Most recent job postings at Goodreads
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posted_at: 12 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
• Experience managing content projects, including coordinating with other teams
• Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent in Literature, Journalism, Technical Communications, Information Sciences, or related discipline
• 3 years of relevant content experience...
Job summary
• *Open to locations in Charleston, S.C.; Seattle, Washington or San Francisco, CA**
At Goodreads, our mission is to help people find and share books they love, and our
• Experience managing content projects, including coordinating with other teams
• Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent in Literature, Journalism, Technical Communications, Information Sciences, or related discipline
• 3 years of relevant content experience...
Job summary
• *Open to locations in Charleston, S.C.; Seattle, Washington or San Francisco, CA**
At Goodreads, our mission is to help people find and share books they love, and our customers are at the heart of what we do. We offer a team environment that thrives on innovation and excellence, and our staff is talented, energetic, and passionate about creating an exceptional customer experience. If you want to work for a team who delights customers, solves problems, and is at the forefront of innovation, this is the job for you!
Key job responsibilities
The Training Launch Content team (TLC) is seeking a Content Strategist with strong ownership who enjoys developing strategies and resources that improve the agent and customer experience at Goodreads. This role will own and drive the strategy for how and when to use customer-facing blurbs. The ideal candidate has experience digging into data to discover pain points and developing content strategies to resolve identified problems. This person must have deep expertise in content creation, and will deliver on complex projects on tight deadlines and work comfortably in an environment with competing priorities. Demonstration of using sound business judgment to make quick decisions under pressure in ambiguous situations is key. The role will support customer service and content risk management teams across a global network.
The Content Strategist will:
• Develop and drive email blurb strategy
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align and optimize customer-facing blurb to address performance gaps, contact reduction, and first contact resolution
• Develop and implement a knowledge center strategy
• Evangelize internal content writing standards that reflect the voice of Goodreads
• Define, manage, and communicate content effectiveness metrics
• Define customer and employee use cases and processes for new or changing products or business launches
• Advocate for the customer
About the team
Our mission is to help people discover books they love and get more out of reading. That includes our employees! We have book perks and book clubs to engage with each other. In addition to Amazon's Leadership Principles, we also embrace unique Core Values such as Be Humble, Create Fun and Always Be Learning, Always Be Teaching, and Be Passionate. We celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Experience with information architecture
• Experience defining and improving SOPs and customer-facing blurbs in a business environment
• Experience working with product and business stakeholders at various levels as part of a global team
• Demonstrated success at learning and explaining business processes
• Strong analytical skills to identify patterns, outliers, and opportunities
• Ability to analyze customer-related data and draw conclusions, leading to improvement initiative recommendations
• Experience with lean and/or Six Sigma tools or concepts
• Experience with a markup language, such as HTML and/or XML
• Functional knowledge of Microsoft systems including Word, SharePoint, Visio, Excel and PowerPoint
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us Show more details...
• Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent in Literature, Journalism, Technical Communications, Information Sciences, or related discipline
• 3 years of relevant content experience...
Job summary
• *Open to locations in Charleston, S.C.; Seattle, Washington or San Francisco, CA**
At Goodreads, our mission is to help people find and share books they love, and our customers are at the heart of what we do. We offer a team environment that thrives on innovation and excellence, and our staff is talented, energetic, and passionate about creating an exceptional customer experience. If you want to work for a team who delights customers, solves problems, and is at the forefront of innovation, this is the job for you!
Key job responsibilities
The Training Launch Content team (TLC) is seeking a Content Strategist with strong ownership who enjoys developing strategies and resources that improve the agent and customer experience at Goodreads. This role will own and drive the strategy for how and when to use customer-facing blurbs. The ideal candidate has experience digging into data to discover pain points and developing content strategies to resolve identified problems. This person must have deep expertise in content creation, and will deliver on complex projects on tight deadlines and work comfortably in an environment with competing priorities. Demonstration of using sound business judgment to make quick decisions under pressure in ambiguous situations is key. The role will support customer service and content risk management teams across a global network.
