Jobs At Bebo

Bebo (www.bebo.com), Located in San Francisco; with over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly, it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.

Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.

Our recent merger with AOL will bring tremendous opportunity by combining Bebo's fast growing user base with the social graph of AIM and other assets.

At Bebo you will:

• Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression and providing full experience of media entertainment on the web.
• Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA and great perks (see below).
• Jump with both feet into best practices of product, scaling, community, and business sides of building a great web app.

We offer:

• Highly competitive salary.
• Wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs.
• Matching 401K plan.
• All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy.
• On-site massage.
• Choice of a new MacBook Pro or IBM Lenovo with huge (24” or 30”) LCD screen.
• Fun parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy (disclaimer – some may consider Tequila or Beer as a non-healthy sport (;)
• Respect and appreciation for who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your skin color, age, nationality, sex or sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, bank account, waist or chest size, hair style, etc...

Currently open positions:

Platform Community Manager - San Francisco 105812BR

Executive Assistant - New York City 105831BR

Software Engineer, Core Technology 104417BR

Software Engineer, Applications 104419BR

Software Engineer, Discovery 104422BR

Software Engineer, AIM Integration 104421BR

Software Engineer, Sales Engineering 104423BR

Senior Software QA Engineer 104447BR

Software Engineer, Open Media 104410BR

Director of Western Sales - San Francisco or Los Angeles 106156BR

Open Media Account Manager - San Francisco 104409BR

Platform Community Manager - San Francisco 105812BR

Bebo is looking for a community manager to play a key role in its emerging Open Application Platform. The primary objective in this role is to manage and grow the Bebo Application Platform. This role will have two major areas of responsibility: (1) Day-to-day developer community management. This includes: communicating policy changes, responding to individual issues and requests and collecting and analyzing feedback to identify areas for improvement. (2) Project management of key business initiatives: ensure the effective implementation of platform partnerships and product enhancements.

Managing a developer community requires timely and frequent interaction with developers. The candidate should be well-versed in managing online communities/forums and sufficiently technical to address developer questions head-on. This is an opportunity to be intimately involved in shaping one of the newest and most important aspects of social networking.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage relationship with developer community to solve issues, answer questions and manage day to day partner relationships and integration
• Assist in establishing and enforcing community standards, respect and helpfulness including liaising closely with the Bebo customer service team
• Work closely with engineering team to integrate feedback into product strategy
• Work with product, engineering and business development teams to implement new ideas and programs
• Develop and manage key metrics to analyze and synthesize performance data
• Drive word of mouth marketing
• Build relationship with developer community through online and offline events.

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of the consumer Internet media space
• 3-5 years of media or Internet account management, product development or marketing experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage and grow many account relationships simultaneously
• Superior communication skills including presentations, phone and e-mail
• Must be a true team player, able to share responsibility for key decision making with a team, while accepting responsibility to drive internal account and project management process
• Must be energetic self-starter who is excited about helping a small company reach the next level
• Technical experience or education a huge plus

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Executive Assistant - New York City 105831BR

Bebo (www.bebo.com), Located in San Francisco; with over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly, it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, received the 2006 Webby Award People's Vote as the best social networking site in the world.

Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.

Duties Include:

Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing reports, handling confidential information, and performing functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.

Preferred candidate with have experience with:

• Gmail, Outlook and Instant Messaging Clients
• Excel, PowerPoint and MS Office Apps
• Booking Travel & Managing Calendars for busy/ traveling Executives
• Media / Internet Industry Experience
• Ability to Multi-task and handle various miscellaneous errands for executives
• Upbeat, friendly person who loves their work and enjoys working with others in a fast-paced environment

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

** SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - The below positions may reflect multiple openings and levels - up to Principal Software Engineer **

Software Engineer, Core Technology 104417BR

Responsibilities include developing and maintaining the core technology which powers the 40-million member Bebo community.

