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Director of Marketing Communications in Boston

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:39:37 GMT

Jana (formerly txteagle) helps global brands engage directly with consumers in emerging markets via mobile phones. Jana rewards consumers with mobile airtime in return for taking market research surveys and trying out new products. Jana’s mobile airtime rewards platform is integrated into the back-end systems of hundreds of mobile operators, enabling the instant monetary compensation of billions of consumers in 70 local currencies. Today, global corporations are using Jana to engage consumers in 50 emerging market countries, including leading brands such as P&G, Unilever, Danone, Pfizer, General Mills, Nestle, Johnson & Johnson, and Microsoft.

We are a rapidly growing, early-stage start-up presently earning revenue in over 50 countries. With $10M in funding from investors including Spark Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, the Blackberry Fund, and Esther Dyson, we are building a new style of marketing and advertising company focusing on underserved, understudied communities in high-growth markets. We're actively recruiting individuals who share our common passion for making a lasting, positive global impact while growing a thriving, exciting business. Learn more at our website, at www.jana.com

Role:
Jana requires an entrepreneurial marketer with 3+ years of experience to be the company’s lead advocate - clarifying and communicating the company’s value proposition in compelling and creative ways.
In this role you will introduce our company and products to the press, prospects, clients, investors, and potential employees. You will be charged with developing messaging, collateral, events, and sales strategies. Additionally, you will pitch to major press outlets (WSJ, FT, The Economist) while actively creating compelling content for our blog.
Responsibilities:
Your responsibility is straightforward: to clarify Jana’s value proposition and communicate it via a range of platforms. You will report directly to the CEO and work closely with Jana’s Business Development, Product and Sales teams to understand client needs, product features and benefits, and present them to various audiences in a clear and compelling manner. Your success will be measured by the business you bring to Jana through our press coverage, website and other channels. You will be driven to continuously improve conversion on these efforts for the Jana sales team.
-Writing Skills: Crafting our message is a significant part of this job. You will use your excellent writing and communication skills to draft press releases, blog posts and a wide range of other content.

-Brand Management: Experience managing a public image or brand, preferably business-to-business. Relevant experience includes public relations, customer service, or community management.

-Product Marketing: You will be responsible for launching products, organizing events, and working on client-facing initiatives. This will include creation of product collateral and sales support materials as needed.

-Inbound Marketing: You will also manage and create the content our company website at Jana.com. This content will include our product pages, case studies, and our blog. This content will be supported by positioning Jana as a thought leader, using social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Quora, and LinkedIn.

-Education: Bachelor’s Degree required. At least 3 years experience working in B-to-B marketing, online marketing, and/or public relations strongly preferred.
Preferred experience and characteristics:
We are looking for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual who can work independently and move at a fast pace. S/He should be results driven and comfortable with performance metrics, testing and optimization of marketing efforts. S/He should be comfortable working in the resource-constrained environment of a start-up and should be adaptable to shifts in the positioning of the business. Passion for emerging markets required.

Professional characteristics incl

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"Full-Stack" Web Developer in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

Jana is looking for talented full-stack web developers to help build our cutting-edge platform.

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Associate Project Manager in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

Jana Project Managers are filling big shoes. You’ll work directly with Fortune 500 companies and help them solve challenges in developing nations by providing important data. You will make sure all of our market research projects are running on-time and on-budget. Your role will be critical to the end-to-end execution of mobile and online market research projects.

What you will be doing:

-Develop and fine-tune market research survey for mobile devices
-Learn how to use our proprietary market research platform reaching 2.1 Billion consumers in emerging markets
-Set-up research projects, program surveys, monitor response rates, data quality and produce deliverables for Fortune 500 companies
-Directly communicate and deliver clean data and cross tabs to Fortune 500 companies
-Work closely with our product and engineering team to improve our research platform
-Gain first-hand insight into issues in developing nations

What we need from you:

