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GreatSchools is an independent, nonprofit organization that inspires and guides parents to become effective champions of their children's education at home and in their communities. Parents turn to us to find the right schools for their children, to get practical advice and information that will help them raise successful, college-ready kids, and to support the schools in their communities.
Founded in 1998, GreatSchools reaches more than 37 million people each year - approximately one-in-three American families with school-age children. With profiles of 200,000 public, public charter, and private schools serving students from Pre-K through high school and more than 800,000 parent ratings and reviews of schools, GreatSchools is the most comprehensive source of information on school quality today.
GreatSchools is supported by numerous foundations and corporations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robertson Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.
Unless otherwise specified, all of our open positions are headquartered in our San Francisco, CA office.
Sorry, we do not offer relocation assistance.
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek to recruit a diverse workforce.
Positions Available:
Director of Product Management
Director of Development
Online Advertising Sales Manager
Sales Marketing Manager
Product Manager - Social
Program Coordinator
Editorial Production Associate
Email Production Associate
Video Producer/Editor
Front-End Engineer
QA Engineer
Director of Product Management
We are seeking a strategic, results-oriented Director of Product Management who will drive critical and differentiating changes to our existing digital products and who will conceive and launch new products and services that accelerate our social impact and increase revenue.
The ideal candidate is a creative and disciplined, new frontier thinker who drives development of products through the full lifecycle based on market needs and a deep understanding of our customers. You maintain an ever-evolving understanding of what digital media can do. You challenge the status quo and understand how to drive positive social change through digital media. You take smart risks. You think across the enterprise, breaking down silos and fostering a culture of collaboration. You are an entrepreneurial type who stays on top of emerging trends. You excel at coordinating cross-functional teams to realize bold ideas through digital media. You are comfortable with details, but synthesize information and communicate the "big picture" easily. You are also passionate about helping parents support their children's success through education.
The Director of Product Management reports to the Chief Operating Officer. In addition to directly managing products, you will lead the digital product and data operations team. The role is highly collaborative and involves working cross-functionally with research, user experience, editorial, engineering, QA, marketing, sales, and business development. You will regularly interact with program heads and senior management.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Own the overarching vision and the process for consolidating multiple program-level plans into a single, unified product roadmap; maintain, communicate, and recalibrate the roadmap as needed
- Lead the process to define new product strategy, roadmap, feature sets, and priorities
- Stay close to our customers and work with the Research team to vet new opportunities, thoroughly understand and meet user needs, keep abreast of the latest research related to parenting and education, support product conception, and build business cases for new projects
- Drive products through the full lifecycle, from concept and development through release and post-launch monitoring
- Work with product managers and Research team to consistently evaluate the performance of new and existing products and create a shared internal understanding of lessons learned
- Manage, develop and support a team of product managers and data operations staff
- Be hands-on; directly manage some products to fill gaps and stay grounded
- Cultivate a culture of product innovation throughout the organization
- Help evolve product development methodology to ensure delivery of successful products
- Evangelize our products internally and externally to various constituents, including partners and prospects as well as end users
Experience/Education/Skills Required:
- Demonstrated track record launching successful products for high-volume, consumer facing web sites
- 7+ years of experience related to product management; 3+ years of supervisory experience
- Strong thought leader and confident decision maker with an evidence-based point of view, able to facilitate and drive groups toward decisions, comfortable challenging ideas
- Flexible and able to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment; ability to simultaneously handle multiple priorities
- Familiar with different types of product development processes, tools and team structures
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills, with proven ability to develop and retain high-performing talent
- Excellent project/team management skills, ability to set clear direction and delegate effectively
- Superior interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to communicate with technical and non-technical staff alike; ability to deliver compelling presentations
- Working knowledge of user experience design, usability standards, SEO best practices, and web analytics
- Bachelor's degree required, master's in business, engineering or other field related to product management preferred
- Experience managing products for multiple platforms (web, mobile, tablet, print on-demand) desired
- Experience driving user acquisition and engagement through social media, online video, localization, mobile/SMS, and/or game mechanics is a plus
- Bilingual English/Spanish fluency is a plus
How To Apply:
Submit a cover letter including salary requirements, and a resume in an email to jobs+dirproduct.gs@greatschools.org
"Director of Product Management" in the subject line. Please include in your cover letter the reasons why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No calls please.
