We are hiring Bring your creative edge to our hot new start-up and help create the best functionality and user experience for a revolutionary cloud-based service.This is a rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new company and help define and drive our strategies as we unfold a unique and superior internet service.

FiPort currently has opportunities in development, marketing, and product management. Please let us know what excites you about a start-up opportunity and send us your resume to Linda. We offer a competitive compensation package including incentive stock options Vice President of Product Management You will be one of the early members of a great executive team and will help to shape FiPort. You will own the product vision, user experience, and product success. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get things done yourself and can effectively hire and grow the product management team as the company grows.

Responsibilities
  • Own and drive the product vision and key product success metrics
  • Understand the cognitive mechanism driving a user to use the service and get addicted to it
  • Design the best UI to support effective consumer acquisition, conversion and user growth
  • Conduct market and user research to define, evaluate, prioritize and deploy new features
  • Create MRDs/PRDs for major feature releases
  • Lead product/service integration with strategic partners
  • Manage interactions and project plan with development team
  • Analyze the competitive landscape and position/differentiate the service to reflect our transformative and innovating nature
 Qualifications
  • 7+ yrs. of experience in internet consumer products/service; experience in financial service a plus
  • Prior track record of success and project management for online consumer applications
  • Proven ability to achieve results in a fast moving, dynamic start-up environment
  • Experience with social media and viral adoption strategies
  • Experience designing and managing products using key Internet technologies
  • Agile/Scrum, continuous integration experience
  • Team player, motivated, self starter and ethical Quick learner of new technologies
  • Active user of Twitter and Facebook and Web 2.0 technologies
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills; outstanding people skills
  • CS with MBA is a plus
Online Marketing Manager FiPort is seeking an Online Marketing manager to drive new customer acquisition strategies and meet aggressive customer growth goals. The manager will develop and execute marketing programs to acquire new customers while successfully achieving cost per acquisition goals and ROI metrics. This person must be ROI driven and willing to continuously A/B test to successfully drive traffic and customers via online advertising, direct advertising, SEM, affiliate, performance-based banners and partner marketing channels. In addition, the Marketing Manager will be responsible for developing landing pages and working with in-house designers to produce exceptional visual and content elements that convert traffic into valuable customers. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a successful track record and willingness to try new programs, advertising venues and tactics to meet and exceed customer acquisition goals.
Responsibilities
  • Develop strategies and optimize SEM, Display and Affiliate marketing channels
  • Develop, implement and maintain testing strategy and plans
  • Create highly effective customer acquisition plans
  • Define and identify various customer segments and outreach strategy
  • Develop and implement acquisition messaging of our product offering for each customer segment
  • Leverage social media, blog and content to drive conversions
  • Monitor customer trends and generate competitive insights
  • Build landing pages and manage the web application content to ensure high conversions and incorporate learning from customer insights
  • Lead ongoing testing and optimization efforts
  • Analyze campaign performance data and create internal reporting for the executive team
 Qualifications
  • 5 + years of marketing experience with demonstrated success in search, email, direct marketing and social media for consumer products
  • Hands on experience with managing paid search, performance based banner advertising and social media
  • Experience in creating compelling messaging
  • Ability to work efficiently while multi-tasking to meet aggressive deadlines in an entrepreneurial environment
  • Expertise in gaining customer insights and revising campaigns to incorporate new learnings
  • Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills Experience in managing multiple stakeholders, contracts and agencies to get the job done
  • "Out of the box" thinking and ability to leverage new tools and strategies in marketing
  • B.A. degree in marketing, economics or related fields
Java Web Front End UI/UX Technical Lead For this very critical position FiPort is looking for an engineer with top of the class development skills and experience.
Responsibilities

As our Java Web Frontend Technical Lead you will:

  • Lead the web frontend development team
  • Design, develop, unit test new consumer web applicationfeatures with rich Ajax user interface and experience
  • Build highly innovative user interfaces working with UX designers

Software Environment:

  • Hosted, web-based application accessed via browser
  • All Java: J2EE, servlets, Hibernate, SmartClient
  • Mostly open-source: Linux Professional, Postgres, Wicket
  • Fast-paced, rapid-release environment
Qualifications
  • Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming
  • Excellent Java development skills: J2EE, servlets, JPA2(Hibernate), Apache Wicket
  • Extensive web application development skills, HTML, CSS, HTTP, JavaScript / Ajax / JQuery
  • Experience in configuring and running A/B and multivariate web page experiments
  • Competency in agile methodologies, e.g. Scrum Understanding of database fundamentals including SQL; specifically Postgres
  • Linux skills a plus
  • Web services skills (WSDL, SOAP) a plus
  • Undergraduate degree required with graduate degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
  • You must be self-directed, self-motivated, committed
  • Have the ability to adapt in a dynamic, fast-moving startup environment
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong teamworkQuick learner
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