The Content Strategist will:
• Develop and drive email blurb strategy
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align and optimize customer-facing blurb to address performance gaps, contact reduction, and first contact resolution
• Develop and implement a knowledge center strategy
• Evangelize internal content writing standards that reflect the voice of Goodreads
• Define, manage, and communicate content effectiveness metrics
• Define customer and employee use cases and processes for new or changing products or business launches
• Advocate for the customer
About the team
Our mission is to help people discover books they love and get more out of reading. That includes our employees! We have book perks and book clubs to engage with each other. In addition to Amazon's Leadership Principles, we also embrace unique Core Values such as Be Humble, Create Fun and Always Be Learning, Always Be Teaching, and Be Passionate. We celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Experience with information architecture
• Experience defining and improving SOPs and customer-facing blurbs in a business environment
• Experience working with product and business stakeholders at various levels as part of a global team
• Demonstrated success at learning and explaining business processes
• Strong analytical skills to identify patterns, outliers, and opportunities
• Ability to analyze customer-related data and draw conclusions, leading to improvement initiative recommendations
• Experience with lean and/or Six Sigma tools or concepts
• Experience with a markup language, such as HTML and/or XML
• Functional knowledge of Microsoft systems including Word, SharePoint, Visio, Excel and PowerPoint
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us Show more details...
via Geebo
posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations.
Founded in 2007, Goodreads is where readers find and share books they love.
Used by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine; share ratings and recommendations; track what they have read, and list what they want to read.
Goodreads is also a place where
Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations.
Founded in 2007, Goodreads is where readers find and share books they love.
Used by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine; share ratings and recommendations; track what they have read, and list what they want to read.
Goodreads is also a place where authors connect with readers.
Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.
You have Sales.
You have Customer service.
And then you have the Account Manager (AM) with one foot in each department.
The Account Manager acts as the liaison between Goodreads and our advertising customers, and it is their responsibility to see that customers are maximizing the value of the products and services provided in order to meet or exceed their advertising goals.
There is a sales component to the job as well as it's the Account Manager's duty to maintain... relationships and grow revenue from their portfolio of accounts.
At Goodreads, the Account Manager is on the front line of our business and works closely with our NY-based Sales team to strategize, create and successfully deliver advertising campaigns for book publishers, all while providing an exceptional customer service experience.
Key responsibilities and what we're looking for in an Account Manager:
Work collaboratively with sales and ad ops to provide best-in-class support to publishers Facilitate a smooth, successful interaction for publishers from RFP through final reporting Collaborate with Sales partner to develop proactive proposals or initiatives for publishers Respond in a timely manner to publisher RFP's and requests, providing product and targeting recommendations based on Goodreads expertise Through a consultative approach, develop insight into publishers KPI's help them meet those goals by leveraging Goodreads' ad products Create Insertion Orders, work within Order Management systems and serve as an expert in our defined business processes Interact with Finance department in regards to Billing requests/issues.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
Founded in 2007, Goodreads is where readers find and share books they love.
Used by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine; share ratings and recommendations; track what they have read, and list what they want to read.
Goodreads is also a place where authors connect with readers.
Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.
You have Sales.
You have Customer service.
And then you have the Account Manager (AM) with one foot in each department.
The Account Manager acts as the liaison between Goodreads and our advertising customers, and it is their responsibility to see that customers are maximizing the value of the products and services provided in order to meet or exceed their advertising goals.
There is a sales component to the job as well as it's the Account Manager's duty to maintain... relationships and grow revenue from their portfolio of accounts.
At Goodreads, the Account Manager is on the front line of our business and works closely with our NY-based Sales team to strategize, create and successfully deliver advertising campaigns for book publishers, all while providing an exceptional customer service experience.
