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About Us:
IMVU: Avatars for a red hot market
IMVU is the face and future of 3D instant messaging. Using IMVU Messenger you can interact with your friends using animated, 3D avatars that you can customize by choosing from kajillions of virtual clothes made by developers all over the world. IMVU makes instant messaging feel like you are actually hanging out with your friends instead of communicating at a distance. Our instant messaging service is a platform for next generation online socializing, including social networking, photos, blogs, chat, groups, and games. We humbly assert that for hanging out with friends, IMVU is leaps above Myspace.com, AIM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo IM all together.
We are still in beta, but in just a few years we have gathered several million registered users around the world. Backed by Menlo Ventures and Allegis Capital, IMVU is already generating significant revenue, and expects to be profitable this year. We work hard as a team, and inspire each other to continue to try and amaze our customers with the rapid progress of our product. We are committed to agile software development, and strive to incorporate as much customer feedback as humanly possible. We are proud of what we do and excited about making a lasting impact on human conversation, relationships, and interactions online.
This is a ground floor opportunity to get into something big at the beginning.
Company Benefits:
IMVU provides comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefit packages. Benefits include medical insurance, prescription drug insurance, 401K plan, paid holidays, and accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year.
Current Job Openings
Software Engineer
IMVU, Inc. is seeking Software Engineers at all levels to work in our Palo
Alto, CA headquarters.
We work in small, dynamic teams using test driven development and other
Agile methodologies to deliver code to our customers 20+ times daily.
We all have the ability really make a difference in the lives of our
customers every day, and we build features that delight our customers while
meeting our business objectives.
You will be responsible for delivering major applications for our commerce
and community web site, our instant messaging client and -- since this is a
startup -- whatever else needs to be done!
One or more of the following skills/experience is required:
- Strong foundational knowledge of software engineering
- Experience architecting or contributing to one or more open source projects
- Experience architecting the application layer of a large scale web application
- Implementation experience one or more of PHP, MySQL, Python, C++, Java, C# or other programming languages
- Deep knowledge of DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and DOM
- Ability to cleanly implement a UI across different browsers (IE6/7, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari).
- Familiarity and affinity for test driven development and continuous integration
How to apply:
Software Engineer (new grad)
IMVU is searching for outstanding college graduates to join our team. At IMVU you will have the opportunity to pursue a new market opportunity in a small company working with and learning from industry veterans. You will immediately have responsibility for delivering features on our web site and in our instant messaging client.
We are searching for graduates with BS and/or MS degrees. The specifics of the position will be customized based on your expertise and experience level.
Key Requirements:
- Outstanding achievement during college.
- Technical degree or equivalent experience.
- Expertise in one or more of: web programming, computer graphics, databases, operating systems.
How to apply:
Interaction Designer
Want to develop interfaces that are not just easy to use, but are fun and cool to boot?
Love to make pixels do your bidding, to shape the detailed look and behaviors of a UI?
Passionate about web development, Flash, and 3D application design?
Feel like joining a smart, agile development team?
Want to do your best work, see your designs out in the world, and feel energized by your job?
Although still in Beta, IMVU has attracted a large and active community. IMVU
users like to hang out and make friends online, and they enjoy communicating
and expressing themselves as animated 3D avatars in rich, fully customizable 3D
scenes. IMVU is a safe, friendly place, where the emphasis is on fashion,
style, creativity, and the ability to hold a good conversation. Designing at
IMVU is designing for, and in collaboration with this highly-engaged audience!
If all this sounds interesting, and you thrive in a fast-paced collaborative environment then we should meet and talk.
Responsibilities include:
- Working as Interaction Designer on small project teams.
- Developing ideas and prototypes for early validation and user feedback.
- Production of final pixel art for page and UI designs.
- UI implementation in partnership with front-end developers.
- Deep familiarity with IMVU's technology base, business goals, and what our users want and enjoy.
- Stakeholder in the growth of a strong and highly-leveraged design practice at IMVU
- Champion for designing with web standards, semantic markup, and SEO best practices
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Graphic design or related area.
- Can demonstrate excellent pixel-level production skills.
- Can demonstrate a structured approach to design and the development of visual UI components.
- Can demonstrate a solid understanding of user centered design principles.
- Ideally 5+ years relevant professional experience.
- Must enjoy working collaboratively, and in concert with end-users.
- Must have strong technical background and expertise in one or more programming languages - HTML CSS, JS, PHP, Flash, etc.
How to apply:
- Please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Link to online portfolio preferred.
Online Merchandising Manager, Virtual Goods
Do you have a passion for retail? Does the idea of marketing virtual goods
appeal to you? Have you ever dreamt about owning a catalog business of over 1.3
million 3D virtual goods driven by a thriving micro-transactions economy?
We are looking for a talented, smart, experienced and enthusiastic Online
Merchandising Manager to own and drive our catalog business. The successful
candidate will be responsible for setting and carrying out a strategic site
merchandising vision that provides a best-in-class customer experience and
helps to grow IMVU’s catalog sales. The Online Merchandising Manager must have
a passionate customer and content focus, proven project management skills,
attention to detail and the ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task in
a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a
passion for retail, a strong understanding of web technology, a high level of
flexibility, commitment and a sense of humor.
Responsibilities include:
- Own the strategic roadmap and tactical calendar for catalog site merchandising, developing site and email features and programs that help to grow the business and provide a best-in-class customer experience
- Provide cross-functional leadership across engineering, marketing, customer service, support and billing on all Catalog related issues
- Continually measure the performance of site, email and program content and recommend changes to maximize its potential, basing decisions on and measuring results with data
- Build a complete understanding of IMVU customer needs by segment and use that knowledge to deliver site features that provide customers with an unparalleled shopping experience
- Work with the IMVU Content Creator community to harness input and feedback into proposed site improvements and programs
Qualifications:
- 5+ years e-commerce and merchandising experience
- Ability to get things done in fluid start-up environment
- Good understanding of web technology
- Extremely strong written & verbal communication skills
- Passion for retail
- Good attention to detail
- Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results
- Strong analytical skills
- BA/BS required
How to apply:
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