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Monday, January 18, 2021

NOW HIRING: Portfolio Quality and Content Manager

Company: Hometime

Website: https://hometime.io

Headquarters: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Hometime is the largest and fastest-growing platform for flexible rental providers in the APAC region.

We partner with local hosting businesses and empower them with industry-leading technology, supporting infrastructure and scale normally reserved for large companies. Our unique business model means that our local Partners’ success is our success, which we strive for across all teams on a daily basis.

We currently operate throughout Australia and New Zealand, and our team is growing fast as we consistently add new markets.

About the role:

Day to day you’ll be:

  • Developing and implementing listing content & quality enhancement programs to ensure listings are set up for maximum success on our channels (Airbnb, booking.com…)
  • Managing Hometime’s Photographer & Content Writer Network
  • Assessing, editing, and creating listing or marketing content as required
  • Analyzing portfolio listing performance using internal and 3rd party data
  • Improving property onboarding processes to streamline Partner operations and to enable a seamless Homeowner experience
  • Working with Hometime’s Product Team to improve and launch new features
  • Creating and presenting Partner training materials
  • Responding to Partner queries and providing supplementary support as required

Your impact:

This means you’ll be actively contributing to our mission to empower a global network of micro-entrepreneurs to build successful hosting businesses, by developing the processes, features, and standards for a seamless property onboarding experience; setting up listings for multi-channel marketing success.

About you:

We value transferable skills and strengths over experience. We’re looking for someone who ticks off most of the boxes below, but we don’t mind where you developed these skills. This role could be performed remotely as long as you have a good internet connection and are able to work some overlap during Australian business hours.

Your skills:

  • Marketing: You’re able to identify how to sell a product through advertising and market research, and deliver an effective program that increases sales
  • Writing: You’re proficient in creative and persuasive writing; and able to write documents that make decisions and clearly explain the reasoning behind those decisions
  • Project management: You're able to plan, organize, and direct the completion of specific projects while ensuring these projects are on time, on budget, and within the scope
  • Quality Control: You’re able to prevent systemic oversights and mistakes by conducting a systematic evaluation of operations and processes, improving them where needed
  • Data analysis: You're able to accurately interpret performance data, understand the takeaways and use it to inform the decisions you make

Must haves:

  • Experience in content marketing
  • Previous experience helping productize services
  • Understanding of the core principles of Airbnb
  • Time management, prioritization, and business judgment skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English
  • Strong attention to detail
  • A strong team player who inspires and motivates those around them
  • A resourceful and results-driven can-do attitude

Nice to haves:

  • Australia / New Zealand market knowledge
  • A keen interest in design & photography
  • Tertiary qualification

About our Company & Culture:

Perks:

You will get a competitive salary, paid time off once eligible, and control over your day

Lifestyle:

We empower people to do their best work in the locations and setting that suits them - whether this is at home or in a coworking space; we’ll make it work

Community & transparency:

We believe a great business starts with great people and we leverage talent across the organisation to drive our strategy, solve complex scaling challenges and adapt to the market
We have a fantastic team who are genuinely a pleasure to work with

Career Growth:

Incredible learning opportunities in building and scaling a hyper growth technology business
Our success depends on your success

Source: We Work Remotely, Hometime



NOW HIRING: Systems Engineer

Company: WordPress VIP

Website: https://wpvip.com

Headquarters: Remote


WordPress VIP is the digital platform of choice for the world’s top brands and publishers. Our expertise running performant, secure, and stable applications at scale enables our clients to power high-touch digital experiences with ease. Our platform combines the unparalleled WordPress user experience with enterprise-grade infrastructure and world-class support, serving billions of web requests per day. As one of the most used and ubiquitous software platforms on Earth, security and reliability are critical.

We’re looking for Systems Engineers to join our fully remote team, where you’ll play an essential role in developing, building, and maintaining our growing global infrastructure. If you enjoy solving complex problems and are eager to empower development teams working at some of the most high-profile, high-traffic sites out there, come and join us.

We’d love to chat with you if you have:

  • Experience with implementing and supporting Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
  • Experience working on a large-scale system to make it performant, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant.
  • Experience in Linux systems administration and a deep understanding of how web-related services (load balancers, high availability solutions, web servers, databases, caching daemons, etc.) work.
  • Proficiency in information systems concepts, system administration, and cloud platforms.
  • Proficiency with some or all of: NGINX, Docker, PHP, Golang, LUA, MySQL, ELK.
  • Working knowledge of network technologies such as TCP/IP stack, IPv6, DNS, Anycast, firewalls (iptables), and TLS.
  • A passion for open-source software.
  • A willingness to learn!

Bonus points if you can guess what each dot represents on the map below and tell us the methodology you used to figure it out.
http://automattic.com/automattic-data-centers

Curious who works in engineering at Automattic? Meet our Code Wranglers Brandon, Jeremy, Mark, Jennifer, Roy and Kat at https://youtu.be/jyhYkuuzL_0 ! These are exciting times at WordPress VIP and you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform. Join us! We look forward to hearing from you.

If you have some time and want to learn more about how we do things, watch this ScaleConf video.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Automattic

We’re improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry. At Automattic, we want people to love their work and show respect and empathy to all. We welcome differences and strive to increase participation from traditionally underrepresented groups. Our DEI committee involves Automatticians across the company and drives grassroots change. For example, this group has helped facilitate private online spaces for affiliated Automatticians to gather and helps run a monthly DEI People Lab series for further learning. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is a priority at Automattic, though our dedication influences far more than just Automatticians: We make our products freely available and translate our products into and offer customer support in numerous languages. We require unconscious bias training for our hiring teams and ensure our products are accessible across different bandwidths and devices. Read more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion and our Employee Resource Groups.

Benefits

  • Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year). We encourage all employees to take the time they need for vacation, to pursue their own interests, to stay healthy, and to spend time with friends and family.
  • Home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
  • We happily provide or reimburse hardware and software you’ll need, as well as books or conferences that promote continued learning.
  • Company-sponsored life insurance.
  • Open parental leave (includes maternity, paternity, and adoption). If you’ve been with us for 12 months, your leave is fully paid.
  • WordPress-branded laptop at your four-year anniversary. A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary.
  • Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
  • We cover all costs of company travel, so dust off that passport! Your team will get together one to three times per year in locations around the globe. Note: All company travel is currently suspended due to COVID-19.
  • Other benefits are country-specific, and include health, vision, and dental insurance; matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection; travel insurance; and discount offers.

What to Expect

We know applying to jobs can be stressful and we want to ease the stress by giving clear expectations upfront about what to expect from our process. We’ve outlined everything you need to know here including all of the steps in the process as well as how we approach hiring. We’re always iterating so if you happen to join us in the process, please feel free to offer feedback on what else we can include there!

Source: We Work Remotely, WordPress VIP



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