Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

• We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.
• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
• Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Responsibilities:

As the Community Manager for a Slide application, you are the liaison between users and the product team. We rely on you to tell us everyday what our users are doing, what they like, what they don’t like. You are the person in the organization that has a pulse on our user community and understands what they want best. You are responsible for growing a thriving community from the ground up through outreach efforts, engaging users through creative campaigns and contests, answering their questions, and using creative tactics to make users feel welcome in our community. Specific responsibilities include:

• Responding to users in product forums and answering questions about features
• Ideation, planning, implementation, and execution of creative programs and contests to engage users
• Ideation, planning, implementation, and execution of creative means of bringing new users into the application
• Soliciting and interpreting user feedback and translating into actionable product/feature recommendations
• Ownership of all public points of contact (profiles, personals, fan pages, blogs, forums). This my include building these from scratch.
• Reporting out on user activity and behavior in a data-driven way.
   

Requirements:

• Prior experience as a Community Manager for a minimum of 1 to 2 years for a consumer facing application or website, ideally a game. This is a hard requirement.
• A passion for helping users. If you don’t find helping users a rewarding experience, there’s nothing to see here, move along.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Perfect spelling and grammar even without spell check. Ability to adapt tone and writing style to fit the circumstances and situation.
• An early adopter in the use of social networks. You were on Facebook from the very beginning. Before that, you were on MySpace. You might have even been on Friendster. You’re definitely on Twitter.
• Comfort being measured on numerical goals and targets
• A high degree of intellectual curiosity. You love solving problems. In fact, you eat problems for breakfast!
• Creativity to devise campaigns for strengthening community among all users
   

Bonus:

• Experience as a gamer
• Fluency in Spanish or Tagalog
   

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Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

• We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.
• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
• Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Responsibilities:

•  Conduct deep data driven analyses that answer business critical questions
• Perform both regular and ad-hoc analyses using MySQL and various software packages to manipulate large amounts of data
• Work closely with product managers to ensure that all key metrics are being tracked with each product release
• Gather, track and analyze key performance metrics to provide explanations for significant changes and drive overall business growth

Requirements:

• Minimum 1 year experience in a relevant field such as quantitative market research, data-mining or product management in a high-growth tech company or professional services organization.
• The drive to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment
• A strong interest in online social networks and network/user dynamics
• Superior intellectual, quantitative, and analytical abilities
• A degree or similar experience in a quantitative field is preferred (statistics, engineering, computer science, economics, etc.)

 

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Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?

Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?

Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

• We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.
• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
• Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Responsibilities:

• Build a large, scalable service for delivering dynamic content over the web.
  

Requirements:

• Experience developing server software in Python or some other interpreted dynamically typed language.
  
• Detailed understanding of using Unix to implement a large server application: networking, memory, storage and concurrency.
  
• Knowledge of web service technologies and protocols (Linux, MySQL, Apache, REST, XML, Ajax, etc...)
  
• An appreciation of how elegant algorithms and data structures are compatible with pragmatism and getting cool things done.
  
• Comfortable with asynchronous network programming, server frameworks, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability.
  
• Thrive in a startup environment, working with a small team while creating software used by millions of people every day.
  
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field.
  
  

Please answer the following question in your cover letter when you apply: 

• In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a multiple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file. Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.

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Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

Check out a recent interview with our CEO.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0910/gallery.hiring_40_under_40.fortune/8.html

About Slide

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Develop media rich internet applications with fast rendering time and reusable components using OO Javascript and AJAX
  
• Work closely with product / matrix team to determine new features, designs, and priorities
  
• Collaborate with server-side programmers to optimize scalability and efficiency
  
• Suggest new coding practices, recommend architecture changes if appropriate
  
• Technologies we use include: Python, Django, Jquery, OO Javascript, AJAX, ActionScript, Flex, Flash, MySQL, Linux...

About You:

• Crave to code Object Oriented Javascript. Love cross browser event handling
  
• Stay up-to-date with technologies because it's cool, not because you need it for a job
  
• Obsessed with delivering the best user experience possible
  
• Thrive best in small, friendly, energetic teams in a fast pace environment

Required Qualifications:

 

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Are you comfortable rolling up your sleeves?
Would you welcome the opportunity to represent and advocate on behalf of customers?

