Internships:
For all the Spring, Summer and Fall internship opportunities, please send a resume/CV, dates of availability, location preference and letter of interest to internships AT huffingtonpost.com.
Jobs:
Except where otherwise specified, for all the positions below, please send a resume/CV and letter of interest to jobs AT huffingtonpost.com.
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Job: Senior Editor, Impact
Our mission at Impact is to "Make a Difference - not Just a Dent."
Impact is working to provide information, inspiration and calls to action, encouraging every reader to become personally engaged on a variety of levels, from matters of serious social consequence to individual acts of empathy. The site covers issues ranging from the shrinking middle class and homelessness to neighbors helping neighbors through difficult times. Our signature areas of focus, including Greatest Person of the Day, Social Entrepreneurship and the many ways individuals and organizations are giving back to their communities, underscore our desire to make a meaningful difference by providing a platform for individuals, groups and organizations to create real change.
As Senior Editor, Impact you will be responsible for creating and updating robust content highlighting how individuals and organizations are making a difference with aggregated stories, reported articles, video and slideshows. The Sr. Editor will stay atop news and trends in areas such as charitable giving, social entrepreneurship, not-for-profit service, volunteerism, community engagement, corporate social responsibility, and social activism. The Senior Editor will edit the work of others on the team and build partner content. You will also consider strong ways to promote content on social media and grow the site's community.
Responsibilities:
Acquire, edit, publish and promote social engagement content, with an emphasis on blogs and some original content
Manage calendar-- creating season-based articles and packages showcasing specific themes, topics and concepts
Implement SEO best practices on all article pages and content packages
Manage and assign the support on your team
Promote your site through social media
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree
5+ years experience, with a proven background in social responsibility or non-profit news
Must be a sharp writer AND editor/copy editor
Must have a basic understanding of SEO and social media
Must have a passion for and prior knowledge of specific content
Ability to analyze traffic data and track metrics
Basic understanding of HTML, Photoshop and blog publishing platforms
Must be an organized and self motivated
Endless energy and ideas for high-quality, creative reliable content, and
exceptional drive to maximize its visibility
Experience managing and inspiring a team
Strong communicator
Able to multi-task and perform in a fast paced environment
Job: College Editor
The Huffington Post Media Group has an immediate opening for an
editor to run our College vertical.
The College vertical's mission is to highlight all issues connected to
the campus universe, including but not limited to: higher ed, campus
living, college-tuition costs, the Occupy movement, fraternities,
academia, research, campus crimes, and the most influential voices in
the public conversation about college life and higher learning.
HuffPost College will investigate and examine topics that affect
students, researchers, administrators, and faculty, among others.
HuffPost College also aims to be a central hub for the large and
active community of bloggers in and connected to academia. The editor
would take the lead in identifying and recruiting those bloggers.
HuffPost College will be the go-to location for all audiences
interested in the latest news about college life, academia, and higher
ed. HuffPost College is devoted to delivering compelling articles,
from strong original reporting to the best of college newspapers.
The College editor will establish the voice and vision of the page
highlighting the most significant, compelling and relevant collegiate
news and opinion through original and aggregated articles, blogs,
slide shows, calls-to-action engagements, videos, and other
interactive content.
This position reports to Lance Gould, executive education editor of
the Huffington Post.
Ideal applicants:
• Voracious news consumers with boundless energy and ideas for
high-quality content and an exceptional drive to maximize its
visibility
• A passion for reporting on all issues surrounding college
• Ability to generate and guide strategic partnerships with
college newspapers, academic institutions, and all sites connected to
college/university life
• Have a rolodex of contacts in this community, of both
professors, administrators, researchers, and students who are
contributing to the conversation about the college universe
• Wants to capture the pulse of life on college campuses across
the country, and recognizes the diversity of our country's varied
four-year programs and community colleges
Responsibilities:
• Maintain College front page
• Assign, edit, publish and promote news content, blogs and articles
• Work with influential bloggers and celebrities to generate content
• Implement SEO best practices
• Promote content on social media
• Work with Huffington Post and local Patch editors to source
best content for section and promote content across AOL/Huff Post
platforms
• Assist editorial team in executing site wide campaigns across
multiple verticals
Required Qualifications:
• 2+ years experience in reporting, writing and editing
• Must be an organized multi-tasker who can self-manage his or
her time and proactively
• Basic understanding of HTML, Photoshop and blog publishing platforms.
