Scribd is a YCombinator startup based in San Francisco looking for an outstanding visual and human interface designer to join our growing Product & Design team to improve existing web and mobile products and build new ones.

As a key member of a small and agile team you will work closely with the product managers, UX designers, and engineers to iterate on and refine designs during ideation, iteration, and as they are developed for production. You will also work closely with the Lead Visual Designer to create compelling visual materials. Because we have a large user-base and deploy new production almost daily your work will be seen and used by millions of people.

Scribd has a unique company culture that combines a fun-loving atmosphere with a phenomenal and creative team work environment. That said, the coolest stuff that we’re doing we haven’t yet announced, so you’ll need to talk to us to find out what we’re up to.

Who You Are

You’re an independent and original creative professional. You enjoy being part of an innovative and team oriented environment where you get to work with product-focused teams. You enjoy collaboration and appreciate the exchange of ideas and concepts.

You are passionate about software products and obsess over their usability, and with improving people’s interaction with these. You have extreme attention to detail and are meticulous about how you communicate and document your designs.

You care deeply about your work and how it will impact millions of users daily. Your work ethic is exemplary.

What You'll Do:

• Design features and functionality; deliver pixel-perfect mockups and final artwork, produce visual assets, and documentation required for proper implementation
• Work closely with engineering teams before, during, and after implementation to ensure optimal adherence to visual specifications
• Quickly create and iterate on various designs using wireframes and comps
• Maintain consistency in terms of interactions and appearance across all web and mobile products.
• Work with the Lead Visual Designer to deliver high definition mocks and detailed specifications that abide by Scribd’s visual styleguide

You have:

• A degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2+ years of dedicated experience in web visual/interaction design, web graphic design, or similar field
• 3+ years experience as a member of a cross-functional team where you were part of designing, shipping, and revising more than one customer-facing web, mobile or software product
• Strong illustration, iconography, and website design ability
• Strong comprehension and appreciation for innovative use of typography, color, and layout for digital media
• Understanding of user-centered design principles, current design, and interaction trends.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills; comfort presenting cohesive design approaches to non-design audiences.
• Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or other visual design tools.

Other nice to haves:

• Familiarity with HTML and CSS and how they will be used to bring your beautiful designs to the web
• Working knowledge of opportunities and constraints of current and new UI languages, devices, and technologies as they pertain to visual design

Please submit your portfolio when you apply.

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - UI Designer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

The Job

Are you an experienced full-stack web developer (whether with rails or not)? You've come to the right place. Scribd has built the 2nd largest Rails site on the web (by traffic), and we'd love for you to help us take it to the next level. No prior rails experience required.

Scribd has a flat engineering structure without sharply defined roles. No matter whether you gravitate towards the front-end, the back-end or somewhere in between, we're likely working on projects that are in your sweet spot. Scribd is built in rails, but if your experience is in another web framework, we find that transfers over quickly.

Who you are

The ideal profile combines a strong overall computer science background with deep experience in full-stack web development. You're equally at home writing complex SQL queries, architecting scalable Rails services, and building beautiful Javascript-heavy HTML5 applications. You've demonstrated your abilities writing top-quality web or open source software. You have a strong product sense and excellent technical judgement.

Qualifications

• Very comfortable doing full-stack web development
• Knowledge of one or more web application frameworks
• Strong knowledge of SQL, MySQL and databases
• Strong JavaScript skills - knowledge of one or more JavaScript frameworks
• Avid follower of the technology industry and current technology/web-related trends
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
• In-depth knowledge of scalability, systems engineering, design patterns, and algorithms

• Great product sense and design sense; excellent technical judgement and architecture experience
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  Desired

• Expert knowledge of rails and ruby

• NoSQL (HBase, Hive, Redis, Hadoop) knowledge
• Experience working on large-scale web applications
• Ability to own projects end-to-end as demonstrated by significant open-source contributions, independent projects, team leadership, or startups
• Detailed knowledge of performance and scalability, including front-end web browser performance analysis

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Senior Rails Engineer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!

The Job

Scribd is a top 100 site on the web and one of the very largest sites built using ruby on rails. As one of the first rails sites to reach scale, we've built a lot of infrastructure and solved a lot of challenges to get Scribd to where it is today. We actively try to push the envelope and have contributed substantial work back to the open source community.

Scribd has an agile, startup culture and an unusually close working relationship between engineering and ops. You'll regularly find cross-over work at Scribd, with ops people writing application-layer code and engineers figuring out operations-level problems. We think we're able to make that work because of the uniquely talented people we have on the team.

To allow us to keep scaling, we're now looking to add an experienced operations professional to the team. As a member of Scribd operations, you'll have tremendous ownership and responsibility for one of the web's most popular applications. Because Scribd is a startup, you will wear many hats and have broader responsibility than you would at a larger company.