Fantastic! Slide is looking for a Community Support Representative to help make sure we continue to deliver what our users want.

About Slide:

• Killer products: Slideshows, SuperPoke Pets!, SuperPoke!, RockRiot...
  
• Major usage: 155+ million unique users a month (per ComScore)
  
• Market leader: Top developer on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc...
  
• Strong growth: 120+ employees today
  
• Great location: Downtown San Francisco, CA, close to public transportation
  
• Full medical/dental/vision Benefits and 401K options are available.

Responsibilities:

• Provide tier 2 e-mail support using CRM software
  
• Troubleshoot issues reported by customers
  
• Research, document, and log bugs into tracking system
  
• Collect suggestions
  
• Write and update FAQs and canned responses
  
• Manage application settings though administrative tools
  
• Assist Support Management with various tasks, reports, and projects
  
• Lead various team projects
  
• Advocate for our community
  
• Work closely with Project Managers, Developers, and Community Managers
  

Requirements:

• At least 2 years in email based customer support
  
• Experience with ticket tracking and CRM software
  
• Superb writing and communication skills
  
• Excellent organizational skills, creative stamina, and ability to problem-solve
  
• Ability to work independently and multi-task
  
• Familiar with both Windows and Mac platforms
  
• Familiar with Microsoft office applications
  
• Clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical people
  
• Experience using and supporting applications on social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace
  
  

"While we're passionate about our work, we also never pass up an opportunity have a good time when we're done with our day. This is a t-shirt and jeans environment, where quality and hard work is equal to our sense of humor."

 

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Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

• We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.
• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
• Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Responsibilities:

• We're seeking a network/systems administrator with experience building and scaling large, multi-datacenter architectures for high traffic websites. You must have a mastery of Linux and network design.
• Slide is growing fast, and we need admins who can work onsite full-time at our San Francisco office to take ownership and build out and continue to scale.
  

Requirements:

• 4+ years of production network/systems administration in production environments for large, growing web properties.
• Emphasis on Linux and Cisco equipment in previous experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent understanding of TCP/IP, firewall, networking protocols and security concepts.
• Excellent understanding of layer 2 and layer 3 networking topologies. (VLANS, STP, NAT, ACLs, PBR, OSPF, BGP)
• Architectural experience in an Apache/MySQL environment.
• Familiarity with load balancing technologies and systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring and configuration distribution tools (nagios, puppet, rancid, cacti, ganglia)
• Excellent working knowledge of DNS, HTTP/S, SSH, LDAP, NFS, PXE/DHCP/TFTP.
• Extensive sh/csh/perl knowledge (Python a big plus).
• Must be detail oriented, an organized thinker, and able to act decisively under stressful conditions.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to multitask and prioritize, and a proactive mindset.
• Team player and self-motivated.
• Willing to work on-call and respond to production issues 24x7.
  

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Do you spend an insane amount of time on social networks?
Would you welcome the opportunity to represent and advocate on behalf of users around the world?
Fantastic! Slide is looking for a Community Manager to help make sure we continue to deliver what our users want.

About Slide:

• Killer products: SuperPoke Pets!, SuperPoke!, Slide FunSpace...
  
• Major usage: 155+ million unique users a month (per ComScore)
  
• Market leader: Top developer on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc...
  
• Experienced Leadership: Founders and execs from PayPal, LinkedIn, eBay & more
  
• Explosive growth: 100+ employees today
  
• Great location: Downtown San Francisco, CA, close to public transportation
  

Responsibilities:

• Soliciting and interpreting user feedback into actionable product/feature recommendations
  
• Organizing and maintaining public points of contact (forums, sns profiles, etc) with users
  
• Identifying and reporting technical bugs in trac system
  
• Execution and analysis of user engagement campaigns and promotions
  
• Strengthening relationships with users through contests and other loyalty incentives
  
• Engaging users on a personal, 1x1 level while scaling for high volume of contacts
  
• Coordinating evangelists to drive new and sustained activity with product
  

Requirements:

• Love helping people and find it rewarding to assist others in finding solutions
  
• Demonstrated ability to learn fast and complete simultaneous priorities
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (feel free to submit links to work)
  
• Someone who can work both independently and as a strong contributor to a team
  
• Creativity to devise campaigns for strengthening community among all users
  
• Deep understanding of social network structures (please submit profile URLs)
  
• Must be proficient in MS Office suite programs
  
• BA/BS degree (please submit GPA)
  
• 1-2 years experience in community work
  

 

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 Please send a cover letter, resume (including GPA) and any blog/social network links for consideration.

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

Check out a recent interview with our CEO.

money.cnn.com/gallerie/s/2009/fortune/0910/gallery.hiring_40_under_40.fortune/8.html

About Slide

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
  
  

Job Description:

You will work with a small, talented team in a fast-paced environment at our office in San Francisco, building and scaling out highly entertaining, media rich Internet applications used by hundreds of millions of people. You will collaborate with really smart and fun engineers. You will solve hard problems and bend Web technologies to accomplish new, interesting and complex engineering challenges.

About You:

• Get excited about working with wicked smart people and solving really challenging problems
  
• Enjoy working in a small team, fast-paced start-up environment where engineering is king
  
• Want to work on both the front-end and back-end of high transaction Web applications
  
• Are very strong in designing and implementing complex object-oriented abstractions, data structures, run-time complexity, etc., but feel you can still learn from others
  
• Have worked with different languages but have a strong preference for Python. You think decorators and generators are cool. You are familiar with Django, Pylons or TurboGears frameworks and understand their trade-offs
  
• Can write efficient JavaScript, are knowledgeable with jQuery, and are familiar with AJAX
  
• Think Actionscript/Flex/Flash are interesting and wouldn't mind learning them
  
• Enjoy staying up-to-date with technologies so you can suggest new coding practices, recommend architecture changes and collaborate with our platform team to optimize scalability and network efficiency
  
• Love seeing your work used by hundreds of millions of people
  

More information:

 

Are you a recent BS graduate looking to excel in your career as software QA?

Do you have internship or work experience at a fast pace start-up building / testing Internet Applications?

Are you passionate about learning and producing high quality software applications?

Would you get excited about working with really smart people and seeing your work viewed by hundreds of millions of people?

If you answer "Yes" to the above questions, you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

Slide is the world's leading social entertainment company. We offer people the ability to communicate, engage and have fun with one another using relationships they have built on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. The social networks benefit from increased user activity, advertisers benefit from a highly engaged audience, and our users can share popular videos, send virtual gifts, or even throw sheep at each other.

At Slide, we take fun very seriously. That's why more than 155+ million people each month interact with our products, including SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets, Top Friends, FunSpace and Slideshow.

Slide is looking for a Junior QA who wants to do what it takes to excel in his/her software career. This position demands superior communication skills, a fast-learner of how things work, and the obsession to deliver products quickly while maintaining quality. In this position, you will:

• Design, document, and exercise test cases in a fast pace environment, rapidly changing environment
  
• Conduct unit, integration, regression, ad-hoc, and edge-case testing as part our daily release cycle
  
• Work closely with all parties involved in the development cycle, while maintaining a positive relationship that demands respect for quality
  

Requirement:

• BS graduate (CS or other technical fields) with 1-2 years of industry experience
  
• An active user of Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, Orkut, etc.
  
• Detail oriented and passionate about and delivering high quality, web based consumer software in a fast pace environment
  
• Familiar with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, cross browser compatibility...
  
• Working knowledge of UNIX and MySQL
  
• Understand QA methodology and software development life cycle
  
• Fast learner with superior analytical and problem solving skills
  
• Solid leadership and organization skills to juggle priorities
  
• Superior interpersonal skills, communication (written and verbal) skills, and excellent work ethics
  
• Preference to work at start-ups with really smart people

Bonus:

• Some coding experience in Python, Perl or Flash

To increase your chances for an interview, please respond with a cover letter highlighting relevant experience and why you think you are a good fit for Slide.  Thanks!

 

 

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
  
  

As a flash animator/illustrator at Slide you will be working on numerous
interesting product we have on all different platforms, primarily
Facebook, MySpace and Hi5. You will be responsible for creating cute, fun,
clean and whimsical illustration and animation for applications like
SuperPoke! (http://apps.facebook.com/superpokey) and SuperPoke! Pets
(http://www.spp.com). Because we're a company who believe in quality,
being able to adapt to the unique SuperPoke! style is also very crucial.
We are a very fast paced company with a very wide distribution so your
work will be seen by millions of users on a daily basis.

