Web 2.0 Community Manager

San Mateo, CA

Job Description:
Fast growing, well-funded Web2.0 startup in the social tech space is seeking a passionate and creative Community Manager to drive community interaction, increase loyalty and retention. The qualified candidate must be a customer focused, action-oriented, and flexible team player with strong experience in online communities. Reports to Director of Products.

responsibilities:

• Serve as the single point of contact for our Expert community.
• Conduct market research through on-line chats and focus groups.
• Coordinate Product Marketing Efforts related to Experts.
• Accurately represent FixYa brand and policies to Expert community.
• Make Product and Policy recommendations to improve Expert experience.
• Work with Customer Support to provide prompt resolution to Expert issues.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree.
• Minimum 2 years of working with interactive online communities.
• Passion for interacting with people and understanding of web community dynamics.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage projects concurrently.

Product Manager, Web 2.0 Community

San Mateo, CA

Job Description:
Do you have a passion for and a track record running compelling and popular community oriented sites? If so, we want to talk to you.
FixYa is seeking a talented and creative Product Manager to conceive, launch, and manage compelling consumer community products that are engaging, fun and useful.

Required:

• BA/BS Degree and 4+ years experience conceiving, launching, and/or growing consumer facing sites.
• Experience with social/community sites (a must).
• Excellent written/oral communication skills.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• High-energy, dynamic team player.
• Strong people/customer engagement skills.

Product Line Manager

San Mateo, CA

Job Description:
In this key role, you will own full cycle product management / product marketing starting with initial product concept, development and launch for new consumer products and paid services. In addition, you will be accountable for growing revenue and managing the P&L of your product line to meet or exceed business goals.

responsibilities:

• Identify and analyze next generation product opportunities.
• Perform all due diligence and cost and benefit analysis.
• Work with engineering, UI Design and Product team to design, launch, and manage the product development process.
• Gather intelligence on competitive offerings and new industry trends and synthesize competitive findings.
• Continuously work to improve our overall product quality, performance, user experience and engagement and increase revenue and profitability.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years product management/product line experience with recent in-depth experience bringing new, innovative consumer facing Web2.0 products and services to market.
• Prior track record generating revenue for consumer sites.
• Bachelor's degree required. MBA a plus.
• Proactive, entrepreneurial and strategically oriented with extensive experience in all stages of product management and product marketing from concept to launch and profitability.
• Strong leadership, written/verbal communication skills and customer focus.
• Excellent grasp of the strategic, competitive and economic dimensions of building a new product line and revenue stream from early stages to maturity.
• Strong analytical skills evidenced by a proven ability to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze product concepts, strategic opportunities and competitive analysis.

Evangelist

San Mateo, CA

Job Description:
Fast growing, well-funded startup is looking for a dynamic Evangelist, Power User, Blogger, Guerilla Marketer and PR wizard. We have a fun work environment, great people, and a cool site that actually provides value and solves problems. Come show us how you can spread the word and make sure everybody knows how great our site and community are in solving tech problems!

• Are you super internet savvy?
• Have you successfully promoted crowd-sourced sites before?
• Can you effectively leverage blogs and social news sites?
• Do you have hands-on experience with bottom-up marketing?
• Can you blog daily, writing short and insightful posts?
• Do you know how to effectively employ guerilla marketing tactics?

If you answered a resounding "Yes" to these questions, we want to talk to you.

You will be responsible for cyber PR, applying common sense to getting the most bang for the buck. Your success will be measured by the increase in quality traffic and brand awareness.

Experience:
2 or more years experience in web marketing / PR / evangelism.

Education:
Bachelor's degree (desired), but autodidacts will also be considered.

