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Fan Profile Marketing Manager, South East Asia (Singapore)

About Friendster Fan Profiles

Friendster recently launched Fan Profiles to enable musicians, artists, models, non-profits, athletes, Web sites, venues and so many more to build a fan base within the Friendster global community. Fan Profiles turn the power of the Friendster social network over to entities and give them an enhanced set of promotional features. Features include advanced e-mail capabilities, contact list management, unlimited fan base aggregation and more. This is all free. For more information, visit: www.friendster.com/fanprofiles.

Position Summary

Friendster is seeking an experienced team member as “the evangelist” in Singapore to drive the acquisition and retention of artists, celebrities and organizations to setup and maintain Friendster Fan Profiles. The Fan Profile Marketing Manager will play a major role in growing the number of registered users and unique visitors to Friendster.com, and will be the main point of contact in Singapore for high-profile Fan Profile marketing programs and promotions.

This Fan Profile Marketing Manager will be the first Marketing hire in Singapore and joining over 6 others on the Friendster Global Marketing Team. This position reports to the Director of Marketing in San Francisco, California.

The role requires the rapid recruitment and set up of new Friendster Fan Profiles. This role will be responsible for locating and contacting key entities (artists and organizations) and helping them establish Fan Profiles on Friendster. In addition, this team member will also drive general awareness of the Friendster Fan Profile product in both entertainment-related and non-entertainment industries that are well-suited for a Friendster Fan Profile. This role will have access to and coordinate with off-site profile design and creative resources (HTML, CSS producers) to quickly build and deploy new Fan Profiles.

This person will be the primary evangelist for Friendster Fan Profiles in Singapore, traveling to many local and regional events and conferences in Singapore and on occasion, throughout South East Asia. This person will have a through understanding of local and regional arts/entertainment culture and know how to best find and recruit key entities into Fan Profiles. Additionally, this person will meet with many potential Fan Profile owners like record labels, radio stations, non-profits, publications, artist management companies, etc and introduce them to the Fan Profile product. Once set up, this person will also account manage major Fan Profiles, oversee activity on them, gather feedback from them, answer questions, gather competitive intelligence, and more. This person will also be responsible for exceeding Fan Profile recruitment and activity goals and will participate in semi-weekly status calls with the US marketing team.

While general marketing and PR are important to the company in Singapore and South East Asia, this person will not be focused on these activities, but will focus exclusively on Fan Profile acquisition and retention.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, this person:

• Must have extensive experience in entertainment (music, movies, television, publications, multimedia, gaming) and be able to identify key content producers, labels, artists, fashion entities, gamers, bloggers, video/film producers, events, etc. for Friendster Fan Profiles
• Must know (and study) local and regional arts and entertainment culture, and be very outgoing and social.
• Must have expertise in presenting. This role will explain and sell the Fan Profile product feature set to potential Fan Profile owners via telephone and in-person presentations and live site demos.
• Has 8 to 20 years of total work experience, a majority of which should be in the consumer-facing entertainment or media space, a majority of which in Singapore or South East Asia. Proven experience with consumer related Internet companies is also strongly preferred. In terms of education, a four-year university degree, BA/ BS or its equivalent, is required.
• Must be undeniably, completely fluent in English (written and verbal), fluency in other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malay, Thai or Bahasa Indonesian is a big plus.
• Possesses a solid understanding of the competitive landscape including online, offline competitive offerings and the associated feature sets on those sites/in those products.
• Is passionate about Friendster and the Friendster community, be an active user of Friendster and understand the product inside and out
• Must be smart, a strategic thinker, full of good ideas, creative, persistent, agile and driven
• Must be well-respected in the entertainment industry and conduct him/herself in a professional, ethical manner at all times as a representative of the Friendster brand within the region.
• Must have experience and be a proven contributor in a small company with a fast-pace, less-structured environment
• Must be an outgoing, social business person who is comfortable, experienced and interested in constantly networking with others professionally to promote Fan Profiles
• Should be comfortable with the realities that, in the short-term, this position may not have any direct reports and that he/she will be responsible for developing and recruiting Fan Profiles, and executing as an individual contributor. Yet, able to help build a team in the future
• Like any successful contributor in a startup, must have the ability to be a “great athlete” and take on different roles and projects as needed by the company over time
• Must be a self-starter as this person will be based out of their home office for the foreseeable future
• Must have the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision with strong prioritization skills
• Has excellent verbal, written, communication and client presentation skills

