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    <name>TripIt HR</name>
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  <title>Careers at TripIt</title>
  <subtitle>TripIt</subtitle>
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  <updated>2008-08-28T08:14:48Z</updated>
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    <title>Business Development Manager</title>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><u>Description</u></p>
<div>TripIt is a fast-growing, well-funded startup founded by a team of travel industry entrepreneurs with proven track records.&#160;We are looking for a Business Development Manager to help identify, develop, close, and manage new partners for our cutting-edge travel application.&#160;This role will also be responsible for developing revenue programs through partnerships, site advertising, and premium services.</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div>TripIt has been honored with many awards and accolades such as TechCrunch 40, Web 2.0 Launch Pad, nomination for a Webby, and others &#8211; but most important of all, the praise of our users, who are rabid fans of the service.&#160;We&#8217;ve generated a lot of buzz and plenty of companies are knocking on our door to work with us.&#160;We need an exceptional business development professional to turn this interest into real business results.&#160;This position reports to the VP of Business Development.</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><u>Candidate Qualifications/Background</u></div>
<ul type="disc">
    <li>An analytical, personable, talented business development manager who knows what a hassle traveling can be and gets excited about a service that makes travel better</li>
    <li>Proven ability with at least 3 years working in a sales, business development or channel development role at a startup, technology or travel services company</li>
    <li>Recent experience with site monetization through advertising (general approach to ad sales, pricing, serving, performance benchmarks, etc.)</li>
    <li>Self-motivated, eager to create and close deals and see them through to implementation and ongoing relationship management</li>
    <li>Bonus for experience in the travel industry and understanding the various ways TripIt can participate in the ecosystem; otherwise, be a quick study who wants to learn all about travel</li>
</ul>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><u>Key Responsibilities</u></div>
<ul type="disc">
    <li>Develop partnerships that will quickly grow TripIt&#8217;s user base and generate revenue for the company</li>
    <li>Manage partner relationships and optimize their performance</li>
    <li>Develop site monetization programs</li>
    <li>Lead special projects</li>
</ul>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><u>Required Skills</u></div>
<ul type="disc">
    <li>Proficiency in reading and writing draft contracts (with support from legal counsel)</li>
    <li>Exceptional communication and relationship management skills</li>
    <li>Adept at building models and analyzing performance data</li>
    <li>Good understanding of technology and definition of partnership-related functional requirements; comfortable interacting with development engineers</li>
    <li>Well organized with an ability to wear many hats in a startup environment</li>
</ul>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><u>About TripIt</u></div>
<div>TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to...</div>
<ul type="disc">
    <li>Quickly organize all your travel plans -- flights, hotels, cars, trains, cruises and more</li>
    <li>Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more</li>
    <li>Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device</li>
    <li>Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues</li>
</ul>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div>We offer the fun, casual atmosphere of a startup with large company benefits in a hip, San Francisco location. We are venture backed and are moving quickly to tackle the largest e-commerce category on the Internet&#8212;travel. If you are a high-impact person who wants to have real influence on the future of the company and the travel industry, we want to talk to you.</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div>For more information about TripIt, please visit our website at <a href="http://www.tripit.com/">http://www.tripit.com</a>.</div>
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  <entry>
    <title>Online Marketing Manager</title>
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    <id>tag:jobscore.com,2008-06-06:/cz5RqGm1Wr3zw8aaWPp1Hh</id>
    <updated>2008-06-06T00:07:50Z</updated>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><b>Description</b><br />
<br />
Want to be one of the first 20 employees in a technology company that&#8217;s already been recognized by the likes of the Wall Street Journal, CNN and TechCrunch, and was just a 2008 Webby Nominee? TripIt was founded by second-generation start-up leaders who know how the game is played and, more importantly, how it's won. This is an opportunity to be on the ground floor of a well-funded, privately-held company that values creative, collaborative thinking.<br />
<br />
<b>Description</b><br />
<br />
Join our VP Marketing as the first members of the TripIt marketing team. We&#8217;re responsible for telling the world about TripIt, finding new TripIt users, and encouraging them to use and share TripIt with their friends. Our user acquisition is focused on PR and online marketing, specifically blogs, forums, social sites, search engines, and leveraging new online partnerships. Our user communications revolves around email marketing and building TripIt communities online and around the world. At the core of our marketing is the design and optimization of our website based on analytics and results.<br />
<br />
<b>Responsibilities</b><br />
<br />
These are the primary areas of responsibility:</p>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>User Communications Program</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>User Reference Program</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>User Viral Programs</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Online, Partner and Social Marketing Programs</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><b>Required Skills / Experience<br />
