Company description
MiNeeds is reinventing the way people use local services. We connect thousands of consumers and local professionals every day. MiNeeds provides a social market place for local services where consumers can post their service requests and receive bids from professionals. In a click of a button consumers save time, compare quality and get the best professional for their needs. Professionals save thousands of dollars on marketing, get new jobs daily and focus on what they do best.
Our web 2.0 platform attracted more than 100,000 customers in less than 2 years of its launch. With a proven business model we are ramping up our young team to take over 2012 by storm! Come be part of this unique experience!
Open Positions
a. Product Manager
b. SEO Marketing Manager
c. Social Media Marketing Manager
a. Product Manager
| Role |
Product Manager (web based products/web technologies) |
| Location |
New York City, New York |
| Job type |
full-time |
| Salary |
Commensurate with experience |
| Experience level |
0-3 years of relevant experience in a similar role |
| Education |
Bachelor's Degree |
We are looking for a Product Manager to lead the delivery process - from planning through deployment - of many web-based, technical, product-related initiatives. The Product Manager will work closely with the creative, engineering, marketing and executive teams. Together with various team leaders, the Product Manager will drive the process by which initiatives are scoped, spec'ed, scheduled, executed, tested and released, while ensuring quality and doing proper risk management.
This position will be at the center of the action helping to lead the delivery of everything from core products to our social network apps, mobile apps, marketing initiatives, and business development related projects. You will be working in a vibrant environment with experienced and smart people in our beautiful office in Soho, in the heart of New York City. See details
Skills:
- Have at least 3-4 years' of experience with a strong track record of deploying online products/services on schedule
- Have a proven ability to partner across various departments to accomplish business, design, and engineering goals.
- Have strong technical skills and demonstrated experience in understanding everything from web architectures to design/UI issues.
- Build positive and productive relationships
- Facilitate the decision-making process in an efficient, thoughtful, and thorough manner.
- Be highly-motivated, persistent, patient, pragmatic, resourceful, 100% dependable, and someone who commands a high-level of respect.
Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain product specs.
- Manage the schedule and scope of multiple simultaneous initiatives, ensuring quality and minimizing risk.
- Identify and track key metrics critical to project success.
- Track and effectively communicate project issues, delays and risks so that stakeholders are not surprised.
- Help resolve critical cross-group technical or project issues as they impact the release plans.
- Define and execute the release strategy and commit to improving the process with each iteration.
Requirements:
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
- Demonstrated ability to lead in an agile engineering environment
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and to drive people at all levels towards communicated goals
- Strong communication skills
- Detail-oriented and results-driven with a track record of managing projects to completion on-time
- Strong technical understanding with a commitment to self-improvement
- A major plus: prior software development experience
- Environment (for your reference): Linux, HTML/DHTML/CSS/Javascript, Ajax, Apache, My SQL.
b. SEO Marketing Manager
| Role |
SEO Marketing Manager |
| Location |
New York City (SoHo), New York |
| Job type |
Full-time |
| Salary |
Commensurate with experience |
| Min experience required |
2-5 years' relevant experience in a similar role |
| Education |
Bachelor's Degree |
We are looking for a dynamic Search Engine Optimizer that will focus on improving organic traffic. This position will be at the center of the action helping to lead the delivery of a successful marketing strategy. You will be working in a vibrant environment with experienced and smart people in our beautiful office in Soho, in the heart of New York City. See details
Skills:
- SEO Expert
- Up to date with the latest enhancements in SEO
- Demonstrated results and optimization experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-directed when confronted with support issues
- Ability to manage details, overall flexibility and efficient work habits
- Clear understanding of competitive environment to position and differentiate clients' sites successfully
Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain product specs. Work closely with developer and marketing teams
- Using web tools to track site traffic, rankings, and ultimately sales.
- Identifying and implementing strategies for increasing site traffic through organic search listings
- Researching and resolving HTML code and content, link architecture and navigation issues
- Assisting in layout of web pages when required
- Continually monitoring organic search rankings to increase traffic and sales
- Analyzing website strategies and translating qualitative or anecdotal data into recommendations and tactics for revising the strategies
- Creating and reviewing regular sales reports for various online sites and promotions
- Always be ahead of the competition by leveraging the best web analytics software and conducting external research to transform powerful insights into sales
- Researching keywords using Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook and internal tools
- Expertise in SEM is a big plus, such as: PPC, Affiliate and other.
Requirements:
- 2-5 years experience in online marketing (an experience with a premier online company preferred)
- BA/BS degree
- Excellent Internet and computer skills
- Excellent knowledge of online marketing and search engine optimization
- Basic web programming languages and techniques
- Computer skills in operating systems, browsers, word processing, databases and spreadsheets
- Clear understanding of SEO, affiliate marketing, pay-per-click advertising and the impact of social media on marketing
- Minimum college diploma in Information Science, Advertising, Business, Computer Science, Math, MIS, English, Journalism or Communications
- Knowledge and experience with HTML and Excel
c. Social Media Marketing Manager
| Role |
Social Media Marketing Manager |
| Location |
New York City (SoHo), New York |
| Job type |
Full-time |
| Salary |
Commensurate with experience |
| Min experience required |
25 years' relevant experience in a similar role |
| Education |
Bachelor's Degree |
We are looking for a Social Media Marketing Manager. The candidate must have demonstrated and extensive social media experience. This means that the person is actively participating in a wide variety of social media activities such as blogging, twitter, Facebook, community development and management, social bookmarking, commenting, etc... and is well-connected with the broader social media world. The second important part is that the candidate must be able to think strategically, and be willing and able to roll up his sleeves to help implement the programs.
This position will be at the center of the action helping to lead the delivery of a successful marketing strategy. You will be working in a vibrant environment with experienced and smart people in our beautiful office in Soho, in the heart of New York City. See details
Skills:
- Social media marketing expertise
- Creativity
- Willingness to experiment
- Ability to deal with uncertainty
- Self-directed when confronted with support issues
- Ability to contribute individually, and lead, manage or participate in cross-functional teams
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of data into actionable information
- Excellent writing skills and verbal communication skills
- Persuasiveness
- Ability to create great working relationships with all levels within the company and across multiple disciplines
Responsibilities:
- Create a comprehensive social media strategy to define programs that use social media marketing techniques to increase visibility, membership and traffic across MiNeeds and implement and manage social media programs
- Experiment with new and alternative ways to leverage social media activities ("marketing R&D")
- Monitor trends in social media tools, trends and applications and appropriately apply that knowledge to increasing the use of social media at MiNeeds
- Strategize with and educate the management team and others across the company on incorporating relevant social media techniques into all of the company's products and services
- Measure the impact of social media on the overall marketing efforts
- Ability to write product specs that relates to any improvements needed on the website relating to social media.
Requirements:
- 2-5 years experience in online marketing (an experience with a premier online company preferred)
- BA/BS degree
- Proven use of various social media tools and techniques
- Experience with traditional and non-traditional Marketing techniques
- Excellent Internet and computer skills
- Excellent knowledge of online marketing and social media
- Basic web programming languages and techniques
- Minimum college diploma in Information Science, Advertising, Business, Computer Science, Math, MIS, English, Journalism or Communications
- Knowledge and experience with HTML and Excel
- Thorough understanding of Web 2.0 technology