Director of Development
The Director of Development will embody the mission and values of GreatSchools, develop an innovative advancement plan that facilitates the realization of GreatSchools' vision, manage a team of development professionals nationally and locally, and work directly with a portfolio of donors and prospects, largely from the corporate, foundation and major gift sectors.
We invite applications for an energetic and imaginative leader to work hand-in-hand with the Board, CEO, senior leadership team, other stakeholders, and local and national development staff to build a sustainable and efficient development operation that enables GreatSchools to fulfill our mission and meet new and existing program objectives.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop strategic and operational development plans that facilitate realization of fundraising goals. Special emphasis on corporate, foundation and major gift support.
- Leverage GreatSchools' distinctive programs and new offerings to engage prospects and current constituents.
- Lead, inspire and train a development team that includes national as well as regional staff.
- Work with media sales staff to convert GreatSchools' considerable assets of more than 80 national corporate advertisers into a more active community of donors.
- Identify and cultivate potential growth opportunities from a variety of sources that support significant long-term partnerships.
- Manage all communications with foundation, corporate and individual investors; ensure that investors understand GreatSchools' strategies, programs, and achievements.
- Build relationships with current and potential foundation, individual, and corporate investors.
- Moderate level of travel is expected (20-25%).
Experience and Education:
- Minimum of 10 years of demonstrated success in the development or related field
- A bachelor's degree is required and an advanced degree is desirable
Skills:
- Demonstrated success in personally cultivating and soliciting major gifts from corporations, foundations and individuals
- Exceptional communication skills with demonstrated ability to write effectively and speak persuasively
- Demonstrated success in managing a development operation, implementing an annual fund drive, and using a variety of online mediums to secure funding
- Proven ability to lead in an environment that promotes continuous learning and development
- Proven ability to work independently balanced with a strong ability to collaborate in a cross-functional team environment
- High energy, positive, "can do" attitude, flexible, and able to function in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple responsibilities in a timely manner
- A demonstrated passion for the education arena and a strong belief and connection to GreatSchools' mission
How To Apply:
Submit a cover letter including salary requirements, and a resume in an email to jobs+devdir.gs@greatschools.org
"Director of Development" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No calls please.
Online Advertising Sales Manager
We are looking for a talented Online Advertising Sales Manager to champion the nation's fastest growing web site for parents of K-12 students. This Sales Manager will be responsible for identifying, closing and managing advertising partners. Additionally, this person will work with the online advertising sales team to develop unique ad vehicles and programs that build value for our partners.
GreatSchools has established a successful online advertising business with a range of industry leading partners including Chevy, Sylvan, ING Direct, Target, Kellogg's, K-12 and many others. We are seeking a self-directed and highly motivated individual who can help drive and support our continued growth. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in advertising & marketing with exceptional selling skills, and a proven record of meeting and exceeding sales targets.