-You need to be analytical
-Know how to use SPSS (or other statistical program)
-Know how to build a market research survey
-Bachelors Degree in Market Research, Statistics, International Relations or similar analytical field
-One to two years of client-facing experience designing, planning, running and executing market research and/or consulting projects
-Phenomenal attitude (sense of humor preferred)
-You need to have vision and passion - we are building a platform reaching 2.1 Billion consumers in developing nations and only play with the very best

What you will get out of this:

-Experience and challenge: Working together with the leading companies in the world while working for a small start-up will give you an experience like no other
-Great colleagues: We come from MIT, Harvard and Stanford. Worked for Google, Forrester and Markettools. Lived in Kenya, China and Hawaii.
-Start-up culture: Settler of Catan Games, catered lunches, ping-pong matches, flexible working hours, fully stocked beer fridge and all the ice-cream flavours you want.
-Start-up exposure and an insight on how to build a company from the ground up

About Jana

Jana connects companies to emerging markets. Through 230 mobile operator partnerships, Jana can interact with over 2.1 billion mobile phone subscribers. Our products enable clients to conduct market research and brand marketing across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Subsequently, Jana's global community members are exposed to Western companies' products and brands. In exchange for giving feedback and trialing new products, members receive free talk time on their mobile phones. This proprietary airtime rewards technology provides Jana with the unprecedented ability to engage with the 'next billion' consumers.

We are a rapidly growing, early-stage start-up presently earning revenue in over 50 countries. With $10M in funding from investors including Spark Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, the Blackberry Fund, and Esther Dyson, we are building a new style of marketing and advertising company focusing on underserved, understudied communities in high-growth markets. We're actively recruiting individuals who share our common passion for making a lasting, positive global impact while growing a thriving, exciting business.

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Mobile Startup Seeks Great Writer for Marketing & PR in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

This is a rare opportunity, to join a venture-funded mobile startup -- no prior experience required.

TO APPLY - SUBMIT A RESUME AND COVER LETTER HERE: http://jobsco.re/OVi8rL

- Do you want to get into technology marketing and communications, but don't know how?

- Are you smart and naturally drawn to technology and innovation?

- Are you a seriously great writer (with the writing samples to prove it)?

- Are you globally minded? Love to travel?

If so, read on - we might be looking for you!

About Jana:
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Jana is a leading venture-funded mobile startup in Boston. We help global brands engage directly with people in emerging growth markets via mobile phones.

We do this at massive global scale: Through our partnerships with more than 235 mobile operators in more than 100 countries, Jana can send airtime rewards to more than 2.1 billion people.

Leading brands such as P&G, Unilever, Danone, and Microsoft have used the Jana Mobile Rewards Platform to conduct consumer research, launch product promotions, and create consumer loyalty campaigns. We are at the cutting edge of marketing technology, using mobile airtime to incentivize consumer action.

Founded in 2009, Jana is funded by investors including Spark Capital and Qualcomm Ventures. We are headquartered on Boylston Street in Boston.

The job:
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You will lead public relations for Jana and also play a role in other marketing and communications efforts as needed. We're looking for someone who can learn fast, and rapidly take the lead on coordinating our press releases, blog and Twitter presence, and actively pitch to leading media outlets to secure coverage of Jana.

You will be responsible for building, managing, and measuring our brand presence across various public relations, social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.), and inbound marketing channels. Not only will you have the opportunity to help craft the strategy, but you will want to roll up your sleeves and implement your own innovative programs.

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED - IF YOU ARE AWESOME WE WILL TRAIN YOU!

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Web Developer Intern in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

We are seeking an intern with fundamentals in web development to work on a variety of potential projects. We regularly need to: create prototypes that leverage social networks in developing world nations; visualize data related both to surveys we deploy in the field and data related to the mobile traffic that hit our websites; examine the browsing characteristics of lower-end phones popular in the developing world; push the envelope on how the modern web can interact with lower-end phones.

Requirements:

-Basic fundamentals of computer science/programming
-Experience with Python
-Enough web programming experience to be able to use web APIs / use a web framework to prototype ideas quickly
-Fast learner

We're looking for a reliable person who understands the basic fundamentals of web development and has a strong interest in seeing how these abilities can be used at a startup. We are also looking for people who are passionate about what we are trying to accomplish: making a direct connection to developing world consumers using mobile technology.

