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Software Development Engineer, Core Services

Livemocha is looking for a Software Development Engineer to contribute to development of its core service oriented infrastructure for its next generation platform. The Core Services Engineer will design, build and maintain systems that support user and content management for a global language education platform. Candidates for this role must have demonstrated experience developing in a service oriented environment. The ideal candidate will have professional experience in building highly functional middleware for large scale distributed systems. This is a rare opportunity to work on a project from whiteboard to deployment to data-driven iterative improvement. The work will be extremely hands-on with all team members contributing directly to both design and production code. Candidates who have a track record of excelling in highly collaborative, team oriented environments are preferred.

All candidates must meet the following requirements:

• 5 or more years experience as a professional server side software engineer using Java or C# as the primary programming language.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and programming with SQL.
• Working understanding of object oriented design principles and practice.
• Practical understanding of operational considerations for distributed systems.
• Experience in development of live, data intensive back end systems with requirements for both batch and real-time processing.
• Experience with large scale data management.
• Practical understanding of test driven development and automated quality control.
• Experience working in an agile program management environment.

Preferred candidates will also meet one or more of these additional requirements:

• Experience with contemporary frameworks for data storage.
• Experience with PHP and/or Python.
• Experience integrating cloud-hosted services.
• Experience developing in a service oriented model, including management of service orchestration and monitoring.
• Experience working in a data driven improvement cycle.

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Senior Front End Developer

Livemocha is the world’s largest language community, and one of the hottest companies out there. We are the #1 language learning software solution with over 11 Million registered users worldwide. Livemocha has created a global social network to change the way people learn languages. We are headquartered in beautiful downtown Seattle, Washington with satellite offices in the DC area, Florida and Brazil.

We have a big vision, a talented team, and a high-energy culture which make it fun to come to work each day. If you’re looking for a cool company with an opportunity to disrupt a $50 billion market, you’ve found it.

Senior Front End Web Developer:

We are looking for a rock star front end developer to help us take our site to the next level. You will play a critical role in the design and development of the consumer facing Livemocha user interface. Your work will be viewed by millions of customers and have a sizable impact on the creative direction of Livemocha as we move forward. You’re a savvy technologist and you have the portfolio to prove it. You will have the opportunity to take lead on writing customer facing web pages on the site that includes the end to end Ecommerce experiences. If you are a person who gets excited about being able to develop products that would be used by millions of people all over the world, this is the opportunity will be perfect for you.

Responsibilities:

• Develop optimized, cross-platform front-ends in CSS/XHTML/Javascript, and work with the middle-tier PHP code to support it
• Object-oriented Javascript, JQuery, AJAX mastery
• Work as a team member to ensure that implementation details translate through to shipping products and services that serve business needs. Emphasis on teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers and usability engineers to refine the user experience
• Show product ownership and strong inter-personal skills
• Interface with the UI community to absorb the latest trends and emerging technologies
• Develop low fidelity functional design prototypes to demonstrate proof of concepts and to enable rapid iterative support for evaluative usability

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant web programming experience, or 5+ years in CSS, HTML, Javascript
• A proven track record of launching interactive internet sites/applications
• Must demonstrate strong interaction and rapid prototype engineering skills across a broad spectrum of technologies including:
  • HTML / XHTML / HTML5
  • CSS
  • Javascript: Ajax and DOM manipulation (jQuery or other library experience a plus)
  • PHP / SQL
  • XML / JSON
  • Adobe Photoshop

You have these? You have our attention:

• BA/BS degree or higher, preferably in CS
• 5+ years of experience as key member of a UI design team participating in the complete product development lifecycle of several successfully launched software applications
• Ability to switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced environment

Livemocha is a fast-paced start-up which has been in the works for over 3 years.

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Enterprise Sales Director

Livemocha is the world’s largest language community, and one of the hottest companies out there. We are the #1 language learning software solution with over 10 Million users worldwide. Livemocha has created a global social network to change the way people learn languages. We are headquartered in beautiful downtown Seattle, Washington with satellite offices in the DC area, Colorado and Brazil.

We have a big vision, a talented team, and a high-energy culture which make it fun to come to work each day. If you’re looking for a cool company with an opportunity to disrupt a $50 billion market, you’ve found it.

We are looking for an Enterprise sales Director who has a proven track record of selling enterprise SaaS or software technology, preferably with educational content at the Enterprise level. You should know how to hunt and have a strong presence and communication skills that will allow you to effectively communicate with decision makers at all levels.