This position reports to the Managing Director, Media. We currently have two positions available, one in New York, NY and the other in Chicago, IL.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Identify and initiate contact with advertising prospects through cold calls, in-person presentations and/or leveraging of existing contact lists
- Assess customer needs, develop effective sales proposals, negotiate deals, ensure successful delivery of advertising campaigns
- Regular travel within territory
- Manage all communications, scheduling and approvals between the client/agency and operations team throughout the implementation process
- Maintain accounts and deliver superior customer service for multiple clients
- Develop campaign performance summaries for clients
Experience/Education/Skills Required:
- Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years combined related advertising experience
- Strong track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets
- Knowledge of business and advertising trends and the ability to translate this knowledge into advertising solutions for clients
- Solid understanding of online advertising and marketing, including pricing structures (CPM, CPC, CPA, CPL) and media types (e.g., banners, skyscrapers, box ads, email newsletters)
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail, highly organized and flexible
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Ability to handle multiple priorities
- Proficiency with Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Word and the Web
Experience/Education/Skills Preferred:
- Experience working in a small business or a start-up environment
- Ad agency experience is highly desirable as is experience in a sales planner role
- Working knowledge of 3rd party research tools (e.g. comScore; Omniture)
Essential Qualities:
- Positive work ethic and ability to exercise mature judgment
- Ability to work independently as a motivated team player
- Preference for a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
- Ability to think analytically, set priorities and meet deadlines
How To Apply:
Submit a cover letter including salary requirements, and a resume in an email to jobs+salesmgr.gs@greatschools.org
"Online Advertising Sales Manager" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No calls please.
Sales Marketing Manager
In this role, you will be responsible for providing pre- and post-sales support to our online advertising team. This is a key position within our organization, perfect for a smart, rising star who is passionate about online advertising, emerging technology, and finding scalable solutions for revenue generating advertising partners. This role will serve as the primary liaison between Marketing and Sales. The Sales Marketing Manager reports directly to the Director of Online Marketing.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Pre-Sales/RFP Response:
- Work closely with other key internal teams (Sales, Sales Planning, Campaign Manager, Editorial, Design, Business Insights, Ad Ops, etc.) to brainstorm specific marketing programs and solutions for key advertising partners
- Develop smart, unique, 'custom', yet vetted and executable marketing programs for large strategic advertising partners quickly
- Generate high-quality, client facing presentations (PowerPoint, In Design, etc.) that bring the marketing program to life as well as generate accompanying documentation describing details of marketing program for internal audiences, with only short turn-around time (i.e. 24-48 hours)
- Ability to quickly and effectively negotiate internal teams to get conceptual 'buy off' on non-existing elements of a potential marketing partnership
- Sales Marketing Collateral:
- Responsible for generating and maintaining all outward sales marketing materials including overall general sales presentation, individual advertising product opportunities, audience profiles, competitive information, case studies, etc.
- Create 'custom' slides for RFP's as needed, that are vetted and approved internally prior to being submitted to external advertising partners
- Create strategy for developing scalable sales materials to support sales needs
- Work with Design to create consistent, strong marketing materials that speak to the needs of our advertisers
- Manage regular outbound email newsletter for advertisers and agencies, communicating latest news from GreatSchools and valuable insights to this audience
- Research Support:
- Pull comScore and Omniture data to support individual RFP's and proposals
- Work with Business Insights team to construct and conduct research studies that specifically support the sales needs, both short term and long term studies, including consumer facing research to understanding our customers from the mindset of the advertisers
- Product Management/Ad Products:
- Create and manage ongoing communication plan for ad products; Translate pipeline into sales-ready materials that communicate new opportunities, including key specifications, timing, proposed use-cases and capabilities
- Research, define, scope, and manage the implementation of any new ad products and/or and media solutions from conception to launch, working cross-functionally with Sales Campaign Manager, Engineering, Product, Design
- Manage the Marketing Calendar which supports sales programs and initiatives, to ensure that there is transparency and clarity into programs, what's been sold, what needs to be delivered, etc.
Experience/Education/Skills Required:
- Bachelor's degree required (emphasis in marketing or digital media preferred)
- Minimum 4 years direct online sales marketing experience working for an advertising-supported website required; experience with a general parenting or education website a plus
- Proven experience in 'story telling' and bringing concepts to life quickly and effectively via PowerPoint
- Excellent copy-writing skills, with experience writing for advertisers and agencies in an easy and real voice
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional, matrix environment
- Solid understanding of emerging trends specific to advertising and revenue in rich media, mobile, social media and video
- Familiarity with ad serving technology, rich media technology; Omniture and comScore required
- Expertise in all marketing disciplines from brand strategy and positioning to advertising, direct marketing and customer acquisition programs
- Strong communicator, team leader and writer
- Ability to drive ideas from concept to completion through strong organizational, project management and teamwork skills
- Excellent communication and time management skills
- Diplomatic and cool under pressure
How To Apply:
Submit a cover letter including salary requirements, a writing sample and a resume in an email to jobs+salesmktgmgr.gs@greatschools.org
"Sales Marketing Manager" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No calls please.
