Community Central:Hiring

Wikia is a consumer destination site where you can read, discuss, and share information and opinions on any topic and in any language. Wikia currently has over 800,000 pages of content in more than 70 languages. Wikia's investors include Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network, and a select group of angel investors including Marc Andreessen, Josh Kopelman, Joichi Ito, Mitch Kapor, and Ron Conway.

Intern for Wikia Gaming (San Francisco, CA)
Wikia Gaming is searching for a fall (autumn) intern to help the gaming team get ready for all the big fall game releases. Duties will include content seeding, writing walkthroughs, recruiting and mentoring new admins and noobs, and reaching out to game related fansites and forums to promote new wikis.

Benefits include getting a backstage pass to the inner-workings of Wikia, and the ability to help shape our seeding and promotional efforts. The internship will span the breadth of the gaming community, with a focus on console games (360, PS3, Wii, DS and PSP) and Fall 2008 releases.

The ideal candidate possesses thumb calluses from playing too many games, had a edit count of over 10,000 (but pretends not to know that), and is excited about the idea of seeing new wikis succeed! We're looking for someone who can commit to 15-20 hours/week. Hours are flexible. Work from home -- or, if you're nearby, you can work from our offices in San Francisco.

This is an unpaid position, though the position could lead to a more permanent role on the team.

Responsibilities
The position will involve working with the Marketing Manager to identify and build out target content areas. This will span the entire life-cycle of wikis ranging from seeding and content creation to improving mature communities. For new wikis: For existing wikis:
 * Create content and structure
 * Stay on top of current news as it relates to the gaming industry
 * Reach out to external communities and fansites to achieve maximum reach for gaming communities
 * Identify what's missing on the wiki, and figure out how to help
 * Clean up content, organize main page, keep things consistent
 * Restructure content
 * Establish a good relationships with the existing admins, and help create a thriving community on their wiki

Qualifications
Candidates should have a strong history of contributions on Wikia -- especially creating pages and copy-editing. Admin experience preferred, but not required.

Applying
Please send a resume, introduction letter and your Wikia username to [mailto:hiring@wikia.com hiring@wikia.com]

Advertising Sales (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago)
Reports to the Vice President of Sales

Are you an advertising salesperson looking for your next big career move? This is a unique opportunity to join an ad sales team on the ground floor. A majority of Wikia’s audience is in the young male demographic centered around Gaming, Entertainment and Sports. July comScore numbers list Wikia with 4.1MM users in the U.S. and 10.4MM worldwide. Click below to learn more about Wikia’s audience, content, and top websites.

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Responsibilities

 * Manage all aspects of selling and closing advertising deals.
 * Leverage your existing contacts with agencies. Pursue ‘warm’ in-bound leads, or ‘cold’ leads and contacts provided to you.
 * Call media planners and buyers on a daily basis.
 * Complete RFP responses and proposals.
 * Move each deal through the sales process and close the business.
 * Input all relevant information into Salesforce.com (training provided).
 * Use DoubleClick’s DART ad server to look up and sell inventory.
 * Support the Vice President of Sales in building a successful advertising business.

Qualifications
General Experience
 * The ability to ASK good questions and LISTEN to what potential customers have to say.
 * Excellent communication and verbal presentation skills.
 * NO FEAR of cold-calling and doing what it takes to close a deal.
 * Customer focused.
 * Strong organizational skills and superior attention to detail.
 * Excellent understanding of the English language
 * Outgoing, Enthusiastic, Energetic, and Professional attitude.
 * College degree or equivalent experience

Required Experience
 * Minimum 1-year success as a sales rep. Strong computer skills.

Recommended Experience
 * Advertising sales, Internet related sales, video games, entertainment, social networking, blogs, wiki sites.

Why Work for Wikia?

 * Title and Compensation commensurate with experience
 * Opportunity - The chance to work in a fast growing Internet company.
 * Location - NY Office, SF Office, or Home Office
 * FUN! - We work hard and play hard! “Crazy Shirt Day” or “Flashback Fridays” anyone? Xbox 360 and Wii games in the lounge room... or maybe take a ride in the massage chair!

Applying

 * Email your resume as an attachment to adsales@wikia-inc.com.
 * Please also include a cover letter in the **body** of your email.

Entertainment Community Intern -- Location flexible within US
Wikia's Entertainment team is looking for an intern to work closely with members of Wikia's management team to create fabulous and well-organized Entertainment content. We're looking for people who love working on Entertainment wikis, and want to get more involved. The interns help to choose the Entertainment spotlights, looking ahead to figure out what the next big Entertainment wikis will be. The team rehabs dead wikis, builds up new wikis and educates admins on wiki tricks that help the sites to grow.

Interns get a look behind the scenes at Wikia, helping to determine the direction of our seeding and promotion. They work on lots of different Entertainment wikis, with a variety of topics and projects. Interns have helper access on all wikis, and have a deeper level of involvement than Wikia contributors usually have.

The Entertainment Community Intern is an unpaid position, though a stipend is available for the right candidate, and the position could lead to a more permanent role on the team.

We're looking for 10-25 hours/week from people who love writing and building wikis. Hours are flexible. Work from home -- or, if you're nearby, you can work from our offices in San Francisco.

Responsibilities
The position will involve working with the Community Development Manager to identify target content areas. We'll create new wikis, and help to improve existing ones.

For new wikis :


 * Creating the basic content pages and structure


 * Finding information on the internet, and using that info to write lots of pages

For existing wikis :


 * Identifying what's missing on the wiki, and figuring out how to help


 * Cleaning up content, organizing the main page, making things consistent


 * Restructuring content, making sure that the category structure makes sense


 * Upgrading help pages


 * Establishing a good relationship with the existing admins, and helping them create a thriving community on their wiki

Qualifications
Candidates should have a strong history of contributions on Wikia -- especially creating pages and copy-editing. Admin experience preferred, but not required.

Applying
Please send a resume, introduction letter and your Wikia username to Danny Horn, at [mailto:danny@wikia-inc.com danny@wikia.com].

Community Development Associate (San Francisco, CA)
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content, wants you! If you have online community experience and a passion for wikis, we're building a small agile team and looking for a fabulous Community Development Associate to join our team.

Responsibilities

 * Help new and existing communities grow by contributing content, offering advice to the wiki founder and welcoming new contributors.
 * Assisting users and responding to their questions via email, CSR ticketing systems, wiki talk pages and chat programs.
 * Helping users with editing their wikis (i.e. creating templates and tables, and setting up category structures).
 * Responding to requests for new wikis and creating them as needed.
 * Testing new features and creating corresponding help pages and tutorials.
 * Forwarding user comments, requests, and bug reports to the appropriate team.

Ideal Candidate

 * Has excellent writing skills and can communicate proactively with others in friendly and simple terms.
 * Enjoys multitasking and can meet several deadlines at once.
 * Has a passion for wikis and online communities.
 * Has experience with MediaWiki software and syntax.
 * Thrives in a fast paced environment.
 * Self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to work independently with attention to detail.
 * Experience managing online communities or supporting online customers and/or heavy participation in an existing wiki community.

Applying
This is a full time position located in San Francisco, CA. Relocation assistance is possible for the right candidate.

Please send a resume and intro email to hiring@wikia-inc.com and include CDA in the subject line.

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