This job is located in Singapore.

If interested, please email your resume to: Jeff Roberto, Director of Marketing at jroberto@friendster.com

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Fan Profile Marketing Manager, South East Asia (Jakarta, Indonesia)

About Friendster Fan Profiles

Friendster recently launched Fan Profiles to enable musicians, artists, models, non-profits, athletes, Web sites, venues and so many more to build a fan base within the Friendster global community. Fan Profiles turn the power of the Friendster social network over to entities and give them an enhanced set of promotional features. Features include advanced e-mail capabilities, contact list management, unlimited fan base aggregation and more. This is all free. For more information, visit: www.friendster.com/fanprofiles.

Position Summary

Friendster is seeking an experienced team member as “the evangelist” in Indonesia to drive the acquisition and retention of artists, celebrities and organizations to setup and maintain Friendster Fan Profiles. The Fan Profile Marketing Manager will play a major role in growing the number of registered users and unique visitors to Friendster.com, and will be the main point of contact in Indonesia for high-profile Fan Profile marketing programs and promotions.

This Fan Profile Marketing Manager will be the first Marketing hire in Indonesia and joining over 6 others on the Friendster Global Marketing Team. This position reports to the Director of Marketing in San Francisco, California.

The role requires the rapid recruitment and set up of new Friendster Fan Profiles. This role will be responsible for locating and contacting key entities (artists and organizations) and helping them establish Fan Profiles on Friendster. In addition, this team member will also drive general awareness of the Friendster Fan Profile product in both entertainment-related and non-entertainment industries that are well-suited for a Friendster Fan Profile. This role will have access to and coordinate with off-site profile design and creative resources (HTML, CSS producers) to quickly build and deploy new Fan Profiles.

This person will be the primary evangelist for Friendster Fan Profiles in Indonesia, traveling to many local and regional events and conferences in Indonesia and on occasion, throughout South East Asia. This person will have a through understanding of local and regional arts/entertainment culture and know how to best find and recruit key entities into Fan Profiles. Additionally, this person will meet with many potential Fan Profile owners like record labels, radio stations, non-profits, publications, artist management companies, etc and introduce them to the Fan Profile product. Once set up, this person will also account manage major Fan Profiles, oversee activity on them, gather feedback from them, answer questions, gather competitive intelligence, and more. This person will also be responsible for exceeding Fan Profile recruitment and activity goals and will participate in semi-weekly status calls with the US marketing team.

While general marketing and PR are important to the company in Indonesia and South East Asia, this person will not be focused on these activities, but will focus exclusively on Fan Profile acquisition and retention.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, this person:

