We’re excited to bring you our 43rd Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from: Deal Garden, Hayneedle, New Nectar Media, Yahoo!, ImageMarket, and KANEKO in Omaha; AccuCut in Freemont, Nebraska; Hudl and Nelnet in Lincoln; Dwolla, Grand Consulting, Meredith, and Integer Group in Des Moines; and The World Company / Mediaphormedia in Lawrence, Kansas.
If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing and a short description of your company. We’re looking for all types of opportunities, from a week-long project to a full-time position. We hope to help you make a connection.
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Deal Garden – New Market Account Executive (Omaha) – Startup Job!
Deal Garden is a social commerce website operating in small and mid-sized Midwestern cities.
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Deal Garden is a new, Omaha-based social commerce website operating in small and mid-sized Midwestern cities, looking for two New Market Account Executives to help drive rapid growth.
New Market Account Executive: Outside Account Executives at Deal Garden leverage related experience in local merchant advertising to build partnerships for Deal Garden. They partner with restaurants, theaters, spas, and everything in between, negotiating unbeatable offers on behalf of our subscribers. Experience with online sales, advertising, and social media are beneficial to an account executive’s success and fit within our team. Competitive compensation, benefits, base + commission, and a sense of joy. Apply at jobs@dealgarden.com.
Hayneedle – Web Application Developer (Omaha)
Hayneedle owns and operates over 220 online specialty stores.
The Web Developer will be part of an innovative team that develops and designs web applications and web sites for Hayneedle’s 220+ online specialty stores. This person will direct web site content creation, enhancements and maintenance as well as, be responsible for creating and specifying architectural and technical parameters for new and existing web applications. The Web Developer will also maintain high availability web applications.
Hayneedle – Interactive Developer (Omaha)
Hayneedle owns and operates over 220 online specialty stores.
The Interactive Developer will develop dynamic email campaigns by driving the interaction design and visual development using Flash, HTML, and JavaScript. We need an Interactive Developer who can lead the interaction design for new projects and strategic efforts. This is a great NEW opportunity for a passionate, entrepreneurial person to build a function that has been traditionally outsourced.
Hayneedle – Editor/Writer, Operations Supervisor, and More (Omaha)
Hayneedle owns and operates over 220 online specialty stores.
New Nectar Media – Programmer (Omaha)
New Nectar Media is an interactive design agency based in Houston, Texas with a presence in Honolulu & Paris.
We are looking for a few good programmers. Preferably in the Omaha area, but you can be location is flexible. The key requirements are fluency in PHP & Javascript. Bonus if you are also familiar with Facebook or Joomla development. You will need to be a self-starter, capable of working from home or a coffee shop with minimal direction. You will also need to be capable of working with our lead developer via Skype and online project management tools. A trip to Honolulu where our lead developer is currently located is a good possibility (but not a requirement) if you become an integral part of this project. This is a contract job -– we have a project to develop and we need help. This is not a long-term, with benefits job.
Send your resume and some examples of work you’ve done (if possible) to jenn@newnectar.com. Also include a cover letter indicating why you’re interested in a position like this and why you feel you could work independently.
Yahoo! – Smart Ads Graphic Designer (Omaha)
The Yahoo! Smart Ads goal is to transform the way advertising works on the web. We are on the cutting edge of the changes online advertising is going through. The traditional broadcast model of advertising is being replaced online with personalized, content-rich, app-like experiences.
We are looking for a stellar Graphic Designer to join our successful Yahoo! Smart Ads engineering and accounts team. You will design and implement graphical display ads in Flash and HTML5 for Yahoo’s online advertising customers. You will be in charge of ad interaction and graphic design and implementation.
Yahoo! – Smart Ads Technical Project Manager (Omaha)
The Yahoo! Smart Ads Technical Project Manager is responsible for many aspects of running successful campaigns using dynamically generated online display advertisements. A Smart Ad is a graphical online ad, whose creative content (color, layout, call to action, special offer, images, size, product or service, etc) is generated by computer software programs, in order to make sure that the best ads are being shown to the right people, at the right time, in the right place. Yahoo! advertisers benefit because their online ad campaigns receive better click thru rates or make more sales / conversions after the click happens. As part of Yahoo!s Open Strategy, Yahoo! partners with several Smart Ads Partners, who are companies separate from Yahoo!
