H&FJ is always looking for great people.
You can learn a little of our story online. Poke around and you’ll find that H&FJ is a well-respected industry leader, with twenty years’ work that includes some of the world’s most famous fonts — the ones that are part of the world’s most recognizable brands, its favorite things to read, and its most beloved institutions. Dig deeper and you’ll discover some remarkable things that you never knew about fonts or the people who make them: that the Museum of Modern Art has four H&FJ typefaces in its permanent collection, that our Gotham typeface was credited with helping put Barack Obama in the White House, and that Fast Company listed H&FJ third among the fifty most innovative design companies in America.
What you won’t discover is what it’s like to work at H&FJ. What it’s like to be in the company of detail-oriented fanatics, who are passionate about every part of the customer experience, from the way a typeface is designed to the ways in which it’s licensed. To be part of a close-knit family of problem solvers who bring extraordinary heart to everything they do, and share in the delights of a clever piece of code, a smart turn of phrase, or a well-designed product. To work at a small company that has a global reach, but is refreshingly free of startup jitters and management fire drills. To work together to create the things that people truly love. (Here’s what they’re saying on Twitter right now.)
We’re always on the lookout for the right people to join us on the journey forward. (And not just typeface designers: two thirds of us are programmers, web developers, marketers, managers, and salespeople.) Whatever our specialties, what unites us is an obsession to bring fine design everywhere, from websites to mobile apps to eBooks and beyond. If these are your goals too, we’d like to hear from you.
Senior Software Product Manager
As our first ever Software Product Manager, you’ll work closely with our senior management and engineering teams to develop product strategy and lead its execution. You’ll report directly to the CEO, making this a leadership role with significant visibility, accountability, and career growth potential. You’ll lead the enhancement of existing products, and help to develop new products and services. You must possess both business- and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality via superior execution. We’re looking for an individual who is passionate, hands-on, and willing to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to launch successful and profitable products for the company. As a small company (a team of 17) with an international reach, you’ll have a real opportunity to make a significant impact.
This is a full-time salaried position at our New York office, open to US citizens or those with authorization to work in the US.
While these responsibilities are what will keep you busy, H&FJ is a place for people ready to roll up their sleeves and do whatever it takes to make our products successful.
- Manage the full product life cycle for our web product offerings ranging from strategic planning to tactical execution
- Define product strategy and product roadmap for existing and new product offerings, working very closely with the senior management team
- Define product requirement documents for current and future products based on market research and competitive analysis
- Drive the execution of the defined solutions by working with senior management, engineering and marketing teams
- Develop and implement a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all internal stakeholders to ensure successful execution and product launch
- Help create marketing materials such as datasheets and whitepapers that communicate the customer benefits of our product offerings, and reflect our position as an established industry leader
- A BS/BA degree, preferably in a technology field
- A minimum of 5 years of software product management experience, with at least 2 years of experience managing SaaS, or software products sold online
- A successful track record of achieving results with minimal direction and oversight in a very fast paced environment
- The demonstrated ability to deal with both big-picture strategic activities and detail-oriented tactical activities
- Superior communication skills: written, verbal, and presentational
- Ability to articulate and present problems and possible solutions to internal stakeholders
Since you’re good at articulating and advocating your position, please write directly to Jonathan Hoefler, Founder and CEO, at hr-spm@typography.com, to explain why you’re right for H&FJ. Please include a copy of your résumé, as well as any other material that you feel is relevant.
Technology Counselor
H&FJ has an opportunity for a clear-thinking technophile who’s interested in fonts, loves design generally, and derives real satisfaction from helping people solve problems. As our Technology Counselor, you’ll be instrumental in helping a wide range of people work with our fonts, from graphic designers, to web developers, to people designing mobile apps.
This position is perfect for someone who loves technology but isn’t an engineer, or loves design but isn’t a designer. Candidates should have hands-on experience developing web content, or professional experience working within a design or production environment. A knowledge of font technologies is a plus, but not required, but be a fast learner. In any case, you must be someone who’s conversant with how technology works: come in knowing what HTML and CSS are, know your way around a stylesheet, and understand how a web page makes its way from server to browser.
This is a full-time salaried position at our New York office, open to US citizens or those with authorization to work in the US.
- Work with clients to find the solutions that best fit their needs, considering the visual, technical, and licensing options available
- Guide clients with respect to “best practices,” and help them with installation or implementation issues
- Work with the rest of the team to develop online resources, such as documentation, white papers, and answers to FAQs
- Make recommendations to senior management regarding policy changes that can improve customer experience
- Great communication skills: be someone who can write and speak both clearly and persuasively, and can handily explain technical concepts in non-technical language
- Great people skills: be someone who’s comfortable working with others, and can treat client issues with both urgency and care
- Great technical skills: be someone who’s genuinely into technology, quick to learn what makes things tick, and insatiably curious about what’s on the horizon
- The demonstrated ability to deal with both big-picture strategic activities and detail-oriented tactical activities.
Please send a letter and résumé to Carleen Borsella at hr-ts@typography.com. You’re welcome to include any other material that you feel distinguishes you as a candidate.