• Must have extensive experience in entertainment (music, movies, television, publications, multimedia, gaming) and be able to identify key content producers, labels, artists, fashion entities, gamers, bloggers, video/film producers, events, etc. for Friendster Fan Profiles
• Must know (and study) local and regional arts and entertainment culture, and be very outgoing and social.
• Must have expertise in presenting. This role will explain and sell the Fan Profile product feature set to potential Fan Profile owners via telephone and in-person presentations and live site demos.
• Has 8 to 20 years of total work experience, a majority of which should be in the consumer-facing entertainment or media space, a majority of which in Indonesia or South East Asia. Proven experience with consumer related Internet companies is also strongly preferred. In terms of education, a four-year university degree, BA/ BS or its equivalent, is required.
• Must be undeniably, completely fluent in English (written and verbal), fluency in other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malay, Thai or Bahasa Indonesian is a big plus.
• Possesses a solid understanding of the competitive landscape including online, offline competitive offerings and the associated feature sets on those sites/in those products.
• Is passionate about Friendster and the Friendster community, be an active user of Friendster and understand the product inside and out
• Must be smart, a strategic thinker, full of good ideas, creative, persistent, agile and driven
• Must be well-respected in the entertainment industry and conduct him/herself in a professional, ethical manner at all times as a representative of the Friendster brand within the region.
• Must have experience and be a proven contributor in a small company with a fast-pace, less-structured environment
• Must be an outgoing, social business person who is comfortable, experienced and interested in constantly networking with others professionally to promote Fan Profiles
• Should be comfortable with the realities that, in the short-term, this position may not have any direct reports and that he/she will be responsible for developing and recruiting Fan Profiles, and executing as an individual contributor. Yet, able to help build a team in the future
• Like any successful contributor in a startup, must have the ability to be a “great athlete” and take on different roles and projects as needed by the company over time
• Must be a self-starter as this person will be based out of their home office for the foreseeable future
• Must have the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision with strong prioritization skills
• Has excellent verbal, written, communication and client presentation skills

This job is located in Jakarta, Indonesia.

If interested, please email your resume to: Jeff Roberto, Director of Marketing at jroberto@friendster.com

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Fan Profile Marketing Manager, South East Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

About Friendster Fan Profiles

Friendster recently launched Fan Profiles to enable musicians, artists, models, non-profits, athletes, Web sites, venues and so many more to build a fan base within the Friendster global community. Fan Profiles turn the power of the Friendster social network over to entities and give them an enhanced set of promotional features. Features include advanced e-mail capabilities, contact list management, unlimited fan base aggregation and more. This is all free. For more information, visit: www.friendster.com/fanprofiles.

Position Summary

Friendster is seeking an experienced team member as “the evangelist” in Malaysia to drive the acquisition and retention of artists, celebrities and organizations to setup and maintain Friendster Fan Profiles. The Fan Profile Marketing Manager will play a major role in growing the number of registered users and unique visitors to Friendster.com, and will be the main point of contact in Malaysia for high-profile Fan Profile marketing programs and promotions.

This Fan Profile Marketing Manager will be the first Marketing hire in Malaysia and joining over 6 others on the Friendster Global Marketing Team. This position reports to the Director of Marketing in San Francisco, California.

The role requires the rapid recruitment and set up of new Friendster Fan Profiles. This role will be responsible for locating and contacting key entities (artists and organizations) and helping them establish Fan Profiles on Friendster. In addition, this team member will also drive general awareness of the Friendster Fan Profile product in both entertainment-related and non-entertainment industries that are well-suited for a Friendster Fan Profile. This role will have access to and coordinate with off-site profile design and creative resources (HTML, CSS producers) to quickly build and deploy new Fan Profiles.

This person will be the primary evangelist for Friendster Fan Profiles in Malaysia, traveling to many local and regional events and conferences in Malaysia and on occasion, throughout South East Asia. This person will have a through understanding of local and regional arts/entertainment culture and know how to best find and recruit key entities into Fan Profiles. Additionally, this person will meet with many potential Fan Profile owners like record labels, radio stations, non-profits, publications, artist management companies, etc and introduce them to the Fan Profile product. Once set up, this person will also account manage major Fan Profiles, oversee activity on them, gather feedback from them, answer questions, gather competitive intelligence, and more. This person will also be responsible for exceeding Fan Profile recruitment and activity goals and will participate in semi-weekly status calls with the US marketing team.