Key responsibilities and what we're looking for in an Account Manager:
Work collaboratively with sales and ad ops to provide best-in-class support to publishers Facilitate a smooth, successful interaction for publishers from RFP through final reporting Collaborate with Sales partner to develop proactive proposals or initiatives for publishers Respond in a timely manner to publisher RFP's and requests, providing product and targeting recommendations based on Goodreads expertise Through a consultative approach, develop insight into publishers KPI's help them meet those goals by leveraging Goodreads' ad products Create Insertion Orders, work within Order Management systems and serve as an expert in our defined business processes Interact with Finance department in regards to Billing requests/issues.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
via Austin, TX - Geebo
posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
The Reader Journey team at Goodreads owns Goodreads functionality that help make us the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. We work in a wide range of technology to improve existing functionality and launch new experiences related to viewing books, adding them to shelves, setting reading challenges, the famous Your Year In Books, and more. As a Software Development... Engineer, you will work backward from the customer to improve
The Reader Journey team at Goodreads owns Goodreads functionality that help make us the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. We work in a wide range of technology to improve existing functionality and launch new experiences related to viewing books, adding them to shelves, setting reading challenges, the famous Your Year In Books, and more. As a Software Development... Engineer, you will work backward from the customer to improve the Goodreads experience. You will be involved in the full software development process including design, implementation, and maintenance of critical systems with high throughput. You will have the opportunity to learn new programming languages and dive into topics like security, scalability, API design, search, and grow as a leader on your team. Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Loved by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine, share ratings and recommendations, track what they have read, and list what they want to read. Goodreads is also a place where more than 220,000 authors connect with readers. Come join us and be a part of Amazon family here at Goodreads! Basic
Qualifications:
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design 1
years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. 2
years of non-internship professional software development experience Preferred
Qualifications:
Experience in working on distributed and large scale applications. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with all applicable local, state and federal laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification
Systems Architecture & Engineering, Software DevelopmentEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
Qualifications:
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design 1
years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. 2
years of non-internship professional software development experience Preferred
Qualifications:
Experience in working on distributed and large scale applications. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with all applicable local, state and federal laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification
Systems Architecture & Engineering, Software DevelopmentEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
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schedule_type: Full-timesalary: 100K–150K a year
Job summary
With more than 140 million members, Goodreads is the world's largest community of readers. Our mission is to help readers find books they love and get more out of reading. The Goodreads Marketing team is at the forefront of this mission, helping both avid and casual readers alike realize the unique value of Goodreads, promoting the voice of readers in the book world, and supporting... connections around books.
The Marketing Manager will
Job summary
With more than 140 million members, Goodreads is the world's largest community of readers. Our mission is to help readers find books they love and get more out of reading. The Goodreads Marketing team is at the forefront of this mission, helping both avid and casual readers alike realize the unique value of Goodreads, promoting the voice of readers in the book world, and supporting... connections around books.
The Marketing Manager will support efforts to promote and up-level Goodreads’ flagship programs like the Goodreads Reading Challenge, Your Year in Books, and Summer Reading programs via integrated marketing campaigns. This role will also give you the opportunity to amplify Goodreads’ brand and unique editorial content. This person would also work with the Senior Marketing Manager to develop innovative ways to reach readers wherever they’re browsing for their next great read and execute experiments that keep our content relevant, fun, and engaging.
At Goodreads, culture is central to our success, so you will have access to book perks, employee book clubs, and author visits which help us widen our perspectives. And, as part of our commitment to our core value of Always Be Learning, Always Be Teaching, we are invested in in helping you develop new skills and experience that advance your career.
Key job responsibilities
· Execute compelling integrated marketing campaigns for Goodreads’ tentpole brand events and product launches, including Reading Challenge, Your Year in Books and Summer Reading
· Experiment with new ways to amplify the Goodreads brand and drive engagement with Goodreads’ unique editorial content
· Set goals and KPIs to measure and track campaign results in collaboration with the Senior Marketing Manager and Data Science team.
· Track and analyze campaign performance data and summarize findings for colleagues and leadership in a clear and concise way
· Liaise with design, editorial and marketing to create fun, relevant Goodreads-branded visuals across marketing channels
· Continually establish best practices and look for ways to simplify processes (creating Standard Operating Procedures - SOPs - when needed).
Basic Qualifications:
· 5+ years of professional non-internship experience in Marketing, Brand, or Merchandising roles
· Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs via email, onsite, ads, and social media.
· Experience using data and metrics to define audiences, measure impact, and determine improvements
Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience working cross functionally with both tech and non-tech teams, such as editorial, social media, design, ad sales, engineering, product management, legal, customer service, and executive teams.
· Experience writing customer-facing copy
· Ability to work within a diverse team and supportive of diverse initiatives
· Experience problem solving and thinking creatively
· Basic HTML proficiency
· Bachelor’s degree
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with all applicable local, state and federal laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Show more details...
With more than 140 million members, Goodreads is the world's largest community of readers. Our mission is to help readers find books they love and get more out of reading. The Goodreads Marketing team is at the forefront of this mission, helping both avid and casual readers alike realize the unique value of Goodreads, promoting the voice of readers in the book world, and supporting... connections around books.
The Marketing Manager will support efforts to promote and up-level Goodreads’ flagship programs like the Goodreads Reading Challenge, Your Year in Books, and Summer Reading programs via integrated marketing campaigns. This role will also give you the opportunity to amplify Goodreads’ brand and unique editorial content. This person would also work with the Senior Marketing Manager to develop innovative ways to reach readers wherever they’re browsing for their next great read and execute experiments that keep our content relevant, fun, and engaging.
