We're building www.gazelle.com with big goals in mind. Sure, we want people to think of us as the place to sell used electronic devices. It's designed to be easy and fast with zero hassles for folks selling anything from cell phones to MP3 players, Apples to Blackberries.
But we also want to accomplish a couple of other things:
- Change the way people think about consumption and ownership.
- Provide an alternative to the devastating escalation of ewaste.
Gazelle is aiming to assemble the very best team and is highly selective when hiring. If you can contribute to our passionate, creative, freewheeling team, we want you. You'll need to learn quickly and be comfortable making independent (correct) decisions as we forge new territory together. Gazelle fosters a collaborative environment that encourages input and rewards initiative.
In addition to the chance to make internet history, every employee receives three weeks vacation, full medical and dental benefits, participation in a 401K plan and a generous bonus plan.
Listed below are current openings. See if any are the right fit for you.
Gazelle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
Current Openings
Project Manager
OPPORTUNITY
We’re looking for a Project Manager to help drive our software development life cycle. The Project Manager will work as part of a small, fast moving team working on in a Ruby on Rails environment, in short development cycles. Our up front documentation is light and loose, so the right person for this role will be adept at facilitation and rapid decision making.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Proactively manage the on-time execution and delivery of project deliverables from requirements gathering through testing to release
- Defining functional specifications with a focus on delightful user experience
- Manage project communications between Engineering and Business / Operations teams
- Realistically define scope and schedule for a multitude of projects
- Ownership of project metrics and forecast project capacity over time
REQUIREMENTS
- 3 – 5 years experience working through the complete product development lifecycle including specification and quality assurance
- CS degree or significant professional experience working closely with engineers and developers
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Demonstrated history of repeated, sustained project delivery
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A true love of the details, tempered with an ability to embrace compromise as the landscape shifts around you
- Ability to walk through walls a plus
Please send a resume and cover letter to careers@gazelle.com with ‘Project Manager’ in the subject line so we can get the conversation started.
Search & Online Marketing Manager
We are seeking an analytical, quantitative Search & Online Marketing Manager to drive customer acquisition as we grow. This role is business to consumer oriented and primarily tactical (you will be expected to get things done, not just make things happen) but to succeed, an ability to think strategically will be required. Attitude and aptitude are valued as well as experience for this role.
You will:
- Take ownership and responsibility of our online marketing P&L including: managing online spend, reaching revenue goals, and maintaining profit margins
- Manage our SEM and SEO programs, and work to optimize and grow
- Seek out and test new CPC and CPM online marketing programs
- Launch, grow, and manage affiliate marketing programs
- Manage and expand banner and email marketing initiatives, and lead creative development process
- Drive A/B and mult-variate landing page testing
- Assist in high-level business development initiatives
- Minimum 2-4 years experience managing online marketing programs with an emphasis on measurable online growth
- Direct working knowledge of SEM strategy and tactics a must; SEO knowledge a plus
- Very strong quantitative and analytical skills a must
- Landing page testing experience a plus
- Social media experience a plus
- Passion for consumer internet marketing
- BA or BS;
- Strong attention to detail, excellent communications skills, and a positive attitude
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously
- Ability to take ownership and run confidently with minimal direction
- A Minimum of 5-10 years of web application development and systems engineering experience
- Experience with build/release of multiple parallel development and production support threads, including working with tags and branches in source control systems (currently using SVN and Git)
- Ruby on Rails experience (or a strong desire to learn!), Capistrano deployment recipes, gems, plugins
- Be a proponent of QA and TDD (test driven development) and automated test tools (Cruise Control, Selenium)
- Extensive OOP knowledge and experience with either Java or C++/C#
- Strong web skills: XHTML, HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, JQuery, etc.
