Community Central:Hiring

Senior Web Developer (San Mateo, CA)
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content, wants you! If you're a great Senior Web Developer then come work on The Next Big Thing for vibrant on-line communities. We're building a small agile team in San Mateo to work on our core platform, user tools, and new customer-facing web applications.

What do we expect from you?

 * Be smart and be passionate.
 * Expert level PHP and Javascript.
 * Familiarity writing code for scale and using memcache.
 * Familiarity with MySQL and a solid understanding of query optimization and performance.
 * Unix/Linux expertise.
 * Development experience with Mediawiki a big plus.
 * Development experience with YUI a big plus.
 * Design / UI expertise a plus.
 * Previous experience with Wikia, Wikipedia, wikis or other user generated content sites is a plus.
 * Operations experience a plus.

You'll be working with other technical leads, a Product Manager, a Community Manager, and an Operations Manager on bringing a variety of projects to life at Wikia. We have a lot to do - want to help?

Please send a resume and intro email to [mailto:hiring@wikia.com hiring@wikia.com] and include SWD in the subject line.

Product Marketing Manager (San Mateo, CA)
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content on every topic, is seeking an outstanding Product Marketing Manager who can actively engage and foster thriving online communities to generate a ton of content.

Responsibilities
The Product Marketing Manager will utilize Wikia's home page, learning areas, community portals and onsite promotion to turn readers into contributors and editors into new wiki founders. The PMM will write promotional content and market new products to existing users, actively encouraging feature adoption and owning the sections of the site devoted to the discussion and presentation of product launches. The PMM also owns the new user experience, including user flows, all help areas, online tutorials, outbound emails, and newsletters.

Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is comfortable with the chaos of online communities, the oddities of user-generated content, and the fairly ugly confines of our office in San Mateo. This person is flexible and able to communicate well using a variety of media (i.e. instant messaging, Skype, email, wiki talk pages, cell phone) with teammates in eight time zones and users around the globe. The candidate is a heavy user of one or more of MySpace, Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr, etc. and can verbalize what works and doesn't work on each site. Experience with wikis is a nice plus.

Requirements

 * BS or BA
 * Excellent and creative written and oral communication skills.
 * Well-organized self-starter with attention to detail.
 * Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment.
 * Entrepreneurial spirit.
 * 3+ years experience in marketing and/or product management of a web-based product or service.
 * Experience with online communities as a user or product manager.
 * Strong analytical skills and passion for analyzing and benchmarking products, competitors, and market dynamics.
 * Proactive style with discipline and will to set priorities, drive decisions, and get closure on recommendations and issues.
 * Flexible and willing to do what it takes to ensure success.
 * UI design and usability testing experience a plus.
 * Experience editing wikis a huge plus.
 * Multiple written languages a plus.

Please send resume and cover letter in .pdf format explaining how you currently resemble or how you could become the ideal candidate. Send to [mailto:hiring@wikia.com hiring@wikia.com] and include PMM in the subject line.

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 500,000 pages of content in more than 60 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.