This role is open to remote employees working from anywhere in the world. Let us know when you apply if you want to work remotely.

What you'll do

• Modify/improve/fix a 150+ growing server farm and infrastructure which is running on top of it
• Keep Scribd.com up and fast
• Bi-directional communication with developers - escalate issues and take care of issues they escalate
• Be a part of 24x7 on-call schedule with other members of the Dev/Ops team
• Work independently and effectively within a team environment to prioritize work load
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You should have

• Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent experience
• Related experience with website operations; this includes experience with high volume/high traffic web sites
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment, keeping track of and completing multiple tasks/issues
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong knowledge of most widely-used networking protocols and unix/linux command line tools
• Solid scripting skills
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Bonus points for ...

• 3+ Years of solid Linux/UNIX systems engineer/administrator experience
• Hands-on experience with building and maintaining reliable large-scale distributed systems environments
• Strong data analysis and troubleshooting skills
• Strong Ruby/Rails/Shell Scripting skills; experience with a variety of web development frameworks a plus.
• MySQL DBA experience
• Track record of automating processes
• Track record of designing and implementing monitoring and notification systems, metrics and stats collection systems
• HBase/Hadoop deployment/scaling/maintaining experience
• Experience with any of the following technologies/tools: Nginx, HAProxy, Apache, Memcached, Squid, git, Solr, Sphinx, ActiveMQ, Chef, Postfix, Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Operations Engineer (SF or remote) - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!

The Job

Love developing on iOS and want to join a small team where you can play a pivotal role in a popular and interesting app? We'd like to talk.

Scribd is already one of the largest applications on the web, and now we are making an aggressive push into mobile. We have apps for iPhone and iPad in the app store, but they are only the first step in a much larger vision we are working to achieve.

Scribd's vision is to be the world's digital library, and we want to make our library the most comprehensive, accessible, and fun to use store of knowledge for every device. To do that, we need to make an amazing reader for all kinds of written content, get offline & syncing exactly right, and build a content discovery experience that always find you something you actually want to read.

You can check out what we've built so far at the link below. We have millions of users already but only a tiny team supporting both an iPhone and iPad app. We're going to need more help to get to our vision.

Scribd iOS app on the App Store

You should have

• Prior knowledge of Objective C, and Mac development or iOS development
• Objective-C based projects you've worked on that you can share with us (do not need to be in an app store)
• Prior work experience as a software engineer, internships OK
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
• Understanding of scalability, systems engineering, and algorithms
• Great product sense and design sense

Even better

• Knowledge of the following iOS frameworks: Core Data, Core Graphics, Core Animation
• Experience building apps in the general reading space, such as eBooks, news, and PDF apps
• Experience with web development, ability to work on back-end development as well
• Experience working on large-scale or popular iOS apps
• Understanding of memory management, C/C++ development

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - iOS Developer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!

The Job
Have a passion for mobile development on Android and want to join a small team where you can play a pivotal role in an app used by millions? You may have just found a perfect opportunity.

Scribd is already one of the largest applications on the web, and now we are making an aggressive push into mobile. We have apps for Android phones in the app store, but they are only the first step in a much larger vision we are working to achieve.

Scribd's vision is to be the world's digital library, and we want to make our library the most comprehensive, accessible, and fun to use store of knowledge for every device. To do that, we need to make an amazing reading experience for all kinds of written content, get offline & syncing exactly right, and build a content discovery experience that always find you something you actually want to read. Some of the immediate projects we're working on now include: building a tablet version of the Android app, integrating social features from the website, and designing a new PDF reader from scratch.

You can check out what we've built so far at the link below. We have millions of users already but only a tiny team supporting Android apps for every device. We're going to need more help to get to our vision.

Scribd Android app on Google Play

You should have

• Strong experience with Android development
• Successful released apps in the Android Market (please include names)
• Good understanding of Java and best programming practices for Java environments
• Prior work experience as a software engineer, internships OK
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
• Understanding of scalability, systems engineering, and algorithms
• Great product sense and design sense

Even better

• Experience building apps in the general reading space, such as eBooks, news, and PDF apps
• Experience with web development, ability to work on back-end development as well
• Experience working on large-scale or popular Android apps
• Experience with iOS development

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Android Developer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!

The Job

Scribd is a paradise of growth hacking opportunities. So far, we've taken Scribd to a profitable website with more than 90M monthly uniques. But we believe there is a ton of low-hanging fruit optimization waiting to be unlocked by a skilled growth hacker.

We are big believers in the methodology of growth hacking and all the components that go into it, from rigorous A/B testing to fast iteration, data mining, analytics, and funnel optimization. We already have a lot of the core infrastructure built for this and regularly conduct ad-hoc growth hacking experiments that have yielded huge gains. As our first designated "growth hacker", you will get broad leeway to continue this work: prototyping, testing, and analyzing new features and optimizations.

