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A couple of Germans say they are "looking for a young entrepreneur to run a new social community startup website in France. The product is currently in development and is scheduled to be released at the end of 2007."

"The candidate should have experience in marketing and be interested in the internet.
We offer an adequate compensation together with equity shares in the company.
The project is initiated and funded by two experienced technology, internet and media managers in Germany."

Apply here

Posted by BT at 04:54 PM | Permalink

VC-backed zVents says it currently has about 40 people on the payroll and is looking to hire a VP of events to run the show. Based in San Mateo, Zvents is backed by VantagePoint, Red Rock, and NetService Ventures. They have done BD deals to power local search for the Boston Globe, Denver Post, and Orange County Register among others.

One of the company's founders is listed as Chief Architect and it has a CTO so definition of roles will be a priority.

Apply to CEO Ethan Stock.

Continue reading "Engineering VP For Zvents in San Mateo" »

Posted by BT at 10:58 PM | Permalink

In December, Passado.com, a Myspace and Bebo-type online social network, raised €10M to expand into UK, Russia and Italy. The new investor is US-based Tudor Ventures, joined by earlier investor DFJ ePlanet.

The Passado business plan has been making the rounds in the VC market for a while we hear. It was initially a kind of Classmates.com or Friends Reunited type site in Germany, but it is now British-owned and offering blogs and other applications. It claims 5M registered users.

The company has posted a job req for a COO/Managing Director. Apply here

Continue reading "COO/Managing Director For Huge London Social Network Passado" »

Posted by BT at 05:48 PM | Permalink

Other than FaceBook, we think that LinkedIn may be the most valuable social networking business around. They are looking for a VP of Network ops. Given that everyone expects them to open their system to others, this seems like a very complex gig.

Apply - here

Continue reading "Vice President, Network Operations For LinkedIn" »

Posted by Paul at 09:37 PM | Permalink

Israel's eSupport company Gteko, which was bought by Microsoft last year, spun off a consumer Web based called StarNet Interactive which operates KiddoNet and GirlSense. This company is now looking for a vice-president of business development.

Girlsense is a free ad-based website that original fashion designs created by members. Girlsense claims that over 1M fashion t-shirts were created in the first two weeks of launch. Girls can design their own trendy fashions, display them in their boutiques and sell them to other girls using the site's virtual currency called G-cents. GirlSense claims 1M unique monthly visitors and over 10.5M registered members.

View - site
Email - info@girlsense.com.

Continue reading "BD VP For NYC's GirlSense Tween Social Network" »

Posted by BT at 11:10 PM | Permalink

Pulse Entertainment has secured around $5.8M of an $8.5M second round from return backers Anthem Venture Partners and Draper Associates, says PeHub. Pulse has raised approximately $60M in total VC funding since its 1994.

The San Francisco-based startup looks to rejuvenation as a user generated content management vendor. One feature sounds cool: It automatically transforms static two-dimensional facial images into animated three-dimensional characters with synchronized audio - either recorded or via text-to-speech. We can't find examples of this in action yet.

Apply here: jobs@pulsemobile.com

Continue reading "Engineering VP For VC-Backed, SF-based Avatar Maker Pulse" »

Posted by BT at 11:56 PM | Permalink

New Hope, PA-based myYearbook.com raised $4.1M in Series A funding from US Venture Partners and First Round Capital.

The start-up says it gets 1.7M members in the United States and around the world, and over 5M unique visitors per month.

myYearbook.com was founded by Catherine Cook, a high school senior, and her older brother Dave Cook, who graduated from high school in June 2006 and is now a freshman at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Their first investor was their older brother, Geoff, who founded and sold EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com when he was in college - "making him a millionaire at age 24."

Apply - here

Posted by Paul at 11:41 PM | Permalink

You either love Bollywood music or can be open-minded about it if you want to apply for this job, because that's all they cover. DesiHits is based in San Francisco.

Desi Hits! is an early stage startup focused on digital music, entertainment and community. It is recently backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Trident Capital.

The term “Desi” refers to the people or when used as an adjective, the products of the diasporic subculture of South Asians (including those with origins from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives). The fusion of South Asian and western sensibilities is evident in pop culture worldwide and its consumers are not just Desis. Desi Hits! began as a blog a year ago and quickly blossomed into a vibrant online community strictly through viral-driven traffic. Its popularity is validated by an average of 180,000 page views each month from 65 countries, and top rankings across the “Desi genre” on iTunes with over 1/3 million podcasts downloaded to date, all prior to any formal marketing efforts.

Email yo@desihits.com

Continue reading "CTO /VP Technology For Draper-backed Bollywood Music Play DesiHits!" »

Posted by Paul at 12:37 AM | Permalink

You either love Bollywood music or can be open-minded about it if you want to apply for this job, because that's all they cover. DesiHits is based in San Francisco.