• Must have thorough knowledge of online media, including
experience working with online news outlets
• Ability to analyze and respond to traffic data and track metrics.
• Self-organized, passionate, and team player
Mobile Intern
The Huffington Post is looking for an intern to help work on its mobile apps.
Are you inseparable from your Iphone? Do you take your Ipad everywhere? Then this is the job for you.
We're looking for someone to help us make sure that our experience on our mobile devices is as good if not better than our site.
The intern will spend each day playing with mobile devices, testing new features, helping design and dream up the next phase of Huffington Post mobile.
Candidates should be extremely web savvy, quick learners, detail-oriented, energetic, efficient, good at self-directed follow through and be avid consumers of online media. We need a self-starter who is curious and eager to learn. What is absolutely required is serious dedication to detail while juggling multiple tasks at once.
This internship is available right away at 40 hours / week at $10 / hr. Please send a cover letter and resume to jimmy.soni@huffingtonpost.com.
Assistant Editor, HuffPost Gay Voices
As Assistant Editor you will write breaking news stories and blog posts, conduct interviews and develop and build slideshows. You will also work to optimize web traffic to the site, promote content on social media and help grow our visibility within the LGBT community while simultaneously locating ways to reach and impact mainstream audiences.
Responsibilities:
-- Pitch, write, edit, and promote thought-provoking stories
-- Pitch, write, edit and promote multimedia slideshows and packages
-- Identify and recruit bloggers
-- Grow traffic through the creative use of social media
-- Aid editors with transcribing interviews and other tasks
Qualifications:
-- Strong, fast, clean writing skills including headlines and teaser copy
-- Solid understanding of SEO
-- Thorough knowledge of LGBT issues, politics, culture, and history
-- "Big picture" thinking combined with an attention to details
-- Creativity and an "out of the box" approach to content, especially in terms of conceiving of stories that can not only speak to the LGBT community but also intrigue mainstream audiences
-- Ability to write about any topic -- from gay marriage to Lady Gaga's latest video -- with authority
-- Sense of humor; willingness to learn, ask questions, and take direction
OPEN POSITION: Social Media Editor, Politics
LOCATION: Washington DC
The Huffington Post Politics team is seeking an experienced Social Media Editor to increase engagement and foster community across various social networks. Key responsibilities include managing and growing our presence on social networking sites in coordination with senior editors and reporters, producing high-quality editorial content tailored for social sharing, and engaging our readers on social sites and other forums where appropriate.
The Huffington Post is the world's largest online newspaper and has one of the most engaged and active communities on the Internet with millions of fans and followers on social networks and over 5.5 million comments on site every month. We believe in social and community at our core, and constantly aim to innovate both our strategy and tools.
Day-to-day responsibilities:
• Work closely with the Politics editorial team, attend editorial meetings and strategy sessions and work with them to build content programs designed to grow, engage and deepen the community on and off site.
• Get your hands dirty every day writing content, getting to know the communities on each platform and being a visible presence for our readers.
• Keep editors and writers up to date on the best voice, platforms and tools for their verticals, identify the best community members across platforms and the site, and work with the moderation team to weed out bad actors.
• Measure, analyze, measure some more, and report.
Requirements:
• At least 3 years experience growing on-site and external communities.
• Exceptional writing and editorial skills.
• Ability to identify opportunities, mobilize resources and support, and get the job done.
• A demonstrated ability to grow social presence through engagement and a deep working knowledge of the best social practices.
• A love for what you do.
Social Community Editor
The Huffington Post is looking for a Social Community Editor to encourage community growth both on our social and commenting platforms. We're looking for an experienced editor with a thirst for engagement in the Entertainment and Celebrity communities, and who knows how to maintain ongoing communications with a news-consuming audience. This person will be a go-to for social promotion of content created by these verticals, as well someone who aims to help editors leverage social tools to create content. Experience working with developers and designers is a plus.
Qualifications
- 2-3 years experience in social media and community management
- A demonstrated ability to engage communities across platforms.
- Experience working in an active, fast-paced media environment
- Ability to identify editorial opportunities based on events in the social media sphere
- Demonstrated editorial abilities, and solid sense news judgment
Responsibilities
1. Oversee best practices of social media accounts including, but
never limited to:
- Posting copy and correct links.
- Teaching Editors best uses, tricks and tools.