While general marketing and PR are important to the company in Malaysia and South East Asia, this person will not be focused on these activities, but will focus exclusively on Fan Profile acquisition and retention.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, this person:

• Must have extensive experience in entertainment (music, movies, television, publications, multimedia, gaming) and be able to identify key content producers, labels, artists, fashion entities, gamers, bloggers, video/film producers, events, etc. for Friendster Fan Profiles
• Must know (and study) local and regional arts and entertainment culture, and be very outgoing and social.
• Must have expertise in presenting. This role will explain and sell the Fan Profile product feature set to potential Fan Profile owners via telephone and in-person presentations and live site demos.
• Has 8 to 20 years of total work experience, a majority of which should be in the consumer-facing entertainment or media space, a majority of which in Malaysia or South East Asia. Proven experience with consumer related Internet companies is also strongly preferred. In terms of education, a four-year university degree, BA/ BS or its equivalent, is required.
• Must be undeniably, completely fluent in English (written and verbal), fluency in other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malay, Thai or Bahasa Malaysian is a big plus.
• Possesses a solid understanding of the competitive landscape including online, offline competitive offerings and the associated feature sets on those sites/in those products.
• Is passionate about Friendster and the Friendster community, be an active user of Friendster and understand the product inside and out
• Must be smart, a strategic thinker, full of good ideas, creative, persistent, agile and driven
• Must be well-respected in the entertainment industry and conduct him/herself in a professional, ethical manner at all times as a representative of the Friendster brand within the region.
• Must have experience and be a proven contributor in a small company with a fast-pace, less-structured environment
• Must be an outgoing, social business person who is comfortable, experienced and interested in constantly networking with others professionally to promote Fan Profiles
• Should be comfortable with the realities that, in the short-term, this position may not have any direct reports and that he/she will be responsible for developing and recruiting Fan Profiles, and executing as an individual contributor. Yet, able to help build a team in the future
• Like any successful contributor in a startup, must have the ability to be a “great athlete” and take on different roles and projects as needed by the company over time
• Must be a self-starter as this person will be based out of their home office for the foreseeable future
• Must have the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision with strong prioritization skills
• Has excellent verbal, written, communication and client presentation skills

This job is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

If interested, please email your resume to: Jeff Roberto, Director of Marketing at jroberto@friendster.com

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Fan Profile Designer, South East Asia

About Friendster Fan Profiles

Friendster recently launched Fan Profiles to enable musicians, artists, models, non-profits, athletes, Web sites, venues and so many more to build a fan base within the Friendster global community. Fan Profiles turn the power of the Friendster social network over to entities and give them an enhanced set of promotional features. Features include advanced e-mail capabilities, contact list management, unlimited fan base aggregation and more. This is all free. For more information, visit: www.friendster.com/fanprofiles.

Position Summary

Friendster is seeking an experienced team member to design and produce hundreds of high quality Fan Profiles for artists and organizations globally, and predominantly in the Asia Pacific region. The Fan Profile producer will be one of the first marketing hires in the region (joining over 30 others in the Manila office), and will play a major role in growing the number of high quality Fan Profiles on Friendster.com. This person will be an integral part of many South East Asia focused, high profile, Fan Profile marketing programs. This position reports to the Director of Marketing in San Francisco, California.

The role requires the rapid set up and customization of new Friendster Fan Profiles. This role will be responsible for using a variety of graphical creation programs (Photoshop, Illustrator), compiling CSS/HTML and building professional looking Fan Profiles complete with customized skins, embedded widgets/apps, text content, background images, photos and videos. The Designer will build online identities for artists and organizations and capture core styles, characteristics, and themes of a particular artist/organization in each profile design.

This role will coordinate with a local, on-site, Fan Profile Marketing Manager who will be driving a lot the local Fan Profile initiatives in South East Asia. This person should also have a general understanding of local and regional arts/entertainment culture and be able to translate this knowledge into great looking Fan Profiles. This role may also require in person meetings with potential Fan Profile owners like record labels, radio stations, non-profits, publications, etc to gain understanding of some of the design requirements for particular profiles. This person will also be responsible for exceeding Fan Profile creation and deployment goals and will participate in bi-weekly status calls with the US team.

