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Director of Marketing at Outright.com

2009-02-20T12:43:46-08:00

One of First Round Capital's newest investments - Outright.com - is looking for a scrappy Director of Marketing to build out the marketing function and drive customer acquisition. If this could be you, send your resume over with 'Director of Marketing' in the subject.

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Do you want to bring marketing to a whole new level of innovation? Have you demonstrated that you can bring your 'A' game and win? Do you love social marketing? Do you want to prove to the world that you can beat out the best of the best? If yes, you should join us and become our marketing leader. While it is important that you have a strong marketing background, it is more important that you have a track record of successfully innovating social and direct marketing techniques that drive results and that you can drive them for us.

STOP: Before reading further, please do not apply for this position if

You have not worked for an Internet/Technology company for at least three years.
You don't enjoy actually doing hands-on marketing work.
Your primary goal is to "manage people".
You cannot handle (or don't have previous experience with) the excitement, chaos, and stress associated with working at a fast-based start-up.
You don't have a proven track record of creating immediate return-on-investment from online and offline marketing campaigns.
You don't have a sense of urgency or a sense of humor.
You require large budgets, staffs and infrastructure.

About this position

Outright.com is looking for an experienced Director of Marketing to create, own and drive our marketing programs. We're looking for someone with an appreciation for social and guerrilla marketing, who understands that you don't need a huge budget to generate significant results. You will own customer acquisition and build out the marketing function for the company. This position reports directly to the CEO and will have board access/exposure.

Get in on the ground floor of this exciting opportunity - be employee #4 of a well-funded, venture-backed startup that is redefining financial management for micro-businesses.

We offer competitive pay, with a significant bonus and incentive equity program.

Responsibilities

Manage all Public Relations efforts, marketing and promotional programs
Ownership over all messaging, both inbound and outbound
Mine date to produce and analyze daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports on the performance of campaigns, programs and viral and social marketing activities.
Drive influencer marketing
Manage all promotional activity
Social media, including Outright.com blog, SEM, Affiliate marketing & sponsorships
Work with business development to maximize partner effectiveness

Skills, Experience, Style

Results and metrics driven: you can find and measure causal relationships between your efforts and results
Passion
Experience with online and Web 2.0 marketing initiatives: blogs, SEO, SEM, social media, video and mobile
Understanding of consumer behavior and motivation and how to measure our impact on it
Incredible communication and writing skills
Ability to balance strategic planning with on-the-fly prioritization to meet rapid growth and chaos of a startup
6-10 years of recent experience in relevant consumer facing or small business web products
Bachelor level degree, preferably in Marketing. MBA preferred, but not required.
Prior experience as an independent contractor, self-employed individual or small business owner/operator is highly desirable.

First Round Capital Summer MBA Intern

2009-02-09T12:53:02-08:00

First Round Capital is looking for a first-year MBA with boundless energy and a quick mind to join us for a summer internship in our San Francisco office. At First Round Capital, we value:

Integrity
Intellect
Teamwork
Entrepreneurship
A strong work ethic
Independent and original thought

Interested folks can submit their resume to me via email with 'Summer Associate' in the subject line. Your cover note should include both two references and anticipated summer availability. Candidates currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area are strongly preferred. A small stipend is included with the internship.

Responsibilities

The Summer Associate will be involved with all aspects of the investment process with a focus on:

Technical and business due diligence
Market intelligence development
Creating and supporting “point of view” on companies
Investment theses development
Ad-hoc investment team support

Qualifications

Candidate should have strong writing, analytical (qualitative and quantitative), technical, and personal skills required for success in a small but fast moving team environment, including:

2-4 years of relevant analytical or consulting experience; should be able to perform due diligence, develop financial models, and create investment memoranda
Ability to analyze a wide variety of businesses in the technology industry
Ability to self-direct, analyze, evaluate, and form independent investment judgments
Strong entrepreneur network or an ability to build one
Record of academic achievement at a top-caliber undergraduate program
Excellent organizational skills and a strong attention to detail
Previous deal experience a plus

About First Round Capital

First Round Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping talented entrepreneurs build remarkable companies. We are not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies, and often provide a company's first outside capital. As former entrepreneurs, we understand the challenges of launching a new enterprise. We look to take an active role in most of the companies we invest in. We believe our insight and expertise are far more valuable than our capital -- and we look for entrepreneurs who feel the same.

First Round Capital invests nationally and has offices in Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Hattras Seeks Part-Time Analyst for Storage Industry Research

2009-01-13T10:16:46-08:00

John Kalb, my good friend and former consulting colleague, is looking for a part-time analyst at Hattras., which provides market intelligence for the storage and datacenter industries. John is seeking a 1099 consultant to work on a Hattras project with a global storage industry vendor - if this sounds like you, please contact John directly.

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Hattras has just closed a major consulting project with a major storage industry vendor. It’s a six month engagement to create the foundations of a company-wide Voice of the Customer program. The major deliverables include:

deliver two VOC interview survey projects
create and host an Executive Advisory Board meeting
develop a VOC portal for the client, and end-user communications
provide a matrix of segmented customer profiles and use cases
create a ranked/rated database feedback loop to integrate customers desires into the engineering process

Hattras is seeking a to hire a 1099 consultant to work on the project team. The consultant should have excellent communication skills as he/she will be cold calling end users and doing use-case profiles and interviews. He/she should be able to research issues, draft and contribute to client reports. Ideally they will know something about enterprise storage hardware and software. If they are six-sigma experienced that would be icing on the cake. The work is at least part-time.

If you are a match for the project, young in attitude, hungry, and available, please contact John Kalb.