Product Manager - Social
We are seeking a results-oriented Product Manager to drive digital media product development, specifically around integrating user-generated content that advances strategic objectives and increases revenue.
The efforts of this new position will be on growing the core GreatSchools.org website, specifically a new and improved online experience through which visitors learn about and navigate through the K-12 school choice process. Project focus areas will include developing user-generated content acquisition tools, social networking integration, and displaying UGC and other qualitative school information.
The Product Manager reports directly to the Director of Product Management. You will be part of a core team of product managers, designers and developers working towards the completion of a broader product enhancement project. You will be instrumental in rapidly rolling out medium-to-large new features and tools projects, and must interface with stakeholders in product marketing, editorial, and technology departments to confirm requirements and project trade-offs. Familiarity with both waterfall and agile development methodologies is highly desirable.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Drive products through the full lifecycle, from concept and development through release and post-launch monitoring, working closely with other departments
- Draft product requirements (in PRDs or in project tracking software) with input from cross-departmental stakeholders
- Work with the UX design team to produce wireframes and visual design mocks and/or plan usability testing for product features
- Gather project estimates from the development team, identifying priorities and trade-offs as needed to keep projects time- and cost-efficient
- Manage a test and learn process to gauge success, develop project lessons and inform future improvements
- Cultivate stakeholder awareness of project status
Qualifications:
- Extremely detail-oriented with keen ability to understand high-level project objectives
- Solid understanding of social networking landscape, including Facebook applications
- Experience developing user-generated content products and features desired
- Demonstrated passion for building products that delight users and align with a greater mission/vision
- Collaborative, team player at the core, with strong initiative to drive forward project goals individually
- Experience managing products for multiple platforms (web, tablet, print on-demand) desired
- Experience in an agile software development environment, with rapid feedback loops and quick release cycles
- Ability to drive ideas from concept to completion through strong organizational, project management, and teamwork skills
- Ability to manage multiple large, complex projects
- Excellent verbal and written communications
- Ability to leverage cross-functional teams and individuals to achieve project goals
- Predisposition to think analytically and always seek analysis as a pathway to product decisions
How To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, including salary requirements and resume to jobs+prodmgr.social.gs@greatschools.org, with
"Product Manager - Social" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No phone calls please.
This is a 9-12 month long-term temporary staff position. Only apply if this is what you are seeking.
Program Coordinator
We provide quality support and information to low-and-moderate income parents through our award-winning bilingual online and on-the-ground program called College Bound. We have immediate openings for several fixed-term contract (15-20 hours per week) Program Coordinator positions. Ideal candidates will have a passion for working with multi-ethnic families and communities to implement the College Bound program at elementary school sites in the SF Bay Area. The right candidates will be outgoing and resourceful, be committed to working with diverse and disadvantaged parents to improve educational opportunities for their children, and have proven experience with working directly in or with public and/or public charter schools, mobilizing local communities, and implementing education programs in a school or after-school setting.
