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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#151
NextPunch / B2B SaaS / Sales [Manager] (first sales hire)

San Francisco, CA.

NextPunch (http://www.nextpunch.com) is a product for businesses with mobile service employees to keep track of where their employees are working from, what they're working on, and the hours they are working.

With 21 MILLION mobile service employees in the US, our market is an extremely large and fragmented SMB market. We're looking for our first sales hire to help educate the market about our product! We've gotten great responses from our early [paying] customers and eager to go get more.

About the job:

- Work directly with founder (me) to build sales process.

- Heavy focus on one vertical to start and then build sales process for different vertical markets.

- Expect to start hiring for sales team in the next 4-6 months.

- Set compensation structure, quotas, and operational process for all new sales hires.

About you:

- A couple years experience in selling B2B SaaS products.

- Experience with SMB market.

- Managed a team of 2-10 sales people.

- Experience with setting compensation models (nice to have).

send email directly to vladik at nextpunch dot com. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#152
TrainSignal is looking for a JavaScript developer in Schaumburg, IL (Chicago)

Help us craft beautiful, engaging, user-friendly websites and mobile applications. In this role, you’ll work closely with the development team to implement client-side solutions to support our user experience initiatives. You’ll be primarily focused on building and maintaining a scalable, lean framework responsible for loading data and handling user interactions after the DOM is loaded.

You are a successful candidate if you are an innovative developer, a team player, and are eager to create interactions that engage our users. Additionally, you have a working knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks and technologies, such as Backbone.js, Ember.js, Require.js, Node, SignalR or Video.js. Also, you admire the beauty of JSON, both visually and conceptually,

The ideal candidate has a passion and vision for conceptualizing and communicating interactions to the development team and business stakeholders. Working directly with other application developers to integrate client-side interactions with application data through API calls.

http://trainsignal.theresumator.com/apply/wD8RD7/JavaScript-...

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#153
San Francisco, CA - Chief Data Scientist // Rails Engineer

ElectNext translates political data into tools that help build a more informed, engaged and effective democracy. Starting with voting, we are building the database on your candidates and facilitating your access to it with matching technology, so that you can easily vote your values all the way down your ballot. Like OkCupid for elections.

Most importantly, we are looking for people who can’t wait to deliver breakthrough technology in the service of a more informed and participatory democracy.

Specifically, we are looking for:

1) A Chief Data Scientist to found and run our data lab. You have: PhD-level mathematics, statistics or computer science; deep familiarity with Bayesian statistics, predictive algorithms and machine learning; statistical programming especially R; Ruby on Rails.

2) A full stack rails engineer with a passion for big data and back end architecture. Ready to take on a big role on a small team as we expand our platform through a critical growth stage.

Please contact: keya at electnext dot com with a link to your github or other code samples, and tell us why what we're doing resonates with you.

A bit more about ElectNext: we are a 3-person, funded, SF- and NYC-based startup. We won the O’Reilly Web 2.0 startup showcase (2011 NYC) and were a GovFresh “best civic startup” of 2011. We have spoken at TEDx and Ignite, and Wharton and Harvard Business Schools. We have been featured in TechCrunch, FastCompany, the Huffington Post and the O’Reilly Radar. We provide data and technology to The Economist, Comcast, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the National Constitution Center and others. Our advisors include both past presidential candidates and first Facebookers. We launched in November.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#154
Park City, Utah - earthmine inc. - Full-Time - http://www.earthmine.com

We’re looking for:

* Lead Software Engineer - immediate need for development in C# with .NET

More details:

* http://www.earthmine.com/Company?Jobs

* http://www.youtube.com/user/earthmine

* Being based in Salt Lake or Park City you’ll of course have the opportunity to leverage the powder rule: we’ll see you in the office at noon because a foot of fresh fell the night before.

Us:

earthmine collects, processes, and delivers high-resolution, 3D street-level panoramas. How are they 3D? Every non-sky pixel in the panorama has a 3D coordinate: latitude, longitude and elevation. earthmine data is powering applications ranging from innovative local search and augmented reality to 3D mapping, GIS and asset management systems.

Interested?

* contact me directly: josh [dot] finken [at] earthmine [dot] com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#155
Scottsdale ~ AZ ~ mobile / machine learning / python

~ YOU will be the 5th employee and carry major weight, because we need you to.

~ Extremely ambitious gameplan

~ Open to full and partial telecommute

~ New and best Apple hardware

~ $80k and up

~ Will pay moving expenses

cquiter@gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#156
DoubleDutch (mobile, social, enterprise apps) San Francisco, CS

We've already racked up an impressive client list:

  Cisco, HP, Adobe, TED, Macworld, RightNow, ...
and are looking for senior caliber developers to help us shape the future of the company.