Desi Hits! is an early stage startup focused on digital music, entertainment and community. It is recently backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Trident Capital.

The term “Desi” refers to the people or when used as an adjective, the products of the diasporic subculture of South Asians (including those with origins from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives). The fusion of South Asian and western sensibilities is evident in pop culture worldwide and its consumers are not just Desis. Desi Hits! began as a blog a year ago and quickly blossomed into a vibrant online community strictly through viral-driven traffic. Its popularity is validated by an average of 180,000 page views each month from 65 countries, and top rankings across the “Desi genre” on iTunes with over 1/3 million podcasts downloaded to date, all prior to any formal marketing efforts.

Email yo@desihits.com

Continue reading "CTO/VP Technology For Draper-backed Bollywood Music Play DesiHits!" »

Posted by Paul at 12:37 AM | Permalink

Pre-launch, pre-logo social network for dog freaks needs a head geek to work for equity. The company will compete with the popular social network Dogster.

Reply to: Reply to: gigs-285747938@craigslist.org

Continue reading "Co-founder, CTO, Chief Architect, Chief Programmer For Dogspace.com" »

Posted by Paul at 11:44 PM | Permalink

Founded in 2004, IMT Labs makes IM entertainment and its first virtual character “Spleak” is used by more than 1.5M people every month, so they say. The company is looking to hire a Business Development Manager for its San Francisco office. IMT Labs has $4M in VC backing.

What is Spleak? Well she is a 21 year-old virtual girl who offers a wide range of entertainment for teens. She is available to play games, share stories and interactive content, or chat on MSN Messenger, (buddy name: spleak@hotmail.com) or AIM (screenname: Spleak) and is also available on ther web messenger platforms like Meebo and eBuddy.

"The Business Development Manager will be responsible for prospecting and closing partnerships with content providers and advertising partners."

The start-ups founders are: Morten Lund says he has founded or invested in more than 30 tech start-ups including Skype, anti-virus consumer brand Bullguard, Scandinavian web agency NeoIdeo (sold to Leo Burnett), Chinese browser Maxthon (47M downloads).

jobs@imtlabs.com.

Continue reading "BD For SF/Copenhagen-based IMT" »

Posted by BT at 05:33 AM | Permalink

StyleFeeder is a way to find, share, and keep track of neat shopping stuff online, using visual bookmarks. It competes with a number of other fashion/worldly posssion sites like Wists, Like.com, etc. Stylefinder looks fine but it gets no traffic. Thus they are looking for a marketing/bd guy or gal to hook them up. It's a husband and wife team that runs the shop. Wife is French. Sounds dicey, but what do we know.

Email jobs a stylefeeder dot com

Continue reading "Marketing Job For French Lady & Her Husband At StyleFeeder In Cambridge, MA" »

Posted by Paul at 12:04 AM | Permalink

This is one of your bigger Webcam social networks. Basically, if you're a perv and want to actually see other pervs randomly you can login and do your business. The site makes money by selling ads, mostly via Adbrite.

They claim they have 20 people working at the company in Melbourne and are looking for two more:
+ Mid-level "interface / creative designer"
+ PHP Developer

To apply, send resume to randall at ANYwebcam dot com

Continue reading "They Say Melbourne Is Nice. Aus' AnyWebCam Social Networks Has Open Reqs" »

Posted by Paul at 11:51 PM | Permalink

If you don't know about Second Life, do a quick search, the company is on everybody's lips. Its not that traffic to the virtual world is crushing, it's that it is the world's fastest growing economy. Significant real dollars are changing hands every day. San Francisco-based Linden Labs is venture funded and headed up by Philip Rosedale who is one smart cookie and fun to boot.

Job description for Corporate Counsel:
Maintain and evolve terms of service and related policies and practices.
Advise product development and customer support on both day-to-day and strategic issues.
Create and monitor internal policies and practices in cooperation with finance.
Handle first instances of all company legal issues.
Manage work with outside law firms.

Qualifications: Passion for online communication in all forms - social networking, blogs, wikis, virtual worlds.
At least 6+ years in legal practice. Prior in-house counsel experience strongly preferred.
Working knowledge of broad range of private company issues.
Extensive knowledge of intellectual property issues, particularly as they relate to proprietary software, open source software, and communications service providers.
Excellent communication skills and collaborative nature.
Uncanny ability to distill complex legal issues into tactical action.
Near-genius level intelligence and saintly disposition would be helpful . . .
. . . sense of humor absolutely required.

