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  <title>Careers at BillShrink</title>
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    <title>Marketing Communications Intern</title>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><b>VC-Funded, Early-Stage Internet Company Looking for Smart Marketing Communications Interns</b></p>
<p><br />
Are you a strategic thinker with great marketing ideas and want to drive user acquisition for a consumer product/service? This is your chance to be part of an exciting startup that has an amazing team with a great track record. </p>
<p><br />
BillShrink made <i>Money Magazines</i>&#8217; &#8220;20 Best Money Websites&#8221; list and has been featured in <i>Consumer Reports, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal </i>and on the country&#8217;s leading television programs including CBS&#8217;s &#8220;The Early Show&#8221; and CNN.</p>
<p><br />
It's a fast-paced environment where you will learn, have fun, and be a part of exciting and innovative technology. The marketing and communications internship reports to the director of marketing and is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for social media and viral marketing campaigns, contributing directly to PR outreach, research and write blog articles, develop new marketing tactics, and much more.<br />
This role is designed to be very flexible so you can work part-time or full-time, as best fits your school schedule.</p>
<p><br />
The role would allow you to take on a variety of different projects as our business evolves. Some projects are:</p>
<ul>
    <li>Manage social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook and develop new ways to leverage them</li>
    <li>Assist with all public relations efforts and accelerate the solid coverage we're getting</li>
    <li>Write blog articles</li>
    <li>Create other marketing campaigns, promotions, contests, etc.</li>
    <li>Research, strategize, and implement new marketing initiatives to help grow the BillShrink brand and user-base</li>
</ul>
<p><br />
What we are looking for: </p>
<ul>
    <li>Great communication and written skills with a passion for innovation and creativity</li>
    <li>Combination of technical competence, business skills and a marketing mind</li>
    <li>Team player who wants to make a real impact in a growing company</li>
</ul>
<p>What you will get:</p>
<ul>
    <li>Paid internship</li>
    <li>Free lunch every day and a fully-stocked kitchen</li>
    <li>Flexible and fun working environment<br />
    &#160;</li>
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    <title>Front End Engineer</title>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><b>VC-Funded Early Stage Web Company with Real Revenue Model Looking for Super Smart Front End Engineers.</b></p>
<p>If you are the kind of person that likes to write code to do your work for you, we want to talk to you.. <br />
<br />
Ever been frustrated with your cell phone company or your credit card company or any other billing provider that deal with each month? Most of us have. BillShrink is set to revolutionize how consumers deal with their various service providers or bills. Taking away the frustration by automagically negotiating the lowest rates on your specific usage and lifestyle patterns from across the web, intelligent agents will take over the mundane to free us of the stress and frustrations of dealing with these companies. <br />
<br />
The founders of BillShrink come from other successful startups, where they were each responsible for building companies up from scratch to tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue and successful exits as well. We are backed by top-tier venture capital firms in the valley, and are starting to look for the next wave of super smart engineers to join our team.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><b>What you are responsible for</b></p>
<p>+ Converting Fireworks and Photoshop designs into high quality XHTML/CSS at warp speed</p>
<p>+ Coding tight, fast loading, standards compliant XHTML/CSS</p>
<p>+ Working with templates and JSP pages</p>
<p>+ Working with Javascript and JQuery enabled UI views for a rich AJAX based application</p>
<p>+ Making XHTML/CSS frontends works smoothly across all major browsers on current platforms, incl. IE6 and Mac</p>
<p><br />
<b>What you will get </b><br />
<br />
+ Generous stock option package <br />
+ 3 weeks of vacation each year <br />
+ Industry Standard Health, Dental &amp; Vision Coverage <br />
+ 401k plan <br />
+ A high energy work environment with a top notch engineering team <br />
+ Opportunity to make an impact in the daily lives of friends and family<br />
<br />
<b>What we are looking for <br />
</b></p>
<p>+ 2-3 years of recent experience building</p>
<p>+ XHTML guru &amp; HTML performance geek</p>
<p>+ CSS guru &amp; Cross Browser Compatibility Maven</p>
<p>+ JQuery wizardry a strong plus</p>
<p>+ Experience building at least one other high traffic dynamic web application</p>
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    <title>Software Engineering Intern</title>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><b>$8M VC-Funded Early Stage Web Company </b></p>
<p><b><br />
</b>If you are the kind of person that loves data, and wants to drive marketing and product decisions on data, we want you. This is your chance to be a part of an exciting startup that has an amazing team with a great track record. We are a team of 8 wanting to surround ourselves with A players.<br />
It's a fast paced environment where you will learn, have fun, and be a part of amazing and innovative technology. The Software Engineer Internship is a hands-on role where you will have an impact on the core product of the company, social applications, web and data analytics tools, web marketing engines, and much more. This role is designed to be very flexible so you can work part-time or full-time, as best fits your school schedule.<br />
