Join Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) and our rapidly growing team of talented, fun, and fast driving consumer internet professionals as we continue to build the premier internet brand for small business and professionals. Docstoc provides the best quality and widest selection of documents and resources to start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. We are obsessive about building fantastic products, great teams, and a long lasting internet brand. Docstoc is one of the most trafficked sites on the internet and is used by tens of millions of people every month. Do you have what it takes to join our team?
We are looking for talented, outgoing, experienced, passionate, consumer focused, creative, and hard working professionals. Join our team of entrepreneurs and professionals in our fast paced, results driven company where we work hard and play hard. The company is offering competitive salaries and stock options.
Docstoc is currently hiring for the following positions:
DocStoc.com is looking for more than a designer; we're looking for a visionary who can help craft the future of how to better deliver resources and solutions to small businesses and professionals. We are looking for a Senior Level User Experience Designer. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a small but exceptional entrepreneurial team that is transforming how professionals find business resources online. We are looking for a bright, energetic and creative design leader who wants to help define the User Experience of DocStoc.com.
You Should Have:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years of experience designing outstanding web-based products for consumer-oriented websites
- Portfolio that showcases clean, well thought-out designs
- Obsessive attention to detail and creating pixel-perfect designs
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build productive working relationships
- Expert Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and other web design tools
- Ability to take wireframes from concept to completion
- History of successfully incorporating business requirements into your designs
- Strong understanding of how to incorporate User Generated Content and Interactive Content
- Experience performing Usability Testing
- Strong usability intuition, combined with fast prototyping, to create the best user experience
- Ability to Design and ship high quality products with a clean and consistent style.
- Create, implement and extend the style guidelines used by the rest of the team.
- Translating complex ideas into simple, accessible designs.
- Follow current and future design trends, and keep us ahead of the curve, with an eye towards innovation.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
- Passionate about design, a positive “can-do” attitude, and the ability to be highly creative within an agile development process
- The drive and ambition to Help design and build a product that will reach an audience of millions of small business owners and professionals around the world daily
It Would Be Nice if You Had:
- Experience coding standards-compliant XHTML and CSS
- Familiarity with JavaScript and jQuery
- Degree in a design-related field
- Experienced in Flash development
- Ability to write effective marketing copy
- A history working with startup-up companies in an agile environment
Details:
- Candidate's hours must be flexible and available to report and work on location
- Candidate MUST be local to Los Angeles and available for regular on-site visits
- Competitive Salary + Comprehensive Benefits & Stock Options
- Health & Dental Coverage
- Not to mention an awesome work environment which includes; a great team, a fully stocked kitchen, weekly catered lunches, a game room, a beautifully architected office space, an amazing beachside location
About us:
Docstoc is the premier online resource for small businesses and professionals to easily find, download, print documents for their business. Offering a robust suite of resources in over 35 business and professional categories, Docstoc is a hub of high valued content, with a product that's geared at helping small businesses thrive. Docstoc is a top 250 web destination that boasts over 35 million pieces of professional content and over 25 million unique visitors a month.
Docstoc is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners and has received funding from the co-founders/investors in MySpace.com, LowerMyBills.com, Mp3.com, PriceGrabber.com and Baidu.com
Docstoc is hiring a VP of Performance Marketing, a key executive hire that will head up all marketing efforts, focused primarily on the Docstoc Premium subscription product. Qualified candidates must have led ROI-based marketing for consumer internet brands with subscription offerings and will have strong expertise in paid traffic acquisition, landing page optimization and email campaigns.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute strategy for monetization of paid content, focused on the Docstoc Premium subscription product
- Spearhead communication via surveys, one on one feedback & focus groups to identify and analyze target audience/user segments to construct the best offerings for free and premium members
- Define and refine the product offering for the Docstoc Premium subscription product, individual document sales, document packages and paid partner content
- Lead all efforts on ROI-driven acquisition into paid products, including but not limited to SEM (primarily PPC on search/display networks), affiliates, email marketing, and traditional advertising
- Responsible for maximizing conversion funnel of paid products (subscription and store sales) on and off the site
- Head all email marketing (acquisition/retention) efforts for free and premium members (8 million+ registered users)
- Create marketing/sales copy for subscription product and email campaigns.
- Lead business intelligence role of gathering and reporting core metrics on an ongoing basis to refine product priorities & planning
- Help build a team of supporting marketing resources including business intelligence, SEM optimization, email marketing, & landing page optimization
Background & Skills:
- 10+ years online marketing experience
- Extensive background in online subscription products focused on digital goods
- Directly ran and managed large online PPC campaigns
- Product marketing for consumer internet brands focused on on-page optimization for revenue
- Deep expertise in constructing email offers and running email campaigns
- Experience setting up and building affiliate programs
- Expertise in marketing to small businesses and professionals
- Strong background in conducting focus groups and designing customer surveys.
- Highly analytical & metric driven experienced working with analytics tools and reports
- Very strong technical skills
- Experience working for venture backed internet companies
- Excellent written, verbal and organizational skills
- B.A. / B.S.
Compensation:
- Market Rate + Comprehensive Benefits & Stock Options
The site and related services are developed in ASP.Net (C#) and we are looking for
superstar developers who have both web experience as well as system and application
development experience. We are also using other technologies such as Ajax, Flex
3, Flash, with an extensive API, so if you’re a techi that likes challenges, look
no further.
This opportunity is for full time developers in the Los Angeles area only.
Required Skills:
- At least 4 years development experience in web development using ASP.NET and/or other stacks.
- At least 3 years experience with .NET and C#.
- Must have extensive experience with JavaScript and DHTML
- Understanding of web architecture such as session, cache, cookies, connection pooling, Ajax, etc
- Additional system and/or application development experience is a must
- Experience with database development, SQL, complex SPRs, and optimizations
- Experience with client side pages performance optimizations
- Overall understanding of web applications and web sites behavior
- Know what Web 2.0 is all about
Major plus:
- Experience with Flex and/or Flash as a developer using ActionScript 3.
- Experience with MySQL
- Experience with multi locals sites
- Knowledge and experience with SEO