The College Bound Program Coordinator will implement College Bound in partnership with a local elementary school. The Program Coordinator role contains four primary components: Recruitment & Retention, Program Management, Metrics & Sustainability, and Communication. Each role is vital in creating a successful College Bound program.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Recruitment & Retention
- Provide program orientation, encourage parent involvement, and maintain monthly contact with families and school
- Facilitate regular bilingual after school and evening workshops for parents and vested community leaders
- Recruit and contract child care services for all parent and family events
- Manage day-to-day operations of the program
- Recruit, oversee, and provide ongoing support for College Bound volunteers
- Maintain high visibility at the After School Program
- Assure technology and other shared school space is well maintained and left as found
- Develop and maintain a calendar of workshops and in a posted area in school site
- Assure distribution of refreshment and snacks for parents during workshops
- Program Management
- Manage partnerships with site school, community-based organizations, parents, and staff leaders, to successfully run the College Bound program
- Work with community-based organizations, site school and volunteers to hold partner and parent workshops, trainings, and College Bound graduation event for Bay Area parents of K-5 children
- Be an on-call resource for school personnel and parents involved in College Bound
- Attend school staff meetings quarterly to provide information and updates on College Bound implementation
- Produce and distribute print collateral and materials, coordinating with Implementation Manager
- Manage school site budget and expenditure tracking
- Metrics & Sustainability
- Set and hit target deadlines and meet specific metrics and goals for partner and parent participation while maintaining regular communication with Implementation Manager toward those deadlines and goals
- Monitor the project and report on status of school site, parents, and supporting community stakeholders. Complete administrative-related reports
- Submit all required documentation on a timely basis, including attendance, budget balances, and any related evaluation documentation
- Coordinate evaluation processes, including surveys, focus groups, and case study studies involving participating parents and school personnel
- Communication
- Develop and maintain a high level of communication and positive relationships with school leader(s), teachers, office staff, and community based organizations via email, social networks, and site specific newsletters.
- Respond promptly and courteously to parent concerns and/or suggestions. Notify Implementation Manager of parent concerns and/or suggestions
- Meet at least monthly with the Program Coordinator team to synchronize program design, discuss evaluation processes, outreach efforts, and potential challenges
- Work closely with Implementation Manager to identify parents and community leaders for College Bound case study purposes; align activities that correspond to school calendar, parent schedules, and CBO events; design site specific evaluation tools
Experience/Education/Skills Required:
The successful candidate for this position will have demonstrated experience education-related programs. He or she will also have expertise in community mobilization and training, both with schools and school districts, community and faith-based organizations, and directly with families. Finally, he or she will have strong verbal and written communication skills in both English and Spanish.
The ideal candidate:
- Has a Bachelor's degree
- Is fully bilingual (read, write and speak) in English and Spanish
- Has a proven record of consistently meeting or exceeding program deadlines, metrics and goals
- Has a strong knowledge of Bay Area communities and is familiar with current parent school involvement challenges
- Has a proven record of successfully partnering with local community organizations (schools, churches, CBOs, social service orgs) that serve K-5 families
- Is able to effectively mobilize, engage, and motivate low-income and low-literacy families
- Communicates effectively, using a variety of communication styles and mediums - in person, via phone, letter and email - and across a wide range of partners and parents with different levels of skill and knowledge
- Exercises independent judgment, troubleshooting, and decision-making under pressure
- Is self-motivated, organized, flexible and resourceful with an incredible drive to get things done
- Has experience preparing accurate and concise data and materials
- Is computer literate (Internet, MS Office) and comfortable with online technologies
- Is available to work around parents' schedules
How To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, including salary requirements and resume to jobs+programcoord.gs@greatschools.org, with
"Program Coordinator" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No phone calls please.
This is a 7-month contract position through June 2012. Only apply if this is what you are seeking.
Editorial Production Associate
The Online Production Associate will support our editorial department with email, article, slide show, video, and other production work. The position entails monitoring and maintaining the daily production of a busy website, weekly email products, and new projects as they arise. You will work mostly in our CMS, but also code HTML and/or make modifications to existing HTML on other platforms, choose and resize photos, run uploading scripts, check work to ensure all language, images, and links are correct, and work closely with editorial and email marketing teams.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Input, edit, and publish articles, slide shows, videos, and other content using our CMS. Set up weekly email in template using HTML.
- Set up weekly email in template using HTML.
- Input changes and do any CMS work related to updating, linking, and uploading content.
- Review CONTENT prior to publication and after publication to ensure language, presentation, and links are correct.
