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Out of the many recent accomplishments that we’ve had, perhaps none is more exciting than the recent publicity we received from being named in Seattle’s Top 10 Places to Work by Seattle Met Magazine:
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What do rubber band balls, coffee, cupcakes & a workspace w/ no computer have in common? The cover of this month’s Seattle Met magazine!
But, magazine articles aren’t the only things that should entice you to join our ragtag bunch…
Our Office
When you step foot inside SEOmoz, you’ll be forced to breakdance… Well, OK, that’s only if you mindlessly obey floor diagrams. You will, however, find a space that’s fun, productive, light-filled and only a block away from the Pike Place Market. We have pretty cool meeting rooms, too.
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Lots of windows help keep the gloomy Seattle weather from damaging our sun-starved bodies
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Xbox Kinect on Friday Nights
Our Team
The 34 people who work at the MozPlex are absolutely amazing. I noted in the Seattle Met piece that we bias toward folks who are not only smart and capable, but fit our culture of TAGFEE. That’s resulted in a group that I’m proud to call co-workers and friends.
Cyrus + Jen from Marketing, Chas from Engineering + Miranda from Product
If you’ve met Moz team members at events or interacted with us over the web or phone, you’ve probably already been impressed. If you haven’t… you should apply for an interview at one of the positions below just to come to say Hi! 🙂 (OK, probably not really, but you should at least come to our NYC meetup May 12, the Distilled Boston conference or MozCon this summer).
Our Mission: Simplify Organic Web Marketing
We’re privileged to tackle a huge, meaningful problem in a massive market. It’s our goal to take what is today a massive, complex set of tasks + challenges and make them accessible to non-experts, trackable via solid data and provide recommendations + automation to make improvement easy.
This stuff is really hard. We’re building software to make it less so. If that’s something you’re passionate about, we think there’s no better place to be.
Our Customers + Community: More than a million strong!
In March, SEOmoz + OSE had its first ever combined 1million+ visit month:
As if you needed another reason not to trust Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, etc. 🙂
Over the years, millions of people have used our tools + resources to learn more about search/web marketing and improve their sites. Our market position is an exciting one, filled with opportunity, but we know that great responsibility comes with that privilege. One of the best things we can offer to prospective employees is the chance to have a big impact on an emerging field – it’s the same thing that makes me excited to come to the office (or hop on a plane) every morning.
We’re Hiring Eight Exceptional People!
In addition to our ongoing search for world-class software engineers, I’m thrilled to announce eight new positions on the Moz team:
SEOmoz wants people who believe in our mission and in TAGFEE. We’re unique in focusing not only on great talent, but great fit with our team. If you read the blog regularly or have stumbled across a few posts from us and feel a kindred spirit, we’d really love to talk. If you’re new to SEOmoz but curious to learn more, we are too and we hope you’ll take that first step by clicking and applying to one of the positions below:
Awesome Job #1: Marketing Oracle (aka Quality Content Honcho)
Producing exceptional content has been the foundation of our strategy since the beginning. We’re looking for someone to produce extraordinary content for us and manage our entire content production process (the blog, news, guides, videos, and lots more). Whether it’s original research, data analysis, or thought leadership in the inbound marketing space, we’re looking for someone who can become our best blogger and produce our most linked-to content. You should have a proven track record of producing quality, engaging content for social media audiences, experience and knowledge of all forms of inbound marketing, and the ability to see where things are headed (i.e. be a marketing oracle).
Quality content is of the utmost importance to us, and you must share this obsession. You should be able to distill complex ideas into simple ones, create visualizations and infographics of data sets, and have a deep-rooted desire to teach and communicate ideas online. You’re abreast of the latest industry news and able to quickly respond and communicate the implications to our community. This position is unlike any you’ll find at other companies — there are few formal requirements. If you’re passionate about producing phenomenal content, then this job is for you!
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Awesome Job #2: Online Marketer
We’re looking for an amazing online marketer. You know how to dominate paid marketing channels and are obsessed with managing them every day—making adjustments for daily performance gains, performing detailed analysis in Excel, and creating key performance indicators in Google Analytics. You’re obsessed with managing data to a positive ROI. You know how to take charge of new channels that aren’t even popular yet (Twitter Advertising, for example) or can learn how to very quickly. You make use of acronyms like PPC, CRO, CPA, CPM, CPC in daily conversation. You don’t just know these acronyms, you have years of practical experience working with them.
When it comes to performance marketing, you believe in a data-driven culture and the power of ongoing testing. If you like getting creative on a daily basis, testing new marketing waters, and collaborating with other passionate marketers, then this position is all you. But most of all, you really want to work for the awesome and talented Joanna Lord.
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To be a Mozzer System Administrator, you should be a Mac ninja and Google Apps whiz, have a good sense of humor, and have The Office Tivo’d. You have a desire to work with a bunch of technology rockstars who are passionate about developing stellar Internet marketing software. You often find yourself daydreaming about networking, development support, and production support. People often catch you using words like Cisco, MySql, and Samba constantly. You’ll provide desktop support for over thirty MozStaff and those to come in our rapidly growing office. We would love for you to work with and support the development team from prototype to staging to production; providing systems resources, setup, and monitoring.
