Do you have experience publishing content online, updating and maintaining websites or managing ecommerce systems?

Do you wish you could use your tech skills and make an important contribution helping art teachers thrive in the art room?

If this sparkly combination sounds like you, I invite you to consider joining our growing team at Deep Space Sparkle.

We’re an online art education company that provides art lessons, curriculums and support to busy K-7 art teachers through our website, memberships and courses.

Founded in 2009 by Patty Palmer, a former K-6 art teacher in Santa Barbara, CA, Deep Space Sparkle serves thousands of teachers in our art teacher membership, The Sparklers’ Club, plus provides free weekly content through our blog.

We’re looking for a Web & Tech Assistant to work in-house in our web publishing team, to help run our websites and ecommerce systems and be our web and computer tech helper.

Deep Space Sparkle provides art teachers with lesson plans, curriculums and a supportive community so they can help children thrive through creating meaningful art. We help over 8K teachers a month deliver a quality art experience to their students while understanding their value and achieving work-life balance.

We are a dynamic and creative digital education company that lives and breathes our values internally as well as in our products and engagement with customers. If you have a passion for web technology and a desire to help children learn through art, if you value integrity and excellence and are looking for an opportunity to shine… you’ve found your Sparkly home!

As the Website & Technology Assistant, you will help set up and maintain a suite of websites and web services. You will be responsible for uploading content, testing, generating reports, sorting out website issues, and much more.

The person will work in our downtown Santa Barbara office and will work in our content and operations team.

You are….

• Looking for a career in Santa Barbara and love the idea of joining a small business making a big impact in the world of art education.
• Extremely organized, a problem solver and loves creating efficient processes.
• Someone who thrives in a team setting even though you love putting in your earbuds to work through complex tasks.
• Someone who contributes ideas and never hesitates to roll up their sleeves to get the job done.

The Website & Technology Assistant will beresponsible for setting up and ongoing administration, maintenance and support of several company websites and related web systems. The specialist will also provide support for internal software and computer or high tech projects.

What you’ll do:

• Be the Web Admin for our company websites and several Saas systems. Wordpress experience preferred.
• Media Publishing (for example AWS and video platforms)
• Managing Email lists and campaigns (for example Mail Chimp, ConvertKit or Klaviyo)
• Integrating & managing data between websites & generating reports (for example, Zapier, Google Sheets, Google Analytics)
• Technical support for staff desktops & web services (MacOS and G-suite)

Qualification and Requirements:

• Community College 2 year Computer Tech Program or equivalent
• 1 to 3 years of professional experience in related areas (preferred)
• Fluent in English with excellent communication skill in both written and spoken language

Why is this a fantastic job?

We offer competitive compensation, paid-time off and benefits, including a 401K plan, vision, and dental after an initial 3 month trial period.

You’ll work in our downtown Santa Barbara office with our marketing, publishing and operations team.

We are not accepting remote candidates for this position.

Hours for this position are 8-4pm Monday-Friday.

Compensation $25+/hr more depending on experience.

About our team…

Our team operates by three primary values:

Creative: We operate under our code of The Sparkly Standards of Excellence. We use this framework to ensure that our lesson plans, teaching resources, videos and curriculums are original, inspiring plus informative. If it doesn’t pass our Sparkly Standards of Excellence, it doesn’t get published.

Customer Focused: We strive to illuminate an art teacher’s life by creating original content that inspires, delights, encourages, educates and respects the important role of our teachers. We always look for creative ways to uplift and empower those who choose to teach art to children and help make their career as simple as possible.

Curious: We check ourselves by making sure we are asking the “right” questions, learning as much as we can in order to do our job beyond what we thought possible and feeding our creative brains by fueling curiosity.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY + INCLUSION

At Deep Space Sparkle, diversity and inclusion are foundational components to our DNA as an organization. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members and community. Diversity fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our members and the community we are creating. If this core value is not part of who you are and what you stand for, please do not apply.

This is full-time in-house position

Our Sparkly Perks:

> Health Insurance

> Vacation Pay

> Sick Leave

> Paid Holidays

> Team Vacation - The team that plays together, wins together! Patty takes her team on an inspiring trip each year to drink wine, make art and brainstorm our sparkly future.

> Retirement Savings Plan - We offer a 401K plan after 6 months employment

> Learning Opportunities - We believe in the power of education and offer learning experiences that expand your knowledge

> Bonus Potential - Achieving goals are what we’re all about and offer bonuses when the team wins together.

> Team Charitable Donation - Supporting Art Programs for children is our focus and every quarter we make a donation in the name of an employee to an art charity that gives back in a special way.

> Santa Barbara Headquarters - It’s hard not to love living in perpetual sunshine with vineyards, ocean and taco’s outside our door. Would you like to join us?

Application instructions:

• You must apply on our website www.deepspacesparkle.com/careers
• Submit your resume and complete the application form.
• Explain in a paragraph or two why you think you would be a great fit for Deep Space Sparkle.
• We’re interested in your portfolio. Please provide 3-5 links to websites you have worked on, with a brief explanation of your involvement in each project.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

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