</b></div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>5-10 years experience in consumer technology Marketing or Public Relations</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Experience with online travel, social networking or Web 2.0 technologies</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Hands-on experience with online, email and search marketing</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Excellent writing skills, especially writing for online communications</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Experience working with internal Product/Customer teams and external PR/Ad/Design agencies</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Ability to work independently and rapidly take-on new responsibilities</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><b>About TripIt</b></div>
<div><br />
TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to...</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Quickly organize all your travel plans -- flights, hotels, cars, trains, cruises and more</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device</div>
<div><span>&#183;<span>&#160;&#160; </span></span>Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div>We offer the fun, casual atmosphere of a start-up with large company benefits in a hip, San Francisco location. We are venture backed and are moving quickly to tackle the largest e-commerce category on the Internet&#8212;travel. If you are a high-impact person who wants to have real influence on the future of the company and the travel industry, we want to talk to you.</div>
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  <entry>
    <title>Software Engineer</title>
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    <updated>2008-04-22T17:18:47Z</updated>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Want to be one of the first 20 employees in a company already nationally praised for technological innovations by as the likes of the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Joel on Software? TripIt was founded by 2nd generation start-up leaders who know how the game is played and, more importantly, how it's won. This is an opportunity to be on the ground floor of a well-funded, privately-held company that valuescreative, collaborative thinking.</p>
<p><u><b>Description</b></u></p>
<p>Want to create an application like no other? Our team of highly experienced and super creative engineers has built an application unlike any that have come before it in the online travel space. It is now time for TripIt to take it to the next level, and to do that we need you. You are the type of engineer that is driven by the challenge of solving unique and often hard, technical problems in a compressed timeframe while keeping in mind the requirements of the business and the user experience. You will report directly to the co-founder and VP of Engineering and work alongside TripIt's Staff Engineer.</p>
<p><u><b>Responsibilities</b></u></p>
<p>This position will have you working on TripIt's core patent pending email parsing technology.&#160; You must be passionate about developing new technologies and solving difficult technical problems, have a good sense of product design, have solid development habits (e.g. unit testing, technical design documentation, etc...), solid experience with backend web&#160; technologies, and are not afraid to dive into new and unfamiliar technologies.</p>
<p><u><b>Required Skills / Experience</b></u></p>
<ul>
    <li>At least 3 years of prior software development experience</li>
    <li>Strong understanding of web and web-related technologies</li>
    <li>Server-side application development in Python, PHP, Perl, or Ruby</li>
    <li>Strong command of pattern matching technologies such as regular expressions</li>
    <li>Familiarity with XML and XML Schema</li>
    <li>Solid development habits and practices</li>
    <li>Natural problem-solver and troubleshooter</li>
    <li>Comfortable working in a GNU Linux/Unix environment</li>
    <li>Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)</li>
</ul>
<p><u><b>About TripIt</b></u></p>
<p>We combine innovative new technologies with a fun product travel. TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans -- no matter where you booked. Just forward travel confirmation emails to plans &lt;AT&gt; tripit.com to...</p>
<ul>
    <li>Quickly organize your vacation and business travel - no matter where you book</li>
    <li>Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more</li>
    <li>Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device</li>
    <li>Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues</li>
</ul>
<p>We offer the fun, casual atmosphere of a start-up with large company benefits in a hip, San Francisco location. We are venture backed and are moving quickly to tackle the largest e-commerce category on the Internet -- travel. If you are a high&#160; impact person who wants to have real influence on the future of the company and the travel industry, we want to talk to you.</p>
<p>TripIt is located in San Francisco, CA.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Web Application Engineer</title>
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    <id>tag:jobscore.com,2008-04-07:/bKckZGbpOr3zpQaaWPp1Hh</id>
    <updated>2008-04-07T23:28:55Z</updated>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Want to be one of the first 20 employees in a company already nationally praised for technological innovations by as the likes of the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Joel on Software?&#160;TripIt was founded by 2<sup>nd</sup> generation start-up leaders who know how the game is played and, more importantly, how it&#8217;s won.&#160;This is an opportunity to be on the ground floor of a well-funded, privately-held company that values creative, collaborative thinking.&#160;</p>
<div><b>Web Application Engineer&#160; </b></div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><b><u>Description</u></b></div>
<div>Want to create an application like no other? &#160;Our team of highly experienced and super creative engineers has built an application unlike any that have come before it in the online travel space.&#160;It is now time for TripIt to take it to the next level, and to do that we need you. You are the type of engineer that is driven by the challenge of solving unique and often hard, technical problems in a compressed timeframe while keeping in mind the requirements of the business and<br />
