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ReverbNation is growing. We are currently seeking candidates for the following positions:

Product Manager — Durham, North Carolina

You will manage killer software products for musicians. Needs to be comfortable dealing with a fast-paced, performance-driven startup, and be able to manage priorities effectively. You will work closely with other Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers. You understand that data-driven product design is a beautiful way to design products.This position reports directly to the VP of Product.

Required

• • Manages/develops new products and maintains existing products
• • Conducts day-to-day status updates with our product team and development team
• • Reports on product performance to senior staff
• • Defines and manages KPIs for all aspects of your product
• • Collaborate with other designers and product managers to come up with visual designs that solve problems.
• • Overseas QA of all products and services that are released to the site
• • Coordinates integration projects with external partners
• • Research competitors and best practices
• • Ability to crank out work (headphones) as well communicate with others (meetings)

Not Required, but a huge plus

• • Solid intuition of best practices and tools used in user-centered interaction design
• • Any experience wire-framing with omnigraffle, illustrator or similar tool

Experience

• • 5+ years experience in the web technology field.
• • Bachelors degree required, MBA or similar master degree in related field a big plus.
• • Should have familiarity with technical aspects of web development, any hands on HTML / CSS experience is a big plus.

Compensation

• • Salary dependent on skills and experience (may include equity), company-paid health insurance (100% of premium).

Send your resume to jobs@reverbnation.com.

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Product Designer — Durham, North Carolina

As a Product Designer you will design badass products for musicians. You will design enhancements for current products, and work on Greenfield development for the next generation of artist tools. You will be in love with wire framing. If marriage between humans and software were legal you would marry Omnigraffle. You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers. You understand that data-driven product design is a beautiful way to design products.

Responsibilities

• • Translate business conversations into concepts and elegant user experience design
• • Create wireframes of new products and modifications to existing products
• • Get into photoshop when more detail is required
• • Collaborate with other designers and product managers to come up with visual designs that solve problems.
• • Digest business problems and synthesize results into visual solutions
• • Develop and maintain design wireframes, mockups, and specifications
• • Visualize complex sets of data in ways that are easy to comprehend

Requirements

• • Ability to think at a high level about product design, you are solving a business problem with an interface, not making a button look pretty.
• • Fluid ability to design in Photoshop, OmniGraffle, and Illustrator
• • Solid intuition of best practices and tools used in user-centered interaction design
• • Ability to crank out work (headphones) as well communicate with others (meetings)
• • Strong visual design skills, including an eye for good typography, composition, and use of color
• • Strong portfolio of interaction design work
• • Excellent verbal and written communication skills - you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions
• • 5+ years experience in related field like web/tech/mobile/design
• • Bachelors degree required, Masters in related field a big plus

It would be best if you...

• • Experience working on music driven applications, or working with musicians themselves is a bonus
• • Any prototyping experience HTML/CSS/JS is a big plus
• • Any Business experience with Analytics, or survey design gets you bonus points.

In return, you'll get...

• • The satisfaction of watching your friends use your work when they're out in public
• • Salary with possibility of equity
• • Health insurance (100% of premiums paid by company)
• • A new hoss of a machine, leather executive chair with lumbar support

Send your resume to jobs@reverbnation.com.

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Front End Mobile Web Developer — Durham, North Carolina

We're looking for a Front End Mobile Web Developer to join our existing team of pixel pushers and jQuery slingers. The position will be focused primarily on mobile web development using existing web standards and popular libraries. Hiring 4 people to do native development has gone the way of the dodo, and we're looking to define ourselves as being committed to providing equal access for phones of all capabilities and smartness level.

You definitely should...

• • Be very proficient with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• • Have experience writing, testing, and shipping front-end code for iOS, Android, and...uh...the third one is, um...the uh...I forgot. Oops.
• • Have used popular libraries like SproutCore, Backbone, Ext, jQuery Mobile, etc.
• • Have worked with a RESTful JSON API doing simple CRUD operations
• • Be able to evaluate and propose a suite of technologies to best solve mobile website development challenges
• • Get your energy from a fast-paced team environment (supplemented with Pretzel M&Ms)
• • Dream and fight for all browsers having equal opportunity to HTML5 and CSS3 standards compliance

It would be best if you...