Yahoo! – Project Manager, Display Ad Products, Associate Account Manager, Mid-Market and More (Omaha)
ImageMarket – IT Support Position (Omaha)
ImageMarket is one of the largest screenprinting outlets in the country
Do you love it when your Aunt calls you for the 13th time to ask you how to burn a cd? How about when your “tech-savy” friend calls you to ask if you can recover the data on his recently failed hard drive that was never backed up? Let’s be honest. No one in the tech industry loves these questions, but we all know that it’s part of the job. Image Market is looking for someone who understands that end users, no matter how many times they double-click a hyperlink, are just like the rest of us: They just need a little love.
Contact Joe Ranne, I.T. Director, at jranne@imagemarket.com to receive the full job description.
KANEKO – Administrative Assistant (Omaha)
KANEKO is a nonprofit creative exploration center.
KANEKO a non-profit organization 501c3 located in Omaha’s Old Market Cultural District is receiving job applications until February 19th for the position of Administrative Assistant. KANEKO is a new kind of organization that nurtures and promotes creativity in the arts, the sciences, and philosophy. Acclaimed artist Jun Kaneko and his wife Ree Kaneko founded the organization in 1998 to celebrate innovation and provide open space in which creativity and innovation are freely explored.
Job Description
This is a full time entry-level position. The primary duties include serving as receptionist and chief greeter to all arriving visitors as well as providing staff liaison and administrative support. This is an opportunity well suited for an individual seeking experience in and knowledge of cultural non-profits.
Contact Andrew Bauer at bauer.andrew@gmail.com to receive the full job description.
AccuCut – E-Mail Internet Marketing Manager (Freemont, Nebraska)
Accucut has the largest selection of die cutting machines and steel-rule dies for education, stationery, scrapbooking and quilting use.
Forward thinkers are valued and rewarded and we presently seek an E-mail Internet Marketing Manager to join our headquarters in Fremont, Nebraska. In this integral role, the selected candidate will become a part of the growing e-commerce team. He/she will be responsible for developing and executing a best-in-class e-mail marketing strategy for AccuCut markets that delivers personal, relevant communications and helps reach e-commerce sales goals. This position will be responsible for the e-mail production process from the marketing strategy through content creation and final delivery.
Hudl – Interaction Designer (Lincoln) – Startup Job!
Hudl is web-based software that helps sports teams connect around the video and data they need to win.
Do you love football? Good. Because for you, there isn’t a better interaction design job on the planet.
Hudl is web-based software that helps sports teams connect around the video and data they need to win. Coaches and athletes love us because we make watching and analyzing video online so damn easy.
Nelnet – Specialized Interactive Marketing Channels – Social Media (Lincoln)
Nelnet is a diversified educational services company with lines of business in student loan generation, loan servicing, secondary market activities, and guarantor servicing.
The Interactive Planner/Strategist – Social Media position at CUnet is responsible to lead the CUnet social media efforts for our career college agency clients and internal lead generation sites. This position is responsible to research and develop social media programs, build and present client proposals, manage program execution, measure and present results and analysis, and build follow-on programs that meet our schools’ performance objectives for creating program awareness and interest, generating prospective student leads and enrollments, and retaining existing students. This individual will coordinate their social media efforts with our School Account Management and Sales & Marketing organizations to identify and present the right social media opportunities to both existing and potential new clients.
Nelnet – Product Management – Senior Product Manager (Lincoln)
Nelnet is a diversified educational services company with lines of business in student loan generation, loan servicing, secondary market activities, and guarantor servicing.
As a key marketing partner for the largest online and campus-based colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, CUnet operates a collection of lead generation properties along with an extensive affiliate network. The Sr. Product Manager, Inquiry Generation is responsible for overseeing the launch of new properties, as well as managing all aspects of the functionality and user experience on existing properties, to ensure that CUnet continuously brings to market innovative, competitive and profitable lead generation product offerings. This role serves as the bridge between the business and the technical teams and is responsible for the definition and execution of the product plan. This role also maintains close relationships with customers and the school delivery and affiliate management teams in order to ensure that our products optimize the revenue per visitor while maintaining the overall quality of the inquiries generated.
Nelnet – Network Engineer, Senior SEO Strategist and More (Lincoln)
Nelnet is a diversified educational services company with lines of business in student loan generation, loan servicing, secondary market activities, and guarantor servicing.
Dwolla – Software Engineer (Des Moines) – Startup Job!
Dwolla allows users to send and receive money for 25 cents per transaction.