- Clean-up and account maintenance.
- Monitoring of follower/fan numbers and insights.
- Twitter chats and Facebook page takeovers.
- Replies, engagement and hashtags.
2. Keep up with social and community teams to ensure best practices of
all tools and networks and be a knowledge base for editors.
3. Manage on-site engagement including, but not limited to:
- Working with mods to watch high-alert posts.
- Responding to comments.
- Keeping an eye on influencers and engaging comment threads.
4. Be the bridge between editors and social team by keeping abreast of
changes in the social sphere and making sure the best representations of the verticals appear on social accounts.
5. Manage and create editorial content that taps into audience base
and encourages them to react both on-site and off.
6. Help to identify vertical-specific opportunities for product development.
7. Develop and maintain partnerships across social platforms.
Position: Writer/Editor, Huffington Post Weddings & Huffington Post Divorce
Location: Beverly Hills, CA
The Huffington Post has an immediate opening for one full-time Writer/Editor to work both on our Weddings and Divorce verticals. These two sections put modern marriage under the microscope in decidedly different ways.
Huffington Post Weddings parses the joys, headaches, and most up-to-the-minute information about weddings and marriage today, engaging not only brides-and-grooms-to be and newlyweds, but also anyone looking at the culture through the lens of contemporary coupledom. From wedding-day minutiae to the most viral proposal videos to our culture's obsession with celebrity weddings to unconventional etiquette dilemmas to the latest research on modern matrimony to its emotional and financial challenges, our site is a place to indulge both the fantasies and less fairytale realities of wedding-planning and marriage, both gay and straight.
Huffington Post Divorce offers the newly-divorced--and those considering divorce--news, opinion, and advice to help navigate every aspect of a split, from its financial and emotional repercussions to its effect on kids, careers, and waistlines to the minefield of step-parenting and blended families to infidelity to post-divorce dating and reinvention. From the latest divorce trends and research findings to breaking developments in high-profile divorce litigation to the role of divorce in pop culture, our site is a hub for thoughtful analysis that not only helps readers manage their own splits, but also helps them understand the impact of divorce on the social and cultural landscape .
While the focus of each site differs, both feature a hi-low mix of stories and function as portals into lively communities where readers share their own experiences, frustrations, and advice on these topics.
The Writer/Editor will play a very active role in the day-to-day operation of both sites, working with the Associate Editors on each vertical and the Senior Editor to create top-notch content and promote it and engage with readers via a variety of social channels. Writing will be a major component of the job; the Writer/Editor will be responsible for writing timely, original reported features, service pieces, and blog posts in a distinct voice that conveys the ethos of the site. As such, the applicant should have a passion for writing and substantial writing/reporting experience.
This position reports to the Senior for Weddings and Divorce and the Women's Executive Editor.
Ideal applicants:
- Will be voracious consumers of marriage and lifestyle-related news and opinion with boundless energy and ideas for high-quality content and an exceptional drive to maximize its visibility
- Have a passion for writing about issues that cross over with weddings, marriage, and divorce, including
money, sex, friendship, career, reinvention, family, religion, gender politics
Responsibilities
- Edit copy by the Divorce and Weddings Associate editors for both verticals daily
- Present editors with timely, original story and blog post ideas on a daily basis
- Produce two blog posts per day
- Write two features per week, and occasionally copy for accompanying slideshows
- Conduct video interviews to accompany features, when assigned
- Maintain an active social media presence and vigorously promote the content you produce
- Implement SEO best practices
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years' experience in editing, reporting, feature writing, and blogging on lifestyle and/or relationship issues, preferably on the Web
- Must be an organized multi-tasker who manages own time proactively
- Basic understanding of HTML, Photoshop, and blog publishing platforms
- Must have thorough knowledge of online media, including experience working with online news outlets
- Familiarity with major women's blogs, sites, and magazines
- An ability to work with a warm, energetic team
OPEN POSITION: Senior Organizer, OfftheBus citizen journalism project
LOCATION: Washington DC
The Huffington Post is seeking a self-starting journalist to help manage OfftheBus, our citizen journalism program. Equal parts editor and community manager, this role involves overseeing communications with citizen journalists and coordinating their work with The Huffington Post's Politics team. This person would also be responsible for finding, curating, editing and crowdsourcing short-form citizen journalism from blogs, online communities and social networks for publication on OfftheBus. Experience with copyediting and comfort using social media tools is a must. Candidates should send their resume/CV and letter of interest to both jobs AT huffingtonpost.com and john.ness AT patch.com.