• • Have experience testing and benchmarking front-end code for correctness and performance
• • Have experience with Ruby on Rails
• • Have good knowledge of agile software development processes and methodologies
• • Own a viking helmet to shield your brain from the destructive cellular and padular radiation
• • Use said viking helmet for LARPing or other various modes of battle

In return, you'll get...

• • The satisfaction of watching your friends use your work when they're out in public
• • Salary with possibility of equity
• • Health insurance (100% of premiums paid by company)
• • A new hoss of a machine, leather executive chair with lumbar support

Send your resume to jobs@reverbnation.com.

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Front End Web Designer/Developer — Durham, North Carolina

The ReverbNation Product Team is looking to add a Front End Web Designer/Developer to its existing group of pixel magicians. The right candidate will have experience creating original design work, modifying existing work, and implementing aesthetic and functionality using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. A proven track record of your ability to bring the design & coding heat is required, so dust off that github account and ready thy Adobe sword.

You definitely should...

• • Have lengthy experience building consumer-facing websites from front to back
• • Be exceptionally proficient with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• • Have working knowledge of design programs like Photoshop/Illustrator/OmniGraffle ("everyday im grafflin...")
• • Be able to demonstrate past work from concept to code
• • Love wrangling all 4 major browsers on each OS
• • Get your energy from a fast-paced team environment (supplemented with Pretzel M&Ms)
• • Dream and fight for all browsers having equal opportunity to HTML5 and CSS3 standards compliance

It would be best if you...

• • Have used popular libraries for development (jQuery, SASS, etc)
• • Have experience with (sold your soul to) an MVC web framework
• • Know or have worked with Ruby on Rails
• • Can sing (we really need a singer for our band)

In return, you'll get...

• • Salary with possibility of equity
• • Health insurance (100% of premiums paid by company)
• • A new hoss of a machine, leather executive chair with lumbar support

To apply please send a link to your portfolio site (if your work is really awesome, nothing else matters) to jobs@reverbnation.com. For bonus points redesign one of our products and send us your mockup.

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Full Stack Web Developer — Durham, North Carolina

ReverbNation is looking for [insert ninja archetype] web developers to join our growing team in Durham, NC. As a web developer, your role would include interfacing with both the product and infrastructure teams to bring sweet pixely nectar to over 1.7 million artists and live performers.

You definitely should...

• • Have lengthy experience building consumer-facing websites from front to back
• • Have experience with persistent and non-persistent backing stores (SQL, Redis)
• • Have used popular libraries for development (jQuery, SASS, etc)
• • Have experience with (sold your soul to) an MVC web framework
• • Love wrangling all 4 major browsers on each OS
• • Get your energy from a fast-paced team environment (supplemented with Pretzel M&Ms)
• • Dream and fight for all browsers having equal opportunity to HTML5 and CSS3 standards compliance

It would be best if you...

• • Have worked with Ruby on Rails
• • Know your way around a *nix box
• • Have worked with AWS or other similar hosted solutions
• • Can sing (we really need a singer for our band)

In return, you'll get...

• • Salary with possibility of equity
• • Health insurance (100% of premiums paid by company)
• • A new hoss of a machine, leather executive chair with lumbar support

Send your resume and any related links to jobs@reverbnation.com.

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Marketing & Analytics Manager — Durham, North Carolina

Are you a ninja when it comes to google adwords, google analytics, and excel? Know paid search, SEM, SEO, and things like Omniture like the back of your hand? We want you to join our team right now.

Responsibilities include...