&#160;</p>
<p>The role would allow you to take on a variety of different projects as our business evolves; some representative project areas are provided below:<br />
+ Build social applications for Facebook, MySpace and Hi5 that leverage the BillShrink API.<br />
+ Build a real-time data analysis platform that mixes in data from web analytics and user data and third party data sources.<br />
+ Build an engine that can automatically verify the validity of data that is extracted by our data extraction engine.<br />
+ Create algorithms that can automatically extract and normalize information reliably from natural language text around the web.<br />
<b><br />
</b>What we are looking for <br />
+ Strong foundation in basic algorithms and experience with more than one of Java, Ruby, Python<br />
+ Creative thinker that can find innovative solutions to hard problems<br />
+ A team player with strong communication skills.<br />
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    <title>Product Intern Part or Full Time</title>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><b>VC-Funded Early Stage Web Company with Real Revenue Model Looking for Super Smart Software Engineers </b></p>
<p>If you are the kind of person that loves data, and wants to drive marketing and product decisions on data, we want you.  This is your chance to be a part of an exciting startup that has an amazing team with a great track record. We are a team of 8 wanting to surround ourselves with A players.</p>
<p>It's a fast paced environment where you will learn, have fun, and be a part of amazing and innovative technology.  The Product Manager Internship is a hands-on role where you will have an impact on product strategy, marketing tactics, partner management, analytics, and much more.  <br />
This role is designed to be very flexible so you can work part-time or full-time, as best fits your school schedule.</p>
<p>The role would allow you to take on a variety of different projects as our business evolves;  some representative projects are provided below:<br />
+ Define, track, and report on key business metrics and customer behaviors, including feature penetration, user behavior patterns, site flows and traffic patterns to drive feature prioritization and customer insights.<br />
+ Measure key performance metrics for marketing efficiency and effectiveness (user growth, engagement, abandonment, campaign ROI, segmentation).<br />
+ Work with internal and external resources to enhance the quality and breadth of the data in our system, which is the cornerstone of our product.<br />
+ Research, strategize, and implement new product and marketing initiatives to help grow the BillShrink brand and user-base.  For instance, assist with coming up with creative ways to make BillShrink viral and integrate with various social media platforms.  <br />
<b><br />
What we are looking for </b><br />
+ Strong skills in problem definition and strategies<br />
+ Team player with excellent communication skills both oral and written.<br />
+ Combination of technical competence, business skills and a marketing mind.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
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    <title>Senior Software Engineer</title>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><b>VC-Funded Early Stage Web Company with Real Revenue Model Looking for Super Smart Software Engineers </b><br />
<br />
If you are the kind of person that likes to write code to do your work for you, we want to talk to you.. <br />
<br />
BillShrink is a free, personalized savings service for everyday services like wireless and credit cards. It's hard enough to understand complicated bills, let alone to figure out where you might be able to save money. And these days, time is money. With the current economic client, we hope we can really help everyone.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s where BillShrink comes in. Our vision is to save you time and money through highly-personalized analysis of your particular usage.</p>
<p>We're a well funded startup with less than 10 employees looking to build a big business in this big recession. High energy, fun environment, free lunches and a great team.<br />
<br />
The founders of BillShrink come from other successful startups, where they were each responsible for building companies up from scratch to tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue and successful exits as well. We are backed by top-tier venture capital firms in the valley, and are starting to look for the next wave of super smart engineers to join our team. <br />
<br />
<b>What you will get </b><br />
<br />
+ Generous stock option package <br />
+ 3 weeks of vacation each year <br />
+ Industry Standard Health &amp; Dental Coverage <br />
+ 401k plan <br />
+ A high energy work environment with a top notch engineering team <br />
+ Opportunity to make an impact in the daily lives of friends and family<br />
<br />
<b>What we are looking for <br />
</b>It&#8217;s all described succinctly below..</p>
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INTO sql_at_billshrink.com<br />
FROM bay_area_software_engineers<br />
WHERE college_gpa &gt; 3.6<br />
OR YEARS(java_experience_in_school_or_hobby_or_work) &gt; 2)<br />
AND scalable_web_applications_built_so_far &gt; 0<br />
AND energy_level_without_red_bull &gt; 2*energy_of_average_population_with_red_bull<br />
AND 1/passion_for_web &lt; 0.00000005<br />
AND speed_of_thought_in_code &gt; speed_of_thought_in_english</p>
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