Hiring
Wikia - creating communities
Wikia is a consumer destination site where you can read, discuss, and share information and opinions on any topic and in any language. Wikia currently has over 800,000 pages of content in more than 70 languages. Wikia's investors include Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network, and a select group of angel investors including Marc Andreessen, Josh Kopelman, Joichi Ito, Mitch Kapor, and Ron Conway.
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Marketing Manager, Wikia Sports and Entertainment (San Francisco, CA)
Wikia is a fast-growing consumer internet start-up searching for a Marketing Manager with a passion for online communities, sports and entertainment. With over 500 Sports, Film, TV, Anime, Music and Comic wikis attracting over five million unique users each month, the Wikia Sports & Entertainment Network strives to be the number one user-generated and completely free online resource for sports and entertainment fanatics.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute internal and external marketing campaigns, events and contests to increase traffic and user conversion.
- Support Ad Sales by developing custom brand advertiser pitches, and producing sponsorships and events.
- Aggressively develop relationships within the sports and entertainment industries including networks and studios, fan sites and forums, and media publications.
- Serve as the voice of the avid online sports and entertainment fan by providing feedback and ideas to Sr. Management, Product, and Engineering teams.
Qualifications
- 2-3 years experience working in a fast-paced business environment. BA/BS in marketing or business related field.
- Avid consumer of Sports, Film, TV, Music and Anime. Active participant in online user generated forums and social networking sites
- Thrives in chaos, and can quickly execute and make rapid decisions with little information and few resources.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to project manage across several cross-functional teams.
- Experience developing online marketing campaigns and events.
- Experience working with online sales teams a plus.
- A willingness to do what it takes in a diverse environment of internet and community professionals determined to laugh and have fun while working hard.
Please send resume and cover letter explaining how you currently resemble or how you could become the ideal candidate. Send to hiring@wikia.com and include Marketing Manager in the subject line.
Intern for Wikia Gaming (San Francisco, CA)
Wikia Gaming is searching for a fall (autumn) intern to help the gaming team get ready for all the big fall game releases. Duties will include content seeding, writing walkthroughs, recruiting and mentoring new admins and noobs, and reaching out to game related fansites and forums to promote new wikis.
Benefits include getting a backstage pass to the inner-workings of Wikia, and the ability to help shape our seeding and promotional efforts. The internship will span the breadth of the gaming community, with a focus on console games (360, PS3, Wii, DS and PSP) and Fall 2008 releases.
The ideal candidate possesses thumb calluses from playing too many games, had a edit count of over 10,000 (but pretends not to know that), and is excited about the idea of seeing new wikis succeed! We're looking for someone who can commit to 15-20 hours/week. Hours are flexible. Work from home -- or, if you're nearby, you can work from our offices in San Francisco.
This is an unpaid position, though the position could lead to a more permanent role on the team.
Responsibilities
The position will involve working with the Marketing Manager to identify and build out target content areas. This will span the entire life-cycle of wikis ranging from seeding and content creation to improving mature communities.
For new wikis:
- Create content and structure
- Stay on top of current news as it relates to the gaming industry
- Reach out to external communities and fansites to achieve maximum reach for gaming communities
For existing wikis:
- Identify what's missing on the wiki, and figure out how to help
- Clean up content, organize main page, keep things consistent
- Restructure content
- Establish a good relationships with the existing admins, and help create a thriving community on their wiki
Qualifications
Candidates should have a strong history of contributions on Wikia -- especially creating pages and copy-editing. Admin experience preferred, but not required.
Applying
Please send a resume, introduction letter and your Wikia username to hiring@wikia.com
Advertising Sales (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago)
Reports to the Vice President of Sales
Are you an advertising salesperson looking for your next big career move? This is a unique opportunity to help build an ad sales team from the ground floor, increase your compensation, and take on a new title.
A majority of Wikia’s audience is in the young male demographic centered around Gaming, Entertainment and Sports. July comScore numbers list Wikia with 4.1MM users in the U.S. and 10.4MM worldwide. Click below to learn more about Wikia’s audience, content, and top websites.
Responsibilities
- Manage all aspects of selling and closing advertising deals.
- Leverage your existing contacts with agencies. Pursue ‘warm’ in-bound leads, or ‘cold’ leads and contacts provided to you.
- Call media planners and buyers on a daily basis.
- Complete RFP responses and proposals.
- Move each deal through the sales process and close the business.
- Input all relevant information into Salesforce.com (training provided).
- Use DoubleClick’s DART ad server to look up and sell inventory.
- Support the Vice President of Sales in building a successful advertising business.
Qualifications
General Experience
- The ability to ASK good questions and LISTEN to what potential customers have to say.
- Excellent communication and verbal presentation skills.
- NO FEAR of cold-calling and doing what it takes to close a deal.
- Customer focused.
- Strong organizational skills and superior attention to detail.
- Excellent understanding of the English language
- Outgoing, Enthusiastic, Energetic, and Professional attitude.
- College degree or equivalent experience
Required Experience
- Minimum 1-year success as a sales rep. Strong computer skills.
Recommended Experience
- Advertising sales, Internet related sales, video games, entertainment, social networking, blogs, wiki sites.
Why Work for Wikia?
- Title and Compensation commensurate with experience
- Opportunity - The chance to work in a fast growing Internet company.
- Location - NY Office, SF Office, or Home Office
- FUN! - We work hard and play hard! “Crazy Shirt Day” or “Flashback Fridays” anyone? Xbox 360 and Wii games in the lounge room... or maybe take a ride in the massage chair!
Applying
- Email your resume as an attachment to adsales@wikia-inc.com.
- Please also include a cover letter in the **body** of your email.
Entertainment Community Intern -- Location flexible within US
Wikia's Entertainment team is looking for an intern to work closely with members of Wikia's management team to create fabulous and well-organized Entertainment content. We're looking for people who love working on Entertainment wikis, and want to get more involved. The interns help to choose the Entertainment spotlights, looking ahead to figure out what the next big Entertainment wikis will be. The team rehabs dead wikis, builds up new wikis and educates admins on wiki tricks that help the sites to grow.
Interns get a look behind the scenes at Wikia, helping to determine the direction of our seeding and promotion. They work on lots of different Entertainment wikis, with a variety of topics and projects. Interns have helper access on all wikis, and have a deeper level of involvement than Wikia contributors usually have.
The Entertainment Community Intern is an unpaid position, though a stipend is available for the right candidate, and the position could lead to a more permanent role on the team.
We're looking for 10-25 hours/week from people who love writing and building wikis. Hours are flexible. Work from home -- or, if you're nearby, you can work from our offices in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
The position will involve working with the Community Development Manager to identify target content areas. We'll create new wikis, and help to improve existing ones.
For new wikis:
- Creating the basic content pages and structure
- Finding information on the internet, and using that info to write lots of pages
For existing wikis:
- Identifying what's missing on the wiki, and figuring out how to help
- Cleaning up content, organizing the main page, making things consistent
- Restructuring content, making sure that the category structure makes sense
- Upgrading help pages
- Establishing a good relationship with the existing admins, and helping them create a thriving community on their wiki
Qualifications
Candidates should have a strong history of contributions on Wikia -- especially creating pages and copy-editing. Admin experience preferred, but not required.
Applying
Please send a resume, introduction letter and your Wikia username to Danny Horn, at danny@wikia.com.
