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| Funding | Less than 250K USD |
| Employees | 6 |
| Salary | Shhhh... |
| Fulltime | Yes |
| Telecommute | Yes |
| Industry | Search, Consumer, E-commerce, Recommendations, Social Networking |
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Business Development
VP of Product Management
at Rec.fm in Los Altos, CA
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May 01, 2012
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!["Rec" what you love - takes 1 min.](../UserUploads/PhotoStorage/1059_thumb.png ""Rec" what you love - takes 1 min.")
![Easy to find friend "recs" on Facebook](../UserUploads/PhotoStorage/1935_thumb.png "Easy to find friend "recs" on Facebook")
Overview
Founder level VP / Director of Product Managment with hands-on consumer website usability & ramp-up experience needed for SXSW Web Award finalist Rec.fm - a new site featured on MTV & Mashable.com which allows fast and fun creation and sharing of product recommendations ("recs") in social communities for the benefit of charity.
Rec.fm users recommend & buy products they love to help causes they care about - they “search friend recs” on Facebook before buying a product or downloading a movie and earn points, gift cards and iPads for helping great causes. Rec.fm loves it when people who help out win !
Rec.fm is fully operational in public beta and fully integrated with major social networks like Facebook and Twitter and major commerce networks such as Amazon.com, Apple iTunes and Shopping.com.
Proprietary technology of Rec.fm scores product recommendations based upon data indicators of “trust” and prioritizes presentation of the most trustworthy recommendations to searchers. Amazon Web Services provides Rec.fm with highest quality, cloud-based hosting service.
Rec.fm's mission is to take the most powerful force social network users yield - $ 200 billion of online commerce - and turn it into the most powerful tool for doing good. Our mission is founded in a desire to help great causes and to become an agent of their success. Our partnership with those causes defines the core credibility of our service offering.
Rec.fm users recommend & buy products they love to help causes they care about - they “search friend recs” on Facebook before buying a product or downloading a movie and earn points, gift cards and iPads for helping great causes. Rec.fm loves it when people who help out win !
Rec.fm is fully operational in public beta and fully integrated with major social networks like Facebook and Twitter and major commerce networks such as Amazon.com, Apple iTunes and Shopping.com.
Proprietary technology of Rec.fm scores product recommendations based upon data indicators of “trust” and prioritizes presentation of the most trustworthy recommendations to searchers. Amazon Web Services provides Rec.fm with highest quality, cloud-based hosting service.
Rec.fm's mission is to take the most powerful force social network users yield - $ 200 billion of online commerce - and turn it into the most powerful tool for doing good. Our mission is founded in a desire to help great causes and to become an agent of their success. Our partnership with those causes defines the core credibility of our service offering.
Responsibilities
Service positioning
Website usability
Analysis of website analytics
Customer acquisition & funnel conversion
Service gamification
Service viralization
Social media marketing
Search engine optimization / search engine marketing
Community building
Experience
Seeking hands-on, low level, consumer website usability & funnel conversion experience to provide investor credibility for "having done it before". Experience valued most: website usability, customer engagement & rentention, website gamification, search engine marketing and viral marketing, social media marketing, search engine optimization, service positioning.
Skills
Active user of social media with good experience and sense of Facebook & Twitter etiquette and user engagement, viral / social media marketing and community development
Education
BA or BS
MBA or equivalent experience
MBA or equivalent experience
Compensation
Generous founder-level equity and cash incentives for success.
Normal and usual salary, bonus & equity compensation upon attainment of funding round.
Normal and usual salary, bonus & equity compensation upon attainment of funding round.
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