Other open positions:
+ Web Business Manager
+ Business Development Manager
+ Technical Concierge
+ Corporate Counsel
+ Director, Customer Service
+ Systems Engineers
+ Web Developers
+ Software Developers
+ Project Managers
+ Development Project Coordinator
+ Data Warehouse Engineer
+ QA Engineer
+ Usability Expert
Chinese-Speaking Liaison
French-Speaking Liaison
Italian-Speaking Liaison
Japanese-Speaking Liaisons
Korean-Speaking Liaison
Spanish-Speaking Liaison

Apply here - http://lindenlab.com/employment/corp_counsel

Posted by Paul at 09:13 PM | Permalink

We haven't come across Social Sauce to date. They say they are venture backed and founded in June 2006. There is very little on the site, so we can only offer their marketing statements: "Social Sauce is a community for users to express and share experiences with fun, easy-to-use tools. Our goal is to build a world centered on each user, but connecting everyone.

If you take the job, beware that it looks like you will have to live with crap like this, found on their web site:

"Recipe for an Experience Company"

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup spirit
1 cup knowledge
1 cup creativity
2 cups dedication
2 cups hard work
A pinch of innovation

DIRECTIONS:
1. Combine spirit, knowledge, and creativity in a team.
2. Add dedication and hard work and mix thoroughly.
3. Stir in a pinch of innovation
4. Allow innovation to brew
5. Social Sauce will be ready soon!

Apply here
View - Social Sauce site

Continue reading ""Java Jedi" at VC-backed Internet Startup In Manhattan" »

Posted by Paul at 05:26 AM | Permalink

We profiled HeyLetsGo over on the alarm:clock. They are in beta, limited to Boston. It was launched by several recent MIT grads and is funded by Highland Capital. They currently claim 100K users in Boston. Selling point is central location in downtown Boston and lots of parties to hit if you are into that.

In addition to a software lead, the company is looking for:
1. Designer
Experienced in information architecture and/or graphic design
Consumer Web site experience
Ideally worked with community sites, or dealt with information architecture for large complex sites, or sites with a fair amount of user interaction
2. Web Developer
Experienced Web developer with good understanding of architecture (no spaghetti code!) and can quickly implement new features
Skilled in PHP, MySQL, CSS
Ideally experience with consumer Web sites and user-centric design
3. Promoter
Experienced word of mouth promoter
Good set of social contacts
Ideally also creative and can create higher-leverage promotion programs
4. Marketing intern (summer/part-time)
Smart, quick learner, and hard worker
Interested in learning more about marketing and start-ups
Good verbal/written communication skills

To apply, email jobs at heyletsgo dot com.

Continue reading "Boston's Yuppie Social Network HeyLetsGo Needs Programming Lead" »

Posted by Paul at 09:55 PM | Permalink

"Bunchball is at the intersection of social networks and casual gaming." The company says they are building a small team of 10+ people

"People who can run fast, think creatively, and go deep in one area but contribute everywhere. We worked on this company for a long time on our own dime. We tried a lot of things, failed a lot of times, and learned a tremendous amount. We don't listen to the hype, we don't spend a lot of money, and we never stop trying things."

Bunchball just raised venture funding from Granite Ventures and closed a strategic investment by Adobe Ventures.
All positions are full-time and on-site somewhere between Redwood Shores, CA and Mountain View, CA, but will consider exceptional remote candidates.

Job openings:
- Client Software Engineer
- Creative Director
- Business Development/Sales
- Office Manager
- Client Software Engineer

Send resumes, portfolios, links to blogs, websites, etc. to jobs@bunchball.com

Continue reading ""Haul ass. Kick ass. Repeat." At Casual game Start-up Bunchball Somewhere On the Peninsula" »

Posted by Paul at 05:49 AM | Permalink

Pre-logo, pre-web site, pre-funded outfit is looking for someone to build their biz.

"The company is developing an encyclopedia of user-generated student experiences that formalizes the informal mentoring process between older students and their younger peers and facilitates student interaction and networking. The CollegePaths management team includes a former Yale graduate as well as a Wharton graduate who was previously employed at the management consultancy Bain & Company."

Throw you resume over the wall to: careers@collegepaths.com

Posted by Paul at 04:59 AM | Permalink

Jason Feffer, former VP of operations at MySpace has raised funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures for his new company, SodaHead. Gigaom says his sources call it a social network for grown ups. Company HQ is in the valley in Sherman Oaks, CA.

E-mail contact: PythonJob@SodaHead.com

Posted by BT at 11:49 PM | Permalink

These guys are full of crap. We don't care if there site is the bomb you don't say these things in public.