While general marketing and PR are important to the company in South East Asia, this person will not be focused on these activities and will focus exclusively on Fan Profile creation and deployment.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, this person:

• Must have extensive design skills and be proficient in key graphical creation software like Photoshop and Illustrator
• Be a pro in CSS, HTML and be able to build great, innovative skins and profile designs (samples of work will be req’d during interview process)
• Have great web search skills and be able to find and utilize public assets found on the web (photos, images, videos, widgets) to build truly unique and amazing Fan Profiles
• Have great compilation skills and be able to piece together assets to produce great profiles
• Have some experience in designing/producing web sites in the entertainment, music, movies, television, publications, multimedia, and/or gaming space(s)
• Must have general knowledge of local and regional arts and entertainment culture
• Possesses a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and great site/profile design on competitive web properties
• Is passionate about Friendster and the Friendster community, be an active user of Friendster and understand the product inside and out
• Must be smart, full of good ideas, creative, persistent, agile and driven
• Must have experience and be a proven contributor in a small company with a fast-pace, less-structured environment
• Have the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision with strong prioritization skills
• Must love the idea of spending time creating rich, engaging, personalized fan profiles for artists and organizations at a very fast pace to meet the needs of Friendster’s continuous marketing efforts
• Have 3+ years of total work experience in web design, experience in the consumer Internet design space is strongly preferred. In terms of education, a BA/ BS or its equivalent is required
• While not a requirement, fluency in Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, and/or Vietnamese is a strong plus

This job is located in Makati City, Metro Manila, PH

If interested, please email your resume to: Jeff Roberto, Director of Marketing at jroberto@friendster.com

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Developer Program Evangelist

About Friendster Developer Program

In 2 phases in October and December 2007, Friendster was the second social network to launch a full-fledged Developer Program. It allows developers to access Friendster APIs and utilize content and data within the Friendster network to build and deploy highly customizable applications both on and off Friendster. Thousands of developers are now part of the program. With over 350 applications live (www.friendster.com/apps), thousands of new apps under development and over ten million of our members using apps, the Friendster Developer Program is successful, growing, and adding value to developers, users and the company alike. For more information, visit: www.friendster.com/developer.

Position Summary

Friendster is seeking an experienced team member as “the evangelist” worldwide for the Friendster Developer Program. The evangelist will:

1. Cultivate, grow and manage relationships with third-party developers to bring any successful or potentially successful app on other social networks to Friendster’s users, and encourage developers to build new apps of interest for Friendster users
2. Cultivate a vibrant, healthy and positive developer community on Friendster
3. Drive awareness of the developer program, its success and opportunities
4. Contribute to the developer program product priorities and evolution.

Achieving these objectives will help Friendster continue to grow the active user base, increase user engagement (time spent on site), and increase revenues.

Responsibilities:

• One-on-one outreach, aggregated outreach and marketing to developers of any successful or desirable app anywhere (to encourage them and help them bring their app to Friendster)
• Participate in discussions with strategic partners and a subset of interested developers to speed their adoption and ensure best practices during implementation
• Prioritize and plan developer program events, and participation in relevant conferences, both in the US and Asia
• Work closely with PR and Marketing to obtain high-profile speaking slots at key events around the globe, positive mentions in appropriate press outlets, etc.
• Enlist the Friendster community to get members generating ideas and developers building them
• Help promote interesting, valuable and/or useful apps
• Help shape the developer program product priorities by providing analysis and recommendations leveraging feedback from current and potential developers to (and working with) product management, engineering, marketing, and business development.

You will be measured on growth in the adoption of the developer program, the contribution to company objectives of developer applications, and the health and long-term success of the overall developer community. You need to be able to work very well with both business and technical people, both within the company and at developers and partner companies.

