WORK & PLAY AT JIBJAB!

We work very hard here at JibJab, not because someone is telling us to, but because we love what we do. We love creating stories. We love building cool things.  We love tackling tough challenges.  We love to laugh.  We love to win.  Winning for us is serving our mission (“Billions of People Happy”) and making a living doing it.  After all, what better way is there to make a living than making things that make people happy?

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CURRENT OPENINGS

 

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

-Are you the epitome of “on it” and THE go-to person who never lets things fall through the cracks?
-Do you have a work ethic that won’t quit?  Are you so detail oriented and organized that it’s scary?
-Are you funny, punny, witty and super creative?
-Can you write copy, pitches, and pretty much all types of communication with superb quality?
If you answered a big YES! to all of these questions, JibJab has a job for you.

JibJab is looking for a talented Communications Coordinator to help bring fun to the people with JibJab.com and learning and fun for kids and parents with StoryBots family of apps.

In the past 12 years, JibJab’s talented team has built products that have served laughs to over 100 million people around the world.  Our ‘Starring You’ product is the biggest personalized media product on the web.  Since we launched it, people have created over 100 million pieces of content that have been viewed over 750 million times.

Now, we’re bringing that delight to the next generation through our new StoryBots brand. Our mission is to make learning fun for kids and keep parenting fun. We’ve got a lot done already, but we’re just getting started, and we have a lot of big plans still in store.  We’re going to need help, and this where you come in.

The Communications Coordinator position is a cross-functional support role designed to execute tactical elements of corporate communications, brand marketing, customer acquisition and strategic partnership projects.  The role requires:

• Proactive thinker who can function autonomously to lead tactical execution, while still thinking strategically to meet big picture objectives.
• Strong ability to consistently identify and take advantage of untapped opportunities for program expansion and optimization.  Adept at developing original ideas and innovating beyond status quo.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively articulate the brand positioning both internally and externally, in a highly compelling and creative manner.
• Flexible and easily adapts to unexpected change, with ability to stay nimble and positive as goals and resources shift.  Also able to contribute effectively outside of core specialty, as well as comfortable and willing to perform both above and below position level.
• Accountable and high impact performer, able to accomplish a high volume of work with grace and efficiency.
• Curious to the core, learning rapidly and eagerly.  Excited to understand our strategy, market, subscribers and community.
• Contagiously positive attitude.  Passionate about our corporate goal to make billions of people happy, inspired by high quality, fun entertainment.
• Extreme attention to detail and organizational skills are baseline requirements and should be a core strength.

Responsibilities include, but not are not limited to:

• Execution of successful, targeted marketing campaigns, using established and new customer acquisition channels.
• Drafting key communications and messaging, including marketing collateral, grass roots outreach, PR materials and pitches, blog posts – with high proficiency and minimal edits needed.
• Tracking and documenting campaign performance, monitoring for efficiency and opportunities for optimization.
• Comprehensive, and effective partner relationship management, including vendors and strategic partners.
• Research, including industry trends, related comps, competitive analysis, and more.
• Pitching, including PR, industry awards and speaking opportunities, business development opportunities, to secure media coverage, awards and effective partnerships.
• Event management, as needed.

Qualified candidates will have:

• 3-5 years of comparable experience in marketing communications for consumer facing tech / entertainment brands
• BA/BS required
• Proficient in Word, Excel, Keynote, WordPress, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest; Salesforce and/or database management experience a plus
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS and Photoshop a plus
• Passion for fun and great sense of humor – after all, our corporate mission is to make billions of people happy!
• Interest in the parenting experience and children’s education and entertainment
• Savvy perspective on tech space — should be avid user of apps and consumer of online content

To apply, send resume with cover letter to Melissa@jibjab.net.  Please be thoughtful and specific to this opportunity; please include resume in body of your email (not as attachment).

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MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPER

JibJab’s talented engineering team has built products that have served laughs to over 100 million people around the world. Our ‘Starring You’ product that allows users to put themselves, family and friends into JibJab videos is the biggest personalized media product on the web. Since we launched it, users have created over 100 million pieces of content that have been viewed over 750 million times.

Now, we’re trying to bring that delight to the next generation through our new StoryBots initiative. Our mission is to make learning fun for kids and easy for parents. The way we see it, the promise of the iPhone and the iPad is in their ability to deliver beautiful, engaging, and interactive experiences that spark a sense of wonder in children everywhere.

But we’re going to need help, and this is where you come in.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with the product and development teams to design, implement, and continually improve apps for the iPhone and iPad.
• Evaluate new technologies and device platforms.
• Provide assessments and accurate estimates for project implementation.
• Optimize UI responsiveness, efficiency of network calls, and smoothness of audio/video playback.
• Integrate visual designs and animations into different apps.
• Implement, debug, and extend purchase and restore funnels with In-App Purchase.
• Work with a passion for quality and maintainability.

