Career Opportunities at Experience Project

Quick Position Links: Sales | Engineering | Product | Interns

The premiere online platform for sharing experiences, Experience Project features a passionate and engaged audience of millions of monthly users, and over 5 million real-life experiences shared. We are evolving the social model in a powerful way, and hiring brilliant people who want to help us achieve our mission of improving our user's lives, and building a remarkable, sustainable business.

In short, if you:

  • Want to work on a product that unites people in meaningful ways and improves their lives
  • Enjoy rapid development cycles keyed off user feedback
  • Get excited about the idea of building something today and having millions of people using it tomorrow
  • Like people and thrive on helping make their lives better (really)
  • Want to have your thoughts matter in a dynamic, flat organization

Then we would love to talk to you. You may browse our current openings below, but we are always interested in meeting people who think they'd be a great part of our team, so don't hesitate to get into touch if you don't see an explicit listing for you. All jobs are located in San Francisco, CA.

Please send all job applications to team AT experienceproject.com. Include your resume and a quick cover note to let us know why you're interested in working with us. Thanks!

Sales

Director of Advertising Sales

The ideal candidate for this role will have a passion for social media and the great value that can be created when brands and users engage together in social communities. They'll posses a deep interest and expertise in marketing and have the ability to learn teams of collaborates to success.

Required Experience:

  • 5+ years in media
  • 5+ years in sales
  • 2+ years in online sales

Required Skills:

  • has a 360 degree understanding of media (online and offline) and knows how to create value for marketers.
  • has a proven ability to prospect at the agency and client levels as well as a meaningful list of client and agency relationships.
  • has the ability to define a territory, build client intelligence and create sales targets.
  • is highly organized and has very effective time management skills.
  • has strong negotiating skills and capacity.
  • has strong service skills and knows how to keep clients happy.
  • is well regarded by their peers.
Responsibilities:

Reporting directly to Experience Project's CEO, the Director of Ad Sales will be responsible for building the companies advertising revenue and super-serving clients (Potentially nationally at first and later in the West as the business scales). The Director of Ad Sales will be expected lead in each step of the sales cycle and work with the CEO and VP of Operations to build systems that will help the company scale its advertising sales efforts.

1. Planning:
The Director of Sales is responsible for defining a list of prospects and working with the executive team to arrive at reasonable quarterly and annual revenue targets.

The Director of Sales is expected to help design the advertising products and processes with other departments.

2. Execution

The Director of Ad Sales is responsible for clients and their advertising campaigns at every step of the relationship. While Experience Project will build support teams and have resources available, the Director of Sales will be ultimately responsible for creating customers and ensuring that the company delivers against their needs and maintains excellent relations with them.

It's expected that the Director of Sales will drive the front line efforts spending more than half their time with customers and then using customer input to best sell and scale Experience Project's ad business.

Engineering / Web Development

Developer

We are looking for senior and associate developers with the following skillset:

  • Deeply proficient in the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack (or willing and able to pick up quickly!)
  • Strong (insane, even) commitment to, and knowledge of, security and scalability
  • Attention to detail -- treating each visitor's experience as that of a friend's
  • Empathic, compassionate personality
  • Participation in community websites a plus, particularly health and support

Product Marketing

Director of Growth (Apply Here!)

You will marshal all the necessary skills and toolsets to grow the reach of Experience Project's powerful content-driven community. This includes SEO/SEM/social-media/product growth etc. You will contribute directly, as well as manage the product team to dramatically grow traffic to achieve EP's destiny as a top 100 worldwide internet property.

Responsibilities

  • Set up and champion centralized SEO strategy throughout the entire site including developing a roadmap of best practices
  • Defining common product & technical requirements for all platform-related initiatives
  • Evangelizing SEO with key internal and external stakeholders
  • Drive innovation to keep Experience Project's search program (paid and organic) at the forefront of Search Engine practices, technology and structure
  • Oversee and manage product team, including their development and growth
  • Establish and manage senior relationships with internal, cross functional stakeholders, as well as external stakeholders
  • Establish a vision for web analytics, data sharing, and tools and techniques for driving site performance improvements
  • Manage SEO/SEM activity including site traffic reporting and setting team direction and goals
  • Stay on Top of Current Search Engine Trends and Practices and keep the Team up to date
  • Monitor Competitor sites to Ensure Competitive Advantages in SEO/SEM initiatives

