Community Central:Hiring

Community Manager (Japan)
We are looking for a Community Manager in Japan - please see hiring/Japan.

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 in to contributors and editors in to 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 mediums (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 either 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 marnie@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 generating over 100 million page views per month.

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.

Product Manager, Wikia, (San Mateo, CA)
Wikia, Inc., the leading provider of community resources for building free content, wants you! If you're a rock star Product Manager then come help us build The Next Big Thing for vibrant on-line communities.

What kinds of things will you be working on?

 * User conversion, user engagement, social networking, widgets, viral growth, and all the usual fun stuff.

What do we expect from you?

 * Be smart and be passionate.
 * Previous web 2.0 product management experience (3-5 years relevant experience and/or demonstrated success)
 * Technical background - fluent with web technologies and services.
 * Community product background - understand community-driven features and properties.
 * Analytical - strategic, mature, and metrics oriented with a strong creative ability.
 * Presentable - executive level strategy, communication, and presentation skills.
 * Previous experience with Wikia, Wikipedia, wikis or other user generated community content sites is a big plus.
 * MBA is a plus.

What you'll be doing...

 * Take strategic ideas and transform them into product specs with deliverables and metrics to drive innovation.
 * Develop an in-depth understanding of what drives wiki communities and content generation.
 * Work with a small team of engineers to quickly push out new concepts and data-driven refinements.
 * Iterate, iterate, iterate.

Please send resume and cover letter (pdf preferred) explaining how you currently resemble or how you could become the ideal candidate. Send to marnie@wikia.com and include PM 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 generating over 100 million page views per month.

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.