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Work for Barack Obama: Jobs in the New Presidency

  

Unemployment in the U.S. is now at 6.5%, its highest in 14 years, but if you want to be part of history in a good way, you might want to consider applying for a job in Washington's newest administration.

Newsweek reports that just as Barack Obama is getting a jump on filling his high-level posts, he is also taking steps to quickly fill literally thousands of lower-level roles.

You can now apply online for a "non-career" position in the Obama administration, meaning political appointments that will only last as long as Obama's job does. Find out more at Change.gov, Obama's official transition Website, run by his transition HQ in DC. First, you need to submit an Expression of Interest, and then you'll be given an email link to a more comprehensive online application.

Apparently, no one will give details on how the early applications will be reviewed or how many have been received, but if you're interested, there's no harm in sending in your form...unless, of course, you're a conspiracy theorist, but I really don't want to go there. :)

Longer term, civil servant vacancies still go through USAjobs.gov.

Kelley Blue Book User Experience Jobs

My Council buddy, Amy Hedrick, passed these on to me. Email her at amy@kbb.com if you know of a qualified candidate!

Kelley Blue Book, the trusted resource for buying new and used cars, is currently recruiting for the following key leadership positions. Both positions are located in Orange County, California.

Director, User Experience: Responsible for leading the vision, strategy, and execution of the user experience and site architecture for Kelley Blue Book's website (kbb.com) and industry products and tools. This team member will work closely with a group of key senior level executives to determine and support the most effective product strategy, including identifying brand appropriate, customer centric user experience and design solutions that deliver on our business goals, ensure site-wide consistency, provide a foundation for future enhancements and ensure our continued success. This team member will be responsible for providing user experience leadership and direction, managing a team of User Experience/Interaction Designers and overseeing the execution of all user experience aspects across all KBB Products.

Director, User Research: Responsible for leading the vision, strategy and execution of user research/usability testing for Kelley Blue Book's website (kbb.com) and industry products and tools. This team member will take an active role in developing and evolving user research capabilities, bringing the customer perspective front and center in our product development process and successfully incorporating user research methodologies and best practices into KBB's culture, strategic and tactical decision making processes. This team member will be responsible for providing user research leadership and direction as well as taking a hands-on approach planning, scoping, conducting, and analyzing key findings; contributing to our ability to build products that delight our customers. 

Qualified candidates, please email Amy Hedrick, Kelley Blue Book's VP of Consumer Products & Experience.

E-Commerce Manager at ExerciseTV.tv

Tom Heymann who I know from A&E forwarded me this job description. If you know a qualified candidate, please email Kelly McSweeney at kmcsweeney@mac.com

Company: ExerciseTV: Comcast

Job Title: E-Commerce Store Manager

Description: ExerciseTV, a multi-platform, on-demand media company dedicated to motivating and inspiring people to live healthier lives by exercising is looking for a hardworking E-Commerce Store Manager to drive the company's online commerce initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to work independently running all aspects of the online store, but also take direction in a team-based environment. This position requires a utility player with strong user experience skills, marketing and merchandising savvy and proven expertise in maximizing online commerce revenue, including online lead generation, SEM, performance measurement and analytics. Demonstrated experience is essential.

 

The E-Commerce Manager will report to the General Manager and work closely with the Marketing and Finance teams. ExerciseTV can be found online at www.exercisetv.tv

Download ecommerce_mgr_exercise_tv_july_2008.docx

Snapfish is hiring!

My friend, Sarah Bernard (formerly VP of Ecommerce at BabyCenter.com), is now VP of Worldwide Product at Snapfish.com. Snapfish has a few key roles that they're looking to fill on the Product Management, User Interface, Design, & Project Management Teams. If you know of potential candidates, please email her at sarah.bernard@hp.com.

This is a great opportunity to work at an innovative online/multi-channel technology company with really fun people who are changing the photography space with new products, technologies, and services.

See below for open positions. All jobs are based in San Francisco. For more detailed descriptions contact sarah.bernard@hp.com

Company: Hewlett-Packard Snapfish
Job Title: Various Roles on Product Team
Description: Product Manager, International: help us build our sites world wide.

Project Manager: task master our projects to completion across functions

Web Marketing Designer: design landing pages and interactive web pages that express who we are and help the customer

User Interface Designer: architect our user experience and make photo sharing, printing, and product creation easy.

Production Associate, International: produce our sites with the designs and marketing that keep it fresh

HTML Designer: develop and build our pages and bring our designs to life.

LATimes.com: Managing Director/VP of Product Development

My good friend, Jason Oberfest, is looking for a Managing Director/VP of Product Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. Interested parties should contact jason.oberfest@latimes.com.

Download managing_director_at_latimes.com Nov 2007.doc

In short, Los Angeles Times Interactive seeks an experienced product development executive to oversee the build of a new social news platform for latimes.com. Ideal candidates will have a passion for developing high quality news and information products and a strong vision for how editorial and user generated content come together in the era of social media.

LA Times Interactive properties attract 10.6 million unique visitors and serve over 91 million page views monthly. Properties include latimes.com, TheEnvelope.com--an entertainment industry awards website, and the classifieds website recycler.com.

The Team Lead, Product Development will own the development of product strategy and mentor a group of product management staff in the development of new products for the California / Local news, Travel, LA City guide, and Real Estate verticals.