You should know administration of Macs and some Windows and Linux systems, network administration including Cisco ASA with VPN, wireless networking, and Google Apps for your domain. Joining SEOmoz would a great opportunity to learn new technology and show your skills by enhancing what is already in place. We run part of our systems in the cloud, part hosted, and development is virtualized—so, you’ll spend part of your day on the ground (managing our office’s computers), and part of your day managing our cloud systems—we won’t be upset if your head is up in the clouds.
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Awesome Job #4: Graphic Designer (Web UX/UI)
We’re looking for a web designer with the ability to create mind-lasers with his/her design talents and destroy web zombies with his/her Photoshop cannon abilities. Swoosh. Explosion. If you have the ability to liquefy rainbows and concentrate their pantones into web-safe colors, we want you! You’ll participate in site discussions, information gathering, team brainstorms, critiques, and presentations with the product team and marketing team. Daily tasks center on a comprehensive understanding of the design vision of SEOmoz, leading to the creation of new visual assets, concepts and the production of a full suite of site material and interface components. This role will also be involved with periodic maintenance of current site design material.
You should be a solid communicator (iambic pentameter optional), actively seeking and spreading inspiration, regularly challenging the status quo of our current designs, and curiously seeking out and learning about new tools and design trends. Did we mention you should have mad Photoshop and Illustrator skills, like pie, and wear Threadless t-shirts? Those who do not love tightly-kerned Helvetica Bold need not apply, or have a good reason not to. 😉
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Awesome Job #5: Customer Service Expert
Do you <3 the Internet, love helping people, and laugh easily and often? Do your friends call you when their computers barf up strange error messages? Does Search Engine Optimization fascinate you? Are you unafraid of the early morning—or love making copious amounts of coffee? If this sounds like you, then we should chat. As a Customer Service Expert on our morning shift (6:30am to 3:30pm), you will contribute to the team by assisting our customers with all of their SEOmoz site and billing problems.
This includes the technical problems they encounter using our site and tools, and the billing questions they have about their accounts. You’ll diagnose problems and provide helpful advice across several different platforms: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE, Windows and Macs. By understanding our customers’ needs and working closely with the product and marketing teams, you will help us build high quality, delightful products.
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Awesome Job #6: Community Attaché
Our community is one of the most vibrant on the net. The Community Attaché, along with Jen Lopez, our Chief Community Wrangler, will connect, develop and nurture that community. Seriously, you want to have our community over for a sleep over. One of your primary responsibilities will be managing the day-to-day operations of our PRO Q&A Forum—you should be excited about increasing participation, quality and functionality. You’ll ensure questions are answered quickly, and that great answers are rewarded and recognized. You don’t mind rolling up your sleeves and reviewing dozens of questions daily. You’ll connect weekly with lots of community members and develop and manage a team of associates and moderators who will help you keep things running smoothly.
You’re passionate about user-generated content and will encouraging participation in YOUmoz (our user-generated blog), walk new authors through the process, help edit submitted posts, and publish and promote finished content. You love SEO and social media and should have experience with both. Most importantly, you aren’t afraid working with a wonderfully diverse set of people (including some very occasionally grumpy ones) who are passionate about online marketing and SEO. You must also enjoy giving and receiving hugs. 😉
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Awesome Job #7: Business Development (Chief Friendmaker, API Guru)
You like to create things, whether that’s partnerships, creative new uses for our API, or lasting friendships with SEOmoz customers. Maybe you’ve worn a suit in the past and want to work somewhere where shorts and a t-shirt are typical attire. You’ve got technical chops and are able to devise creative ways for others to use our data. You want to create new distribution partnerships that develop new marketing channels for SEOmoz PRO. You should have experience and knowledge with the SEO industry—you’ll be helping large agency and enterprise customers adopt our software. You’ll also be the primary point of contact for our API customers and always be on the lookout for new opportunities. You’ll feed new technology ideas to our product team who will make those ideas a reality. You’ll foster a community of API developers and host developer hack days.
You should have business development experience but not be afraid of a company that encourages honesty and informality in business dealings—we prefer friendships to partnerships. You should also be a super-friendly person that people love to spend time with—big plus if you can do a cartwheel, know how to make friendship bracelets, or love talking partnerships over Happy Hour.
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Awesome Job #8: Software Engineers!
We’re still hiring Software Engineers and offering a $12,000 bounty both to the engineers who are hired and those who referred them. To get the full scoop, see this earlier blog post.
Why You Should Work Here in One Photo:
So, if all this seems interesting, we’d love to chat with you, and if you know one someone who’d be a good fit for any of these positions, please send them our way; there’s a nifty "Send JobVite" link on each jobs page that lets you share a position via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We’ll always keep our careers page updated with the latest positions at www.seomoz.org/about/jobs. Oh, and we’re definitely an equal opportunity employer.
p.s. We do offer re-location packages and assistance, but we can only accept folks who can legally live/work in the US (much as we’d love to make more international hires, navigating the US visa system is, as yet, beyond our means).
