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Department: User Experience Design
Position Title: Graphic DesignerDescription:
About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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As a Graphic Designer at hi5, you will be responsible for supporting marketing, engineering and sales with online/offline solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Extend hi5's brand into online/offline media
- Create presentations that clearly communicate ideas, initiatives, etc.
- Work with engineering and sales team on new initiatives
- Ensure brand consistency across all communication platforms
Requirements:
- Strong portfolio featuring web and print design
- Expertise in XHTML, CSS
- Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Powerpoint/Keynote
- Ability to handle the pressure and fluidity of a start-up environment
- Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders
- Deep understanding of the social networking space
- BS or BFA in design or related field
Preferred:
- Experience with user testing and complicated workflow design
- Knowledge of other media software packages a big plus - web, video editing, audio editing, etc
- Active in the design community
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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
If interested, please contact:
Kevin Kanarek
Technical Search & Recruiting
hi5 Networks Inc.
55 2nd St. Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105office: 415.962.7083
kkanarek {at} hi5.com
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Department: Quality Assurance
Position Title: QA Development EngineerDescription:
About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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The Role: QA Development Engineer
As a system QA Development Engineer at hi5, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and refining test plans, and presenting test cases to project team.
- Implementing system test cases.
- Submitting, regressing, and verifying defects.
- Becoming a domain expert for the hi5 web application.
- Being proactive and flexible in a fast-paced environment.
- Developing a test automation suite.
Requirements:
- 2+ years white box Java web application testing experience.
Analyze requirements, develop detailed test strategy and test plans for web applications. - Work closely with engineers to ensure the feature achieves desired level of quality.
- Influence the inclusion of testability during design and development.
- Thoroughly test the offering through all phases of development life cycle (Functional testing, regression/integration testing, performance testing).
- Implement automated testing infrastructures and automated test cases.
- Interact with developers during all stages of projects; participate in design and code reviews
- Contribute to continuous process improvements to increase the efficiency of QA and development.
- Conduct problem tracking, resolution verification and reporting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred:
- 2+ years experience in test plan design and testing of web applications.
BS/BA in Computer Science or related field. - Working knowledge of automation tools and scripts (Perl, python, shell).
- Multi-tier, multi-server testing experience.
- Experience testing in UNIX/Linux systems and Java web applications.
- Knowledge of a wide variety of web content and media types.
- Experience with open source software.
- Experience creating and running performance/scalability tests.
About hi5:
Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
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Department: Product Management
Position Title: Product Manager - Mobile
Description:About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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About the Position:
As the Product Manager - Mobile, you will be working with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and our engineering team to launch innovative mobile products to serve our global user base.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct market research and write PRDs to ensure hi5's mobile services satisfy user needs across various countries with different operators/handset manufacturer combinations.
- Work closely with engineering, design and external partners to create best-of-breed mobile services.
- Leverage hi5's platform to create APIs specifically for building an innovative mobile platform.
- Willingness to work with global partners and scale across multiple time zones.
- Evangelize hi5's mobile roadmap to our partners.
Requirements:
- Computer Science degree or equivalent technical experience.
- Experience shipping products in mobile space (concept to launch).
- Prior experience in building both WAP and client-side mobile applications.
- Ability to work with engineers and design team.
Preferred:
- Experience with global mobile partners.
- Deep understanding of social networking platforms - OpenSocial, f8.
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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
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Department: Product Management
Position Title: Product Manager - Anti SpamDescription:
About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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About the Position
As our Product Manager - Anti Spam, you will be responsible for analyzing and triaging spam threats and work with the development team to ensure that hi5 is a safe and trusted community for our users. This is a unique opportunity to impact millions of users experience on hi5.
Responsibilities
· Develop and create hi5's anti-spam roadmap to ensure hi5's services meet a high-quality user satisfaction goal across various countries
· Work closely with engineering, design and external partners to analyze vulnerabilities and design features/mitigations accordingly
· Evangelize anti-spam solutions internally and ensure other product teams build your recommendations into their featuresRequirements
· Computer Science degree or equivalent technical experience
· Passionate and knowledgeable about spam techniques
· Experience shipping products in anti-spam/security space (concept to launch)
· Ability to work with engineers and design teamPreferred
· Deep understanding of message-based spam systems - spam detection and control
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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
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Department: Product Management
Position Title: Product Manager - Ad Platform
Description:About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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The Role: Product Manager - Ad Platform
Responsibilities
* Leading the product lifecycle of the advertising platform including definition, design, launch and maintenance phases.
