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The Alliance for Downtown New York is the non-profit organization that manages the Business Improvement District (BID) serving an area roughly from City Hall to the Battery, from the East River to West Street. Its mission is to provide service, advocacy, research and information to advance Lower Manhattan as a global model of a 21st century Central Business District for businesses, residents and visitors.
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Salesforce & Database Manager
Use your skills as a Salesforce maven and database expert to help make New York a more dynamic place
to work, live, and visit. Make valued contributions to an organization dedicated to improving the public
realm by using your knowledge of database systems, project management skills, and your general
technology sophistication to empower colleagues and provide the organization with the right tools to
pursue its mission.
At the Alliance for Downtown New York, you’d be working on projects ranging from helping manage and
troubleshoot its Salesforce database to maintaining and improving our digital asset management system
to integrating emerging AI tools into these databases and helping keep major projects on time and on
budget, and more.
We are looking for a savvy, people person who enjoys making an organization work smarter and gets a
kick out of helping others take full advantage of the digital age. In short, a customer service orientation,
along with a desire to stay on top of emerging technology trends and skills, will serve an applicant well.
The Database Lead will be a part of a small team of employees and consultants who make up our
technology services unit. The position will report directly to a Senior Vice President of the organization.
In this role, you will have access to a long-standing Salesforce consulting partnership.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Salesforce: Maintaining and improving existing workflows in Salesforce in partnership with a consultant. Expand opportunities for the organization to use the platform more fully.
- Managing, in partnership with our content team, the organization’s Digital Asset Management system.
- Lead AI integration with respect to database process and improvements.
- Work with departments across the organization to improve additional tech processes, recommend new tech resources for employees, and assist the Technology Project Coordinator as needed with general hardware and software troubleshooting.
Qualifications:
- Strong familiarity with Salesforce and its capacities for customization
- Experience working with outside consultants
- Experience with Digital Asset Management systems
- Broad-based understanding of essential technology tools in an office environment.
- Hybrid position requiring an on-site minimum of three days per week, including summer months
- Job references are required
Desired Additional Attributes
- Passion for New York City
- Desire to make technology use accessible and easy for end users
Salary for the position will be calculated based on number of hours employee will work per week, with a
pay range from $35/hr to $50/hr.
Flexible Hours and Benefits Eligibility
The hours for this position are flexible, as this could be a part-time or full-time role, ranging from 20-40
hours per week (a set number of weekly hours will be determined during the interview process).
Employees working a minimum of 30 hours per week will be eligible for a benefits package that includes
medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, commuter benefit, Citibike membership, paid leave,
and retirement benefits. Employees working 29 hours or less will not be eligible for our benefits package.
To Apply
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter
and resume to Andrew Breslau via email at [email protected].
The Alliance for Downtown New York is an equal-opportunity employer. For more information about
the scope of our work, please consult www.downtownny.com.