Web designer

We're looking for an innovative, talented web designer to join Oodle and help build the next generation of great products. You will be responsible for designing user interfaces that are easy to use while packed with power features.

• A passionate advocate for customers and their needs
• Self-motivated leader who can drive a design initiative from end to end
• Able to partner well with business and engineering leaders
• An expert communicator - able to discuss the pros and cons of design choices
• Constantly learning new ways to innovate, up-to-date on the latest in the industry

• Strong interaction design skills
• Compelling visual design and aesthetic sense
• Ability to juggle many tasks at once - and to work on 2 projects at the same time
• Experience designing for consumer/e-commerce sites
• Online portfolio including examples of solving complex UI problems
• 5+ years of industry experience

• Experience animating with Flash
• Experience running usability testing

• Develop a compelling overall vision for Oodle
• Design interaction flows and individual features
• Directly design the final look
• Learn from customer feedback to improve future versions
• Partner with software engineers to deliver a great finished product

• A link to your website or online portfolio
• Your resume
• A list of the websites/blogs that you use every day
• A short list of websites that have inspired your design career

Senior Marketing Manager

We're looking for a marketing all-star who is fired up about making Oodle a household name. Blending the traditional aspects of marketing and product marketing, you will be responsible for all of Oodle's consumer and partner programs. You'll drive programs ranging from big splash launches and seasonal campaigns to grassroots initiatives for Oodle and its partners. More specifically, you will:

• Oversee Oodle's marketing programs working with product management to craft product positioning and go-to-market strategies
• Develop marketing programs including local market promotions, grass roots campaigns and events that drive brand awareness and loyalty
• Determine customer requirements via research, focus groups, surveys, etc. and define program needs
• Manage customer acquisition targets and program marketing budget
• Drive community outreach leveraging social networks, forums, and blogs

This position is based in our San Mateo headquarters

You should have 6-8 years consumer product marketing experience preferably with a consumer Internet company. Specifically, you will have:

• Strategic vision with the ability to translate thoughts into actionable plans
• A successful track record developing marketing partnerships: developing programs, supervising creative development and working with partners to deploy programs
• Extensive knowledge of direct marketing and lead generation programs. Experience with direct e-mail campaigns, e-newsletters, list segmentation and management
• Strong quantitative skills to plan media spend, analyze programs and optimize campaign ROI
• Excellent verbal and written skills and strong attention to detail
• Experience with online community management or forum moderation a plus
• BA/BS (preferably in business, economics or a related field); MBA preferred
• High energy and ability to get- anything- yes anything done

Desktop Support Engineer

Oodle is looking for a desktop support engineer to manage Oodle's internal technologies and provide technical support for software and hardware systems.

• Provide desktop assistance and support for standard PC software, hardware, printers, faxes and copiers to local and remote users
• Purchasing of new IT hardware -- desktops, laptops, phones, and other equipment
• Maintaining internal systems such as mail servers, DNS and DHCP servers, VPN systems, intranet, and the phone system
• Keeping virus software protection/definitions, anti-spyware and operating system/software patches up-to-date via automated methodology
• Managing the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and development, upgrade and support of all desktop/laptop computers, operating systems, hardware, software, peripherals and office automation equipment
• Creating and testing nightly backups of employee data
• Providing secondary server administrator to troubleshoot and resolve issues

• 2 years related work experience
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Microsoft Windows operating systems
• Advanced knowledge and troubleshooting experience with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook
• Advanced knowledge of desktop, laptop, peripheral (printers/scanners), copiers, faxes and LAN/WAN connectivity and communications
• Basic knowledge of networking protocols and hardware such as TCP/IP, VPN, Switches and Routers
• Knowledge and experience with Linux

QA Automation Engineer

The QA Automation Engineer will be responsible for all aspects of creating automated testing of Oodle's products. The QA Automation Engineer will possess a strong background in QA and engineering.

• Work with engineering and product teams to define and implement QA and unit test plans
• Improve software quality through testing and advocacy, with a constant focus on the customer experience
• Create, execute and maintain automated test suites of functional, regression, performance, and stress tests

• At least two years of QA experience
• Experience with Perl or other scripting languages
• Experience with Linux and Windows
• Experience writing test plans, test cases and test scripts as well as ad hoc testing.
• Automated testing experience
• Can work independently and juggle priorities in a fast-paced startup

Web Software Developer

• Work as part of a team to design and build web-based applications
• Be a key contributor to the design and implementation of the Oodle website
• Your work should be efficient and easily maintained

• Experience working on a large-scale consumer web site
• A passion for building great software and take pride in the quality of your programming
• Expert knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, and javascript
• Understanding of user interface design goals
• Startup mentality (self-starter, proactive, flexible)
• Solid programming background
• BS or MS in Computer Science preferred

Senior Engineer

Oodle is looking to hire a Senior Engineer to build systems for better classification and acquisition of classified listings. The engineer will build tools for improving the quantity and quality of Oodle's listings through methods such as Bayesian filtering and other techniques to determine spam and quality and natural language processing to extract locations, prices, sports or ticket events and other such attributes from text listings.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science
• Significant experience building large-scale systems in object-oriented Perl
• Creativity and passion for solving problems and building high-quality software
• Strong skills in C and PHP are a plus
• Startup mentality (self-starter, proactive, flexible)

Senior Product Manager/Product Manager

Primary Job Responsibilities:

As a Senior Product Manager/Product Manager at Oodle, you are responsible for driving innovation, planning and execution of new product features and business concepts.

Your responsibilities include the following:

• Analyze the external marketplace, customers, and competitors to determine the right feature set for Oodle users
• Define product strategy and roadmap for your product area. Drive the execution of the product roadmap
• Oversee product launches from concept to execution including writing product requirement documents (PRD), conducting user testing, coordinating with engineering and QA and customer support
Clearly communicate product benefits to our users
• Own key business metrics and drive major improvements through new product features and product marketing

• 3-5 years Product Management experience at a Consumer Internet or software company
• Strong passion and technical understanding of Internet technologies and the operations of a commercial Web site
• Ability to lead and inspire cross-functional groups
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven track record of shipping successful products

Bachelors Degree Required. MBA preferred.

Data Analyst

We're looking for someone to drive reporting and analytics at Oodle. Ideal candidates will have a passion for numbers and data discovery, deep analytical capabilities, a collaborative work-style and strong strategic judgment. If you like to discover the "truth" through data and want to drive data-based decision making at Oodle, this role's for you. You will:

• Create an efficient turnkey process for generating key metrics reports
• Conduct analysis for major analytical projects
• Be Oodle's expert on Oodle's traffic reporting system (Coremetrics) including evaluating data and defining and implementing system upgrades. In addition, you will manage the vendor relationship and train company personnel on the system
• Own company dashboards: ensure that management dashboards and other ongoing reports are delivered accurately and regularly and set up new reports as needed
• Advise and train product, business development, marketing, etc. on metric definition/implementation requirements for projects and testing methodology (what to measure, how to structure a test, etc.)

• 3-5 years experience of related experience in online reporting
• Proven analytics ability/ experience driving complex analytical projects with large data sets
• Experience with one or more web reporting packages (Omniture, Coremetrics, etc.)
• Ability to pull data directly from large databases and write complex queries in SQL
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language (Perl, Ruby, VB Script, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to manage data and analytical projects cross-functionally to achieve results
• A strong business sense with the ability to pay attention to detail while keeping "the big picture" in mind
• Knowledge of statistics including techniques for segmentation a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to communicate findings
• A team player who enjoys work enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
• College degree mandatory. Prefer candidates with an advanced degree in CS, Mathematics, Econometrics or similar field

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