Exciting, Growing, Fun, Progressive, and Rewarding.
HomeSavvi is an exciting new company that will make the power of the Internet work for homeowners seeking information, advice, products and tools related to remodeling. We are growing fast, and seeking bright, committed and fun people who want to make a quality contribution in a flexible work environment.
If this describes you, come join us! Look below for our open positions.
We offer competitive pay (salary and equity). Please submit your resume on our contact page.
Open positions
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Sales and Marketing
Technology and User Interface
Advertising Sales Executive
Are you hungry for an exciting opportunity with a fast growing new media company? Highly motivated to bring in new business and close new sales? Do you thrive on identifying and developing new customers? If so, then join the exciting team responsible for building a new Internet portal in the $2.3 billion home remodeling advertising market.
Responsibilities:
- Sell online advertising to the retailers, manufacturers and others associated with the home remodeling industry
- Aggressively prospect and secure new accounts
- Serve as a consultant to clients by assisting with media planning, marketing, budgeting and developing creative marketing strategies for your accounts
- Work closely with agencies and rep firms on third party ad sales
Strengths and experience must include:
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Comfort interacting with the highest levels of business leadership
- Ability to influence buying decisions both in-person and via telephone and email
- Goal oriented self starter
- Proven track record in prospecting and closing new customers
- 2-3 years of advertising sales experience in direct marketing, daily newspaper advertising, or internet advertising.
- Knowledge of home improvement industry highly desirable.
This position is not for those who want to side on the sidelines and simply "service" existing accounts. If you are qualified, you'll be getting in the ground floor of a fast growing company in a very dynamic field. There is plenty of upside for managing national account sales, regional sales management positions and lots of commission!
If you have the talent, we want to hear from you now! Send your resume and a cover letter to Sales[at]homesavvi[dot]com with the subject line: Ad Sales Position January 2009.
Information Architect/User Experience Guru
We are seeking a highly experienced, self-motivated individual as our lynchpin for information architecture as well as user experience development & guidance. Our number one goal is to make this website a compelling and useful experience for busy homeowners who need to get the right information quickly. This person's work product is critical to the company's success.
This is a part-time position with the potential for full-time employment.
Responsibilities:
- Work with executive management to understand the fundamental problem we solve.
- Develop superior information architecture for easy navigation and information display.
- Work with development team to develop website UI that is user-friendly, highly scalable and easy-to-implement.
- Work with graphic design team to ensure that graphical and branding elements support the user experience.
Qualifications:
- Direct experience managing information architecture with consumer website experience a must
- Strong knowledge of user generated content design principles
- Exceptional project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to communicate effectively and work in a highly dynamic team environment to produce quality work and meet strict deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Proven track record of successfully managing creative projects
- Sense of humor!
Web Developer
Seeking experienced web developer for newly funded Seattle startup. Get in on the ground floor and have the excitement of creating new applications and processes. The perfect person is entrepreneurial, needs minimal supervision, and can creatively complete projects on a minimal budget.
Responsibilities:
Start as a PT (7-10 hrs/wk) contract Web Developer. You will begin by working within our CMS development framework and become relied upon as the technical guru. Initially, the focus will be on delivery of the next version of the system. Thereafter, you will be responsible for helping to specify and lead the company into new versions and plan for the future.
This position involves all aspects of web-based software development: from analysis, to design, to development, to test, and to release. The applicant will be the primary person responsible for coding/documenting/testing/delivering the product. This will involve designing the UI, creating the Application Layer, Data Layer, etc. This developer will also be responsible for underlying documentation.
This is a fast paced and fun environment in which the developer will be required to rapidly create and deploy solutions. The ideal candidate must be resourceful and have excellent problem solving ability. We work long and hard hours to make this a raging success and our best candidates will have a similar passion.
Qualifications:
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP
- Experience interacting with/deploying to Linux/Apache server environment
- Experience with database-backed web apps highly desirable
- Experience or familiarity with team-based development using CVS, Subversion or others
- Basic graphic design skills are necessary while advanced skills highly desirable
- Cross browser, cross platform development experience
- Ability to work with minimal supervision, produce clear results and collaborate frequently
- Must be both detail-oriented and also able to see the big picture while working independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to work and excel in a start-up environment
- Ability to work remotely initially (until we get office space) and attend meetings in Seattle or Bellevue when necessary