In this role, you will drive sales and product development by utilizing your intuitive business sense to help customers understand how to best use our software to solve business needs and to provide customer feedback and requests to product management and engineering for new feature and software development.

A strong predictor of success for this person includes someone who has a track record of over-achievement, self management and motivation, is driven to perform at a consistently high level, and intuitively understands and manages a sales cycle. This person should have a very outgoing and congenial personality, and must successfully interact and collaborate with all internal resources, including CRMs, inside territory managers (who they will be very closely partnered with), sales engineers, and other key managers in the organization. This person must be disciplined, professional, have an outstanding attention to detail, be thorough, and likeable.

Requirements:

• Proven sales leader within the Enterprise space.
• 10+ years experience in a sales consistently meeting and exceeding quota.
• Strategic thought leader, relationship builder, and ability to create a complex value proposition.
• Experience with Salesforce.com.
• Work in a highly distributed team environment to effectively deliver sales and customer satisfaction.
• High level of overachievement in sales goals.
• Substantial experience calling on levels of decision makers.
• Experience selling eLearning, learning technologies or LMS solutions a plus.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, Master’s a plus.

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Enterprise Sales – Inside Sales Representative

Livemocha is the world’s largest language community, and one of the hottest companies out there. We are the #1 language learning software solution with over 11 Million registered users worldwide. Livemocha has created a global social network to change the way people learn languages. We are headquartered in beautiful downtown Seattle, Washington with satellite offices in the DC area, Florida and Brazil.

We have a big vision, a talented team, and a high-energy culture which make it fun to come to work each day. If you’re looking for a cool company with an opportunity to disrupt a $50 billion market, you’ve found it.

Working in an inside sales capacity on the Livemocha enterprise sales team, this individual contributor will be charged with helping to secure revenue-generating deals for the Livemocha SaaS recommendation engine on top tier Enterprise clients. The Inside Sales Representative will be fully responsible for their territory. You will be teamed with Outside Sales Representatives and Sales Engineers when necessary to maximize revenue productivity and accelerate deal flow in each region

Must be comfortable representing the leading-edge SaaS applications in a complex, multi-level, selling environment. Individual must be highly effective in navigating all facets of the enterprise sales process; from prospecting to discovery to pitching to negotiation to closing. Ability to progress deals over the phone is key. Prior success selling into complex customer environments is essential. Individual must be able to think creatively, sell strategically and communicate efficiently internally and externally. They will have a strong desire to succeed, and to continually develop their personal and professional skills.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Selling Livemocha’s product recommendation engine SaaS application to the top Enterprise clients on the Globe.
• Continuously prospect and pitch new clients to secure incremental revenue by closing new business.
• Shepherd client relationships from the early stages of the sales process through to post-sales setup and integration.
• Create and/or review sales reports and forecasts, and ongoing status reports

Additional Skills:

• Prioritize and organize sales calls for maximum revenue impact
• Complete regular call reports to update sales management and internal counterparts on account activity
• Comfort with outbound cold-calling a must
• Coordinate with, and provide market feedback to, internal counterparts in marketing, product, and technical integration. Produce regular forecast reports for sales and business management
• Speaking multiple languages fluently a HUGE plus

Livemocha is a fast-paced start-up which has been in the works for over 3 years.

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Business Analyst

Livemocha (www.livemocha.com) is the world's largest language community, and one of the hottest companies out there. We are the #1 language learning software solution with over 11 Million registered users worldwide. Livemocha has created a global social network to change the way people learn languages. We are headquartered in beautiful downtown Seattle, Washington with satellite offices in the DC area, Florida and Brazil. We have a big vision, a talented team, and a high-energy culture which make it fun to come to work each day.

I am looking for a Business Analyst to work directly with the Executive Staff- mainly the CEO. The basic role is business analytic projects including secondary research, data synthesis, analysis and insights for customers and partners.

This person will help our CEO present valuable information to board, partner, investor, and customer; help CEO sort the wheat from chaff; help exec team gain insights from mountain of data we currently sort thought.

There are many career paths available to the right person including becoming a product manager, a regional sales director, or a finance manager - the possibilities are endless. Below are the requirements...

Requirements:

• MBA required; strong math skills; masterful with XLS and PPT
• Fluent in at least one language plus English required
• Minimum 3 years prior work experience required, including internships.
• High degree of intellectual curiosity is a key component. Someone who lives to learn.
• Database skills a plus; but not required

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