Slide is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. We offer millions of people worldwide the ability to communicate, engage and have fun with one another within the context of relationships they build on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Our users can create their own masterpieces with virtual jelly beans, care for their online Pets, or send virtual gifts to friends.

Our portfolio of products include fun applications and virtual communities such as Slideshow, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets, Top Friends, FunSpace, Rock Riot, SuperPocus: Academy of Magic and Top Fish.

Slide was founded in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and is backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.

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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Slide is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. We offer millions of people worldwide the ability to communicate, engage and have fun with one another within the context of relationships they build on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Our users can create their own masterpieces with virtual jelly beans, care for their online Pets, or send virtual gifts to friends.

Our portfolio of products include fun applications and virtual communities such as Slideshow, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets, Top Friends, FunSpace, Rock Riot, SuperPocus: Academy of Magic and Top Fish.

Slide was founded in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and is backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.

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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Slide is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. We offer millions of people worldwide the ability to communicate, engage and have fun with one another within the context of relationships they build on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Our users can create their own masterpieces with virtual jelly beans, care for their online Pets, or send virtual gifts to friends.

Our portfolio of products include fun applications and virtual communities such as Slideshow, SuperPoke!, SuperPoke! Pets, Top Friends, FunSpace, Rock Riot, SuperPocus: Academy of Magic and Top Fish.

Slide was founded in 2005 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and is backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund.

 

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

 

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