* Gathering, tracking and analyzing key performance metrics to provide explanations for significant changes and drive overall business growth.
* Collecting and analyzing data to influence feature prioritization decisions and product roadmaps.
* Developing specific near term product plans and longer term product milestones that deliver on the overall business objectives.
* Initiating and prioritizing projects within engineering, QA; tracking product development; developing product launch plans.Requirements:
* 3+ years of product management in Internet consumer space.
* Resume with proven innovative, revenue generating product launches.
* Exceptional written and oral communication.
* Strong organizational and analytical skills, attention to details.
* Enthusiastic, performance driven self-starter and a team player.
* Strong product & project management skills.
* Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion.Preferred:
* Understanding dynamics of online advertising, media planning and buying, and ad serving systems.
* Experience with agile software development.
* Previous start-up experience.
* BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field.-------------
Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
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Department: Network Operations
Position Title: Tools Developer
Description:About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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The Area : Operations
The operations organization is responsible for systems and network architecture, systems and network engineering, systems and network operations
The Role : Tools Developer
As a Tools developer at hi5, you will be responsible for developing script tools using open source products to automate routine tasks and to visualize performance data.
Responsibilities:
Develop tools and interfaces to automate routing systems administration tasks and to visualize performance and systems related data.
Provide for version control using perforce.Requirements:
- Experience with developing systems administration tools with Perl and shell scripts.
- Good understanding of XML and XML based protocols..
- Extensive experience with PHP or Perl CGI.
- Experience with monitoring and systems administration tools like Cacti, cfenine, mrtg, nagios, bigbrother, smokeping.
- Experience with data manipulation including database access via Perl.
A good understanding of Linux.
Preferred:
- Systems administration experience in a large enterprise.
- Experience programming in PHP.
- "C" programming.
- Apache, memcache, Postgres experience
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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
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Department: Content & Community
Position Title: Content ManagerDescription:
About hi5
* One of the world's largest social networks
* 80+ million registered members
* 44+ million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most-trafficked websites worldwide
* The #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa
* A founding adopter of OpenSocial
* Headquartered in San Francisco, CaliforniaAlthough our work is viewed and used every day by millions of people across the globe, the company is small (currently under 100 employees) and privately held. It's a fun, bright, fast-paced and collaborative place to work.
Located in downtown San Francisco, hi5 is just steps from major public transit lines, including BART and Muni.
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Our Content group is responsible for production of content that enables members to connect with friends and deepen the social networking experience. This is an opportunity for someone to come in and build out a content management team. As a content manager you will help us create the largest list of organizations in the world including schools and colleges, workplaces, and any other associations or groups through which people know each other. The content that the team produces will help drive user acquisition, growth of members' friends network and ultimately make the social experience more meaningful.
You will define priorities, set strategies for content acquisition and production, engage resources as needed to produce and launch content, and manage to service performance targets. Success requires managing across multiple groups, close attention to detail on quality of content and an aptitude for understanding organization of educational systems and other associations.
Job Responsibilities
- Gather and produce lists of major institutions and associations including schools, colleges and workplaces worldwide
- Source lists from a variety of sources including public domain websites, government agencies and commercial list managers
- Research, evaluate and recommend external lists of institutions and associations
- Source content reviewers that speak local language and collaborate with them to define rules for content organization by market
- Oversee the merge-purge process including approving schedules and reviewing instructions. Have working knowledge of list hygiene and merge-purge practices
- Project manage and plan all activities at a detailed level from conceptual stage to launch stage
- Ensure production service levels and delivery date commitments for list coverage and quality are consistently met
- Manage all staffing related functions including temporary and outsourced staff
Requirements
- Experience with content management or list management
- Ability to manage to great level detail
- Demonstrated ability to develop integrated lists
- Resourceful in finding list and data from a variety of sources and countries as required
- Hands-on experience with list management tools such as Excel
- Demonstrated project management ability
- Some experience with software internationalization is a strong plus
Preferred
- Bachelor's Degree in marketing, statistics, mathemathics, economics or a technology focused degree
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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
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Department: Network Operations
Position Title: Network EngineerDescription:
About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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Our operations group is responsible for systems and network architecture, systems and network engineering, systems and network operations
As a network engineer within our operations group, you will be working in a small team responsible for architecting, engineering and the operation of our high performance, high availability network.Responsibilities:
- Administration
and operational support of high availability, best of breed network.
This includes switches, routers, load balancers and firewalls.
Work with, and contribute in the development of, processes and procedures for supporting the network. - Contribute to the design and management of a reliable network monitoring environment.