- Work closely with editorial and content teams.
- Search for, choose, and resize photos appropriate for various types of content.
- Work collaboratively with email marketing, marketing, and sales teams as needed.
- Work on projects as they arise.
- Manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.
Experience/Skills/Education Required:
- 1-3 years production/engineering experience using HTML and various CMS
- Knowledge of HTML. Ability to code by hand required
- Experience using stock photography and Photoshop
- Detail-oriented with an eye for quality control
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Creative thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively as part of a team
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
This is a contract position with a possibility of becoming a regular staff position. Only apply if this is what you are seeking.
How To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, including salary requirements and resume to jobs+prodassoc.gs@greatschools.org, with
"Editorial Production Associate" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No phone calls please.
Email Production Associate
The Email Production Associate will support the GreatSchools marketing team with the day-to-day production of all consumer-facing emails sent from GreatSchools. This is a part-time position that involves coordinating the email production cycle, as well as coding, testing and tracking emails sent on a regular basis in a deadline-driven environment. There will also be opportunities to bring new email products to life from start to finish with guidance from a seasoned email marketing expert on staff.
Ideal candidates are detail-oriented, exhibit an undying commitment to quality, are efficient and adaptable, and work well with others, including editors, designers, sales reps, engineers, and others.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Plan, implement, test and send a variety of segmented, targeted, and triggered emails from within our email service provider system (ExactTarget).
- Develop data queries and scripting needed to support dynamic and conditional content in emails.
- Coordinate and maintain email calendar to meet desired execution dates, maximize the audience reach, and regularly communicate the schedule out to the team.
- Coordinate email copy and art change requests.
- Analyze campaign and newsletter performance (open rates, CTRs, unsubscribes, etc.) and provide recommendations to improve email channel performance.
- Monitor incoming mailboxes to watch for mis-directed opt-outs.
- Keep up to date on standards, regulations and best practices for email deliverability, including assessing major ESP standards, best practices, SPAM and bounce processing. Document standards and best practices and make recommendations to optimize email strategy and design.
- Program and test new templates to support new email products.
- Other duties, as needed, to support marketing campaigns.
Experience/Skills/Education Required:
- BA/BS in marketing, business or related field preferred
- Minimum 2 years' work experience executing email and direct response campaigns in a marketing/advertising agency or marketing department
- Strong knowledge of HTML and CSS required
- Strong technical skills, including experience using email distribution and reporting applications, understanding of A/B testing, relational databases, writing scripts and database queries (MySQL), HTML and HTML editing tools, basics of Photoshop (resizing/optimizing images)
- Knowledge of ExactTarget or comparable email marketing solution is required
- Strong understanding of up-to-date marketing and email communication strategies and best practices around permission-based marketing, deliverability, personalization, segmentation and SPAM
- Knowledge of CAN-SPAM laws and regulations
- Strong project manager and innovative problem solver who is intensely detail-oriented and results-focused
- Strong written, time management and oral communication skills
- Experience with other business systems (e.g., Omniture, Google Analytics) is a plus
This is a part-time position, 20-hours per week, with the potential to grow into a full-time position. This position is located in our San Francisco office. Only apply if this is what you are seeking.
How To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, including salary requirements and resume to jobs+emailprodassoc.gs@greatschools.org, with
"Email Production Associate" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No phone calls please.
Video Producer/Editor
We are seeking a multi-month contract Video Producer/Editor to work with our Content team on short-form, engaging, videos for parents about different ways of supporting their children's learning at home.
The primary role of the Video Producer/Editor is to create short-form video content for use on the GreatSchools.org web site and other digital properties.
Prior experience creating dynamic low-budget video content that has high quality standards for narrative, music, sound, and look & feel is required.
The Video Producer/Editor must be capable of multitasking, conceptualizing/writing engaging short narrative scripts, collaborating with the Content team, editing, overseeing and planning shoots in the field, and bring journalistic standards to multimedia storytelling.
