan office.  

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Lead Software Engineer - Java (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship. About the Role

Our client, a large enterprise organization undergoing continued digital transformation, is seeking a Technical Lead – Application Development to help design and deliver modern, scalable applications that support core business operations and customer-facing platforms.

This role will lead technical design, development quality, and engineering best practices across multiple initiatives. The ideal candidate is both a strong hands-on engineer and a technical leader who can guide teams, influence architecture, and collaborate across business and IT stakeholders.

You’ll work closely with architecture, delivery, QA, and product teams to deliver highly available applications built in cloud-native environments and integrated with enterprise systems.

This role will be on site 4 days per week in White Plains and will require an on site interview. Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Design

• Lead technical design, architecture, and code quality across one or more development initiatives.
• Produce scalable, highly available solution designs for mission-critical applications.
• Partner with architecture and engineering leadership to align technology strategy with business priorities.
• Establish development standards, best practices, and reusable technical patterns.

Application Development

• Design, develop, and support modern applications using Java, microservices, and API-driven architectures.
• Build and integrate RESTful web services and enterprise applications.
• Support applications running in cloud environments, including AWS-based architectures.
• Work across both modern cloud platforms and existing enterprise systems/databases.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with project managers on estimates, planning, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate with QA teams to support functional, integration, and performance testing.
• Coordinate with operations teams to ensure successful application deployment and production support.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for stakeholders across IT and business teams.

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor software engineers while supporting delivery execution.
• Help staff projects and coordinate work across internal teams, contractors, and third-party resources.
• Promote strong engineering practices, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of software development experience with Java, including increasing technical responsibility.
• Experience leading development teams of 3+ engineers.
• Strong experience designing scalable, highly available enterprise systems.
• Expertise building REST APIs, microservices, and multi-tier applications.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and data modeling.
• Experience designing and integrating enterprise applications.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid development environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building applications in AWS or cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise customer-facing or transactional platforms.
• Experience in industries such as retail, ecommerce, financial services, automotive, or similar high-volume environments.

Apply today for immediate consideration! This is immediate, interview and hire.This role will be on site 4 days per week in White Plains and will require an on site interview.

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Our direct client, based in White Plains, NY, is seeking a Senior Java Developer who embraces AI-augmented development practices. You will be a part of the transformational journey to deliver best in class systems to support company's business lines, across all channels. The Senior Developer is to collaboratively drive the development and support of client's critical business systems for internal and external systems, while leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and code quality. This role requires deep technical knowledge of high volume and highly transactional systems. Hybrid working model, 4 days per week on site is expected. Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners, QA, PMO, DevOps and other developers to define requirements, design, and develop mission critical applications
• Utilize AI development tools to enhance coding efficiency, code review, testing, and documentation processes
• Analyze, design and develop application solutions and enhancements that meet requirements
• Ensure adherence to programming and enterprise architectural standards
• Complete work assignments and perform appropriate follow up to ensure that tasks are completed on time
• Collaborate with product owners, application users, creative team and other developers to define requirements, design, and develop the web application
• Assist in the rollout of new applications, problem fixes, and enhancements of software
• Work alongside AI-enthusiastic technical leads to continuously improve development workflows

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, engineering or similar field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years programming with Java (backend development focus), JEE, Web Services
• Experience with webservice/API development using Java-based enterprise technologies and tools using Java 8 and above, Microservices architecture, Spring and REST
• Must be able to code in prevailing technologies including Java, Spring, SQL including conceptual knowledge with cloud native solutions from AWS
• Proven abilities delivering code with CI/CD development methodologies
• Experience with modern development tools (ideally Eclipse/Intellij, Git, Maven, CI servers, Azure DevOps (or other tools), code review tools)
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design concepts and designing and developing Microservices using the Spring ecosystem
• Knowledge of developing Spring Data access application with AWS RDS or NoSQL data stores
• Conceptual Experience with API design and implementation
• Conceptual Knowledge with container orchestrators and container engines (Docker, AWS ECS)
• Analytical, problem-solving mindset
• Self-driven with minimal supervision
• Experience working on a production-critical system
• Openness to learning and integrating AI tools into development workflow

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience augmenting development with AI tools (e.g., Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms) for code generation, review, and optimization
• Experience with developing within a Cloud environment with good knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS is a plus
• Python scripting experience
• Angular experience strongly preferred for any frontend development needs
• Experience with ecommerce, retail, and financing is a plus

Apply today for immediate consideration! This is an immediate interview and hire opportunity, and an on-site interview at the White Plains, NY office will be required.

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Our direct client, based in White Plains, NY, is seeking an AI-forward Technical Lead who leverages cutting-edge AI tools to transform software development processes. This is a long-term contract position (12-36+ months) with likely extension beyond. This role is a hybrid on-site position and you will be required to work on-site 4 days per week in White Plains, NY.

In this role, the Java Tech Lead will champion the integration of AI into every aspect of the development lifecycle while maintaining responsibility for the overall design, implementation and quality of the code the team produces across one or more projects. You will be expected to proactively identify opportunities to enhance development efficiency, code quality, and team productivity through AI tools and processes. You will partner with IT leadership, architecture, and development staff to establish AI-enhanced vision, strategy and road maps that align with business strategies and organizational priorities. You must collaborate with peers and leadership to leverage AI-driven knowledge and solutions across the organization.

This position is within a development group focused on leading the delivery of best-in-class systems to support client's business lines, across all channels. These include customer and internal applications built on AWS using Microservices Architecture and other AWS components that integrate with existing on-prem systems and databases.

Organizational Relationships:

The Technical Lead reports to the Director of Development and is accountable for daily status on tech design, development, and resource management. The Lead will collaborate with team members to define requirements, design, and develop mission critical applications while continuously exploring and implementing AI-enhanced workflows.