the user experience.&#160;You will report directly to the co-founder and VP of Engineering and work alongside TripIt's Chief Architect.&#160;</div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><b><u>Responsibilities</u></b></div>
<div>The Web Application Engineer will assist in the development t of TripIt's core web application. <span>&#160;&#160;You are passionate about developing new technologies and have a good sense of product design, experience in web application development (we use PHP for the backend), solid development habits (e.g. unit testing, technical design documentation, etc...), solid experience with frontend web technologies (HTML, CSS, and Javascript), and are not afraid to dive into new and unfamiliar technologies.&#160; </span></div>
<div>&#160;</div>
<div><b><u>Required Skills / Experience</u></b></div>
<ul>
    <li>At least 3-4 years of prior software development experience</li>
    <li>Strong understanding of web and web-related technologies</li>
    <li>Server-side application development in PHP, Python, Perl, or Ruby</li>
    <li>Client-side application development in HTML, CSS, and Javascript</li>
    <li>Solid knowledge of SQL and development of database-backed web applications</li>
    <li>Familiarity with one or more relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, or Oracle)</li>
    <li>Solid development habits and practices</li>
    <li>Experience developing technical design documentation and participating in a technical design and code peer review process</li>
    <li>Natural problem-solver and troubleshooter</li>
    <li>Comfortable working in a GNU Linux/Unix environment</li>
    <li>Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)</li>
</ul>
<div><b><u>About Us</u></b></div>
<div>We combine innovative new technologies with a fun product &#8211; travel.&#160;TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans -- no matter where you booked. Just forward travel confirmation emails to tripit to...</div>
<ul>
    <li>Quickly organize your vacation and business travel - no matter where you book</li>
    <li>Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more</li>
    <li>Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device</li>
    <li>Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues</li>
</ul>
<div>We offer the fun, casual atmosphere of a start-up with large company benefits in a hip, San Francisco location.&#160;We are venture backed and are moving quickly to tackle the largest e-commerce category on the Internet -- travel. If you are a high impact person who wants to have real influence on the future of the company and the travel industry, we want to talk to you.</div>
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  <entry>
    <title>Product  Marketing Analyst</title>
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    <id>tag:jobscore.com,2008-02-28:/b-3lsy5Lyr3jvIaaWPp1Hh</id>
    <updated>2008-02-28T23:40:08Z</updated>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><b><u>About Us<br />
</u></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small">TripIt is a next generation travel site founded by experienced online travel executives and entrepreneurs. We are venture backed and are moving quickly to tackle the largest category on the Internet (travel). If you are a high impact person who wants to have real influence on the future of the company and the travel industry, we want to talk to you.</span><span style="font-size: 14px"><span> </span></span></p>
<p><b><u>Description</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Product Marketing Analyst is responsible for tracking key business metrics for online user behavior, marketing campaign performance and customer value.<span> </span>The ideal candidate will be someone who loves to use numbers to identify trends and make actionable recommendations.<span> </span>We&#8217;re looking for someone who is excited about solving consumer problems and wants to build something great.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a terrific opportunity to be part of a small, fast-moving<span> team.&#160; </span>As part of a small team, you&#8217;ll need to wear many hats, so flexibility and a can-do attitude are essential.<span> </span>In addition to being extremely analytical, you must be a creative thinker, a do-er, and nice person.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Experience in typical performance metrics of online consumer business is strongly preferred.<span> </span>Oh, and it helps if you are interested in travel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This position reports to the co-founder and VP of Product.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Responsibilities</u></b><span> </span></p>
<ul>
    <li><span>Identify and measure key performance metrics for website user behavior and marketing efficiency (user growth, online behavior, conversion, revenue, repeat rate, churn, etc.)</span></li>
    <li><span>Develop and maintain complex models with data extracted from various database tables, as well as manually-entered data </span></li>
    <li><span>Provide snapshot pictures of current trends and the state of the business<span> </span></span></li>
    <li><span>Update, enhance, and create reports and analyses </span></li>
    <li><span>Perform ad hoc business analysis</span></li>
    <li><span>Present analysis to Executive Team</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Required Skills / Experience</u></b></p>
<ul>
    <li>At least 3 years prior business experience, preferably with an online consumer business</li>
    <li>Familiarity with metrics for online consumer businesses (user acquisition, clickstream analysis, marketing efficiency, consumer lifecycle, etc.)</li>
    <li>Previous experience with web analytics packages a plus (Omniture, Google Analytics, etc.)</li>
    <li>Previous experience with business reporting tools a plus (Crystal, Birt, etc.)</li>
    <li>Demonstrated ability to perform complex analysis</li>
    <li>Ability to write SQL queries and build reports</li>
    <li>Proficiency in Excel modeling</li>
    <li>Excellent communication skills</li>
    <li>Must be highly organized, even in a rapidly evolving environment</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">TripIt is located in San Francisco, CA.<span> </span></p>
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