At playlist.com you create, share and manage music you enjoy on the web. Playlist allows you to play your music on any site, including Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, hi5 or your own blog. We have built the largest music search engine on the web with the most popular music widget in the world and are ranked in the top 200 US sites. With over 35 million registered users and counting, we're already profitable and growing fast. We're always looking for talented team players to take on big challenges. Join us in our downtown Palo Alto headquarters, 1 block from CalTrain.
Engineering Team
Interaction Designer
Front-end Developer
API - Open Social Developer
Music Web Crawler Engineer
PHP5 LAMP Developer
Music Search Engineer
Data Mining Engineer
Flex Developer
Product Team
Online Marketing Specialist
If you've created or contributed to any open source projects we'd especially enjoy talking with you. If anything you read sounds like you, send your resume to jobs@playlist.com.
Design user experiences to define the Playlist social music experience.
Work with product management, engineering and marketing to create natural, intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces.
Skills:
- An experienced user oriented designer focused on interaction design for web 2.0 technologies, preferably in a social networking environment. Talent for understanding users and identifying user needs to design and document solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Apply user-centered design principles to interactions that define the behavior of Playlist.com members.
- Work closely with product management to define product direction and user interface requirements.
- Design and document interaction models, workflows, information architectures and user interfaces.
- Work closely with visual design to create natural, intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces.
- Quickly understand the constraints of a design challenge and identify the tradeoffs.
- Contribute to a culture of innovation and teamwork.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years user experience design in a Web 2.0 environment.
- Excellent HTML, CSS, Javascript skills.
- Educated in design, HCI and usability, visual design skills a plus.
- Demonstrated mastery of user experience design principles and solid interaction design skills
- Experience conducting user testing highly desired
We’re looking for strong developers to create new features for our music search and music player using PHP, CSS and JavaScript. You’ll design and innovate creative layouts and user experiences for our music search and music player widget, currently embedded in over 20 million pages across the web. Your work will be seen and used by millions of music fans daily.
Impact:
- Design and develop killer Web 2.0 features to make music easier to find, listen to and organize
- Build important site pages & features using our new framework
- Work with designers to create and implement user-facing content from wire frames and/or comps
Qualification:
- Experience implementing standards-compliant PHP, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX and CSS using modern libraries such as Jquery and/or protype
- Strong understanding Ajax design integration
- Smarty Template Engine or equivalent system experience
- CS or related degree or experience
- Love music!
Nice to have:
- Experience in a high-volume (1MM+ daily page views) site
- Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
We need a talented PHP engineer to expand our existing presence on all major social networking sites. If you're a talented PHP Engineer with experience in Open Social and/or MySpace API's, here’s an opportunity to:
- Improve and extend our existing social network presence
- Build Open Social integration for all major social networks
- Develop next generation architecture for all of our social applications
Qualifications:
- Object-Oriented PHP experience, with OO MVC framework experience a big plus
- Experience implementing cross browser supported JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Smarty Template Engine or equivalent system experience
Nice to have:
- Experience working with XML-RPC or RESTful interfaces
- Experience developing for a site receiving millions of views a day
- Source control experience using CVS or Subversion
Here’s your chance to help make the best searchable music index even better. We're looking for a top-notch web crawler engineer to enhance our music search. If you're a PHP and/or Python rock star who likes parsing web pages, we want to talk to you!
Qualifications:
- Experience in PHP and Python code to search web sites
- Enhancement & automation of data validation, verification & de-duplication capabilities
- 3+ years of OO software development experience, preferably using PHP or Python
- Extensive background in multi-threaded application development
Nice to Have:
- Experience building a vertical web crawler
- Database query optimization skills
- Experience working on a rapidly growing, high-availability, high transaction system
- BS or MSCS or equivalent experience
- Love Music!
We're hiring talented LAMP engineers to work on the next generation of our music platform. With solid design and coding skills, be a critical part of our continued success in supporting the over 35 million users.
Impact:
- Develop new features that make music easier to find, listen to, organize and share.
- Come up with innovative and creative solutions to engineering problems encountered when dealing with massive amounts of users, data and traffic. Then have lunch.
Qualification:
- Extensive PHP5 experience writing object-orientated code
- MySQL 4.1 & 5.0 – experience working in a replicated database environment a big plus
- MySQL experience
- Database optimization experience (query analysis, index optimization, efficient query writing)
- Knowledge of design patterns and their application in a SOA environment
- BSCS degree or equivalent experience
Nice to have:
- Experience building and scaling high-volume sites (1MM+ daily page views)
- Experience developing in environments utilizing tools such as APC and Memcached
- Experience with Javascript libraries such as JQuery, YUI, ExtJS, MooTools, etc
- Experience with cross browser development using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Java or Python experience
- Experience with open source projects like Lucene, SOLR, etc
Do you love music and want to help people find their favorite tunes? Would you like to help manage and build next-generation music search technology for millions of daily users? Here’s your chance to make the best searchable music index even better!
Impact:
- Improve and extend large index of music tracks.
- Compiling a data store for generating music suggestions.
- Ownership of existing Lucene/SOLR system to optimize search results relevance
- Develop and extend backend processes for feeding data from a variety of sources into Lucene
- Develop & implement collaborative filtering algorithms optimized to generate recommendations of songs, artists and other exciting music data
Qualifications:
- Experience with Lucene and/or other open source search technologies such as Xapian
- Hands-on experience with JAVA and/or Python in a large-scale environment
- Knowledge of design patterns, oo frameworks in a service-oriented architecture
- MYSQL experience. Ability to write efficient queries and optimize database-intensive applications
- BSCS or equivalent experience
Are you a data mining guru? Does getting your hands on large amounts of data get you revved up? Do you specialize in making the data “sing”? If the answer is YES, Playlist would like to talk to you.
You will be responsible for designing, documenting, developing, testing, installing and supporting our data mining and the reporting infrastructure. You will work with various groups to understand the reporting requirements and the available data sources, and design and develop a functional and scalable data repository and reporting framework.
Impact:
- Design and develop the layout of our data warehouse systems and databases
- End-to-end design and development of programs, processes and procedures to extract, scrub, transform and load data into data warehouse
- Design, develop and administer reporting framework and dashboards to support business requirements
Algorithms:
- Develop new algorithms and methods for optimizing quality and performance of resulting revenue.
- Design and develop new ways for tracking and modeling end user behavior
- Design test framework to extract targeting metrics in response to specific questions
Skills:
- Knowledge of data warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and ETL processes
- Experience in data integration methodologies, data staging and the real-time updating of data warehouses
- Extensive knowledge of SQL, database (MySQL preferred) and SQL performance tuning
- Expert knowledge of scripting in Perl, Python, PHP or other scripting languages
- Hands on ETL experience in a data warehouse environment
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
- BS or MS in Computer Science
We're hiring an experienced Flex developer develope exciting new features of our next generation music products. Create next generation user interfaces and features for our Flex widgets. The ideal candidate has proficiency in Adobe Flex, Rich Internet application development, and a strong working knowledge of usability-focused interfaces.
Projects:
- Design ubiquitous Playlist experience across social networks, Playlist and installed clients
- Develop installable AIR Playlist client
- Implement video and steaming content into our widget
- Design a skin configurator and innovative skins
- Design a music module to be included as a Flex Service in applications
- Integrate Playlist API's with existing XML & JSON data feeds
- Design and implement a user login system within our widgets
- Extending processes for feeding data to widgets from various sources
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience with