We’re excited to bring you our 46th Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from MindMixer and Yahoo! in Omaha, Craft.ly and Blue Space Creative in Iowa, and Water.org and Red Nova Labs in Kansas City.
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.
If you apply to one below, please make sure to mention that you found it on Silicon Prairie News.
MindMixer – Lead Application Developer (Omaha) – Startup Job!
MindMixer is a web-based platform for meaningful civic engagement.
Thanks to our sponsor
MindMixer.com is an Omaha, Nebraska-based start-up that has created a web based platform for meaningful civic engagement. Our clients include municipalities, elected officials, school districts, and professional organizations. We basically provide a simple to use forum for people to share their ideas, concerns and knowledge about real time projects in their community. For example, what if your community was considering a light rail system? Or what about rebuilding a park in a part of town that has decayed? Wouldn’t it be great to participate in this dialogue somehow? In most communities, a town-hall meeting is posted and typically a few people show up. Mainly to grab a donut and some stale coffee. Our business is radically changing that tired tradition and remaking it to allow people to contribute whenever and wherever they are on their own time frame. PC, Mac, phone, library computer…it will all be easily accessed. End result? More input, more dialogue, better communication and improved community involvement and decisions.
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! – Front End Engineer, Yahoo! Smart Ads (Omaha)
We are looking for a front-end software engineer to join our successful Yahoo Smart Ads team. You should have a passion for shipping elegant, interactive Flash applications and web interfaces that will be viewed by millions across the web.
A Yahoo Smart Ad is a graphical online ad, whose creative content (color, layout, call to action, special offer, images, size, product or service, etc) is dynamically 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. Yahoo users benefit by seeing much more relevant ads.
TD Ameritrade – Manager, Social Media (Omaha)
TD Ameritrade is an online broker.
If you are interested in social media or if social media is your specialty then we’d like to hear from you! This new role will have as its focus the execution of social media initiatives for TD Ameritrade across the enterprise. Additionally you will partner with upper management across the firm to orchestrate the execution and monitoring of social media initiatives. You’ll work in a fast paced, heavily matrixed environment and be responsible for analysis of results and making recommendations for future enhancements. The Manager, Social Media will work with the Director of Online Communities and Social Media to manage the execution of TD Ameritrade’s (TDA) social media initiatives.
Craft.ly – Rails Developer (Des Moines) – Startup Job!
Craft.ly is& a website to buy and sell handmade goods socially.
Got a day job?
Enjoy working with Ruby on Rails or want to learn?
Do you have a spare 12 – 18 hours a week?
Got your own laptop?
Are you willing to take a chance that we can create something big together?
If you answered yes to all 5 of those, then lets talk. We’re just getting off the ground and are looking for a couple additional developers to work on Craftly with us. Rails experience is not required (although nice for obvious reasons) but development experience is required.
Craft.ly – Marketing Intern (Des Moines) – Startup Job!
Craft.ly is a website to buy and sell handmade goods socially.
Marketing Intern
Are you or will you be a Marketing major, and are currently looking for an awesome portfolio piece?
Do you want to build the voice for a scrappy startup in the Midwest, to millions of crafters around the world?
Do you have a spare 12 – 18 hours a week?
Are you willing to take a chance that we can create something big together?
If you said yes to all 4 of those, then lets talk. This will be a chance for you to get in with a new business almost on Day 1.
Blue Space Creative – Graphic Designer (Denison, Iowa)
Blue Space Creative is a marketing and design firm with a primary focus on brand identity.
Bluespace Creative, Inc. is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary design firm with a primary focus on brand strategy. Representing a worldwide client base in nearly every industry, bluespace creative has partnered with organizations ranging from the Fortune 50 to local startups. Strongly rooted in team culture, Bluespace’s dynamic team in constructed of passionate members with a true love for the industry. We work hard, but along the way we definitely have a lot of fun as a team.
The Position
This full-time position reports to the creative director and studio manager. The ideal candidate will have more than 3 years of experience creating brand strategy and the accompanying identities, print collateral, package design, etc.
Ideal Candidate
As a bluespace creative designer, you are a strategic, creative thinker, a team player and an Adobe CS Suite guru who is not afraid to share great ideas. You require little supervision and you possess a willingness to go above and beyond job expectations.
Responsibilities
- Creating design solutions that meet client goals and objectives while always striving for the mostcreative and innovative solutions possible
- Attending client meetings and interacting directly with clients, as needed
- Thinking strategically and focusing on the target audience
- Collaborative participation on projects within the team and outside partners
- Responsible for the design, production, follow-up and quality of his/her projects.
Requirements
- 3+ years applied experience in design
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite Software (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design) in a Mac
- environment
- Passionate, creative self-motivator with a strong work ethic
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Strong conceptual/strategic thinking
- Experience working in a group environment with multiple tasks and deadlines
- Excellent organization, communication and presentation skills
- Good understanding of the creative process
- Deep desire to continue to learn and stay on top of innovations in design
To be considered, send a cover letter, resume and link to online portfolio to info@bluespacecreative.com
Water.org – Web Developer (Kansas City)
Water.org is an international organization addressing the global water supply crisis.
