Direct Sales/Business Development

DESCRIPTION:

Worry Free Labs is looking for a top notch person to join our team in the position of business development.

Worry Free Labs is a user interface design firm that creates remarkable and usable design that works across devices. We’re heavily focused on designing and developing for mobile platforms, in particular iOS (iPad, iPhone).

This a very fast-paced, rapidly growing industry. We’re determined to become a market leader in this industry in the next 3-5 years. We have a stellar design and development team in place and we’re looking for an experienced and competitive business development executive to help us fight for the market.

Job duties are as follows:

  • Create a pragmatic strategy to target and sell to key markets we have identified.
  • Keep excellent records of prospects and your daily, weekly and monthly communication with them.
  • Collaborate closely with technical leads and project managers on our team to create proposals for prospective and existing clients.
  • Maintain a close relationship prospective and existing clients.

REQUIREMENTS:

Characteristics we’re looking for:

  • Modesty and humility. Our greatest strength is our people and our ability to collaborate.
  • Leadership ability. You’re self confident, you’re proactive in thinking of new ways to succeed and can organize people around a shared mission and get things done.
  • Achievement oriented.
  • Curious/inquisitive. You are always interested in finding new ways to serve our clients and new opportunities in our market.
  • Cheerful/positive. We greatly enjoy what we do and we appreciate working with people of a similar disposition.
  • Empathic. 2/3 of our revenue comes from existing clients. We cherish the relationships we have with our clients and being able to see their needs from their pov is critical in long term success.
  • Analytical (Metrics focused). We like numbers, they’re the pulse of our business. As a top business development executive we’ll be looking to you for key performance indicators to monitor and measure our sales success.

Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree in related field or appropriate real world experience
  • A proven track record of high success in more than one previous sales position
  • Strong references including from past people to whom you have sold
  • A trend line of your sales performance at two previous employers

Company Information: Worry Free Labs
Contact Information: info@worryfreelabs.com

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Freelance WordPress Plugin Developer

DESCRIPTION:

We’re looking for a talented freelance WordPress plugin developer in North America.

The opportunity calls for a mixed set of skills. We need someone with expert level PHP/MYSQL skills, impeccable WordPress experience, and basic system administration experience (Apache). Experience managing sites with extremely large loads is a plus. We like our stuff to run fast and smooth.

We’re currently working on high-profile WordPress implementations that range between conventional to seriously bleeding edge. We will want to see plugin code examples – public plugins are ideal. We want people that are able to develop code that can withstand high profile sites and intense loads. You should be comfortable working as part of a team – your code will have to integrate into an existing architecture. If the tightly optimized code get’s you excited – you’re probably a good fit.

The Company

Shane & Peter Inc. is a small, rapidly growing software & design company located in Santa Cruz, California. We develop custom solutions for some of the world’s largest companies, government institutions and smaller growing organizations. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project.

Location

Work from anywhere in the US or Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and document plugin solutions using best practices
  • Integrate code into existing plugin architecture
  • Manage and optimize server performance
  • Produce code solutions that scale to large loads
  • Be apart of QA Team and optimize other team members code
  • Work with design team to architect most effective solutions
  • Manage SVN and code releases

REQUIREMENTS:

Team Requirements

We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work exclusively with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:

  • Helpful: Always looking for ways that you can help others.
  • Happy: Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
  • Curious: It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
  • Accountable: Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.
  • Personal Competencies
  • Strong communication and/or experience working as part of a remote team
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented, strong organizational skills, with a methodical approach to all tasks
  • Ability to prioritize your workload and meet deadlines
  • Fluent English speaker

Required Knowledge and Experience

  • Full Time Freelancers Only
  • WordPress structure, themes, and plugins
  • Javascript
  • Advanced LAMPS skills
  • SVN
  • Proficiency at local environment development

Additional Experience a Plus

  • Examples of plugins that you’ve released to the open source community
  • Advanced WordPress debug skills
  • Apple Mac dev environment

Compensation

Pay range is between $45-65 per hour commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is a one time contract position, though we are always seeking longer relationships with kick-ass people.

Company Information: Shane & Peter Inc.
Contact Information: Apply Online

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Blogger

DESCRIPTION:

We’re looking for a few good bloggers for an up-and-coming CBS Interactive site: SmartPlanet.com.

Note that these aren’t internships — these are paid freelance gigs, with bylines.

The beats in question: design (industrial, process, product) and architecture (LEED, automation, etc.). If you love reading GOOD or Dwell or Fast Company and enjoy watching TED videos, this gig’s for you.

The gig: Give us at least one post a day with a good mix of curation (quick bites on the day’s news) and original reporting (Q&As, profiles, event coverage and the like).

REQUIREMENTS:

Specifically, we’re looking for an intellectually curious Jack or Jill of all trades that can riff on new projects, talk some business if needed and, most importantly, find us smart people — designers, architects, thought leaders — to interview from various industries and circles of expertise.

Company Information: CBS Interactive: SmartPlanet.com
Contact Information: andrew.nusca@cbsinteractive.com

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