This Developer Program Evangelist will be the primary evangelist dedicated to this critical area for Friendster. This position reports to the Vice President of Global Marketing in San Francisco, California.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, this person:

• Has 4 to 8 years of total work experience and a track record of success in consumer-related Internet companies. 4+ years valid work experience as a software developer, technology evangelist, or product manager for relevant web technologies.
• BA/ BS or its equivalent, is required. Computer Science degree, a similar degree, or work experience in software / product development is strongly preferred,
• The ideal candidate brings a broad mix of skills in marketing, program or product management, account management and support, all while speaking the language of developers. The perfect candidate could in fact get a job as a Web 2.0 developer, but enjoys working with customers so much that he or she would rather not be an engineer.
• Possesses a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and their features
• Is passionate about Friendster and the Friendster community, be an active user of Friendster and understand the product inside and out, or demonstrated ability and willingness to do so
• Excellent public speaking skills and charisma, with solid past experience presenting to both small and large groups, including conferences. Experience blogging or in technical and business writing
• Experience and willingness to write a blog targeting developers or technical subjects
• Demonstrated ability to quickly comprehend strategic direction and to prioritize initiatives accordingly
• Must have experience and be a proven contributor in a small company with a fast-pace, less-structured environment
• Must be an outgoing, social business person who is comfortable, experienced and interested in constantly networking with others professionally to promote Friendster and the Friendster Developer Program
• Should be comfortable with the realities that, in the short-term, this position may not have any direct reports and that he/she will be responsible for recruiting and managing the Friendster Developer Community, and executing as an individual contributor. Yet, able to help build a team in the future
• Like any successful contributor in a startup, must have the ability to be a “great athlete” and take on different roles and projects as needed by the company over time
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision with strong prioritization skills
• Has excellent verbal, written, communication and client presentation skills
• Able to travel up to 25% of the time, including travel to Asia
• Fluency in any Asian languages is a plus

This job is located in Mountain View and San Francisco, CA.

If interested, please email your resume to: David Jones, VP Global Marketing at djones@friendster.com

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Senior Mobile Handset Developer

Friendster is currently seeking a Senior Mobile Handset Developer with production Mobile experience developing in a high-volume commercial/consumer mobile application. This position will be a member of the Engineering team and will participate in the continued development of Friendster.s patent pending social network database technology as well as the development of other key infrastructural components of our service.

Position Responsibilities

• Develop and implement features of Friendster products on a variety of handsets.
• Work closely with OEMs and customers in identifying issues with their handsets.
• Write design specifications and communicate designs to the team at large.
• Must have experience and be a proven contributor in a small company with a fast-pace, less structured environment
• Work closely with the Product Management team on feature definition and QA team to correct product defects and assist QA engineers in the testing.
• Work closely with Operations team to ensure successful deployment of releases.
• Assist the Support and Sales teams with the investigation and resolution of customer issues.
• Implement best engineering practices to make Friendster best in class engineering organization.
• Ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision with strong prioritization skills
• Excellent verbal, written, communication and client presentation skills
• Strong analytical and strategic skills

Position Requirements

• Experience building handset applications utilizing J2ME, Symbian or Brew.
• 4+ years employed in mobile development.
• Proven track record of delivering on-time, quality code.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience working with constrained devices and platforms is a major plus.
• Knowledge of internet technologies, networking, data structures and multi-threading is a must.
• Experience with version control and release management is required.
• Experience with Linux and networking protocols such as TCP/IP is desirable.
• Strong time-management and independent-judgment skills required.
• Ability to drive handset releases without management oversight.
• Experienced in object oriented and pattern design.
• Solid communication skills and attention to detail.
• Must be enthusiastic and work well with others.
• Creative problem solving skills.

This job is located in San Francisco, CA.

To apply please send your resume to jobs@friendster.com. Please be sure to reference this position title in the subject line of your email.

