We’re looking for some killer new talent to join our krew! Check out the job descriptions below!
Director of Account Management
Candidate:
We are seeking an outgoing, entrepreneurial and experienced sales-oriented account manager to acquire and retain customers for our new business-to-business service. This will involve a dogged pursuit of starting & maintaining relationships with local restaurants, bars, retail, gyms and other places of business. The candidates we select will need to demonstrate the ability to push this process along to completion and have a keen knowledge of the social media and SMB’s.
We will rely on this role to scale our customer base across thousands of merchants. We have created a highly differentiated, powerful tool but we will need to rely on partnerships created and managed by this position to distribute our product and win new customers.
Essential skills/qualities:
Strong understanding of each of the location-based services like the ones we aggregate on our website (www.buzzd.com).
Experience engaging, selling, and working with clients and partners
Experience in local advertising
Experience selling a Software As A Service (SAAS)
Organizational skills (you will also be managing up to 10 interns at one time)
Tenacity and initiative
Other key attributes:
Account management strategies
Project management
Client retention practices
Start-up friendly
To apply:
Send a resume to jobs@buzzd.com
UI and Backend Engineers
Buzzd is hiring a skilled web designer / developer. The primary focus will be front-end development using standards compliant, high end CSS, XHTML, JS, jQuery & PHP. You are also able to look at PHP code do small changes if necessary.
Personality Traits
- Skilled at translating complex business goals into working websites, with an impressive portfolio to prove it.
- Strong communication skills, specifically the ability to translate complex ideas into “don’t make me think” terminology.
- A high attention to design detail, with a general interest in usability and user experience. A general interest in design, with a respect for design and it’s importance in driving a user experience online.
- The ability to produce and test a website that functions or degrades gracefully in all major web browsers (IE6-8, Safari 2.0+, Firefox 2-3.5 & Google Chrome).
- Enjoys a challenge, and brings new ideas to the table
- A self-starter, with an interest in learning new technologies and keeping up to date with the latest in web design and web standards.
- You’ve worked with and even written your own jQuery plugins and methods
- Skilled working with a graphics editor like Photoshop or Fireworks
- Experience communicating directly to your non-tech colleagues during the process of a web project.
- A strong desire to constantly improve your process and workflow.
Technical Knowledge
Most Important:
- CSS/XHTML
- JavaScript and jQuery
Secondary:
- PHP Programming
- Fireworks CS3+ & Photoshop CS3+
- Knowledge of Twitter/Facebook APIs - FBML
Bonuses:
- Mobile web design & coding experience (we love cocoa)
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Experience in a project based environment, working with multiple projects at a given time and meeting strict milestones and deadlines
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Experience working with an agile approach to web design and development
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Experience recording screencast videos for training
Notes for freelancers
- We want you to be on skype on set times of the day.
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We won’t give projects unless we worked 6 months together.
Benefits:
How to apply:
Please send an email with two attachments of the websites you have built (not the websites that were built while you were working at that agency). You must have a personal website, or a blog or a website that is built ONLY by you. If you don’t have a website, or if you don’t have a trace of yourself on the net, please don’t apply. Don’t worry about your CV or your age, we don’t care. So, ready? let’s go - shoot an email to jobs@buzzd.com
Interns!
Want to intern where there’s good times and good people? Come work at buzzd, the award-winning city guide and social network for the mobile phone. buzzd delivers real-time info on bars, clubs, restaurants and events straight to your phone.
We’re seeking bright, entrepreneurial college students to help us grow into the “next big thing”.
We are a small group of creative individuals building a product in the growing mobile industry from the ground up. There is an ample amount to learn working at buzzd, plus we know how to have a good time. You’ll be hooked up with so much free stuff you won’t know what to do with it.
Available Internships:
Community Manager Intern:
We are looking for someone to manage the buzzd community!
Duties include:
- Managing the marketing aspect of our social media
- Maintaining our online community database
- Fielding customer service questions about our products
To apply, please send your resume to jobs@buzzd.com with “Community Management Intern” as the subject.
Operations and Strategy Intern:
We have a lot going on!
Duties include:
- Managing company logistics along side our Chief of Staff
- Planning parties and events on a monthly basis
- Coordinating and fostering brand partnerships
- Helping to manage CEO’s schedule and operations.
To apply, please send your resume to jobs@buzzd.com. Please include “Operations Intern” as the subject!