So if you want your work seen by millions of users and you want a part of
the next big internet success story then you want to be at Slide.

Requirements:

* Expert in Adobe Illustrator and 2D Flash animation
* Skilled in Adobe Photoshop
* Ability to execute in the SuperPoke! graphic style
* Enthusiasm and interest in working on web applications for social
networking
* HTML/CSS is a plus

  More information:

 

 

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and
talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

 

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

* Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
* Our 155+ million users make one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
* Slide's business is rapidly expanding, and we're friends with the all most successful Web companies.

Responsibilities:

* We're looking for someone who can help create content for applications like:

SuperPoke!
http://apps.facebook.com/superpokey/

and

SuperPoke! Pets
http://apps.facebook.com/slidepets/

Requirements:

* Skilled with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash
* Ability to execute in the SuperPoke! graphic style
* Have a good eye for fun, clean, whimsical design
* Enthusiasm and interest in working on web applications for
social networking
* Experience HTML/CSS

 

 

 

 

Want an exciting job developing rich Flash technologies for tens of
millions of users? Looking to build the next amazing online community?
Then you want to be a part of Slide.

 

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top
Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
Our 155 million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the
world; that's serious scale.

Responsibilities:

Play a leadership role in a new team of engineers working to create
the next generation of Slide's online communities.
Provide technical expertise in areas related to animation and 2D/2.5D/
3D graphics.
Get hands-on and implement core Flash technologies for use throughout
Slide's product lineup.

Qualifications:

2-5 years experience developing online single or multiplayer games in
Flash.
Expert knowledge of Flash 9 & 10, ActionScript 3.
Strong knowledge of Flash optimization techniques.
Strong knowledge of the client side of client/server programming.
A passion for visual & human interface design is a plus.

B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work
experience.

•  

 

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

* Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
* Our 155 million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.

The Product Manager is responsible for the product planning and execution
throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing
product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, defining
and tracking key metrics, and working closely with engineering, sales, and
support to ensure growth, engagement, revenue and customer satisfaction
goals are met. The Product Manager's job also includes ensuring that the
product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
. Managing Slide's product development including product specifications
  and messaging
. Managing the entire product life cycle from conception to development to release
. Quantitative analysis of product/key metrics
. Initiate and prioritize projects within engineering and QA, track
  product development, and develop product launch plans
. Engage closely with engineering team and assist in determining the best
  technical implementation methods as well as reasonable execution schedule
. Be an expert with respect to the competition
. Own the product metrics and responsibility for the ultimate success of
  t he product

REQUIREMENTS:
. Resume with proven results not just description of duties - We want to
  see metrics
. Passion for writing product specifications and building engaging
  applications
. Outstanding creativity plus stellar written and oral communication
  skills
. Strong organizational and analytical skills, attention to details
. An enthusiastic, performance-driven self-starter and team player with an
  unparalleled work ethic and desire to win
. Previous start-up experience is a strong plus
. BA/BS degree (CS, EE, Math, Stats preferred)
. Innate ability to understand customers
. Strong knowledge of the consumer internet space

Desirable Skills:
. Proven ability in developing winning product strategies for consumer
  internet space
. Experience with social media, virtual economies, gaming, or developing
  advertising products a plus

 

 

 

 

Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and
talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

* We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

* Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.

*Our 155+ million users make one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.

* Slide's business is rapidly expanding, and we're friends with the all most successful Web companies.

 

Responsibilities:

We're looking for a game designer who can create user engagement for applications like:

* Fun Space: http://apps.facebook.com/crazyfunpix/

  and

* SuperPoke! Pets: http://apps.facebook.com/slidepets/

Requirements:

* 5+ years of game design experience.
* Excellent communications.
* Passion for excellence of design.
* Experience executing ideas.
* Level or systems design experience.
* Love playing online games.
* Analytical skills.
* Ability to do critical analysis and find creative solutions.
* Current knowledge of trends, philosophies, tools and techniques.
* Bachelor's Degree.

Responsibilities:

* Lead and work closely with team on gameplay mechanics.
* Make Slide's applications engaging.
* Lead design meetings.

Bonus:

* Experience with Social-based games.
* Experience with building for Social networks like Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, etc...
* Experience with designing for Xbox Live games.