Have fun! Remember – we’re funny people…mostly.

What you’ll need:

- 3+ years of development experience in mobile application architecture, frameworks and development methodologies.
- Proficient programming abilities in Objective-C/Cocoa framework and iPhone/iPad SDK.
- Thorough knowledge of Objective-C language features such as protocols and categories. The richer your toolbox for architectural decisions, the better.
- Experience in writing rich GUI’s for the iPhone and iPad.
- Lots of experience with consuming web service API’s and technologies (RESTful or otherwise).
- A firm grasp of web application basics: HTTP, SSL, cookies, database access, and so on.
- A positive attitude is an absolute must, along with strong verbal and written communication skills. We work in small teams, which makes working well together that much more important. We’re not a huge company: cross-department communication is a fact of life.

Nice to haves:

- Experience with Core Data schema design and using Core Data contexts in multiple threads.
- Experience with In-App Purchases, particularly auto-renewable subscriptions.
- Previous experience with developing applications that are already in the App Store.
- Total comfort on the Unix command line.
- Experience integrating with payment systems, web or mobile: PayPal, Recurly, Stripe, and so on.
- Examples of open source projects (on GitHub or elsewhere).

About the rest of our technology:

• Most of our web applications are built with Ruby on Rails.
• Linux is the primary production operating system, PostgreSQL is our database and software like Memcache, Beanstalk and Unicorn are used to power our website and keep it fast.
• Flash, Flex and other RIA technologies power our media personalization and rendering platform.
• Web technologies such as AJAX, JavaScript, and JSON are essential elements of our site.

JOB PERKS

Laundry service, parking, coffee, bagels on Monday and wagon full of snacks every Wednesday.

APPLY HERE

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SOFTWARE ENGINEER

In the past twelve months, JibJab’s talented engineering team has built products that have served laughs to over 100 million people around the world.  Our ‘Starring You’ product that allows users to put themselves, family and friends into JibJab videos and pictures is the biggest personalized media product on the web.  Since we launched it, users have created over 100 million pieces of content that have been viewed over 750 million times.

Now, we’re also trying to bring that delight to the next generation through our new StoryBots initiative. Our mission is to make learning fun for kids and easy for parents. Since the Web continues to be the best way to bring enriching experiences that reach the most people, it’s no surprise that we consider StoryBots.com such an important part of this initiative. We’ve got a lot done already, but we’re just getting started, and we have a lot of big plans still in store.

We’re going to need help, and this where you come in.

What you’ll be doing:

• Write Ruby and Rails software for the JibJab and StoryBots websites.
• Write in Ruby or any other another language of your choice for any number of tasks requiring analysis or automation.
• Build internal components and services to promote maintainability and re-usability.
• Provide assessments and accurate estimates for project implementation.
• Integrate with sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest to help us reach more people.
• Work with a passion for quality and maintainability. “Don’t leave broken windows unrepaired.”
• Have fun! Remember – we’re funny people… mostly.

What you’ll need:

-At least 3 years of experience building dynamic websites using web application frameworks using Ruby, Python, Perl, or another dynamic programming language.
-A firm grasp of web application basics: HTTP, SSL, cookies, database access, browser quirks, and so on.
-Experience using standard web technologies: HTML, CSS, JSON, AJAX, JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries.
-The ability to look at C and syntactically similar languages (C++, Java, and Objective-C) and still have some sense of what’s going on in the code.
-An appreciation for clarity in both database schema design and object-oriented design.
-Total comfort on a Unix command line.
-A positive attitude is an absolute must, along with strong verbal and written communication skills. We work in small teams, which makes working well together that much more important. We’re not a huge company: cross-department communication is a fact of life.

Nice to haves:

-Interest and/or experience with emerging technologies such as NoSQL databases or Node.js.
-Experience with the Rails asset pipeline and CSS preprocessors such as Sass or LESS.
-Experience integrating with payment systems, either web or mobile: PayPal, Recurly, Stripe, and so on.
-Experience developing mobile web applications, iOS apps, or native desktop apps.
-Examples of open source projects (on GitHub or elsewhere).

About our technology:

• Most of our applications are built with Ruby and Rails.
• Linux is the primary production operating system, PostgreSQL is our database and software like Memcache, Beanstalk and Unicorn are used to power our website and keep it fast.
• Flash, Flex and other RIA technologies power our media personalization and rendering platform.
• Web technologies such as AJAX, JavaScript, and JSON are essential elements of our site.

APPLY HERE

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SR. PRODUCT MANAGER

Contact Glennie Rabin, Director of Product, with cover letter and resume at glennie@jibjab.net.

