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Featured job: Lead engineer at Visually (with a plane ticket to San Francisco!) — November 21, 2015

Featured job: Lead engineer at Visually (with a plane ticket to San Francisco!)

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Visually is the leading marketplace for visual content, connecting the world’s best-known brands (including 42 of the Fortune 100) with the world’s best animators, designers, data visualization experts and more. The team is broadening its horizons and looking across the globe for great engineers interested in moving to San Francisco to join the Visually team.

Visually promises an exciting job at a great company where you’ll bring your engineering expertise and leadership to help them ship a great product faster. The team plans to have a welcome packet on your desk containing every suitable-for-work Aussie stereotype: a can of Fosters, gift certificate to Outback Steakhouse, a stuffed kangaroo or wallaby (can’t tell the difference), jar of Vegemite, map of local surf spots known to harbor Great Whites, and for the gentleman, some regular board shorts to replace your budgie smuggler (water’s cold around these parts).

What you’ll do

  • Build, test, deploy full-stack product features

  • Collaborate with product managers and designers on requirements and figuring out HOW features will be built

  • Make architectural decisions on new features

  • Collaborate with and lead a small team of remote developers

  • Perform code reviews

  • Participate in and drive daily scrum meetings

  • Address urgent issues

What you need to be successful

  • Love of coding

  • Extensive knowledge of PHP, Javascript, Linux, MySQL

  • Great understanding of how all layers of the stack interact

  • 7+ years of software development experience

  • Pride writing efficient code and following patterns, best practices, and internal standards.

  • Good knowledge of industry best practices for version control, testing, deployment, security, monitoring

  • Ability to own projects and tasks and to take them to completion with no supervision quickly and efficiently

  • Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities

  • Intrinsic curiosity about developments in the industry

  • Pragmatism to make proper trade-offs

  • Superior problem-solving ability

  • Great communication skills

  • Keen attention to detail

Why this job?

  • The team: Visually has a phenomenal team and plans to continue packing the walls with passionate, exceptional people that believe in the company vision and embody core values. You will work with people who were early contributors at successful companies such as oDesk, eBay, IAC, Optimizely, and Skype.

  • The 1200+ brands that Visually supports: These include some of the best-known agencies, consumer brands, and media companies in the world, including Spotify, The Huffington Post, Twitter, National Geographic, Salesforce, Verizon, Nike, Kayak, Visa, McKinsey, LinkedIn, Hired, etc.

  • Your work will be seen by millions of marketing, design and creative professionals every month.

More about Visually

Visually is the content creation platform that enables businesses to connect with their audiences through premium visual content — videos, infographics, ebooks, presentations, web interactives and more. With over 1000 certified creative professionals and an easy to use online collaboration platform, Visually works with clients to create cost-effective content that clicks, connects, and converts. Visually is backed by Crosslink Ventures, Softtech Venture Capital, 500 Startups and other leading investors.

Watch this video and learn more or browse the company’s amazing work portfolio. The lead engineer position is based in Visually’s San Francisco headquarters near Union Square.

If interested, please apply here: http://goo.gl/Si2jfJ

Featured job: Frontend developer at Macropod, Melbourne — August 21, 2015

Featured job: Frontend developer at Macropod, Melbourne

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Macropod is a software development company based in Yarraville, Melbourne. Macropod is a business built on trust, diversity and openness with the single-minded goal to deliver great software to people who build the web.

Macropod Software is seeking Frontend Developers to work within a close-knit dev team in Melbourne! The business was originally known as Bugherd, the name of their simple point and click bug tracker.

Founded in 2011 by Alan Downie and Matt Milosavljevic, Macropod is currently a team of 13. To learn more about Macropod and what the team holds important, read Alan’s post about ‘Trust, above all else‘.

About you:

  • A strong desire to make world-class single page web apps
  • Cares about UX
  • Experience (or strong interest) in React and Javascript
  • Highly experienced with HTML/CSS
  • Interested in participating in product discussions

How to apply?

All expressions of interest to email alan@macropod.com with CV and cover letter. 

Featured job: Content optimisation specialist, Sportsbet, Australia — July 28, 2015

Featured job: Content optimisation specialist, Sportsbet, Australia

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Featured job: Sports Bet

Sportsbet makes sport betting a fun and entertaining experience, offering  tools that help people assess their gambling habits, manage their betting activity, and provide access to problem gambling help services.

One of the best things about working at Sportsbet is the chance to truly grow a career. The company has just promoted the former Content Optimisation Specialist, which has created an opportunity for a content-loving sports enthusiast to jump into the open position.

This role sits within the Digital Operations teams at Sportsbet and forms part of the wider marketing team, which loves pushing boundaries. With a strong focus on innovation, the team is constantly searching for extraordinary new ways to attract attention. Sportsbet marketers use traditional and digital media to attract punters to the brand. Additionally, they’re dead keen on bringing the Sportsbet personality to life by thinking outside the box to invent brilliant campaigns.

About you

Sportsbet is looking for someone who lives and breathes digital platforms, understands what drives consumers to transact online, and who has a passion for sports. The team has promoted one superstar and is looking for the next. Do you have what it takes to fill these shoes?

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the Sportsbet.com.au digital properties display the best and most relevant content, in all places, at all times
  • Optimise the display of betting markets and promotional content to match the sporting calendar.
  • Manage and display complimentary content and respond to real-time opportunities during live sporting events.
  • Enhance the customer experience when interacting with digital properties by making measurable improvements to Sportsbet’s digital platforms.
  • Manage marketing-focused product development projects & pipeline, and contribute to digital solution development in cross functional teams.
  • Improve our owned digital platforms by developing insights and identifying opportunities for enhancement, and coordinating innovation initiatives from the marketing team.