"New Internet Social Networking Site (soon to go public on OTC) based in NYC looking for aggressive, high energy, hands-on internet engineer to develop/manage this hot video, podcasting, blogging, social networking site with a career focus personal empowerment theme. Company looking to go public in six mths in the OTC stock market with funding in place. Pays above avg. salary plus LOTS of stock options that will make Myspace founders look pale in comparison."

Please email resume and salary requirement to idublog@gmail.com

Continue reading "Pre-Launch Biz Social Network Demands CTO in NYC" »

Posted by Paul at 09:51 PM | Permalink

If there were no MySpace, Hi5 would be all the rage. Its traffic numbers are staggering with 50M members. The company claims it is profitable.

Engineering
+ Scalability Architect
+ Senior Software Engineer
+ Software Developer
+ Release Engineer
+ Senior Developer - Minneapolis
+ Java Engineer - Mumbai
Product Development
+ Senior Product Manager
+ UI Engineer
+ Web Production Engineer
+ Web Producer - Games
Customer Support
+ Customer Support Representative - Mumbai

Send resume to jobs@hi5.com

Posted by BT at 07:59 PM | Permalink

FriendFinder is not the company that you want to take home and introduce to your mom, but it does mint money and can't stop hiring people. Still, $150K plus bonus for a CFO in Palo Alto at a scuzzy company seems awfully low-ball. We did expect to see some hints that the company might at least anticipate an IPO, but that does not seem to be the case.

To apply, email jobs@friendfinderinc.com
.

Posted by Paul at 05:25 AM | Permalink

Local services recommendation engines are feeling good about themselves with at least three start-ups vying to the be the break-out story. These sites are inspired by CraigsList, but encourage users to give a thumbs up or the middle finger to local plumbers, baby sitters, and all the other services you might need.

Insider Pages has been embraced the most by Silicon Valley VCs. Insider pages was founded in 2003 and has it HQ in Redwood Shores, CA. The start-up is backed by Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital and Idealab.

Today, Insider Pages has open reqs for two jobs: product manager and front end web developer/UI designer.

Apply here

Posted by Paul at 04:57 AM | Permalink

Cocky entrepreneurs looking for a Director of Engineering in the SF Financial District HQ. These guys claim they built and sold a tech start-up for big dollars. They want someone with Java/Ruby chops. Not sure what the plan is but it is a consumer Internet play.

To apply, email: job-200461560@craigslist.org

Continue reading "SF Stealth Co. Affinity Labs Needs Engineer" »

Posted by Paul at 01:01 AM | Permalink

The graphic designer of the a:c/tech:gigger has taken a role with Dogster - we also pal with Dogster's CEO. So we are certain it's a great place to work. The company has a open rec for a Director of Marketing. We think Dogster has nailed the marketing. For the Love of Dog is a Top 10 Tag-line. But of course there is more work to be done - including the launch of Catster.

Continue reading "For The Love Of Dog - Market Dogster" »

Posted by Paul at 02:09 AM | Permalink

Friendster has famously seen a musical chair game of top management, The start-up has just hired on a new VP of Sales and a VP of engineering, and it now wants a new VP of marketing. This role is not for the thin skinned. You will be walking into a radioactive environment. On the other hand, if you can get on with the new team and rejuvenate the original social network, you will have the undying devotion of big name VCs Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital.

Friendster recently tried to sell itself off, but offers were low-ball so investors decided to bring on a fresh team, retrench and get a better offer.

View - VP of Marketing
Read - Friendster Strengthens Executive Team

Posted by Paul at 05:34 AM | Permalink

Buzzlogic’s management impresses. Rob Crumpler, President and CEO, was GM of MSFT Money. Mitch Ratcliffe, Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder is a well-known blogger and was on the board of directors of Match.com and Electric Classifieds.

BuzzLogic says it is currently in beta with 25 top tier companies “helping communications and marketing practitioners understand and take action with blogs.” That sounds spooky. The start-up is planning to launch its first application later this year.”

What you will do in your cube: “As a key participant in architecting, designing, implementing and debugging our core social analysis engine, you will design and implement advanced algorithms for efficiently analyzing and reporting on networks of millions of nodes covering thousands of topics in near real-time. The analysis engine is highly distributed and tightly integrated with several external and internal systems and databases.”

Funding: BuzzLogic was founded 2 years ago (formerly Persuadio), and began raising funds this February. Within eight weeks, the start-up had raised its target of $750K, plus an additional $100K, all from angel investors. The company’s primary competitor looks to be Biz360.

View – Web Application Developer
View– Software Engineer
Read - http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20060601PRToolsandBagofTricks.html R Tools And Bag Of Tricks (Web Pro News)

Read - Cofounder's Blog (Ratcliffe's Blog)

Posted by Paul at 04:55 AM | Permalink