The Web Developer will further the cause of Water.org’s mission by developing and producing best of class online experiences for staff, partners and donors. A primary focus of these efforts will be to find innovation solutions to optimize organizational efficiency through standardized systems.
Red Nova Labs – Senior and Junior Hackers Wanted (Westwood, Kansas) – Startup Job!
Red Nova Labs is a web development and marketing agency as well as a technology think-tank.
Since 2009 Red Nova Labs has grown from a small team of unpaid optimists subsisting on soup, occasional indulgences at Oklahoma Joe’s, and weird Chinese import snacks, to a break-even startup with 20+ employees and a cool private building on Rainbow (currently being modified to feed our passions and productions). Our customers have loved our software-as-a-service products; over 3k businesses now subscribe to our marketing platforms.
We humbly believe this is just a start. We’re a team of serial entrepreneurs, eagerly sinking our teeth into any fresh web idea that might survive a beating with our market-analysis sticks—our growth is only limited by how fast we can execute on these massive models. We need to build more, faster. And that’s why we’re searching for talented, obsessive super-hackers who want to innovate and tackle large-scale challenges…
Like:
- Analyzing, innovating, architecting, developing software for databases, frameworks, core tech components
- Working with biz dev people to understand biz needs and translate them into tech design docs and products
- Writing code and unit tests to deliver high quality products and technologies
- Maintaining project timelines and meet all project deadlines
- Eagerly taking on unfamiliar problems and making the time to discover “best practice” solutions
- Contributing creative ideas to the business, including help on patents and intellectual property
- Eating your own dog food (can’t just invent cool things and pass a plate of spaghetti; you have to clean it up)
Are you the super hacker we’re looking for?
Do You:
- Have a sense of symbiosis between yourself and your
- Pride yourself on being a social outcast so as to stay concentrated on “important things”?
- Have a reputation for brevity as well as brilliance?
- Crave learning new technologies, paying attention to details?
- Write clean, efficient, well documented programs at the speed of a Windows crash?
- Play well with others; communicate well with the users of your programs?
- Bathe at least once a week and show up on time, most of the time?
- Subscribe to sites that normal people don’t, like Hacker News, xkcd and Codinghorror?
- Believe that the world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved?
- Calculate the fastest possible path to your regular destinations, like the bar head?
- Have a peculiar fondness for sci fi and strategy games?
- Thrive under pressure; are you self-motivated toward coding challenges?
- Twitch when you hear the word “Explorer”?
- Know or pretty much recognize all programming languages?
- Know all operating systems (Linux = your oxygen)?
- Want to grow professionally?
- Have a sense of humor?
- Have thick skin?
If you answered “yes” to half or more of these q’s, you (and we) may have what it takes for you to thrive in our nimble organization. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to create groundbreaking system architectures, complete with lots and lots of code. And you’ll get to work closely with other social fits and misfits, both of which are vital in our collaborative environment that balances knowledge-sharing with blocks of focused, nonstop production time.
Red Nova Labs’ hacker roles are not for typical programmers; these are roles for programming masters. When the business smells opportunity, it’s your job to execute and build a solution—a solution that provides a road-map for future development. You will ensure that the business can iterate and pivot quickly. And you will research—because you can’t be a cutting-edge programmer unless you “get” the newest tools and architectures.
While a college degree is nice, it’s not a requirement here. We recognize that many great programmers are self-taught. In lieu of a formal educ, however, we’d like to see a list of your personal projects and the open-source projects you’ve contributed to. If you have neither of these, then you are probably not a hacker. Make sure your resume has your github profile on it with at least five projects (that are not forks). Also on our hacker fantasy list:
- Hard core web backend development experience, as well as the ability to quickly learn and apply new techs.
- Strong SQL and data model design skills; experience with one or more databases in a production environment
- Open source skills in techs such as, NoSQL, Memcached, MapReduce, Crawlers, Extractors, AJAX, etc.
- Experience with massively distributed and large scale software systems
- Knowledge of web services: both utilization and creation of APIs
- Experience writing clear and concise documentations for other developers
- Strong platform skills in Shell Linux
- Know at least one challenging coding interview question, and a couple of good jokes
In our Westwood, Kansas office (about a mile west of the Plaza) we maintain a fun, high-speed environment. That said, no one is spared from opinions, jokes and coaching—brilliance notwithstanding. In return, we offer:
- Money: Tell us what you’re worth in the market.
- Relocation: Up to $10k moving expenses if you don’t live in the KC metro area.
- Stuff: Up to $5k to outfit your office with the technology you need to kick ass.
- More stuff: Benefits, vacation, options, that kind of stuff.
- Perks: Coffee, tea, juice, soda, fruit, nuts, Sixlets, random happy hours.
- Admiration: Nuff said.
How to Apple:
- Send resume to rzhou@rednovalabs.com
- Include a note describing your passions, what drives you, and how you approach your work
- No phone calls or drop-ins