Who you are

You are an experienced developer with a strong business and product sense. You have strong analytical skills, can write complex SQL easily, and get a thrill out of watching metrics go up (we certainly do!). You can write both prototypes and production ready code, and have excellent technical judgement about when to do each.

. You should have

• Solid web development skills (in any framework)
• Experience with real-world A/B testing and optimization
• Strong analytics skills, including high levels of comfort with SQL and data warehouses
• A growth hacker's mindset

. Even better would be

• Experience with SEO and SEM
• Experience with data mining, machine learning, and / or NLP
• Startup experience - if you were in a founder / product role, even better
• Experience with eCommerce, online payments, and purchase funnels
• Financial analysis and reporting experience

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Growth Hacker - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

We're seeking a highly enthusiastic, results oriented and talented individual with a passion for building communities through social media to help nurture our growing reader/publisher fan base. The Community Manager will be responsible for creating and executing a social media strategy in support of Scribd and its premium subscription service.

This position will oversee campaigns and projects across Scribd.com and our social media platforms including: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and others. Additionally, the Community Manager will also take a hands-on role engaging our audience of readers and publishers, and cultivating relationships with brand advocates from among Scribd’s community. The ideal candidate will be a voracious book reader with a passion for the written word and possess the understanding of how to effectively build/grow internet communities to generate consumer engagement.

To be successful in this role, you must have proven success in community management with an in-depth understanding of blogs and social media platforms. You must have the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and understand social analytics tools to make smart and efficient decisions. You must be extraverted curious in nature and possess exceptional storytelling skills.

What you’ll do:

• Act as the voice of Scribd by engaging with our community of readers and publishers, by communicating information, publisher and author news, and project highlights across Scribd.com and various social media channels
• Seek out interesting readers, authors, and publishers in the Scribd community to showcase their activities on and off Scribd, and build relationships with these individuals to turn them into brand advocates. Build strategies for doing this at scale
• Manage the development and execution of social media campaigns and promotions
• Developing a social media engagement model and best practices; train and coach community contributors on social media tools and techniques
• Establish partnerships with subject matter experts and social media stakeholders across the organization to create and cultivate content for distribution through social networking
• Ensure that the Scribd voice is consistently represented in all communications
• Drive the social listening and feedback loop to bring product or customer insights to the product, engineering and marketing teams

You have:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2+ years of relevant experience in the digital & social content space
• Strong writing skills are critical
• Experience running digital/social promotions from inception through execution and maintenance
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
• Must be agile and flexible, and a constant student to stay ahead of trends, platform changes and new platforms as they happen
• Fantastic social media etiquette, communication, and moderation skills

You’ll make us even happier if you bring:

• Experienced user of social media analytics platforms including Facebook Insights, Tweetreach, Radian 6 and Word of Mouth listening services preferred
• Strong leadership skills, creativity, and ability to interact with partners
• Experience with the publishing industry, particularly book publishing
• Understanding of online channels for marketing books and authors
• Skilled collaborator across many internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with experience communicating to both customers and senior management
• Ability to use quantitative data and metrics to drive editorial decisions and marketing activities
• Editorial experience specifically in the Media or Consumer industry
• 5+ years of experience managing a social media presence, an online marketing strategy, or an online community
• Passion for books

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Community Manager - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

The Role

Scribd is looking for a deeply analytical person to help us make sense of the data pouring into our servers. As the first person on our data team, you will have broad ownership of data across the site - from financial to user behavior data. You'll be the front-line for people with questions about how various parts of the site are doing and will be in a position to unlock huge amounts of business value by spotting important trends. We have a data engineering team that will work with you to build the tools you need, and it will be up to you to use those tools to help us make smart business decisions founded in data and analytics.

This is a role at the intersection of tech and business and ideally suited for someone with a technical background who enjoys solving business problems.

You Will

• Work primarily on Scribd's data warehouse, which stores terabytes of structured data using Hive and is queryable using SQL.
• Work with business stakeholders, including the CEO and business development team, to understand how the business is doing.
• Look for interesting trends and find optimization opportunities.
• Build and maintain internal dashboards of business metrics.
• Work with our marketing team to build infographics of user behavior and other marketing materials.
• Work with product managers to measure and analyze the success of various product initiatives.

Our Ideal Candidate Has

• 1+ years of experience in performing quantitative analysis/reporting in an industry like internet, tech, publishing, or something similar.
• Excellent SQL skills, extensive knowledge of Microsoft Excel and a familiarity with major data analysis tools.
• A strong business and product understanding: You look at problems from a business perspective rather than a purely technical perspective, and have excellent judgment and insight into business problems.

