About Us
Backyard Studios is an award-winning digital marketing agency in San Antonio, founded in 2002. We build custom marketing websites for businesses across the country, from local restaurants and nonprofits to multi-location medical groups.
We are a small, senior team of intelligent, hard-working people who like a new challenge. Our principal, creative director, marketing director, designers, and strategists all collaborate on the same accounts.
The Work
Beautiful, fast, mobile-first marketing sites that rank. Half new builds from Figma, half updates and improvements across our client base, all in WordPress and Webflow. Work reaches you through ClickUp, already prioritized, so you know what is in front of you when you sit down.
We build marketing websites. We do not build apps, platforms, or custom software. If your background is software engineering, application development, or IT, this is not the right role for you.
What you'll bring
- Build out Figma design so it matches, on phone and desktop, without making the designer cringe
- Mobile-first by habit, not as a cleanup pass at the end
- Implement on-page SEO you are handed: title tags, metas, headings, alt text, schema
- Make a slow page fast, and know why it was slow
- WordPress custom themes and PHP, plus Webflow (we don't use templates)
- The plumbing: DNS, SFTP, hosting, SSL, migrations, plugin conflicts, launches
- Several websites moving at once without losing track
How you'll work
Ask questions first and communicate with your team. You flag a problem the day you see it, not the day it is due. You work something out before bringing it to someone, and you ask a good question when you are stuck. Clients hear back from you the same day, and so does the team.
On AI
We are ahead of most agencies on AI and intend to stay there. You direct the tool, it does not direct you, and you can explain anything with your name on it.
Requirements
- 3+ years building marketing websites at an agency or on an in-house marketing team. This is what we weigh most heavily.
- Links to business or brochure sites you built. We will look at them on a phone.
- WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, Webflow, and working knowledge of on-page SEO
- On-site in San Antonio, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Not remote, not hybrid, no relocations.
Compensation
$55,000 to $75,000 based on demonstrated skill. 401(k), paid time off, and paid holidays.
Pay: $55,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
Application Question(s):
- A client emails at 9:00 AM saying their website is down. You open it and get a white screen. Walk us through the first four things you check, in order.
- Describe a website problem that took you more than a day to fix. What was broken, what did you try that did not work, and what actually fixed it?
- Send links to three marketing or brochure websites you personally built for a business or nonprofit. For one of them, tell us what you did to make it work efficiently on mobile.
- Do you have experience working with multipleYou estimated a task at 3 hours. You are now 2 hours in and not close. Walk us through exactly what you do, and when. projects at one time?
Work Location: In person