OfftheBus, founded during the 2008 elections as a way to get citizen journalists involved in covering the campaigns, is key to The Huffington Post's ongoing commitment to community.
Day-to-day responsibilities:
• Work closely with the Politics editorial team and other Huffington Post verticals, attending editorial meetings and workingwith them to figure out ways to engage OfftheBus members in staff's reporting work.
• Manage communications with existing and prospective OfftheBus volunteers to build a huge base of Citizen Journalists devoted to contributing to the OfftheBus brand.
• Select, edit and publish the short-form work of citizen contributors and manage the OfftheBus section on The Huffington Post website.
• Work continuously to beat the competition to curate and aggregate the best political citizen journalism being done on social media platforms across the web
Requirements:
• At least 3 years experience growing on-site and/or external communities.
• Exceptional writing and editorial skills.
• Ability to identify opportunities, mobilize resources and support, and get the job done.
• A demonstrated ability to grow social presence through engagement
Remote Comment Moderator (Full Time)
The Huffington Post is on the leading edge of Community Moderation and Management
and we are looking for full time (36 hours per week) entry level moderators to join our team.
Our community team handles the moderation of approximately 5 million comments a month
combining community moderation, a machine based moderator, staff moderators and some
of the most advanced tools in the industry.
This is a fast paced entry level position and we will train you. If you can read quickly, make quick,
impartial, decisions and want to get started in the Community industry, this is a great position for you.
Preferred skills:
- Focused speed reading - our moderators read the equivalent of Moby Dick 18 times a month.
- Experience moderating blog or forum based communities a plus, but not required.
- You must be willing to work at least one 6 hour shift between Friday night and Monday morning.
Compensation
- This is an hourly position, 6 hours per day, 6 days per week, flexible shifts and includes benefits.
- Nap pods, table tennis, foosball, free vending machines and more in the office.
- Remote working available.
How to apply
Please send a resume and cover letter to modrecruiting AT huffingtonpost.com.
We will ask you to take 2 short tests to assess your reading and decision making speeds.
Remote Comment Moderator - Nights (Full Time)
The Huffington Post is on the leading edge of Community Moderation and Management
and we are looking for full time (36 hours per week) entry level nighttime moderators to join our team.
Our community team handles the moderation of approximately 5 million comments a month
combining community moderation, a machine based moderator, staff moderators and some
of the most advanced tools in the industry.
This is a fast paced entry level position and we will train you. If you can read quickly, make quick,
impartial, decisions and want to get started in the Community industry, this is a great position for you.
Preferred skills:
- Focused speed reading - our moderators read the equivalent of Moby Dick 18 times a month.
- Experience moderating blog or forum based communities a plus, but not required.
- Night shifts are 6 hours and generally fall between 10pm ET and noon the next day.
Compensation
- This is an hourly position, 6 hours per day, 6 days per week, flexible shifts and includes benefits.
- Remote working available.
How to apply
Send your resume, availability and why you want to be a moderator to modrecruiting AT huffingtonpost.com.
We will ask you to take 2 short tests to assess your reading and decision making speeds.
OPEN POSITION: Staff Writer, Huffington Post Women/Divorce/Weddings
Location: New York City or LA
Job: The Huffington Post Media Group has an immediate opening for a staff writer for our
Women, Divorce, and Weddings verticals.
Let's face it: Lifestyle content often makes readers feel bad. We are bombarded with
messages -- some subtle, others explicit -- that our lives, our very selves, are lacking.
That stops here. At the Huffington Post, we are carving out an online space where readers can come to feel informed and inspired and supported. HuffPost Women, Divorce and Weddings are warm, sophisticated, intelligent, social, insightful, informative, trustworthy, fun. We want people to feel like these verticals are places where they can share and connect, swap ideas and help each other. We want to provide our very busy readers with insight and entertainment every time they visit, whether it's the most important news of the day curated by editors they trust, a unique perspective on the story everyone is talking about, solid career advice, or an essay so moving or funny (or both) that readers can't stop thinking about or sharing it.
The HuffPost Women/Weddings/Divorce staff writer will be responsible for writing timely, original, excellent reported features, service pieces, and blog posts in a distinct voice that conveys the ethos of the sites.
This position reports to the Women and Divorce/Weddings vertical editors.
Ideal applicants:
• Will be voracious consumers of news and opinion with boundless energy and
ideas for high-quality content and an exceptional drive to maximize its visibility
• Have a passion for writing about issues related to Women, Divorce, Weddings and marriage, including relationships, health, money, work, technology, and culture.
Responsibilities:
• Present editors with timely, original story and blog post ideas on a daily basis
• Produce two blog posts per day
• Write two features per week, and occasionally copy for accompanying slideshows
• Conduct video interviews to accompany features, when assigned
• Maintain an active social media presence and vigorously promote the content you
produce
• Implement SEO best practices
Required Qualifications:
• 2+ years experience in reporting, feature writing, and blogging on women's issues
• Must be an organized multi-tasker who manages her own time
proactively
• Basic understanding of HTML, Photoshop, and blog publishing platforms
• Must have thorough knowledge of online media, including experience
working with online news outlets
• Familiarity with major women's blogs, sites, and magazines
• An ability to work with a warm, energetic team
Preferred Qualifications:
• Basic understanding of Photoshop
• Sense of humor
OPEN POSITION: ASSOCIATE EDITOR, HUFFPOST PARENTS
As Associate Editor you will report into the Managing Editor of HuffPost Parents and be responsible for updating the site with breaking news, analysis, blog posts, video, slideshows and more, optimizing web traffic, promoting content on social media and growing our community.
Responsibilities
- Pitch, write, edit and promote engaging HuffPost Parents stories
- Curate and manage HuffPost Parents subsections and content packages
- Grow traffic through creative use of social media
- Recruit bloggers for the vertical and stay abreast of trends in the parent blogosphere
- Implement SEO best practices throughout the vertical
- Be an active and supportive member of the HuffPost Parents editorial team
Qualifications
- 2-4 years online editorial
- Very strong writing skills, including headlines and teaser copy
- Solid understanding of SEO
- Ability to analyze traffic data and track metrics, and respond to them
- Basic HTML and experience with blog publishing platforms
- Extensive knowledge of social media sites and ideas about how to engage HuffPost's reader community in the issues of the day
- Endless energy and ideas for high-quality content, and exceptional drive to maximize its visibility and impact
OPEN POSITION: CMS Developer
Location: New York City or Remote
The focus of the position would be on development of the core HuffPost CMS, which powers huffingtonpost.com and several other sites, displaying your work to millions of viewers daily. Our Edit and Tech teams share a collaborative process, which means that as a HuffPost engineer, you'll have a big influence on the final product.
Title : PHP/PERL/MySQL/LAMP Developer for High Traffic Site
We are looking for:
- Experienced in PHP, PERL, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery
- Strong experience maintaining and extending large-scale Content Management Systems for Websites
- Must be comfortable using a Unix shell
- Good knowledge of manual HTML coding
- Experience in object oriented programming and SQL database design
- Experience working with third-party APIs or making mash-ups
- Experience updating advertising calls
- Production issue resolution (bugs - js/css/jquery)
- Must have the ability to convert website layouts in PSD to HTML
- Create html templates and corresponding css based on pdf files
- Site optimization - finding ways to optimize existing sites (js/css)
- Experience working in a team and developing projects using an OOP approach
- Must enjoy writing beautiful code
Skills Required:
- PHP
- PERL
- MySQL
- Javascript/AJAX
- DHTML/CSS
- Positive "can do" attitude; willingness to give it a try
- Able to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, while meeting deadlines
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to think out of the box and with minimal structure
- Ability to work collaboratively with local and remote colleagues
- Detail Oriented
- Team Player
To apply, send a resume to developer AT huffingtonpost.com. Include "CMS Developer" in the subject line.
OPEN POSITION: SR. UX DESIGNER, HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA GROUP
Location: New York City
The Huffington Post Media Group (HPMG) is looking for a Sr. UX Designer with unique abilities and experience focused on social news media to support the breadth of design execution across the .com site and related editorial content. As a Visual Designer you will provide design execution and delivery on web and interactive projects, contribute to mobile design initiatives and TV platforms. Working in collaboration with technical and editorial stakeholders you will support execution and delivery of solutions that balance user needs with business goals and technology capabilities. You will also seek to exploit the opportunities for innovative visual design offered by new and emerging technology and social platforms. We are looking for someone who will have the design experience and flexibility to execute on quick iterative releases yet still have a passion for design being pixel perfect and have established aesthetic.