At Goodreads, culture is central to our success, so you will have access to book perks, employee book clubs, and author visits which help us widen our perspectives. And, as part of our commitment to our core value of Always Be Learning, Always Be Teaching, we are invested in in helping you develop new skills and experience that advance your career.
Key job responsibilities
· Execute compelling integrated marketing campaigns for Goodreads’ tentpole brand events and product launches, including Reading Challenge, Your Year in Books and Summer Reading
· Experiment with new ways to amplify the Goodreads brand and drive engagement with Goodreads’ unique editorial content
· Set goals and KPIs to measure and track campaign results in collaboration with the Senior Marketing Manager and Data Science team.
· Track and analyze campaign performance data and summarize findings for colleagues and leadership in a clear and concise way
· Liaise with design, editorial and marketing to create fun, relevant Goodreads-branded visuals across marketing channels
· Continually establish best practices and look for ways to simplify processes (creating Standard Operating Procedures - SOPs - when needed).
Basic Qualifications:
· 5+ years of professional non-internship experience in Marketing, Brand, or Merchandising roles
· Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs via email, onsite, ads, and social media.
· Experience using data and metrics to define audiences, measure impact, and determine improvements
Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience working cross functionally with both tech and non-tech teams, such as editorial, social media, design, ad sales, engineering, product management, legal, customer service, and executive teams.
· Experience writing customer-facing copy
· Ability to work within a diverse team and supportive of diverse initiatives
· Experience problem solving and thinking creatively
· Basic HTML proficiency
· Bachelor’s degree
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with all applicable local, state and federal laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Show more details...
via Seattle, WA - Geebo
posted_at: 6 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
Job summaryWant to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover books and get more out of reading? Goodreads is seeking a product leader to own end-to-end, core Goodreads experiences focused on growing and engaging our community.
You'll work in a highly collaborative environment with design, engineering, data science, brand marketing and other stakeholders to deliver web... and app experiences that meet core customer needs.
Goodreads
Job summaryWant to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover books and get more out of reading? Goodreads is seeking a product leader to own end-to-end, core Goodreads experiences focused on growing and engaging our community.
You'll work in a highly collaborative environment with design, engineering, data science, brand marketing and other stakeholders to deliver web... and app experiences that meet core customer needs.
Goodreads is the world's largest community of readers, with over 120 million members.
Our mission is to help people find books they love and get more out of reading.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager, Core Customer Experience, you'll lead teams to deliver experiences that help our members discover, track, and share books, and enable authors, publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.
Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.
Key job responsibilitiesShip products and experiences that meet core user needs to discover, track and share books you want to read and have read.
Work closely with internal teams (engineering, design, sales, analytics, research, customer care), partners, and management to execute on product roadmap.
Write customer-focused product specs and define and track success metrics for all projects.
Manage project schedules and dependencies, and drive cross-functional initiatives.
Prioritize product enhancements & triage bugs.
Use or commission market research, usability studies, and focus groups to identify benchmarks and build business cases for solving customer problems.
Leverage data analysis skills to research difficult or ambiguous problems, leading cross-disciplinary teams where necessary and communicating recommendations to senior leadership.
Engage with customers to identify key product issues in market; solicit feedback on product roadmap.
Have the willingness to do whatever it takes to deliver products that delight!A day in the lifeGoodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand.
In this role, you will help the team define a vision for growing our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers - readers, authors, and publisher/advertiser partners.
You will be responsible for core customer experiences including our book page, reviews and ratings, tracking experiences, and Reading Challenge, as well as integrations with world-class Amazon products, Kindle, Audible, etc.
You'll work with design, engineering, data science, customer support, marketing, and other stakeholders to ship experiences across all touchpoints including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails.
About the teamYou will join the Product Team at Goodreads.
Our mission is to help people find books they love, and get more out of reading.
When we're not working, we're looking to expand our horizons in other ways, including visits by bestselling authors, hackathons, team-led tech talks, game nights, and volunteering at local charities.
And, of course, we love books and have free books and internal book clubs.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
You'll work in a highly collaborative environment with design, engineering, data science, brand marketing and other stakeholders to deliver web... and app experiences that meet core customer needs.
Goodreads is the world's largest community of readers, with over 120 million members.
Our mission is to help people find books they love and get more out of reading.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager, Core Customer Experience, you'll lead teams to deliver experiences that help our members discover, track, and share books, and enable authors, publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.
Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.
Key job responsibilitiesShip products and experiences that meet core user needs to discover, track and share books you want to read and have read.
Work closely with internal teams (engineering, design, sales, analytics, research, customer care), partners, and management to execute on product roadmap.
Write customer-focused product specs and define and track success metrics for all projects.
Manage project schedules and dependencies, and drive cross-functional initiatives.
Prioritize product enhancements & triage bugs.
Use or commission market research, usability studies, and focus groups to identify benchmarks and build business cases for solving customer problems.
Leverage data analysis skills to research difficult or ambiguous problems, leading cross-disciplinary teams where necessary and communicating recommendations to senior leadership.
Engage with customers to identify key product issues in market; solicit feedback on product roadmap.
Have the willingness to do whatever it takes to deliver products that delight!A day in the lifeGoodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand.
In this role, you will help the team define a vision for growing our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers - readers, authors, and publisher/advertiser partners.
You will be responsible for core customer experiences including our book page, reviews and ratings, tracking experiences, and Reading Challenge, as well as integrations with world-class Amazon products, Kindle, Audible, etc.
You'll work with design, engineering, data science, customer support, marketing, and other stakeholders to ship experiences across all touchpoints including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails.
About the teamYou will join the Product Team at Goodreads.
Our mission is to help people find books they love, and get more out of reading.
When we're not working, we're looking to expand our horizons in other ways, including visits by bestselling authors, hackathons, team-led tech talks, game nights, and volunteering at local charities.
And, of course, we love books and have free books and internal book clubs.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
via San Francisco, CA - Geebo
posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
Want to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover books and get more out of reading? As a Senior Product Designer on the Goodreads Design team, you'll work with product managers, engineers, sales representatives, data science, and designers to build products that help readers to find books they'll love and get more out of them, and enables authors, publishers and... advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.
Goodreads
Want to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to discover books and get more out of reading? As a Senior Product Designer on the Goodreads Design team, you'll work with product managers, engineers, sales representatives, data science, and designers to build products that help readers to find books they'll love and get more out of them, and enables authors, publishers and... advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers.
Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand.
In this role, you will help the team define a vision for growing our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers - readers, authors, and publisher/advertiser partners.
You will be responsible for customer experiences from sponsored book placements and search results, to integrations with world-class Amazon products, including Prime, Kindle Unlimited, Audible, and more.
You'll design across all touch points including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails.
Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of interaction design, visual design, and related disciplines into a single, user-centric design role.
Our designers are generalists who translate user insights and business needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that exceed expectations, and work with developers to deliver those concepts with a high level of quality.
Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, and we have over 100 million members.
Our office is located in downtown San Francisco.
Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
Own design experiences that serve all of our consumers while contributing to a design system.
Design ways to bring Amazon programs like Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible to Goodreads in a way that delights our customers.
Create user-centered designs that incorporate customer feedback, user research, data, market trends and technical constraints.
Create flows, wireframes, design mockups, rapid prototypes to effectively conceptualize, prove out, and deliver on exceptional product experiences.
Own the design direction for our customer centered products and craft, pitch, and validate long-term design strategies.
Drive user research projects to develop the understanding of the customer and validate design choices before and after development.
Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.
Partner with product management and engineering teams to define roadmaps and prioritize requirements.
Develop scalable and flexible design frameworks to maintain clean and simple designs and customer interactions.
Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand.
In this role, you will help the team define a vision for growing our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers - readers, authors, and publisher/advertiser partners.
You will be responsible for customer experiences from sponsored book placements and search results, to integrations with world-class Amazon products, including Prime, Kindle Unlimited, Audible, and more.
You'll design across all touch points including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails.
Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of interaction design, visual design, and related disciplines into a single, user-centric design role.
Our designers are generalists who translate user insights and business needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that exceed expectations, and work with developers to deliver those concepts with a high level of quality.
Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, and we have over 100 million members.
Our office is located in downtown San Francisco.
Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
Own design experiences that serve all of our consumers while contributing to a design system.
Design ways to bring Amazon programs like Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible to Goodreads in a way that delights our customers.
Create user-centered designs that incorporate customer feedback, user research, data, market trends and technical constraints.
Create flows, wireframes, design mockups, rapid prototypes to effectively conceptualize, prove out, and deliver on exceptional product experiences.
Own the design direction for our customer centered products and craft, pitch, and validate long-term design strategies.