Required:

• 3+ years of Java software development / web development experience
• Strong passion in developing/programming and debugging commercial grade software
• Experienced in and desire to work in a fast-paced iterative product development environment
• Experience working on high traffic/ high availability / large consumer facing websites
• Self-motivated an driven individual who wants to take ownership of features and projects
• Comfortable working in a less-structured environment around rapidly changing technologies

Preferred:

• BSCS/MSCS or equivalent
• Experience with java MVC frameworks

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Software Engineer, Applications 104419BR

We are seeking a brilliant engineer for the Application Platform team. All members of this team will have a significant role in shaping the technical direction of next generation web apps and will help 3rd-party developers make Bebo apps great for millions of users.

Qualifications:

• Strong software engineering experience using Java, preferably to 1.5 or higher
• Experience with OOD, OOP, DHTML, AJAX, Oracle, Resin, Memcache, MVC, Freemarker, TDD, and XP all advantageous
• Experience writing grammars and parsers, generating and manipulating XML, JSON, etc a plus
• Experience designing and building APIs, Rest services, Web Services or tools very desirable
• Team player, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm for agile development necessary
• Knowledge of the F8 platform a major plus
• Knowledge of OpenSocial a plus

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Software Engineer, Discovery 104422BR

Responsibilities include developing and consistently seeking to improve a real-time search engine that is used by millions of people around the world.

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of Java and Linux
• Theoretical and practical background in search technology
• Vast experience with back-end systems development
• Experience with mobile technologies including WAP and SMS/MMS
• Strong passion in developing/programming and debugging commercial grade software
• Experienced in and desire to work in a fast-paced iterative product development environment
• Experience working on high traffic/ high availability / large consumer facing websites
• Self-motivated and driven individual who wants to take ownership of features and projects
• Comfortable working in a less-structured environment around rapidly changing technologies

Preferred Experience:

• BS/MSCS or equivalent
• Experience with java MVC frameworks

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Software Engineer, AIM Integration 104421BR

Required:

• 3+ years of Java software development / web development experience
• Strong passion in developing/programming and debugging commercial grade software
• Experienced in and desire to work in a fast-paced iterative product development environment
• Experience working on high traffic/ high availability / large consumer facing websites
• Self-motivated and driven individual who wants to take ownership of features and projects
• Comfortable working in a less-structured environment around rapidly changing technologies

Preferred Experience:

• BS/MSCS or equivalent
• Experience with java MVC frameworks

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Software Engineer, Sales Engineering 104423BR

We're passionate about building fresh and useful web applications for ourselves and the millions of friends on bebo.com.

To qualify for this role you need to:

• Be passionate about making great products
• Be experienced in all parts of web development, including:
• Storing and querying large tables in a database (We use oracle)
• Building web pages with readable code (We use java)
• Writing clean html/css/javascript (We try to keep it simple)

Be great at two of the following:

• Scaling applications
• Figuring out great product experiences/UI
• Working with bizdev/sales/partners to make plans into reality

You may have had experience managing people or projects involving:

• Consumer websites
• Distributed systems
• Large data sets

Most of our engineers have:

• A degree (BS/BA/MS) in Computer Science or a related field
• 3+ years experience with mysql/oracle, java/php, html/css/javascript
• Hobbies like DJ'ing, flying, filmmaking, biking. and skydiving

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Senior Software QA Engineer 104447BR

To qualify for this role you need:

• Java programming skills
• JUnit test development experience
• Experience with OOD, OOP, Oracle, Memcache, MVC, Freemarker, TDD
• Web development experience
• Team player, excellent communication skills, high motivation, & enthusiasm for agile development

Desirable:

• Groovy/Grails/Webtest development experience
• Load and performance testing experience

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Software Engineer, Open Media 104410BR

Required:

• 3+ years of Java software development / web development experience
• Solid OO programming background and knowledge of data access layers
• Good communication and customer facing skills
• Interest in media and music
• Strong passion in developing/programming and debugging commercial grade software
• Experienced in and desire to work in a fast-paced iterative product development environment
• Experience working on high traffic/ high availability / large consumer facing websites
• Self-motivated and driven individual who wants to take ownership of features and projects
• Comfortable working in a less-structured environment around rapidly changing technologies

Preferred Experience:

• BS/MSCS or equivalent
• Experience with java MVC frameworks
• Interest in media and music

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Director of Western Sales - San Francisco or Los Angeles 106156BR

Bebo is currently conducting a search for senior a sales professional to grow advertising revenue in the Western US, focusing primarily on the Los Angeles market. This individual will be presented with an exciting opportunity to mine a largely untapped marketplace. Amongst other requirements, a high degree of professionalism, extensive industry contacts and consultative sales skills are necessary. (for further Bebo coverage & information http://www.bebo.com/Press.jsp)

Key Success Metrics for Dir. Western Sales:

• Reach and exceed personal sales goals
• Maintain an accurate forecast and healthy pipeline of opportunities
• Grow existing and new agency and client relationships at both Sr. and Jr. levels

Skill, Knowledge and Experience Requirements:

A successful performer in this role will:

• Employ a systematic approach to analyzing territory, assessing account potential and prioritizing sales activity
• Maintain a high level knowledge of the industry including relevant technology and competitive developments
• Demonstrate ability to manage accounts at various stages of maturity
• Interact and communication effectively and professionally with all internal and external contacts
• Conduct outcome driven negotiations maintaining integrity and relationships
• Construct and communicate tailored value propositions demonstrating Bebo's ability to deliver solutions

Key Candidate Attributes:

• Self starter/ "Hands On"
• Energetic
• Client-Focused
• Detail Oriented
• Enjoys a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
• Team player
• 3-5 years solution sales experience in media arena
• Robust network of online and other media contacts within key agencies and clients

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Open Media Account Manager - San Francisco 104409BR

The primary objective in this role is to manage and grow Bebo partnerships. The BD Account Manager will have two major responsibilities:

1. Pre/Post-deal account management – acting as primary contact for defined partner set and working with them to support and grow partnership
2. Project management of key business initiatives - ensuring all BD partnerships are implemented with best practices across Bebo services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing strong day to day relationships with partner counterparts; understanding partner businesses and product strategy objectives and ensuring those objectives are integrated into partnerships with Bebo
• Working across the organization to implement and support partner-specific initiatives
• Analyzing overall deal performance and developing initiatives designed to grow the partnership
• A strong product, marketing, and project management experience in addition to relationship management is important
• Execute post deal implementation and manage partnerships as part of business development team
• Account management working directly with existing partners to implement deal terms and manage day to day partner relationships and integration between partner and Bebo
• Design, and manage promotional programs; develop and maintain production schedules and assets; manage approval processes for both internal and external stakeholders
• Track, analyze and communicate key quantitative metrics and trends
• Drive relationship building process at multiple levels between partner and Bebo, including across functional groups (e.g. Engineering, Marketing)
• Managing incoming pipeline of Open Media partnerships and facilitate collateral material for self-serve and premium partners
• Work with product and engineering teams to implement and integrate partnership programs and partner focused functionality
• Work with engineering team to develop and deploy tracking and reporting
• Develop and manage key tracking and measurement systems to analyze success of each partnership
• Develop ROI to analyze performance of deals and report results
• Liaison to sales team on cross-promotional opportunities - sales, open media, and application platforms

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of the consumer Internet media space
• 3-5 years of media or Internet product development, marketing, account management experience
• Ideal candidate has experience in multiple areas
• Candidate should have a demonstrated ability to manage and grow major account relationships
• Strong analytics; Must be able to execute on complex deal structures with multiple variables
• Superior communication skills, including presentations, phone and e-mail
• Must be a true team player, able to share responsibility for key decision making with a team, while accepting responsibility to drive internal account and project management process
• Must be energetic, self-starter, excited about helping a small company reach the next level

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800