EXPERIENCE
• Work with Art Director/Creative Director to complete design elements of projects according to an agreed brief (i.e. schedules, resources etc.) with a high degree of independence delivering innovative, engaging and world class design solutions
• Work with key senior editorial staff, reporters, researchers and client side programmers to conceptualize and produce rich visual narratives and interactive experiences.
• Stay up-to-date with trends in visual communication, especially web design standards and social news and media sites.
• Work with internal project stakeholders to define information architecture, navigation, labeling and design standards for visualizations & interactive features.
Must be attentive to detail and able to identify gaps and friction points that contribute to a poor user experience (cross-browser issues, cross-platform issues)
• Take a user-centered approach in concepting and crafting design solutions that meet both user needs and product strategy requirements
Must be attentive to detail and able to identify gaps and friction points that contribute to a poor user experience (cross-browser issues, cross-platform issues)
This position is responsible for creating compelling social news experiences, showcasing the real-time interactions on a page and supporting a host of graphic production in support of the 30+ vertical category sites that are currently part of the core of The Huffington Post. The site is in the midst of a monumental growth curve and as a result we are increasing the designers in support of the various category properties from new feature banners to design and development of new sections, modules and apps. As has been written in the press we are now set to expand to Europe and in multiple languages so we need a team that can grow with us.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design with emphasis on Media Design, Interactive Media, Information Design or related equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience or equivalent work in graphic design or interaction design or related field.
• Candidates must be proficient in Adobe CS4 tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash) and have an understanding of HTML5 and CSS3.
• An added plus to have proficiency in OmniGraffle/Axure for Wireframes/User Flows.
• Must be highly organized with strong attention to detail with ability to self manage and work independently in some cases of the larger UX group
• Must be a good multi-tasking person, able to prioritize personal workload and deliver against deadlines with minimal guidance and moving delivery dates.
Apply here:
https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=25237&siteid;=36&areq;=122061BR&
OPEN POSITION: LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR, HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA GROUP
Location: New York City
We are seeking a talented system administrator to work on our team managing our web hosting infrastructure. You will be tasked with managing our entire hosting infrastructure across development and production environments. Ideal candidates will have a can-do attitude, passion for technology, and a penchant for security and expert-level system administration skills. You will be working with a small, dynamic and smart team that works hard and has a lot of fun.
Required Skills
Enterprise level Linux expert with experience in load-balanced web servers. We use CentOS here.
Web services, caching and load balancing expertise. Apache, memcache, nginx, varnish, Akamai, Redis.
Amazon EC2, S3 and most especially RightScale experience is a plus.
Git/Subversion.
Network & System Security. Enterprise level network/system security experience is a definite plus.
Automation Experience. We believe in automating tasks to make our work easier, and we'll want you to play a key role in helping us do that.
Written and verbal communication skills are very important in this environment.
Experience running and participating in projects with distributed teams.
The ideal candidate is someone that goes far beyond task work: you should be able to discover what needs to be done, figure out how to do it and get it done.
A strong plus includes Web development experience. You don't necessarily need to be able to hack HTML, PHP & Javascript to do this job, but if you do, so much the better.
This is a mid-level position; we're looking for somebody who has at least 4+ years of Linux system administration experience with high volume web sites. We are technologists and generalists here, and we look for more of the same, so a Computer Science educational background is a definite plus.
Apply here:
https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=25237&siteid;=36&areq;=122728BR&
OPEN POSITION: PROJECT MANAGER, HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA GROUP
Location: New York City
Responsibilities
The focus of the position would be on managing the international team of developers who works on the huffingtonpost.com and their roadmap.
Oversee multiple, concurrent web projects and facilitate all phases of project development including planning, creative development, production/implementation, testing and launch.
Work closely with project business, technical leads, designers on developing road maps and on managing requirements and their priorities
Mange shifting and competing priorities including issue resolution involving senior management
Develop and manage project timelines and project plans
Risk identification and management
Comfortable in a high-paced, shifting environment; ability to work with little structure; flexibility with juggling divergent tasks
Lead project planning and requirement grooming for team insuring requirements were clear enough enabling clear technical task breakdown, creating task plans.