Drive user research projects to develop the understanding of the customer and validate design choices before and after development.
Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.
Partner with product management and engineering teams to define roadmaps and prioritize requirements.
Develop scalable and flexible design frameworks to maintain clean and simple designs and customer interactions.
Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.
.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
via San Francisco, CA - Geebo
posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
Job summaryGoodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations.
Founded in 2007, Goodreads is where readers find and share books they love.
Used by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine; share ratings and recommendations; track what they have read... and list what they want to read.
Goodreads is also
Job summaryGoodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations.
Founded in 2007, Goodreads is where readers find and share books they love.
Used by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine; share ratings and recommendations; track what they have read... and list what they want to read.
Goodreads is also a place where authors connect with readers.
Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.
You have Sales.
You have Customer service.
And then you have the Account Manager (AM) with one foot in each department.
The Account Manager acts as the liaison between Goodreads and our advertising customers, and it is their responsibility to see that customers are maximizing the value of the products and services provided in order to meet or exceed their advertising goals.
There is a sales component to the job as well as it's the Account Manager's duty to maintain relationships and grow revenue from their portfolio of accounts.
At Goodreads, the Account Manager is on the front line of our business and works closely with our NY-based Sales team to strategize, create and successfully deliver advertising campaigns for book publishers, authors, and non-endemic clients, all while providing an exceptional customer service experience.
Key job responsibilities Work collaboratively with sales and ad ops to provide best-in-class support to publishers.
Facilitate a smooth, successful interaction for publishers from RFP through final reporting Respond in a timely manner to publisher RFPs and requests, providing product and targeting recommendations based on Goodreads expertise Through a consultative approach, develop insight into publishers KPI's help them meet those goals by leveraging Goodreads' ad products Create Insertion Orders, work within Order Management systems and serve as an expert in our defined business processes Protect revenue by ensuring timely campaign and ad placement launches and making proactive suggestions to mitigate delivery and pacing issues.
Interact with Finance department in regards to Billing requests/issuesA day in the lifeYour typical day as an Account Manager at Goodreads might start with responding to advertiser emails and monitoring delivery and pacing of current campaigns.
For upcoming campaigns, you'll create tasks for the Revenue Operations team.
You may partner with an Account Executive on campaign reporting and highlighting key metrics for an upsell strategy.
You'll attend regular internal team meetings to keep up to date on new processes and business updates.
AMs send proactive client communication regarding creative specs, launch timelines and asset deliverables.
There will also be opportunities to work on special projects that benefit the entire team.
About the teamGoodreads team members aim to change the world one person at a time by putting the right books in their hands at the right time.
The Account Management team is part of the wider Revenue team, who focuses on driving revenue for the business by monetizing our display and native ads through direct selling and programmatic.
In addition to exhibiting Amazon's Leadership Principles, we strive to uphold our Goodreads core values:
-Customer Obsession-Always Be Learning, Always Be Teaching-Ownership-Be Passionate-Think Big-Be Humble-Help Others-Create Fun.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
Founded in 2007, Goodreads is where readers find and share books they love.
Used by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine; share ratings and recommendations; track what they have read... and list what they want to read.
Goodreads is also a place where authors connect with readers.
Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon.
You have Sales.
You have Customer service.
And then you have the Account Manager (AM) with one foot in each department.
The Account Manager acts as the liaison between Goodreads and our advertising customers, and it is their responsibility to see that customers are maximizing the value of the products and services provided in order to meet or exceed their advertising goals.
There is a sales component to the job as well as it's the Account Manager's duty to maintain relationships and grow revenue from their portfolio of accounts.
At Goodreads, the Account Manager is on the front line of our business and works closely with our NY-based Sales team to strategize, create and successfully deliver advertising campaigns for book publishers, authors, and non-endemic clients, all while providing an exceptional customer service experience.
Key job responsibilities Work collaboratively with sales and ad ops to provide best-in-class support to publishers.
Facilitate a smooth, successful interaction for publishers from RFP through final reporting Respond in a timely manner to publisher RFPs and requests, providing product and targeting recommendations based on Goodreads expertise Through a consultative approach, develop insight into publishers KPI's help them meet those goals by leveraging Goodreads' ad products Create Insertion Orders, work within Order Management systems and serve as an expert in our defined business processes Protect revenue by ensuring timely campaign and ad placement launches and making proactive suggestions to mitigate delivery and pacing issues.