Front-End Web Developer
We’re looking for smart and ambitious front-end developers who are ready to flex their muscles.
H&FJ’s site and web apps serve a rare and refreshing audience of tech-savvy designers, the ones who run the latest nightly builds of browsers, and experience everything on 23” monitors and Retina Display iPads. We’re looking for developers who are up to the challenge of delivering thoughtful, intuitive, and delightful experiences to readers who appreciate the difference, and have come to expect the best. If you’re looking for an opportunity to do all the things you wish you could at your current job, to join a team of people who share your enthusiasm for what’s possible, and to work for a company that values invention, care, and getting it right, read on.
It goes without saying that we’re looking for candidates with impeccable chops: strong UX instincts, a sharp eye for detail, a mastery of current web technologies and practices, and an unshakable understanding of how the servers come together to deliver the site. You must be fluent in JavaScript, AJAX, and CSS3/HTML5, be familiar with a stylesheet language such as LESS, and live and breathe web standards and optimization. Come in with a list of technologies you’re excited to explore.
This is a full-time salaried position at our New York office, open to US citizens or those with authorization to work in the US.
- Contribute to the design, development, and evolution of H&FJ’s web properties and applications
- Make recommendations for refining existing services and creating new ones, in order to address changes in standards, customer expectations, behavior patterns, and best practices
- Identify and evaluate appropriate front-end frameworks and templates suitable for the delivery of new products and services
- Follow processes and standards for project development and quality assurance, to ensure that projects are completed in a timely and acceptable manner
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of standards, emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices
- 4+ years of industry experience developing with current versions of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX
- Strong command of web standards, responsive and adaptive design, progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, optimization techniques, dynamic content retrieval, state management, and techniques for accessibility and device-portability
- Experience writing maintainable code with thorough test coverage, using source control, and dev/stage/prod release workflow
- Previous work experience with Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP development
- Experience with multiple frameworks and databases
- Previous work experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Please send a letter and résumé to Greg Tyree at hr-webdev@typography.com. You’re welcome to include any other material that you feel distinguishes you as a candidate.
Software Engineer
H&FJ is looking for talented and clear-thinking programmers to help us develop our next generation of web applications.
As a company that develops font software, H&FJ serves two constituencies: the niche market of graphic designers who buy our fonts, and the boundless audience of people who experience our fonts on screen. Working with us will give you a chance to design tight, scalable, reliable, and secure solutions, to deploy them to one of the world’s largest distributed computing platforms, and to see them experienced billions of times a day. If you’re someone who’s both self-motivated and collaborative, eager to work with a small and passionate team (at a company that both understands and values solid engineering), and is ready to build public-facing tools that have a genuine impact on how the world communicates, read on.
We’re looking for someone with significant experience in a LAMP environment, who’s fluent in PHP and MySQL. You should have a solid understanding of front-end conditions, too: know HTML and CSS, best practices for JavaScript and AJAX, and coding across browsers. You should understand web optimization, have work experience with multiple web frameworks, and have developed for Amazon Web Services. Python is a plus, but not a requirement.
This is a full-time salaried position at our New York office, open to US citizens or those with authorization to work in the US.
- Contribute to the design, development, and evolution of H&FJ’s web properties and application
- Work collaboratively with developers and UX designers to help shape solutions that integrate new capabilities and technologies that support the company’s goals
- Make recommendations directly to the CTO for refining existing services and creating new ones, in order to address changes in standards, customer expectations, behavior patterns, and best practices
- Identify and evaluate appropriate front-end frameworks and back end technologies suitable for the delivery of new products and services
- Follow processes and standards for project development and quality assurance, to ensure that projects are completed in a timely and acceptable manner
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of standards, emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 4+ years of industry experience developing with current versions of PHP and MySQL (in a LAMP environment), JavaScript and AJAX, to build web applications that support relational databases
- Experience authoring fast-rendering reusable components using PHP, Python, jQuery, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS
- Experience with processing distributable problems, using paradigms such as MapReduce and frameworks such as Hadoop
- Experience developing secure web applications, integrating third-party services, and CDN deployment
- Experience writing maintainable code with thorough test coverage, using source control, and dev/stage/prod release workflow
- Previous work experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Please send a letter and résumé to Greg Tyree at hr-programmer@typography.com. You’re welcome to include any other material that you feel distinguishes you as a candidate.
Hoefler & Frere-Jones is located in New York’s historic NoHo neighborhood, in The Cable Building at the corner of Broadway and Houston.
We’re near twelve subway lines: the B, D, F and M at Broadway-Lafayette, the 6 at Bleecker Street, the N and R at Prince Street, the C and E at Spring Street, and the J, Q, and Z at Canal Street.
NoHo and its surrounding neighborhoods — SoHo, Nolita, the Lower East Side, the East Village, Chinatown, and Greenwich Village — are home to some of the city’s finest architecture, its best coffeeshops, and its most sought-after food trucks.
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
611 Broadway, Room 725
New York, NY 10012-2608