The Technical Lead works with:

• Delivery leads to staff projects with associates, contractors, and/or third party teams
• Project managers on a plan and estimates
• Architecture and delivery leads on solution blueprints
• QA and delivery leads on functional testing, integration testing, performance testing and to triage defects
• Service introduction on hand-off to application operations team

Qualifications:

• Proven experience utilizing AI tools for Java software development including code generation, review, documentation, testing, and debugging (e.g., Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms)
• Proactive, self-directed mindset for identifying and implementing AI-driven process improvements without waiting for top-down directives
• Strong prompt engineering skills and commitment to continuous exploration of emerging AI tools to enhance development workflows
• 8+ years experience in Java backend development demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility
• Experience leading a team of 3 or more software developers and mentoring them in AI-enhanced development practices
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Experience producing solution designs for large-scale, highly available, mission-critical systems
• Proficient in designing, creating and consuming Web Services (REST, JSON, OAuth), multi-tier or microservice applications in Java and large scale database applications
• Strong experience in SQL and data modeling
• Demonstrate sound architecture skills and broad experience designing applications
• Ability to communicate complex technical design concepts and translate into non-technical business solutions
• Able to communicate well with all levels in the organization, and must be comfortable as a primary contact to internal and external customers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall and other software development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with developing within a Cloud environment with good knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS is a plus
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Q and Hero (current company AI tools)
• Python scripting experience
• Angular experience strongly preferred for any frontend development needs
• Experience with ecommerce, retail, and financing is a plus

To ensure a fair and secure hiring process, candidates must complete live video interviews with cameras on and present valid government-issued identification during the process. All interviews are conducted directly with our internal team - proxy interviewing is not permitted.

Apply today for immediate consideration! This is immediate, interview and hire.

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Program Manager — Digital Products - Full-time, Remote About the Role Our client, a global leader in their field,  is seeking a Technical Program Manager to help drive the successful delivery of complex digital, web, ecommerce, self-service portal, and mobile application initiatives. This is a newly created and highly visible role designed to bring greater structure, process discipline, transparency, and delivery focus across multiple digital product workstreams. The Program Manager will partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, and business stakeholders to ensure projects are well-planned, clearly communicated, properly prioritized, and delivered on time. This role is ideal for a proactive, assertive, detail-oriented program manager who knows how to break large digital initiatives into manageable workstreams, identify and remove blockers, improve team handoffs, and keep cross-functional teams moving forward. Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple digital product workstreams across ecommerce, websites, internal self-service portals, and mobile application initiatives.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, including scope, requirements, timelines, dependencies, resources, risks, and key milestones.
• Break large initiatives into discrete, manageable phases with clear owners, timelines, and deliverables.
• Serve as Scrum Master, leading daily or bi-daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies as needed.
• Use Jira to manage project execution, track progress, identify blockers, and provide visibility into delivery status.
• Coordinate smooth handoffs between Product, Design, Engineering, QA, and business teams.
• Proactively identify risks, roadblocks, resource constraints, and timeline issues; escalate and resolve issues before they impact delivery.
• Support stakeholder reviews, sprint demos, release reviews, and regular project status communications.
• Manage and communicate progress on prioritized backlogs, including break-fix work, enhancements, and new feature delivery.
• Help improve continuous improvement processes across digital product teams.
• Act as a neutral, delivery-focused facilitator who keeps teams aligned, accountable, and moving toward shared business goals.
• Partner with internal teams and external vendors as needed to support delivery of digital platforms and related initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or digital product delivery.
• Proven experience managing complex web, digital, ecommerce, mobile app, or customer-facing technology projects.
• Strong Jira experience, including backlog management, sprint tracking, reporting, and delivery visibility.
• Hands-on experience leading Agile ceremonies, including standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
• Strong understanding of cross-functional digital delivery involving Product, Design, Engineering, QA, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to break complex initiatives into clear project plans, workstreams, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions and drive accountability across teams.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to provide clear project status updates and communicate risks, progress, and accomplishments to business stakeholders.
• Highly proactive, assertive, organized, and detail-oriented.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and changing business needs.
• Experience managing resources, timelines, budgets, vendors, and delivery risks in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in a consumer-facing, sales-driven, marketing-driven, ecommerce, travel, hospitality, retail, or digital commerce environment.
• Experience with Content Management Systems such as Sitecore, Optimizely, Sanity, WordPress, Drupal, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Notion or similar collaboration/documentation tools.
• Experience supporting mobile app launches, relaunches, or major digital platform modernization initiatives.
• Experience managing continuous improvement, break-fix, enhancement, and feature delivery backlogs.
• Experience working with remote or distributed teams.
• Work hours aligned with East Coast time zone (EST).  

Ideal Candidate Profile The ideal candidate is not simply a project tracker. This person is a driver — someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, push teams toward deadlines, surface blockers early, and keep complex digital initiatives moving. They should be assertive but collaborative, detail-oriented but practical, and comfortable working across both technical and business teams. The right candidate will know how to create clarity, improve process, communicate transparently, and help teams deliver high-quality digital experiences across web, ecommerce, portal, and mobile platforms. Why This Role Is Interesting This is a high-impact opportunity to step into a newly created role and help shape how digital product work gets planned, managed, and delivered. The person in this role will support multiple important customer-facing and internal digital platforms, including ecommerce, websites, self-service portals, and a mobile app relaunch. For a program manager who enjoys building structure, improving delivery processes, and working on visible digital initiatives, this is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Additional Details:

• This role is primarily remote; however, candidates should be local to the Norwalk, CT area or comfortable traveling for occasional onsite meetings as needed.

Apply today for immediate interview and consideration, the client is looking to make this hire ASAP!   By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Benchmark IT, LLC and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here:https://bmarkits.com/privacy-policy/