- Relational database skills (MySQL, Rails migrations, queries, joins)
- Comfortable with system administrative tasks pertaining to build/release tasks: Linux (Gentoo), Nginx web server, Sphinx search engine, Mingle, Lighthouse, New Relic
- Use Agile development practices and SCRUM methodologies
- Project Management experience
- Solid communication skills, both written and oral
- Must be self-directed, confident, and able to work in a fast-paced, demanding startup environment
- CS degree or equivalent experience
- A Minimum of 2-5 years of web application development experience
- Ruby on Rails experience (or a strong desire to learn!), MVC (Model-View-Controller) patterns, Mongrel, Capistrano recipes, gems, plugins, RJS
- Be a proponent of TDD (test driven development) and automated test tools (Selenium, Cruise Control)
- Server-side programming, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), REST
- Extensive OOP knowledge and/or experience with either Java or C++/C#
- Strong web skills: XHTML,HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, etc.
- Knowledge of AJAX, Flex and/or Widget development is a plus
- Relational database skills (MySQL, Rails migrations, queries, joins)
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python)
- Tools: Flex, Subversion, Trac, CMS frameworks, Open Source
- Project Management experience
- Use Agile development practices and SCRUM methodologies
- Solid communication skills, both written and oral
- Must be self-directed, confident, and able to work in a fast-paced startup environment
- CS/Engineering degree or equivalent experience
- An aptitude for consumer electronics
- Detail oriented and can follow directions well
- Hands on, team player that can do the work,
- Primary duty will be to inspect and test used consumer electronics but will also include a combination of manual and clerical shipping, receiving, distributing and or storing duties.
- Receives incoming materials, supplies and equipment.
- Unpacks and checks product into our proprietary system.
- Prepares materials for shipment.
- Constantly recommends and supports performance improvements
- Must be able to effectively and professionally interface with internal and external customers of varying ranks and positions.
- Solid communication skills, both written and oral
- Must be self-directed, confident, and able to work in a startup environment
Requirements and Qualifications:
Please send a resume and cover letter to careers@gazelle.com with ‘Search & Online Marketing Manager’ in the subject line.
SYSTEMS/RELEASE ENGINEER
Skills: Systems Engineering, Source Control Systems, Ruby on Rails, QA, TDD, MySQL, Linux, Strong Web skill set
Location: Allston, MA
Position Type: Contract to Fulltime Permanent, Onsite Only
Compensation: Competitive and based upon experience; stock options, bonus plan, matching 401K plan
Opportunity
We are looking for a systems/release engineer to help deliver solutions to support the Second Rotation vision. As a key member of the Second Rotation engineering team, you will be responsible for systems engineering and coordinating releases and updates for our companies websites and applications. You will manage QA efforts and monitor exceptions and application performance. You will be instrumental in building an exciting and rapidly expanding company.
Requirements/Characteristics
Contact us to learn more at careers@gazelle.com with ‘Systems/Release Engineer’ in the subject line.
RUBY ON RAILS DEVELOPER
Skills: Ruby on Rails, OOP, SOA, REST, AJAX, TDD, MySQL, LAMP, Strong Web skill set
Location: Allston, MA
Position Type: Contract to Fulltime Permanent, Onsite Only
Compensation: Competitive and based upon experience; stock options, bonus plan, matching 401K plan
Opportunity
We are looking for a Ruby On Rails developer to help deliver solutions to support the Second Rotation vision. As a key member of the Second Rotation engineering team, you will be responsible for building scalable applications and solutions as we develop SR1, our web services platform. You will be instrumental in building an exciting and rapidly expanding company.
Requirements/Characteristics
Contact us to learn more at careers@gazelle.com with ‘Ruby On Rails Developer’ in the subject line.
ELECTRONIC GADGET INSPECTORS
We are looking for gadget gurus! Folks who love poking and prodding all the latest electronic devices (and last year’s models too!). Cell Phones, MP3 players, Gaming consoles, Digital Camcorders, Cameras and Laptops...we get it all. Consumers send them to us, we inspect them and then re-sell them. Where do you fit in? We need self motivated, detail oriented people who can learn our process, turn on a dime, take apart an electronic gadget, test it per our guidelines and then move on to the next device with an eye on quality and the customers experience. Previous work experience with electronics, mobile phone activations, computer hardware, warehouse logistics, shipping, Inventory systems and eCommerce/Internet technologies.
Requirements/Characteristics
BS degree or equivalent experience
Contact us to learn more at careers@gazelle.com with ‘Inspector’ in the subject line.