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About

  • Readyforce, the leading career network for college students, is the easiest way for students to launch amazing careers. Focusing on engineering students in 2013, the Readyforce network connects students to influential business leaders, powerful campus programs, engaging networking events, and exciting jobs and internships at cool start-ups and innovative companies of all sizes. Readyforce is backed by Menlo Ventures, US Venture Partners, Pivot North, Founder Collective and First Round Capital.

    Our team cares about user experience, product design and creating a surprising and delightful experience.

    Our team loves to ship and works hard.

    Every one on our team has strong opinions about what (and how) we build product (even the back end engineers!). We believe empowered engineers create amazing product.

    We are solving the job matching problem - connecting people to jobs they love. Our approach is part Hackernews, part eHarmony, part Linkedin, part Skype. Yes, we know that is lots of parts that’s why you need to be wicked smart to work here.

    We are starting off by matching engineering college students to technology companies. We are 9 people in San Francisco and 1 magical Romanian.

  • Our Hacker Tour kicks.

  • Some of the team with the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug.

  • Happy Hour at our new office in SOMA

Company Details

Total Money Raised: 
$14MM
Size: 
Small (<20)

Industry

  • Other
  • Software
  • Web
  • Internet

Positions Available

  • Product Marketing Manager
    Your goal is drive new student acquisition via Readyforce’s new resume book feature and new events feature. This is a hybrid sales, marketing and product development role that will involve reaching out to student leaders, getting them to create resume books and events on Readyforce and working with the engineering team to make the feature better. About you... You connect and understand the needs, wants and culture of engineering students and the companies that want to hire them You think in big...more

    Your goal is drive new student acquisition via Readyforce’s new resume book feature and new events feature. This is a hybrid sales, marketing and product development role that will involve reaching out to student leaders, getting them to create resume books and events on Readyforce and working with the engineering team to make the feature better.

    About you...

    You connect and understand the needs, wants and culture of engineering students and the companies that want to hire them

    You think in big and excited ways that get media attention

    You are hyper organized with amazing attention to detail

    You know how to track success with numbers, data and a budget

    You find creative ways to get shit done quickly and with few resources

    You always look for ways to make things better, more efficient, more scalable or less expensive

    You can pitch your ideas in a clear and concise way that gets people excited

    You love to run with limited guidance and oversight, but know when to ask questions

    You have good product intuition

    You understand and love startup life

    Your initial responsibilities will be to own...

    1) Resume Books - this feature was designed as a way for student leaders or school representatives to easily create, manage and share online resume books to help their members get more exposure. Go here to see how the feature works http://www.readyforce.com/rf/lists and here to see what a public list looks like http://www.readyforce.com/Stanfordstartup101careerfair. The goal of this feature is to drive both student and company acquisition.

    2) Events on Readyforce - in January 2013, we acquired www.umeqo.com and are currently in the process of integrating into Readyforce. This feature is like “Eventbrite for College Events” and has seen good success at MIT driving over 1000 new students and over 300 new companies.

    More about this role...

    You will talk with hundreds of student leaders and school representatives You will have member acquisition targets and a budget You will work closely with the engineering team to make features better You will likely need to do some traveling You will report to the CEO All levels of experience are welcome, but only the awesome should apply. Compensation: $50k to $100k plus options and benefit (DOE)

    Finally, you will be asked to do an exercise as a part of the interview process at Readyforce.

    After the first wave phone interviews, you will be asked to:

    1) Pick one of the features above 2) Design a marketing plan, an execution plan and a budget that reflects the “about you” section above 3) You will have 15 minutes to present your plan to Alex and 15 minutes of Q&A

    • Product Management
    • Business & Management
    • San Francisco, CA
    • Product Management
    • Product Development
    • Product Design
    • Spring 2013
    • Full time
    • Paid
    • Permanent (post graduation)
  • Marketing Program Manager
    Your goal is to create, design, implement, manage, iterate and continuously improve scalable programs & events that engage and drive new student acquisition, company acquisition and revenue for Readyforce. About you... You connect and understand the needs, wants and culture of engineering students and the companies that want to hire them You think in big and excited ways that get media attention You are hyper organized with amazing attention to detail You know how to track success with numbers, data and a budget You find creative...more

    Your goal is to create, design, implement, manage, iterate and continuously improve scalable programs & events that engage and drive new student acquisition, company acquisition and revenue for Readyforce.

    About you...

    You connect and understand the needs, wants and culture of engineering students and the companies that want to hire them

    You think in big and excited ways that get media attention

    You are hyper organized with amazing attention to detail

    You know how to track success with numbers, data and a budget

    You find creative ways to get stuff done quickly and with few resources

    You always look for ways to make things better, more efficient, more scalable or less expensive

    You can pitch your ideas in a clear and concise way that gets people excited

    You love to run with limited guidance and oversight, but know when to ask questions

    You have good product intuition

    You understand and love startup life

    Your responsibilities will be to develop and own...

    1) Student Powered Conferences - this is a program designed to find amazing student leaders that want to create programs that help top students attend cool conference around the county. It is modeled off of interactatx.com, a student created event for 100 top students to go to SXSW. In many ways, we are crowdsourcing cool events for students.

    2) Readyforce Powered Events - from time to time, Readyforce will design and execute its own events. The event currently in process is a huge summer game competition. Readyforce presents the largest student game competition to kick off the summer. 400 students and 50 companies competing to take home the title of Summer 2013 Gamer God.

    3) Hacker Tour 2013 - this is version 2.0 of www.hackertour2012.com. Let’s make this bigger and more awesome.

    More about this role...

    You will own and manage a P&L You will have revenue responsibility...that means you can sell You will likely need to do some traveling You will report to the CEO All levels of experience are welcome, but only the awesome should apply. Compensation: $50k to $100k plus options and benefit (DOE)

    Finally, you will be asked to do an exercise as a part of the interview process at Readyforce.

    After the first wave phone interviews, you will be asked to:

    1) Pick one of the events above 2) Design a marketing plan, an execution plan and a budget that reflects the “about you” section above 3) You will have 15 minutes to present your plan to Readyforce’s CEO and 15 minutes of Q&A

    Please note...you can ask an unlimited number of questions before the presentation.

    • Marketing
    • Research
    • Project Management
    • San Francisco, CA
    • Spring 2013
    • Full time
    • Paid

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