Are you the nerd among your friends who is always first to try new web services?

Do well-executed calls-to-action and awesome user interfaces get you excited?

Are you a metrics-minded genius who wants to use your powers for funnel conversion optimization?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we have a job for you: JibJab is looking for a talented Sr. Product Manager to help bring fun to the people with JibJab.com and learning and fun for kids and parents with StoryBots family of apps.

The successful Sr. Product Manager candidate will have experience bringing web and mobile products to market.  Product Managers on our team establish themselves as experts in the field and are responsible for defining the roadmap for new and current products as well as ensure every detail in the product experience delights our customers.  Beyond writing requirements and user stories for features, you will work with a wide variety of internal groups—engineers, UI designers, marketing, sales, and services – in the full range of the product development and management cycle.  You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a passion for and knowledge of technology and user experience, and a quantitative focus.

A positive attitude is an absolute must. We are not a huge team, which makes working well together that much more important.  It also means you will own your products from start to finish and get to have a meaningful impact on everything you build!

Responsibilities:

-          Define product roadmap, identify new products and features to reach defined business goals
-          Create product functional specs for web and mobile apps
-          Gather product requirements, defining user flows, and wireframing
-          Monitoring and optimizing products in market for virality and monetization based on performance analysis
-          Continuous competitive product and market research
-          Perform feature analysis and projections

Required skills and experience:

-          6+ years of comparable experience in online product management, preferably at a consumer-facing technology company
-          Experience with Agile development processes, with both local and remote engineering teams
-          Product requirements documentation and spec writing and wireframing
-          Diagramming product user flows
-          Perform analysis using data from various platforms/tools including Google Analytics, Omniture, and Tableau
-          Expert in Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Word
-          Understanding of web analytics platforms, such as Omniture and Google Analytics
-          Understanding of principles of User Experience
-          Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and Photoshop
-          Familiarity with and interest in mobile and Facebook apps
-          BA/BS Required, MBA Preferred
-          A sense of humor – our motto is “Be Funny!”

JibJab has been pioneering digital entertainment since 1999. In the past twelve months, the artists, technologists and business people at JibJab have built products that served laughs to over 100 million people around the world. We are backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital and entertainment including Polaris Venture Partners, Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures. We offer highly competitive cash compensation, stock options and we do your laundry for you every week—seriously. If you are passionate about technology and entertainment and want to be at a company where you can make an impact, send us a cover letter and resume!

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PRODUCT MANAGER

Contact Glennie Rabin, Director of Product, with cover letter and resume at glennie@jibjab.net.

Are you the nerd among your friends who is always first to try new web services?

Do well-executed calls-to-action and awesome user interfaces get you excited?

Are you a metrics-minded genius who wants to use your powers for funnel conversion optimization?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we have a job for you: JibJab is looking for a talented Product Manager to help bring fun to the people with JibJab.com and learning and fun for kids and parents with StoryBots family of apps.

The successful Product Manager candidate will have experience bringing web and mobile products to market.  Product Managers help to define the roadmap for new and current products as well as ensure every detail in the product experience delights our customers.  Beyond writing requirements and user stories for features, you will work with a wide variety of internal groups—engineers, UI designers, marketing, sales, and services – in the full range of the product development and management cycle.  You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a passion for and knowledge of technology and user experience, and a quantitative focus.

A positive attitude is an absolute must. We are not a huge team, which makes working well together that much more important.  It also means you will own your products from start to finish and get to have a meaningful impact on everything you build!

Responsibilities:

-          Creating product functional specs for web and mobile apps
-          Support for product team in gathering product requirements, defining user flows, and wireframing
-          Perform analysis using data from various platforms/tools including Google Analytics, Omniture, and Tableau
-          Monitoring and optimizing products in market for virality and monetization
-          Continuous competitive product and market research

Required skills and experience:

-          3-6 years of comparable experience in online product management, preferably at a consumer-facing technology company
-          Product requirements documentation and spec writing
-          Wireframing
-          Diagramming product user flows
-          Understanding of web analytics platforms, such as Omniture and Google Analytics
-          Understanding of principles of User Experience
-          Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel
-          Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and Photoshop
-          Familiarity with and interest in mobile and Facebook apps
-          BA/BS Required
-          A sense of humor – our motto is “Be Funny!”

JibJab has been pioneering digital entertainment since 1999. In the past twelve months, the artists, technologists and business people at JibJab have built products that served laughs to over 100 million people around the world. We are backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital and entertainment including Polaris Venture Partners, Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures. We offer highly competitive cash compensation, stock options and we do your laundry for you every week—seriously. If you are passionate about technology and entertainment and want to be at a company where you can make an impact, send us a cover letter and resume!