Job Description
- Large scale development
- API infrastructure & development
Huge Bonuses
- Previous experience designing APIs
- Android/mobile application development experience
- Experience building high security applications
Dwolla – UI/UX Designer (Des Moines) – Startup Job!
Dwolla allows users to send and receive money for 25 cents per transaction.
We are looking for a single individual to join our team full time (or as full time as possible) to shape the user experience. This position will shape the look and feel of every product Dwolla builds.
This position will stretch across web and mobile devices straight into T-Shirts and the inevitable white board art your coworkers will beg you for.
Dwolla – Development Intern (Des Moines) – Startup Internship!
Dwolla allows users to send and receive money for 25 cents per transaction.
If you are any of the following types of people:
- An 8th grader building mobile applications that do your homework
- A college kid whose building a Facebook application that could make a million dollars
- A college drop out who stopped going to class because you couldn’t figure out why the energy market wasn’t already settling transactions every 3 seconds so you built a system to do it.
- Developed an application that uses ‘ API to text all your friends every time you think your being funny.
Grand Consulting – Account Manager (Des Moines)
Grand Consulting is an IT managed services and network installations provider.
The Account Manager will be responsible for proactively maintaining happy relationships with Grand Consulting’s clients as well as integrating new clients into our business. The Account Manager will work hand in hand with our Customer Service Representative (CSR), who provides our clients with technical support. From time to time, you need to follow up on warm leads from business partners to explore a support relationship with potential new clients. However, an active, outbound sales focus will not be part of your responsibilities.
Daily duties include responding to non-technical phone calls and emails from clients, creating quotes for equipment and software and completing those orders, researching prices, proactively communicating with existing clients and partners to strengthen our relationship with them (and identify any unspoken needs or problems), and coordinating support requests with our CSR. You will also be the primary contact for our hardware and software vendors.
Contact Daniel Shipton at dan@bitmethod.com to receive the full job description.
Meredith – Social Media Associate (Des Moines)
Meredith is a media and marketing company, involved in magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting and brand licensing.
I’m looking for a social media associate at Meredith for Parents Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, and Fitness Magazine. The position is 40 hour/week contract for at least 6 mos-1 year.
I’m looking for individual to focus on the development of dynamic and vibrant communities online through direct interaction with the users in our community. This person would be devoted to analysis of the competitive landscape, incremental traffic acquisition driven by social media marketing and specific community building projects, and examination of the current community will provide insightful developmental opportunities to help position Meredith as a leader in community building online.
Integer Group – Internal Web Developer (Des Moines)
Integer Group is a brand marketing and retail promotions firm.
This position will work on a team dedicated to the development, customization, and maintenance of company Intranet tools. Duties include developing internal applications using PHP and JavaScript, administering MySQL databases, assisting with system integrations, and performing programming and database projects as requested. Our web developers participate in all phases of the development lifecycle (from inception to final implementation).
Integer Group – Digital Art Director (Des Moines)
Integer Group is a brand marketing and retail promotions firm.
This position is responsible for the development and execution of creative concepts for leading edge Marketing and Web solutions. Requires a deep understanding of user-centered research, copywriting, interactive development and content strategy with core strengths in design and communications. This new role plays an active role in shaping new opportunities for Integer – be it expanding a current client relationship or forging new ones.
Integer Group – Art Director, Client Web Developer, and More (Des Moines)
Integer Group is a brand marketing and retail promotions firm.
Kum & Go – Marketing/Social Media Intern (West Des Moines)
Kum & Go is a gas and convenience store with locations throughout the Midwest.
Internship Overview:
Corporate interns will be involved in a 10 week internship program. The program will consist of a focused project, final presentation to senior staff members, and various professional development opportunities.
Internship Focus:
The Social Media intern will work closely with the Advertising and Promotions Manager and Social Media Manger to research, design, and execute a program that supports company promotions and sponsorships via social media. The intern will investigate how to attract interest ahead of events, support and interact at events as they occur, and perform follow up tasks to help re-market event content afterward.
The World Company / Mediaphormedia – Senior Interaction Designer (Lawrence, Kansas)
Mediaphormedia is the award-winning commercial software division of The World Company, a communications and media company.
Mediaphormedia is seeking a senior-level Interaction Designer to provide comprehensive direction for the design of web sites, web applications, graphical user interfaces, multimedia displays, and support/training materials. Our projects cover news, entertainment, publishing, search, and information markets and include everything from concept creation to site design to working with high-scaling template systems. Our clients consist of newspapers, TV, radio, magazines, startups, online business search operations, and more.