UI Designer

San Mateo, CA

Job Description:
FixYa is a fast growing, well-funded consumer internet startup. We are looking to hire a UI designer to design pages and UI components, define flows, create functional definitions and help drive the implementation from start to finish. The qualified candidate must be a highly talented in UI and graphic design, detail-oriented, action-oriented, and a team player with strong experience designing consumer-facing sites.

responsibilities:

• Create UI designs to include user task and interaction flows, screen designs, user-interface details, and user experience optimization.
• Identify and justify creative product solutions.
• Identify potential opportunities for product improvements or new product concepts.
• Collaborate with an off-shore development team to ensure product delivery.
• Meticulously think through every aspect of the user experience, putting users' needs and expectations first.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree desirable; Advance degree in HCI or similar field highly desirable.
• Minimum 3 years of UI design experience.
• Experience with consumer internet / web 2.0 sites highly desired.
• Experience in designing online marketing materials like landing pages and call to action pages required.
• Strong knowledge and skills in design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent).
• Excellent understanding of usability, simplicity, and visual design and their importance to the success of consumer web products.
• Experience or desire to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage projects concurrently.
• Understanding of the technical trade-offs of various web production technologies.
• Experience with Internet technologies like HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and XML.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Please have a UI design portfolio available for review, indicating clearly what your contribution to each project was.

Online Consumer Marketing Manager

San Mateo, CA

Very competitive Salary, heavy equity, benefits

Job Description:
Fast growing, well-funded startup is looking for an Online Consumer Marketing Manager to grow revenues and new business lines. The qualified candidate must be a highly intelligent, action-oriented, and flexible team player with strong experience in managing successful consumer-facing marketing Internet initiatives.

This position requires the following responsibilities:

• Online advertising creative development such as landing pages, banners, buttons, display, rich media, and interactive advertising.
• Develop and implement integrated direct marketing campaigns to generate revenue.
• Creation of text links and copy.
• Optimization of monetization flows.
• Collaboration with online media buying, analytics, and product teams.
• Familiarity with and testing latest online advertising technologies.
• Competitive Marketing tracking and reporting on competitive trends and best practices within / outside of the industry.
• Measuring & Reporting, Testing, Researching & Learning, Results Analyses.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree; MBA a strong plus.
• Minimum 3 years of online marketing in the consumer internet space.
• Experience in flow optimization, A/B testing, and media buying.
• Experience with campaign tracking and ROI-driven optimization.
• Passion for analyzing CPC, CPA, customers and market dynamics.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage projects concurrently.
• Experience conducting on and off line market research and turning results into actionable product and policy changes.

Director of Business Development

San Mateo, CA

Very competitive Salary, heavy equity, benefits

Job Description:
Director of Bus Dev to identify and form the company's strategic partnerships and distribution deals. The qualified candidate must be a deal maker, a 'closer', and with solid understanding of various online business models and monetization opportunities. This position reports to the company's CEO.

This position requires the following responsibilities:

• Identify partnership opportunity with internet companies, CE retailers and manufacturers.
• Approach the decision makes within large prospected partners from pitching to closing.
• Execute and manage relationships with partners to yield optimal returns.
• Meet the company's B2B revenue goals set by management.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree; an MBA a strong plus
• Minimum 3 years of playing a similar role, preferably for a start up company
• Candidate should be a deal maker, a 'closer'
• Big Tech/CE brand advertisers rolodex
• Solid understanding of online business models and monetization opportunities
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self started, self motivated, hungry for success
• Creative enough to envision the right solution for each prospected partner

Ad Sales Manager

San Mateo, CA

Very competitive Salary, heavy equity, benefits

Job Description:
FixYa needs a professional Ads Sales Manager to sell its targeted inventory to Consumer Electronics brand advertisers. The qualified candidate must be a deal maker, goal driven, and with strong experience in selling CPM/Sponsorship placements in the tech space. Reports to the company's CEO.

This position requires the following responsibilities:

• Sell the company's entire CPM and Sponsorship inventories.
• Optimize the company's brand advertising revenue potential.
• Meet the company's ad revenue goals set by management.
• Execute and manage online campaigns using serving and statistics resources.
• Manage and enhance the company's relationships with its clients.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree
• Minimum 3 years of ad sales experience, preferably in the CE space
• Ability to meet ad revenue goals and quotas
• Candidate should be a deal maker, a 'closer'
• Big Tech/CE brand advertisers rolodex
• Solid understanding of online ad-driven business models, pricing, and measuring
• Proficiency in ad serving technologies, campaign management tools and techniques, and ROI analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self started, self motivated, hungry for success