About Us:

Jana connects companies to the developing world! Our products enable market research in regions as diverse as India, Brazil, Nigeria, and Egypt. Our global community members learn about Western companies' products and brands through us. In exchange for answering questions, they receive free talk time on their mobile phone.

We are a rapidly-growing, early-stage start-up presently earning revenue in over 50 countries. With $10M in funding from investors including Spark Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, the Blackberry Fund, and Esther Dyson, we are building a new style of market research company focusing on underserved, understudied communities in high-growth markets. We're actively recruiting individuals who share our common passion for making a lasting, positive global impact while growing a thriving, exciting business.

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Community Manager in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

As Community Manager, you will be responsible for engaging, growing, and measuring Jana’s global consumer community across various social media outlets. You will not only be managing all daily interactions with members all over the world, but you’ll have the opportunity to utilize your passion for and knowledge of social media to create and implement strategic consumer engagement plans.

About Us:

Jana connects companies to emerging markets. Through 230 mobile operator partnerships, Jana can interact with over 2.1 billion mobile phone subscribers. Our products enable clients to conduct market research and brand marketing across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Subsequently, Jana's global community members are exposed to Western companies' products and brands. In exchange for giving feedback and trialing new products, members receive free talk time on their mobile phones. This proprietary airtime rewards technology provides Jana with the unprecedented ability to engage with the 'next billion' consumers.

We are a rapidly growing, early-stage start-up presently earning revenue in over 50 countries. With $10M in funding from investors including Spark Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, the Blackberry Fund, and Esther Dyson, we are building a new style of marketing and advertising company focusing on underserved, understudied communities in high-growth markets. We're actively recruiting individuals who share our common passion for making a lasting, positive global impact while growing a thriving, exciting business.

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Head of Engineering in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

Jana is looking for a highly motivated, data-driven head of engineering to lead, mentor, and expand our team of talented full-stack web developers.

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Consumer Web App Developer in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

Can you build a consumer facing web app? Do you care as much about user experience as you do about app performance? Are you able to tackle front-end markup and back-end code?

We are Jana, and we currently have 500,000 active consumers of our service with access to nearly three billion. Our customers include large, well-known companies and are helping us to generate revenue in 50 countries around the world. We recently completed a Series A financing and we’ve raised just under $10 million in total.

Currently we are using Python, Flask, CouchDB and Redis. We host everything with Ubuntu on EC2 and other Amazon Web Services. Git makes our codebase easy to work with. Fabric makes deploying fast and consistent. We hire bright developers who can get work done. We do not hire on a specific set of skills or a buzzword-filled résumé.

If you are interested, please contact us. Your information goes directly to the engineering team, not HR. We promise a human will read and respond to you in a reasonable amount of time.

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MIT Startup seeks Python Developer in Boston

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:21 GMT

Want to work on a product that is in use by over half a million people? A truly global service that is changing the way business is done in the developing world?
The idea for Jana got its start at the MIT Media Lab. Now we've broken out and are building up the team. Jana gives away free mobile airtime in exchange for market research or advertising. To the users of prepaid phones in the developing world, this free airtime is as good as cash. Our goal is to give a 5% raise to 1 billion people in less fortunate nations.

We are using Python, Flask, CouchDB and Redis. We host everything with Ubuntu on EC2 and other Amazon Web Services. Git makes our codebase easy to work with. Fabric makes deploying totally sweet and not a drag. We have a small team of bright developers who get things done. We do not hire on a specific set of skills or list of buzzwords in your résumé.

We are a startup. And not in the way that big companies like to use the word. At Jana, the technology is the company; the company is the technology. For fun we play ping pong, or Settlers of Catan. We have a "magic" kitchen whiteboard where anything you write down shows up in the fridge the next day. Our office is in an awesome location on Boylston Street, not in the 'burbs or an abandoned part of town.

If you are a great problem solver and you want to work on changing the world, get in touch with us.

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