• • Managing and directing the company AdWords account (significant budget. really.)
• • Conducting a wide variety of business analyses for our main site using Google Analytics and Excel (20+ Million uniques per month. really.)
• • Supporting other department needs for tracking events, outcomes, and customer funnels
• • Researching and and advising on SEO best practices
• • Researching competitors, developing and maintaining quantitive competitive analayses on them

You definitely should...

• • Have 3-5 years experience in the web technology field, including Google AdWords and Analytics
• • Have a bachelors degree. Having a masters in a related field tickles our fancy
• • Have familiarity with overall technical aspects of web
• • Enjoy music. Music industry experience also tickles our fancy

In return, you'll get...

• • Salary with possibility of equity
• • Health insurance (100% of premiums paid by company)
• • A new hoss of a machine, leather executive chair with lumbar support

Send your resume and any related links to jobs@reverbnation.com.

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Dev/Ops Engineer— Durham, North Carolina

Sometimes an issue or new functionality lies at the crossroad of the code, the persistent store, and the environment. For instance, developers often don't know enough Unix to understand why gems aren't installing. System admins often can't decipher enough code to figure out the impact of an environmental change. If you can do both, we need you! We've got lots of interesting problems associated with a high traffic site where reliability is highly valued. ReverbNation's scale pushes us towards new technologies. The problems are complex, varied, and enjoyable. This position includes both new development and operational problem resolution though off-hours requirements are light and shared. You'll work with our top engineers and many exciting new technologies to improve your skills even further.

Job Requirements

• • 3 or more years experience
• • Linux system administration or very strong Unix skills
• • High proficiency with SQL
• • Ruby experience is a big plus, OO programming experience is required
• • Knowledge of Chef, Capistrano, Redis/Resque, Sphinx, Memcache, and similar technologies helps
• • Cloud computing experience is a plus

So, if you think you'd be interested, send your resume to jobs@reverbnation.com.

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QA Engineer — Durham, North Carolina

We're looking for a QA engineer to join the ReverbNation team. You'll work alongside with the developers, support personnel, and product managers to ensure we are doing our best. Our website serves over 2 million confirmed accounts, and getting each operating system and browser the attention it needs is a non-trivial task that this position will look to conquer. This is a technical position and not for the feint of heart.

You definitely should...

• • Have experience testing web applications, preferably public applications
• • Be comfortable with the browser development tools and firebug
• • Be good at finding the edge cases before our music community finds them
• • Have a passion for quality and enough confidence to make a stink if something stinks
• • Be able to take a fuzzy report of a potential bug and narrow it down to a minimal description of a reproducible scenario
• • Have the people skills to play nice with development and product team to properly spec test cases
• • Have experience authoring and maintaining test scripts with test automation frameworks on both the GUI and backend side
• • Understand the tradeoffs between test maintainability and test completeness
• • Be able to report on software quality results and verify corrected defects
• • Love wrangling all major browsers on each OS (including mobile platforms)
• • Get your energy from a fast-paced team environment (supplemented with Pretzel M&Ms)
• • Dream and fight for all browsers having equal opportunity to HTML5 and CSS3 standards compliance

It would be best if you...

• • Have Selenium experience
• • Have managed small testing efforts (perhaps utilizing other skilled or nonskilled personnel)
• • Have experience with other testing frameworks such as TestUnit, Cucumber, rspec, or Capybara
• • Have some experience with Ruby on Rails
• • Have knowledge of agile software development processes and methodologies
• • Stay up into the wee hours of the morning keeping up with developments and advancements in the QA field

In return, you'll get...

• • The joy of crushing our developers' overblown egos when you make known their bugs
• • Salary with possibility of equity
• • Health insurance (100% of premiums paid by company)
• • Great work environment

Send your resume to jobs@reverbnation.com.

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Intern — New York, New York

Do you like to talk on the phone and pretend you are in the record business? Even if it's not a real phone? You may be weird enough to be an intern at our New York office (1 out of 11 people are). The New York office is a special place inside a special city. Interns here will be given tasks both online and offline. You may even meet Elvis.... Send a note with a resume to jobs@reverbnation.com.