Jobs - We're Hiring!
Booeep is an online entertainment portal featuring the "Official Websites" of Actors, Athletes, Comedians, Models, Musicians and Experts. Booeep powers the Websites of the celebrities and delivers hot content and interactive applications to fans and visitors.
Booeep provides "Official Website" solutions for celebrities with an approach that rewards users, advertisers and Hollywood. Booeep aims to be one of the most popular online entertainment portals.
We provide all of our employees with a salary, benefits, and stock options. We believe that if you want employees to act like an owner, it helps to make them an owner. We are building a team that together will do great things.
Booeep is an equal opportunity employer. Please send your resume, credentials and salary requirements to jobs. Emails should not be larger than 20 MB.
Positions Available:
- Web Content Manager - Sports and Athletes - Los Angeles
- Web Designer - Los Angeles
- Web Developer - Los Angeles
- Web Engineer - Los Angeles
- Online Advertising Sales - Los Angeles and New York
Web Content Manager
Booeep is looking for a motivated and experienced Web Content Manager to support our Athletes' Official Websites. Candidate should have experience covering mixed martial arts in particular.
Responsibilities
- Research celebrity's content, style and image and prepare Q&As to create content
- Create and execute a marketing plan for promoting the celebrity's site
- Create and manage celebritys' MySpace pages to promote their Official Website
- Manage and support multiple Official Websites
- Ongoing development of new content with the Producer and Web Designer
Qualifications
- Must have an applicable college degree (English, Journalism or Marketing majors preferred) with 3-5+ years of experience in copywriting and marketing in Web entertainment
- Expert copywriting and copyediting skills including thorough knowledge of different styles (AP, MLA, etc.)
- Ability to match the celebrity's style and write effectively to the celebrity's audience
- Expert computer skills, Web savvy and basic HTML skills
- Experience creating advanced MySpace pages
- Exceptional attention to detail, no typos, always proofed
Web Designer
Booeep is looking for motivated and experienced Web Designers to design and create custom websites for our celebrities.
Responsibilities
- Meeting with clients/celebrities
- Conceptualize and design complete site layouts, including homepage layouts, supporting content pages, site navigation and supporting visual elements
- Ensure that content layouts are accessible and logical and support the need of the client as well as fulfill the workflow requirements of our internal development cycle
- Work with the development team to efficiently and effectively build sites
- Ability to focus and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Work closely with the rest of our team to effectively manage information and content into creative solutions
- Perform maintenance and updates to existing sites when required
- Must have strong written and verbal communication skills
Qualifications
- Expert in Adobe Creative Suite (5+ years)
- Creating highly-polished, commercial-quality designs for entertainment industry
- Understanding of how to "slice / dice" a design for web applications
- Intermediate understanding of how to build a website
- Intermediate understanding of web technologies and current market trends
- Extensive understanding of cross browser, cross platform issues (IE, Firefox, Safari etc)
- Intermediate understanding of flash animation and development
- Experience with AS2 / AS3 is a plus!!
- Intermediate understanding of web usability
- Understanding of common user expectation regarding current-day/cutting-edge widgets
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Web Developer
Booeep is looking for a motivated and experienced Web Developer to build and support our celebrities' Official Websites.
Responsibilities
- PHP/MySQL coding for database-driven, custom-designed websites
- PHP development of custom, interactive features
- Back-end support for designers
- Contribute to the design of web interfaces through personal knowledge of usability theory and concepts
- Work closely with the rest of our development team
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of PHP OOP Development experience
- Experience building databases to support dynamic web content
- Experience developing interactive web features and applications
- Knowledge of AJAX, Javascript, XML is preferred
- Strong communication and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Special Considerations
- E-Commerce and Ad Network Experience
- Unix/Linux, Apache, server administration knowledge a plus
- Flex or other Desktop-based web experience a plus
Web Engineer
Booeep is looking for motivated and experienced Senior Web Engineer to support and develop our celebrities' Official Websites.
Responsibilities
- Gather and Compile requirements for requested features / applications
- Design complex SQL database architectures
- Build complex Object-Oriented applications / features within a MVC architecture
- System administration of live celebrity websites
- Troubleshoot problems experienced by internal staff and public users
- Manage SVN repositories
- Ability to focus and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Work closely with the rest of our development team
Qualifications
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Expert in PHP / Back-end development ( 5+ years )
- Compile PHP & Apache in a linux environment ( no binary packages... )
- Use PHP5 compatible concepts only ( no PHP4 )
- Experience with MVC & ORM concepts
- Experience with php CLI
- Ability to follow a coding standard
- VERY clean tabulation / indentation ( tabs, not spaces... )
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Expert in MySQL ( or other ) Database design
- Full understanding of inner/outer joins & complex queries
- Full understanding of database query optimization
- Understanding of database clustering & sharding/partitioning concepts
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Intermediate knowledge of media processing / encoding
- Experience with media encoding (On2, FFmpeg, FMS)
- Experience with GD lib
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Expert in HTML / XHTML: hand-coding... ( 3-5 years )
- MUST resist the urge to use tables!! ( somebody could get hurt... )
- Use of non-deprecated tags / attributes
- Valid markup across IE6 / IE7, FF2 / FF3, Safari on PC and Mac
- VERY clean tabulation ( tabs, not spaces... )
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Expert in CSS
- Relative & Absolute Positioning
- Floats & Clearing
- Image Sprites
- CSS Specificity
- CSS Glossary (talk the talk)
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Advanced JS skills
- Experience creating OO JavaScript code
- Experience with a JS framework, preferably jQuery
- Advanced experience with AJAX/JSON
- Expert in XML
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Intermediate / Advanced *nix Commandline
- Compiling / Installing applications
- Editing text files using VIM
- Managing php / apache processes
- Managing SVN repositories
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Intermediate SEO practices
- Proper use of H1-6, img, a, p, title, meta, etc.
- Proper URL structures
- Understanding of Search Engine Behaviors
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Any experience with basic Flash / ActionScripting is a plus!
Special Considerations
- Perl / mod_perl Development Experience
- E-Commerce Experience
- Ad Network Experience
- Email Marketing Experience
- Blogging Experience
- Forum Experience
Online Advertising Sales
Booeep is looking for motivated and experienced Account Executive to sell advertising on our celebrities' Official Websites.
Responsibilities
- Account Executives are responsible for agency and advertising relationships, prospecting and sales.
- Drive online advertising sales, meet and exceed all sales goals.
- Focus on client direct and named agencies in the Western region.
- Work as a partner to help clients reach their goals and initiatives.
- Manage, renew and up-sell existing clients.
- Prepare proposals and respond to RFP's with a high degree of professionalism, quality and in a timely manner.
- Participate and represent Booeep at local industry events.
- Work with Account Management (including web traffic coordinator) to ensure that client's needs are being met to the best of our ability.
- Stay current of online advertising trends and innovations.
- Prospecting and cold calling skills necessary.
- Some travel required - 30%.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 year previous sales experience in related field, preferably online sales.
- Ability to negotiate/sell the intrinsic value of a program to customers, not just the program/price.
- Ability to manage a specific territory and mine it for business opportunities in order to meet quotas.
- Ability to articulate future business within your territory and provide weekly updates and reports to management.
- Ability to create forecasting models, including budget, dates, probability to close and inventory estimates.
- Ability to work in a fast pace, exciting environment.
- Strong ethics.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Teamwork and interpersonal skills.
- Education: Bachelors Degree.