VP of IS, Musician's Friend

The VP of Information Systems position is open at Musician's Friend, Inc. The location is in Medford, OR. The VP, IS reports to the President and directs, plans, organizes and controls all activities of the IS department. S/he is responsible for constantly improving enterprise productivity by executing the design, implementation, administration and monitoring of best practice IS programs and policies relating to all phases of the business. The VP, IS is strategic and tactical and has a winning attitude. Might I add that we are looking for someone who has considerable Internet and e-commerce expertise as well. :)

If you know someone who'd be right for this job, email me and/or review the detailed job description. Download vp_is_musicians_friend_6.07.doc

I've still got a couple of open positions open in my group as well, including Web Analytics Manager. Just a shout-out, btw, to Eric Peterson, Web analytics guru and CEO of Web Analytics Demystified, who was kind enough to blog about the job here. If you need Web analytics consulting done, he's the man.

Download web_analytics_mgr_6.07.doc

UPDATE: Both of these jobs have been filled!

Account Manager, Hitwise

My friend and intrepid late-night gnudi-eating companion, Keith Pepper, is the VP of Account Management at Hitwise, a competitive intelligence research company recently purchased by Experian. They are in growth mode and looking for smart Account Managers in their San Francisco and NYC locations. Download the pdf of the job description below.

Download hitwise_acct. Mgr. Job Description June 2007.pdf

Interested and qualified parties should contact Keith directly at keith.pepper@hitwise.com.

BabyCenter Sr. Product Manager, E-Commerce

My council buddy, Sarah Bernard, VP of eCommerce at BabyCenter.com, is looking for a Sr. Product Manager. The job is based in lovely San Francisco. Interested parties should contact sarahb@babycenter.com.

UPDATE: Sarah is no longer at BabyCenter. If you want to reach her, email me at syp@jeffnet.org.

Company: BabyCenter, LLC
Job Title: Sr. Product Manager, eCommerce
Description: BabyCenter is seeking an individual to product manage the development of website features and functionality for the BabyCenter Store. This job involves managing an outsourced ecommerce vendor, formulating product strategy with business owners to deliver current business plans & build business for the future, driving projects, and day-to-day management of cross-functional project teams (merchandisers, marketers, salespeople, designers, software developers,producers, and vendors). The product manager also helps to identify new development initiatives and sets priorities according to customer and business objectives. The position reports to the VP of eCommerce for BabyCenter.com.

Candidates with the following preferred:
- MBA
- Experience with Omniture, A/B testing, agile development techniques (XP, Scrum, etc.), HTML, technical understanding, and/or user interface design.

Here is the full job description: Download sr_product_mgr_at_babycenter.doc

Please email Sarah if you know of any qualified candidates.

Database Marketing, Account Director

MBS, the Long Island database marketing company I used when I was at A&E (and a vendor I really enjoyed working with), is hiring an Account Director. The job reports to a great guy--Dave Braunstein, VP of Consultative Services--and if you're interested in the position, you can email him directly at braunstein.david@mbsinsight.com.

Position Background:
Dynamic database marketing company with great momentum seeks a high-energy marketing strategist with vision and a track record of success to lead the charge with a new Fortune 500 client.  As the account services leader for this high-profile retail client, you will develop database marketing and CRM strategies with the client and have ultimate responsibility for successful delivery of our database marketing and analytical services.  The successful candidate will be capable of bridging the gap between data-driven retail marketing strategies and the technology solutions that support those efforts.

Position Responsibilities:
• Sustained cultivation of the client relationship at a strategic level

• Proactively identifying opportunities to engage the client and satisfy needs in the areas of multi-channel marketing programs, customer-focused marketing analysis, strategic technology deployment, etc.

• Annual planning and forecasting of client activity and opportunities, projects and products (analytical, interactive, etc.), and relationship building efforts (quarterly business reviews, client visits, etc.)

• Cross-functional communication and project management relating to strategic projects and technology solutions, including analytical services deliverables, CRM technology enhancements, program management execution, etc.

Minimum Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
• 8+ years cosmetics, specialty retail and/or luxury goods industry experience
• 8+ years retail and interactive marketing experience
• Strategic thinker with leadership skills and vision
• Customer-focused, team player
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Proven project and program management experience
• B.S./B.A. required; MBA desirable

If you're interested in this position or know someone who might be right for it, please email Dave Braunstein.

Relationship Marketing Director, Orbitz Worldwide

This job comes to us from Aaron Cooper, VP of Online Marketing at Orbitz Worldwide which includes Orbitz.com and CheapTickets.com. The position is located in Chicago. Please send resumes of qualified candidates to Tom Grace at tom.grace@orbitz.com .

The Director of Relationship Marketing will own and direct Orbitz Worldwide's primary proactive channel of customer communication: outbound email. Each month Orbitz Worldwide sends over 70M emails to our customers, spanning multiple brands. Reporting to the VP, Online Marketing, the Director of Relationship Marketing’s role will be largely cross-functional in ensuring all subscription-based communications are relevant to the consumer, brand-aligned and effective for the business.

Looking for a seasoned marketing professional with at least 8 to 12 years’ experience, and an outstanding track record of profitably developing and executing data-driven direct marketing strategies.

Download director_of_relationship_marketing_at_orbitz.doc

To recommend someone for this job, send inquiries to Tom Grace at tom.grace@orbitz.com.