Qualifications

  • A minimum of 2 years of prior experience in SEO/SEM
  • A web marketing background with at least 3 years in a senior role, or with prior experience of managing a team
  • Ability to strategize, implement and execute online marketing plans company wide
  • Solid experience in analyzing and optimizing websites
  • Experience working with online media sites, social networking, social media or community websites with knowledge and understanding of top players
  • Proven ability to optimize websites, Images and Videos for Organic Search
  • Strong Understanding and Ability to Communicate SEO/SEM Standards and Best Practices
  • Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills
  • Strong project and people management skills
  • Proven ability to work across all departments to reach company goals; a real team player
  • Understanding of HTML, JavaScript, and Web Technologies including Online Video, Flash, CSS, RSS

Revenue Product Manager (Apply Here!)

As the product manager focused on product revenue generation, your job will be to lead the definition and execution of the products and features that will both enhance the value we offer to our users, as well as provide monetization opportunities. This position requires a unique commitment to fiercely understand, protect and enhance the user experience, while identifying, testing, and evolving revenue enhancements.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance and expand EP's existing premium subscription program
  • Enhance and expand EP's existing token economy
  • Define products and feature sets
  • Manage the prioritization and development of new products and features alongside EP's product management team
  • Work closely with sales to support direct advertiser relationships
  • Work closely with engineering to develop product functionality
  • Work closely with customer support to solve issues and maximize user satisfaction
  • Do customer research to inform product decisions
  • Create detailed cost and revenue models
  • Define product positioning and marketing plans
  • Analyze and report product success
Qualifications
  • Outstanding data mining skills
  • Experience managing web-based software products
  • Strong familiarity with online advertising and marketing models
  • Strong grasp of user-experience design
  • Enthusiasm for talking to customers
  • Great project-management skills
  • Excellent written communication and presentation skills
  • Active social-media use

Interns

Experience Project is a young, fun company building an incredibly meaningful product with superstar backers. We are looking for multiple collegiate interns that can contribute both in strategy and development. We realize your experience will likely be limited, so we are looking for that unique combination of personality, background, and studies hat will lead to an amazing internship for both you and us. The intention would be for you to join us full time afterwards.

Product Development Intern
Are you an engineering major with a strong desire to get into product management and marketing? For the right student, we have an incredibly unique summer position open that will take you from start to finish on a single project, spanning all aspects of the product development process. True project ownership from start to finish, and the chance to expand your horizons beyond your degree and previous experience are the hallmarks of this opportunity.

  • Take a project from market research, to features planning, to development and marketing -- all in one summer
  • Work with young, fun, and talented entrepreneurs, product managers, and executives that provide guidance when you need it, while giving you space for the creative freedom you desire
  • Have tens of thousands of people benefitting from your work the instant you finish
  • For the engineering aspect of the position, you need to have experience with web development, with strong preference for the LAMP architecture. If you don't yet know PHP, a strong background in C or Java would suffice.
  • For the marketing aspect, we'd like to see experience with the development and marketing of 'products' -- be it on the web, or in the physical world. Something that lets us know your brain can work on both sides of the product equation, and even more critical -- that you enjoy the challenge
  • We'd also like to see strong involvement in online communities -- you need to have a perspective on the market from your own experience
  • Mayfield Fellows and their ilk strongly encouraged to apply

Web Development Intern

You will help build out the feature set, refine existing functionality, and improve usability across the site. You will have creative freedom to suggest what you'd like to work on, and work with product management to select projects that best meet both your interests and the needs of the community.

  • Create new features and refine existing ones using the LAMP architecture
  • Be a true part of the team, with your inputs both respected and influencing your tasks
  • Make things people will use and love the day literally moments after you finish them
  • Be resourceful and comfortable working in an exciting and fluid startup environment
  • Previous experience with web development (Python, Java, PHP, .NET) required
  • Experience with LAMP strongly preferred (but it's not hard to pick this up if you know C or Java)
Community Development Intern

You will be responsible for nurturing, supporting, and growing the Experience Project Community. Note: This is a part-time position.

  • Design fun, compelling community contests, projects, activities and incentives
  • Have your pulse on the community -- what's hot, what's not, and why
  • Answer member questions
  • Browse the 'neighborhood' and keep an eye on suspect postings
  • Be a friendly, lovable person the community enjoys interacting with
  • Welcome new members
  • Conduct member surveys
  • Manage featured content -- both on the website and in our newsletter
  • Though this is an intern position to begin with, our intention is for you to stay on when you return to school