Identify and mitigate project issues and risks
Regularly communicate status of projects and issues to the team
Work with distributed cross-functional teams across the globe
Play an active role in re-evaluating current processes and recommend and implement improvements
Solid experience in oral and written communication with a diversity of stakeholders, including senior management, business and sysadmin, users and developers.
Requirements
5+ years of experience managing web related projects
Experience managing project specs, roadmaps and developer & designer work pipelines
Experience working with business, technical, and design leads
Experience with CMS a plus
Apply here:
https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=25237&siteid;=36&areq;=122741BR&
OPEN POSITION: TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER, HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA GROUP
Location: New York City
Responsibilities
The focus of the position will be to manage development of the CMS.
Oversee multiple, concurrent web projects and facilitate all phases of project development including planning, creative development, production/implementation, testing and launch.
Work closely with project business, technical leads, designers on developing road maps and on managing requirements and their priorities
Mange shifting and competing priorities including issue resolution involving senior management
Develop and manage project timelines and project plans
Risk identification and management
Comfortable in a high-paced, shifting environment; ability to work with little structure; flexibility with juggling divergent tasks
Lead project planning and requirement grooming for team insuring requirements were clear enough enabling clear technical task breakdown, creating task plans.
Identify and mitigate project issues and risks
Regularly communicate status of projects and issues to the team
Work with distributed cross-functional teams across the globe
Play an active role in re-evaluating current processes and recommend and implement improvements
Solid experience in oral and written communication with a diversity of stakeholders, including senior management, business and sysadmin, users and developers.
Requirements
5+ years of experience managing web related projects
Experience managing technical requirements, roadmaps and developer work pipelines
Prior experience managing developers
Experience working with business, technical, and design leads
Familiarity with a programming language a plus
Experience with CMS a plus
Apply here:
https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerid=25237&siteid;=36&areq;=122740BR&
OPEN POSITION: SOFTWARE ENGINEER, HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA GROUP
We are looking for a Software Engineer to work on special projects at Huffington Post. This full time position will be located in our NYC office, but if you're a true animal, we have some remote openings possible. Day to day responsibilities include, but not limited to: integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Foursquare and developing the Huffington Post social news network.
What We Are Looking For
Experienced in PHP, PERL, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery (Bonus points if you've built things in Ruby)
Experience working with Facebook, Twitter, Google etc. APIs or making mash-ups
Must be comfortable using a Unix shell
Good knowledge of manual HTML coding
Experience in object oriented programming and SQL database design
Production issue resolution (bugs - js/css/jquery)
Must have the ability to convert website layouts in PSD to HTML
Create html templates and corresponding css based on pdf files
Site optimization - finding ways to optimize existing sites (js/css)
Experience working in a team and developing projects using an OOP approach
Must enjoy writing beautiful code!
Qualifications
Technical skills:
PHP
PERL
MySQL
Javascript/AJAX
DHTML/CSS
Other important attributes:
Entrepreneurial, self starter, (great candidates will have startup experience or side projects they've initiated)
Able to multi-task and hit deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills
Ability to think out of the box and with minimal structure
Ability to work collaboratively with local and remote colleagues
Detail Oriented
Team Player (Not a jerk)
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OPEN POSITION: SOCIAL MEDIA DEVELOPER, HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA GROUP
Location: New York City or Remote
We are looking for a Social Media Developer to join our team at Huffington Post. This full time position will be located in our NYC office. Day to day responsibilities include, but not limited to: integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Foursquare and developing the Huffington Post social news network.
What We Are Looking For
Experienced in PHP, PERL, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery
Strong experience maintaining and extending large-scale Content Management Systems for Websites
Experience working with Tumblr, Pinterest, Stumbleupon,Google+, Spotify, Instagram APIs or making mash-ups
Must be comfortable using a Unix shell
Good knowledge of manual HTML coding
Experience in object oriented programming and SQL database design
Production issue resolution (bugs - js/css/jquery)
Must have the ability to convert website layouts in PSD to HTML
Create html templates and corresponding css based on pdf files
Site optimization - finding ways to optimize existing sites (js/css)
Experience working in a team and developing projects using an OOP approach
Must enjoy writing beautiful code!
Technical Skills Required:
PHP
PERL
MySQL
Javascript/AJAX
DHTML/CSS
Other important attributes:
Able to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, while meeting deadlines
Excellent communication skills
Ability to think out of the box and with minimal structure
Ability to work collaboratively with local and remote colleagues
Detail Oriented
Team Player