Requirements

  • Excellent communication skills & ability to build and maintain strong internal relationships
  • Advanced numeracy and analytical skills with the ability to tell the story not just read the numbers.
  • Advanced understanding of consumer behaviour
  • Understanding of key events on sporting/racing calendar
  • Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative
  • Bachelors’ degree in marketing, business or commerce discipline
  • Experience in a digital marketing role within an e-commerce business
  • Experience using HTML and WordPress preferred

If you’re a solutions-focused self-starter who loves a bit of fun, likes to watch sports, and is committed to real time online content and product improvements then Sportsbet wants to hear from you. Sportsbet offers 5 weeks’ annual leave, great benefits and an awesome work culture. You’re at odds on for a rewarding career!

Sound like a fit? Apply here.

Featured job: Social Media Specialist, Wellington City Council, NZ — August 12, 2014

Featured job: Social Media Specialist, Wellington City Council, NZ

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Wellington City Council is looking for a social media specialist to join their team.

  • Connect Wellingtonians to their city
  • Increase awareness and participation in events
  • Coordinate corporate social media channels

This is no 9-to-5 role! You will need to be able to attend events, create content and engage in conversations on social networks throughout the day. You should be confident using smartphones, taking videos, photos and interviewing people to produce stories on-the-fly.

A significant part of this role is connecting with people, places and stories around Wellington. You will be an experienced social media or community manager and a confident communicator with the ability to engage in conversations on a variety of topics.

Wellington City Council requires a dedicated Social Media Manager to coordinate the council’s Official Social Media Channels. To be successful in this role, you will need to:

  • Be an energetic and confident communicator – your smartphone will be glued to your hands and you’ll be active on all social media networks especially Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube
  • Love Wellington – know all the good spots to hang out and regularly attend events around the city
  • Hold a degree in communications and/or marketing with at least five year’s experience coordinating corporate social media channels, content creation and community management
  • This position has been created to tell more council stories, connect more Wellingtonians to the people, places and events in their city. You’ll be measured on how well you increase awareness and participation in events, issues and facilities, while demonstrating value for money to rate payers.

Please include links to personal social media channels and any corporate/brand social media profiles you have managed previously. Applications may be submitted in any shape or form. Be creative to demonstrate you have the key skills and requirements to take on this role.

More:

Wellington City Council is looking for people who share their passion for Wellington and have the same values – to make the city an even better place to live, work, have fun and achieve goals.

Their services and projects are diverse and relate to all aspects of life in the city. WCC offers a wide range of careers, the chance to work with fantastic people, and many training and development opportunities.

Join them in making a positive difference – shape your own future, while contributing to the future of Wellington.

Apply online or for more information contact Angela Meyer on 04 803 8500 or email angela.meyer@wcc.govt.nz.

Applications close Friday, 22 August 2014.

Featured job: evening host, Hub Melbourne, Australia — May 4, 2014

Featured job: evening host, Hub Melbourne, Australia

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Do you love innovation and the idea of coworking, collaboration and community? Do you love bringing some order to things, and connecting with and supporting amazing people? Are you committed to exceptional customer experiences?

If yes, then please read on.

Hub Melbourne is a professional member community that drives innovation through collaboration. They’re now looking for an evening host.

It’s made up of individuals, startups, social enterprises and large corporate, government and education institutes. At our centre is a ‘clubhouse’ – a coworking and innovation space on Bourke Street. They are part of a global network of almost 60 similar ‘Hubs’ around the world.

At the heart of Hub Melbourne is a core team of dedicated individuals whose role is to create an environment where diverse people, organisations and sectors come together, work on projects, swap ideas and innovate. They do this by hosting physical and online collaboration spaces, curating events for learning and networking and catalysing connections for our members. They’re constantly !innovating new ways to work and do business.

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Their values are: Open, Collaborative, Autonomous, and Entrepreneurial.

Overview of the role:

An awesome evening host to collaborate with the team on all facets of the business.

Your role will involve:

  • Providing a welcoming environment for Hub members and space users
  • Supporting Hub members to ensure their Hub experience is an awesome and successful one
  • Space beautification
  • Events setup and breakdown
  • Daily coworking space reset at end of day
  • IT support (shared with day host)
  • Identifying and implementing continuous improvement processes and procedures
  • Working as part of a dynamic duo with the day host

For this role, you must:

  • Dig the idea of innovation and collaboration (this is a deal breaker!)
  • Understand and participate in the digital world
  • Have a willingness to teach others
  • Have excellent research and networking skills – know the right places to look and people to ask
  • Be super-organized, flexible, process-oriented, and open-minded  Be willing to jump in and help wherever needed
  • Have a passion for space beautification
  • Be a hospitality super person with high standards of space cleanliness

What’s in it for you?

  • You’ll be a key member of an energetic and fun small core team
  • Enabling an inspiring and diverse network of over 200 people in-house and 7,000 people globally
  • Being part of a company with a vision and plan to make a difference
  • Working from one of the coolest workplaces in town (12.30-9.30pm, some flexibility with hours)
  • A full-time role based on Bourke Street
  • This role provides you with $55K incl. super plus phone allowance and professional development allowance

How to apply:

Please submit a two-minute video on why you would love to work with Hub Melbourne, plus a LinkedIn profile to:

Full job details: http://bit.ly/HubMelbourne

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