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Senior Product Manager - Web Applications

Friendster is currently seeking a Senior Product Manager with production web site experience developing in a high-volume consumer web site. This position will be a member of the Product team and will participate in the continued definition and development of Friendster’s patent pending social network technology as well as the definition of other key infrastructural components of our service.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers, and designers to define goals, and requirements, strategies for Friendster web site.
• Set and define priorities, build and globally deploy significant features and enhancement to the Friendster web site.
• Measure, analyze, and optimize the results for the web site.
• Produce tools, technical services, and marketing collateral to enable marketing and business development to work effectively with business partners.
• Create design specifications and communicate designs to the team at large.
• Work closely with the Development team on feature definition and QA team to correct product defects and assist QA engineers in the testing.
• Work closely with Operations team to ensure successful deployment of releases.
• Assist the Support team with the investigation and resolution of customer issues
• Implement best Product Management practices to make Friendster best in class Product Management organization

Position Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent, Masters degree preferred.
• 5 plus years of product management experience leading website and/or web development efforts
• Experience building web site applications utilizing technologies such as J2ME, LAMP, Java Script.
• Ability to prioritize among competing opportunities, balance consumer needs with business priorities, retain focus on key goals, and articulate the rationale behind decisions
• Ability to drive both the tactical rollout and strategically vision of a product
• Strong time-management and independent-judgment skills required
• Ability to lead people and teams across multiple functional areas and regions
• Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Must be enthusiastic and work well with others

This job is located in San Francisco, CA.

To apply please send your resume to jobs@friendster.com. Please be sure to reference this position title in the subject line of your email.

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Senior Web Developer

Friendster is currently seeking a Senior Web Developer with production Internet experience developing in a high-volume commercial/consumer website. This position will be a member of the Engineering team and will participate in the continued development of Friendster’s patent pending social network database technology as well as the development of other key infrastructural components of our service.

Position Responsibilities

• Provides system architecture guidance
• Designs and supports the implementation of major architectural enhancements
• Delivers high-quality LAMP-based software components on-time
• Will work with the Operations and Quality Assurance departments to spearhead the rollout of new features and code updates on the site
• Seeks opportunities to contribute features and enhancements to open source software projects in which Friendster participates
• Mentors at least one other member of the Engineering staff

Position Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• 6+ years employed in backend web development
• Proven track record of delivering on-time, quality code
• Preferred skills in the use of MySQL or other relational databases, especially query optimization and schema design
• Background developing for a primarily Linux environment
• Clear understanding of the operation of the IP stack in Linux and of load balancing technologies
• Must have some past development experience with at least one compiled language (C/C++ or Java preferred)
• Large website experience with an understanding of scaling issues

Desired Experience:

• Supervisory or team training experience
• DHTML / XHTML / XSLT / CSS knowledge

This job is located in San Francisco, CA and Makati City, Metro Manila, PH.

To apply please send your resume to jobs@friendster.com. Please be sure to reference this position title in the subject line of your email.

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Senior UI Development Engineer

Friendster is currently seeking a Web Developer with experience in front-end web development with emphasis in building consumer/customer facing web sites. Must have a strong sense of user-friendly interface design. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small innovative team that will influence and define online community.

Necessary Experience, Education and Attributes:

• B.S. in Engineering or Computer Science
• 5+ years experience on a consumer website development team
• Expert level HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript,W3C DOM skills; some experience in AJAX
• Experience with developing/implementing page templates.
• Demonstrated understanding of how implementation choices impact user experience in terms of browser compatibility, accessibility and performance
• Entrepreneurial drive and ability to deliver in a fast-paced release environment
• Keeps up with current Internet trends and technology

Desired Experience, Education and Attributes:

• Knowledge of XML, XSL, PHP

This job is located in San Francisco, CA and Makati City, Metro Manila, PH.

To apply please send your resume to jobs@friendster.com. Please be sure to reference this position title in the subject line of your email.

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