- Troubleshoot network performance and stability issues as they arise.
- Contribute to the automation of routine processes and tasks.
- Create performance and stability reports for management.
- Work in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
Requirements:
- Experience in a hands-on Network administration role. A focus on Cisco is preferred.
- Understanding of network architectures and performance bottlenecks.
- Experience with SNMP and network monitoring tools.
- Experience with highly available Network architectures.
- Experience with OSPF, HSRP, VLAN's, Spanning Tree and other common protocols.
- Good understanding of load balancing technologies and web servers.
- Experience working in collocation datacenter facilities.
- Working with remote management equipment.
Preferred:
- CCNA/CCNP Certification or equivalent.
- Some scripting language experience.
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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
- Administration
and operational support of high availability, best of breed network.
This includes switches, routers, load balancers and firewalls.
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Department: Content & Community
Position Title: Translation Community ModeratorDescription:
About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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About the Team
Do you have what it takes to deliver products in over 20 languages? How about 50? We are looking for a Translation Community Moderator who can play a central role in supporting the volunteer translation project for hi5's social networking application. hi5 will organize groups of volunteers to translate the site into thirty or more languages in the coming year. Come and join the team responsible for delivering that application and for developing those communities.
This position is based in San Francisco, CA
About the Position
Supporting and hi5's volunteer translation efforts for hi5's social networking application, interact with volunteer and professional translators, interact with OpenSocial developers and hi5's Localization, Quality Assurance, and Product Engineering teams.
As a Community Moderator at hi5, your activities will include supporting for hi5's volunteer teams for 30 or more languages, responding to volunteer's questions, recommending enhancements to the product, and some language and localization production work.
Job Responsibilities
Community Support hi5 Volunteer Translation Program - support the community of hi5 volunteer translators, respond to volunteer's questions on language and tools, coordinate feedback from groups and help identify product enhancements, respond to any abuse issues, etc.
Developer Support for hi5 Gadget Translations - hi5 has an application platform that supports all of its languages. This position provides logistical support to the developers in acquiring their translations from the volunteer language program.
Glossary Support for Applications - With the upcoming platform release, we'll be translating many new applications that require us to define terminology that ensures a consistent language experience across the site.
Language Maintenance - perform some of the manual duties required to maintain our languages from Lionbridge until we've delivered in-context review tools and automated support.
Coordinate Professional Reviews - be the point person for the off-site language reviewers we currently employ.
Requirements
- Experience moderating online communities, or providing online customer service, for an international web site with multiple languages
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Highly motivated and interested in being part of a talented & small team
- Strong technical aptitude and analytical skills: good Excel skills
- BA
Preferred
- Background in linguistics or fluency in multiple languages
- Experience with scripting or programming
- Experience with data analysis or generating reports
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Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
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Department: User Experience Design
Position Title: Skin Design/Management InternDescription:
About hi5
hi5 is one of the world's leading social networks. Our company is ranked as the #1 social network in 26 nations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
* Over 80 million registered members
* Over 44 million unique monthly visitors
* Currently available in over 23 languages
* One of the top 20 most trafficked websites worldwide
* Founding adopter of Open SocialOur offices are located in the financial district of downtown San Francisco, near the Montgomery Street Bart and Muni stations.
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Help manage our profile skin community and beautiful skin repository! Assist in skin creation to fuel the community.
Time requirements for this internship are approximately 20 hrs per week.Community experience:
* Involvement with various online communities
* Empathy for our skin creators and ability to professionally address community issues.Visual design:
* Pixel level attention to detail
* Good taste and on top of design trends
* Excellent sense of color and contrast
* Thorough knowledge of internationally popular cartoons, sports teams, TV shows, movies, products, etc.Web design production:
* Image editing software, html/css knowledge is a plus
Professional Skills:
* Good communicator both written and verbal
* Good time management skills-------------
Launched in late 2003, hi5 is one of the largest social networks in the world. We're a founding adopter of OpenSocial, a community-driven specification for building social applications across the Web, and we're also a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, a new non-profit being formed to ensure the longevity and neutrality of OpenSocial. Each day, millions of people use hi5 to stay connected and share information with friends and family around the world, meet new people, express their identity, and discover linkages.
hi5 offers an upbeat work atmosphere and the opportunity to influence the way people connect to the world. You will be working with an exceptional team and receive a competitive salary with benefits. A privately-held company, hi5 reached profitability within its first year, and raised $20 million from MDV- Mohr Davidow Ventures in July 2007. For more information, you can visit www.hi5.com or www.hi5networks.com.