Interact with Finance department in regards to Billing requests/issuesA day in the lifeYour typical day as an Account Manager at Goodreads might start with responding to advertiser emails and monitoring delivery and pacing of current campaigns.
For upcoming campaigns, you'll create tasks for the Revenue Operations team.
You may partner with an Account Executive on campaign reporting and highlighting key metrics for an upsell strategy.
You'll attend regular internal team meetings to keep up to date on new processes and business updates.
AMs send proactive client communication regarding creative specs, launch timelines and asset deliverables.
There will also be opportunities to work on special projects that benefit the entire team.
About the teamGoodreads team members aim to change the world one person at a time by putting the right books in their hands at the right time.
The Account Management team is part of the wider Revenue team, who focuses on driving revenue for the business by monetizing our display and native ads through direct selling and programmatic.
In addition to exhibiting Amazon's Leadership Principles, we strive to uphold our Goodreads core values:
-Customer Obsession-Always Be Learning, Always Be Teaching-Ownership-Be Passionate-Think Big-Be Humble-Help Others-Create Fun.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
via San Francisco, CA - Geebo
posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand.
With millions of active users and top-rated apps on all major platforms, this is your opportunity to take our visual design to the next level.
We are looking for a passionate and motivated Visual Designer/Art Director to up-level and redefine our creative design...
Goodreads is seeking a passionate and motivated Visual Designer/Art Director to create strategic, creative and visually stunning
Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand.
With millions of active users and top-rated apps on all major platforms, this is your opportunity to take our visual design to the next level.
We are looking for a passionate and motivated Visual Designer/Art Director to up-level and redefine our creative design...
Goodreads is seeking a passionate and motivated Visual Designer/Art Director to create strategic, creative and visually stunning content, marketing, and ads experiences that tell stories and drive business performance.
This Art Director will create concepts for key strategic campaigns, build out style guides and templates, and deliver a high volume of assets.
Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, and we have over 95 million members.
Our office is located in downtown San Francisco.
Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to help elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
Develop high-quality, on-brand designs for newsletters, articles, event landing pages, marketing campaigns, ads.
Drive acquisition through campaigns that run across Goodreads, Kindle, Amazon, and social media.
Help launch our new brand identity across all touch points.
Design innovative ad experiences for publishers, authors, and notables.
Independently lead campaign executions and collaborate with multiple teams including design, sales, marketing and editorial.
Fulfill requests from multiple internal clients while meeting and prioritizing tight deadlines.
Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
This role interacts with a broad audience at Goodreads, often in high-pressure situations.
Requires patience, flexibility, and willingness to dive in and help where needed.
Create and follow project timelines, creative treatments, and other documents that detail a projects' scope and direction.
Give and solicit feedback and constructive criticism to improve you and your team's skills and design solutions, continually raising our bar for quality.
Maintain stylistic consistency across production assets, enhancing and reinforcing the Goodreads brand.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
With millions of active users and top-rated apps on all major platforms, this is your opportunity to take our visual design to the next level.
We are looking for a passionate and motivated Visual Designer/Art Director to up-level and redefine our creative design...
Goodreads is seeking a passionate and motivated Visual Designer/Art Director to create strategic, creative and visually stunning content, marketing, and ads experiences that tell stories and drive business performance.
This Art Director will create concepts for key strategic campaigns, build out style guides and templates, and deliver a high volume of assets.
Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, and we have over 95 million members.
Our office is located in downtown San Francisco.
Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to help elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
Develop high-quality, on-brand designs for newsletters, articles, event landing pages, marketing campaigns, ads.
Drive acquisition through campaigns that run across Goodreads, Kindle, Amazon, and social media.
Help launch our new brand identity across all touch points.
Design innovative ad experiences for publishers, authors, and notables.
Independently lead campaign executions and collaborate with multiple teams including design, sales, marketing and editorial.
Fulfill requests from multiple internal clients while meeting and prioritizing tight deadlines.
Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills.
This role interacts with a broad audience at Goodreads, often in high-pressure situations.
Requires patience, flexibility, and willingness to dive in and help where needed.
Create and follow project timelines, creative treatments, and other documents that detail a projects' scope and direction.
Give and solicit feedback and constructive criticism to improve you and your team's skills and design solutions, continually raising our bar for quality.
Maintain stylistic consistency across production assets, enhancing and reinforcing the Goodreads brand.
.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
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Position Requirements:
Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation... as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year
Position Requirements:
Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation... as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1.) Designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: Object Oriented Design; and C++, C#, or Java; and (2.) Designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, and services using Android.
