Are you passionate about web technologies? Are you brilliant at what you do? Does everyone agree that your work is impeccable?
Tell us more about why Animoto can't do without you. Demonstrably impressive experience is a must. The lackluster need not write.
Open Positions
Animoto is looking for an experienced Program Manager to lead the delivery process - from planning through deployment - of our many web-based, technical, product-related initiatives. The Program Manager will work closely with all facets of the company, from technical and creative to marketing and business. Together with various team leaders, the Program Manager will drive the process by which initiatives are scoped, spec'ed, scheduled, executed, tested and released, while ensuring quality and minimizing risks.
Animoto has seen great success with its existing product releases, and this coming year will prove to be our most exciting year yet in terms of bringing great new innovations to market. The Program Manager will be at the center of the action here at Animoto and will potentially lead the delivery of everything from core Animoto.com products to our social network apps, iPhone apps, marketing initiatives, business development related offerings, and video creation platform tools.
The successful candidate will be an experienced Program Manager with a strong track record of shipping online products/services on schedule and a proven ability to partner across various departments to accomplish business, design, and engineering goals. We need someone with strong technical skills and demonstrated experience in understanding everything from web architectures to design/UI issues. Building positive and productive relationships will be a requisite, and facilitating the decision-making process in an efficient, thoughtful, and thorough manner will be critical.
As a small but fast-growing company, the various practices and processes here are continually evolving to fit the ever-changing needs, priorities, and size of the company. The Program Manager will have the opportunity to leverage his/her experience to help develop the processes at Animoto.
This role demands interacting with team leaders across the company, and we'll be depending on this person to make everyone's life easier. As a result, you must be highly-motivated, persistent, patient, and even-keeled. Co-workers describe you pragmatic, resourceful, 100% dependable, and someone who commands a high-level of respect.
Responsibilities: - 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. - Create and maintain product specs. - Help resolve critical cross-group technical or project issues as they impact the release plans. - Define and execute on the release strategy and commit to improving the process with each iteration. - Build effective relationships with team leads across all departments.
Requirements: - Demonstrated ability to lead in an agile engineering environment - Ability to deal with ambiguity and to drive people at all levels towards communicated goals - Demonstrated excellence, passion and leadership in project management - Strong cross-group communication and negotiation 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: experience with Ruby On Rails and/or Amazon Web Services - BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
This position is based in Animoto's New York City office in central Manhattan (Greenwich Village).
Animoto.com is looking for a few solid Ruby devs to join our small team of kick-arse developers. We’re a well-funded startup that has been making a big splash all over the press, from the New York Times to TechCrunch. We’re not looking for code monkeys—we want to find people who care about their code and who want to be challenged and grow in their skills.
Who we are: Here’s our blurb: "Animoto is a video creation platform that automatically produces videos using images and music. Using their patent-pending Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor & director, the resulting video has the emotional impact of a movie trailer and the visual energy of a music video."
To be honest, that text just doesn’t do us justice. Check out this link to get a better picture of what we do. Or, if you won’t take our word for it, you can read what the press has to say and check out the awards we’ve won, including this year’s Webby Award for Best Services and Applications Website. We’re already cash-flow positive and have just finished raising more money to take it to the next level. We’re looking for some good devs to help us get there.
Who we’re looking for: I’m not going to list 100 technologies you need to know to join our team. Through our hiring process we’ve determined that there are only a few must-haves to pass the bar. You need to demonstrate at least 2 out of the 3 following:
The other soft requirements are that you are a good fit for our team (can you learn from others? can you collaborate well?) and that you demonstrate that you can attack problems creatively and have a flexible mind.
On top of that, here are the technologies that we use that would be helpful for you to know:
Rails, Merb, Capistrano, Git, Linux, HTML/DHTML/CSS/Javascript, Ajax, AWS (S3/EC2/SQS/SDB), RESTful APIs, async processing/messages queues (Starling, DelayedJob, etc), Nginx, Apache + Phusion Passenger, Haproxy, SQL, db optimization.
Salary: Competitive
Apply by Email: devjobs@animoto.com