Specifically we are looking for:

  senior iOS and senior Android developers,
  who want to own a significant part of our mobile development.
We offer:

  competitive salary, generous equity + benefits,
  and have already gained significant traction.
If interested, please contact me at nclark@doubledutch.me, or visit http://doubledutch.me/jobs

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#157

San Francisco (Union Square) - Full Time Run Marketing / Developer Evangelism at Mailgun (YC W11) Mailgun's growth to date has been entirely organic. We are now looking for someone to build and run our marketing efforts. We are looking for someone that: - Knows how to sell a BMW to people who think their Ford Pinto is good enough. - Has a technical background and wants to make the world a better place for other devel…

FYI - You need contact info.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#158
C&T Publishing is looking for a Mac IT/IS Specialist in Concord, CA (East Bay--about 45 minutes from San Francisco).

About You: You have a passion technology, love to problem-solve, have a desire to grow and continue to improve your skill set, and understand how IT can impact the big picture. You have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, especially under pressure. You have great communication skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues. Finally, you have a love for technology combined with curiosity and dedication. If this sounds like you, then you should apply.

About Us: We are an established craft book publishing company that understands the value of great IT. We are an all Mac environment, with some exceptions. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Description: The IT/IS Specialist person's primary area of responsibility is to support the staff by maintaining their computers and the servers that they work from, so that they can accomplish their work utilizing the tools provided as efficiently and productively as possible.

Ongoing Goals: Maintain computer systems (hardware and software) ensuring that all operate at maximum efficiency, and ensure that all data is accessible and secure.

Duties & Responsibilities: This position is authorized to recommend purchases, make approved purchases and install approved hardware and software.

• Solve day-to-day help desk issues.

• Ensure all IT infrastructure and configurations are documented, create SOPs for help desk issues and position tasks, and post SOPs on file sharing server.

• Cross-train staff members to handle IT issues in absence.

• Software/hardware recommendations and make approved purchases.

• Maintain company hardware and software purchasing records and system inventory.

• Create annual IT budget with monthly and departmental breakdown. Reconcile actual spending with budget at end of each month and at end of year.

• Software updates, installation and troubleshooting for ~50 client computers and 4 servers.

• Perform hardware installations including replacing RAM and hard drives.

• Maintain all back-ups (tape and cloud) and hand off tapes to manager for offsite storage every week.

• Ensure that all servers, storage devices, internet, phone system, VPN access and firewall are operational.

• Troubleshoot printing devices as necessary.

• Responsible for new employee onboarding. Ensure that all accounts (email, file sharing, etc.), phone, and computer are work-ready by new employee start date.

• Reset all passwords, clear off and back up staff-member computer when employees leave the company.

• Maintain and troubleshoot PRI/VOIP based phone system (Fonality).

• Maintain filesharing server: FreeBSD/ZFS/Netatalk/LDAP.

• Work on strategic objectives and other duties as assigned.

• Must be available on-call for highly critical IT issues.

Knowledge & Experience

Education/Experience: CS degree or 1-3 years experience.

Requirements:

• Thorough knowledge of OS X (10.6--10.7) required. We are an almost exclusively Mac based environment, so this is an absolute must.

• Experience with Mac based computer imaging.

• Some command line experience.

Pluses:

• Experience with imaging and/or configuration management software such as JAMF suite, Puppet, DeployStudio, or Radmind.

• Experience with FreeBSD.

• Apple Certified Technician.

• Experience with Nagios.

• Experience with HTML, CSS, and XML.

• Experience with Adobe CS Suite a plus--especially InDesign.

• Experience with Filemaker a plus.

• Experience with Acumen (4D) a plus.

• Experience with Universal Type Server or other font server software a plus.

Physical Requirements:

• Able to talk and hear.

• Able to work on computer for 40 hours per week.

• Able to walk up to 1 mile per day.

• Able to stand up to 2 hours per day.

• Able to lift up to 40 pounds (think 27" iMac, or a server).

Please contact Jesse Endahl about this position by emailing it-position@ctpub.com

Please attach your resume, along with a cover letter outlining why you are the right person for this job.

Compensation: 40 hours per week. $40,000 - $45,000 annual compensation, plus benefits.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#159
San Francisco, CA (INTERN, H1B welcome)

MindSnacks - http://www.mindsnacks.com/

We build wonderful educational games in San Francisco. If you are nice and want to help us make splendid products, we'd love to heard from you.

We're hiring in lots of areas! Here are a few:

* Backend engineer: So much data, so little time! If you can extract the signal from the noise, and want to improve the way people learn through our products, let's talk! Experience with scaling multiplayer games or web services is a huge plus.

* Mobile engineer: You build pocket-sized awesomeness on iOS and/or Android. We make games that teach people stuff. The perfect combination! We have plenty of fun and challenge projects for both mobile app and game developers.

* UI designer: We believe that great design is essential to build products people love. If you live to make jaw-dropping UI experiences (web and/or mobile), this is the place to be!

Email us at jobs@mindsnacks.com More details: http://www.mindsnacks.com/careers/

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

#160

San Francisco (Union Square) - Full Time Run Marketing / Developer Evangelism at Mailgun (YC W11) Mailgun's growth to date has been entirely organic. We are now looking for someone to build and run our marketing efforts. We are looking for someone that: - Knows how to sell a BMW to people who think their Ford Pinto is good enough. - Has a technical background and wants to make the world a better place for other devel…

FYI - You need contact info.

Thank you!
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