Responsibilities:
- Produce short-format, videos for distribution on GreatSchools digital platforms.
- Work with team to conceptualize and write scripts/script outlines for each video.
- Coordinate field shoots in schools and other field locations (homes, parks, offices) - including coordinating on-camera talent, locations, and equipment.
- Execute on field shoots - including lighting, audio, and videography-with some minimal support from the team.
- Serve as primary editor for each video.
- Manage video assets.
- Collaborate well with other editorial team members and groups.
Experience/Skills/Education Required:
- 5 years of related video production/editing experience
- Proven experience/concrete examples of creative script writing for short-form video format
- Digital video production software guru: Final Cut Pro 7, Adobe After Effects, Soundtrack Pro, Adobe Photoshop CS5 with an attention to detail (Microsoft Office Suite: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Prior experience using pro-sumer video equipment to create high quality web videos
- Able to work within tight deadlines and limited budgets
- Able to work independently and efficiently
- Able to collaborate well with others is a MUST!
This is a contract position with the possibility this job could develop into a longer-term contract or permanent position. Only apply if this is what you are seeking.
How To Apply:
Please email your résumé with a cover letter, including desired hourly pay range and earliest possible start date to jobs+videoproducer.gs@greatschools.org, with
"Video Producer/Editor" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Please also include links to examples of your past video work. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No agencies or phone calls please.
Front-End Engineer
This position focuses on building attractive and well-engineered user interfaces in HTML, CSS, and jQuery. You excel at taking a specification and turning it into a polished UI, applying the latest thinking in front-end design. You are just as comfortable collaborating with designers as you are talking tech with engineers.
This position exists because we recently received funding from a major foundation and have a lot of work to do! It's a perfect role for anyone who wants temporary work and can commit to a project through September 28, 2012.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have Experience With Things Like:
- Cross-browser development for modern browsers and mobile devices
- Emerging concepts and technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and responsive web design
- Building rich interactive features using JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX
- Collaborating with UX and graphic designers and software engineers
- Writing front-end code that follows software design principles - flexible, reusable, and consistent
- Developing robust, scalable web applications optimized for performance and fast load times
- Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, IDEs, version control, and other tools of the trade
Stuff To Look Forward To:
- Competitive salary while making a difference in the world!
- Be a part of a small team where your opinion matters and we're always learning and growing.
- Agile-style development with the opportunity to work on a variety of projects.
- A supportive culture where smart, focused team players with a passion for technology can thrive.
- Our employees have families and lives outside work. We support that!
How To Apply:
- Captain Recruiter will be the first point of contact.
- All applications receive a response.
- All applications are kept strictly confidential.
- To apply, click here.
QA Engineer
This position focuses on QA for the entire software development lifecycle of web applications; you'll help test our entire site, and work side by side with the engineers. You excel at crafting a meaningful testing plan during the design phase and aggressively isolating quality issues during the testing phase. QA is at the heart of everything we do, and you'll love this position if you are much more than a script following button-pusher. You'll mostly do manual testing, although any experience with automation is a plus.
This position exists because we recently received funding from a major foundation and have a lot of work to do! It's a perfect role for anyone who wants temporary work and can commit to a project through September 28, 2012.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have Experience With Things Like:
- Developing and executing a manual testing strategy for web applications, including regression testing.
- Working w/ Agile software teams, prioritizing what can and can't be tested in each iteration
- Ability to write SQL queries and read programming languages (Java a plus)
- Cross-browser QA for modern browsers and mobile devices
- Writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks
- Testing third party APIs (Omniture products a plus)
Stuff To Look Forward To:
- Competitive salary while making a difference in the world!
- Be a part of a small team where your opinion matters and we're always learning and growing.
- A supportive culture where smart, focused team players with a passion for technology can thrive.
- Our employees have families and lives outside work. We support that!
How To Apply:
- Captain Recruiter will be the first point of contact.
- All applications receive a response.
- All applications are kept strictly confidential.
- To apply, click here.
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