Job summary
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Company: GOODREADS LLC
Position Title: Software Development Engineer II
Location: San Francisco, California
Position Responsibilities:
Design, develop, implement, test, and document embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems and services. Translate functional requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture. Participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance. Produce comprehensive, usable software documentation. Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools. Mentor junior development engineers.
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000
Please see the job description and position requirements above.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation... as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1.) Designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: Object Oriented Design; and C++, C#, or Java; and (2.) Designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, and services using Android.
Job summary
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Company: GOODREADS LLC
Position Title: Software Development Engineer II
Location: San Francisco, California
Position Responsibilities:
Design, develop, implement, test, and document embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems and services. Translate functional requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture. Participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance. Produce comprehensive, usable software documentation. Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools. Mentor junior development engineers.
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000
Please see the job description and position requirements above.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records Show more details...
via Arlington, VA - Geebo
posted_at: 4 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
With over 120 million members, Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Loved by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine, share ratings and recommendations, track what they... have read, and list what they want to read. Goodreads
With over 120 million members, Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Loved by avid and casual readers alike, Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine, share ratings and recommendations, track what they... have read, and list what they want to read. Goodreads is also a place where more than 220,000 authors connect with readers. Come join us and be a part of Amazon family here at Goodreads! The Evolve team's mission is to drive Customer Obsession in Action across the entire company! As owners of the Learn and Deepen:
Track & Display areas of the Reader's Journey, our main customer goals are to make it easier and more delightful for readers to learn if a book is right for them, as well as track and display their reading lives. We strive to address top pain points on a regular cadence while building towards our longer-term vision for these experiences. As a Software Development Engineer, you will develop customer-facing experiences in a fast paced environment. You will be involved in hands-on coding & development, and should be comfortable working in an environment where code is pushed into production multiple times in a day. While we have lots of customer facing and front-end oriented products, we also regularly work with Native AWS backend infrastructure. You are the ideal candidate if you are equally comfortable writing code and defining technical architecture. You must have a deep understanding of scalable, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, full-stack web development, and application design, as well as flexibility and a passion for learning new skills. You will be expected to work in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies and bring flexibility, speed, and quality to our team. The successful candidate will thrive in a culture of experimentation and innovation, but also have a proven track record of delivering results to solve challenging problems. Basic
Qualifications:
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design 1
years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. 2
years of non-internship professional software development experience Preferred
Qualifications:
Experience with NoSQL AWS data stores like DynamoDB, CloudSearch or their open source equivalents like Cassandra, HBase, Solr or ElasticSearch Experience with React or other modern javascript frameworks. Experience with MySQL, Redis, Memcache and related web-backend technologies. Experience with data pipelines (Kafka, AWS Kinesis, AWS Data Pipeline) Experience building web applications, widgets, or interactive experiences. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with all applicable local, state and federal laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification
Software DevelopmentEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...
Track & Display areas of the Reader's Journey, our main customer goals are to make it easier and more delightful for readers to learn if a book is right for them, as well as track and display their reading lives. We strive to address top pain points on a regular cadence while building towards our longer-term vision for these experiences. As a Software Development Engineer, you will develop customer-facing experiences in a fast paced environment. You will be involved in hands-on coding & development, and should be comfortable working in an environment where code is pushed into production multiple times in a day. While we have lots of customer facing and front-end oriented products, we also regularly work with Native AWS backend infrastructure. You are the ideal candidate if you are equally comfortable writing code and defining technical architecture. You must have a deep understanding of scalable, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, full-stack web development, and application design, as well as flexibility and a passion for learning new skills. You will be expected to work in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies and bring flexibility, speed, and quality to our team. The successful candidate will thrive in a culture of experimentation and innovation, but also have a proven track record of delivering results to solve challenging problems. Basic
Qualifications:
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design 1
years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. 2
years of non-internship professional software development experience Preferred
Qualifications:
Experience with NoSQL AWS data stores like DynamoDB, CloudSearch or their open source equivalents like Cassandra, HBase, Solr or ElasticSearch Experience with React or other modern javascript frameworks. Experience with MySQL, Redis, Memcache and related web-backend technologies. Experience with data pipelines (Kafka, AWS Kinesis, AWS Data Pipeline) Experience building web applications, widgets, or interactive experiences. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with all applicable local, state and federal laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification
Software DevelopmentEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...