Nice-To-Have’s

• Development skills with one or more major programming languages
• Startup experience, in a similar or different role
• Financial modeling experience

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Data Analyst - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

The Job
Scribd has built the #2 largest Rails site on the web (by traffic), and we'd love for you to help us take it to the next level.

We have a flat engineering structure without strictly defined roles. There are ongoing projects in areas from web UI's to new mobile apps to hard machine learning problems. We use a variety of technologies, including ruby/rails, Javascript, iOS, Java, and C. Whether you're an expert with these now or looking to learn, if you can build software well we'd like to meet you.

Who you are
We are looking for people with strong general engineering backgrounds and a lot of passion for developing software. Experience building web or mobile applications (in any language) is a plus. A good product sense, an understanding of the web 2.0 ecosystem, and strong personal initiative are essential.

Whether you gravitate towards front-end or back-end development (or both), we have exciting projects in all areas of web and mobile development.

You should have

• 1+ years equivalent work experience as a software engineer (internships included)
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
• Understanding of scalability, systems engineering, and algorithms
• Comfortable with SQL and databases
• Strong product sense
• Knowledge of the web, mobile, and startup ecosystems

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Even better

• Knowledge of some of the following: Javascript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Rails, Objective C, Android
• Experience with web development, mobile development, machine learning, or computer graphics
• Strong mathematical, algorithmic and analytical skills
• Experience with NoSQL technologies, Hadoop, data warehousing, and other big-data topics
• Understanding of the business side of startups, like the online ad market, search engines and SEM, e-commerce optimization, and user analytics.

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Software Engineer - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!

Want to see what it's like to work at a startup in Silicon Valley? If you've got a solid background in CS and a willingness to jump into an intense experience, you can experience it first-hand with an internship at Scribd.

Scribd hires top undergraduate and graduate students for internships year-round. Most internships are in the summer, but if your school has a co-op program, we'll work with 3 or 6 month programs during the academic term as well. We do also hire non-students for internships, though graduates should consider applying for a full-time role instead.

Our philosophy around internship programs is that you will learn the most being put on real projects, working side by side full-time engineers. As an intern at Scribd, we will treat you like a full-time employee for the duration of the time. The software you write will ship to millions of users, and you will come away knowing what it's like to work a top technology startup.

Scribd interns will usually work with Ruby/Rails, iOS, or Android during their summer. We'll work with you to find the area you'll best fit in.

We provide a paid housing stipend, travel arrangements, and a generous salary. You'll also be included in company fun: in past summers we have done theme parks, sailing trips, and indoor skydiving.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science in progress
• Previous internships or work experience is a plus
• Experience (including coursework) in one or more of the following areas is a plus: web development, iOS development, Android development
• Scribd normally only hires students who are currently Junior year or older. Sophomores with particularly strong practical experience may apply as well.
• Ability to commit to at least 3 months of full-time work at Scribd's headquarters in San Francisco
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Applying

Please include the following with your application:

• When you would like the internship to begin and end, and when you plan to graduate from school
• Either a course list (what courses you have taken) or an unofficial transcript
• Links to any projects you've worked on that you can share with us.
• Area you'd like to work in (Web, iOS, Android, or not sure yet)

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Intern - Software Engineering - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.

Resumes for engineering roles are reviewed directly by a senior member of our engineering team within 24 hours. If you're not sure which engineering role to apply for, just make your best guess. We'd love to hear from you!

We are seeking a talented and experienced Technical Recruiter to help us find the best software engineering talent and grow our team at Scribd.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience sourcing, attracting, evaluating and developing top engineers for consumer Internet startups. You possess a deep personal network to draw upon, and a wide range of experience on current external recruiting policies, practices, and trends.

This role is responsible for sourcing, attracting, evaluating and developing exceptional engineering talent.

What you'll do

• Develop a pipeline of engineers through contacts/network, research, sourcing through multiple channels (web, social/professional networks, etc.) and other creative means.
• Conduct interviews to evaluate talent and fit, and develop candidate interest.
• Coordinate and facilitate interviews, as well as feedback and hiring discussions with interviewers and hiring managers. Assist in the offer process.
• Represent the company with integrity and professionalism; act as an internal and external facing representative of the recruiting team.
• Help to continually develop and evolve strategies to hire exceptionally talented people.
• Actively stay abreast of news and emerging trends in the tech startup space.

You should have

• 2+ years of technical recruiting experience for tech companies with elite standards for engineering candidates.
• A well-earned reputation as a technical recruiter with an ability to make great engineering hires.
• Patient, communicative team player that is detail oriented and has outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Experience partnering with managers, interviewers, and team members throughout the hiring process.
• Broad knowledge of programming languages, web technologies, software development process and emerging technologies.
• Passion/interest and understanding of technology.

To apply: Please send your cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name - Senior Technical Recruiter - via Scribd.com" to jobs@scribd.com.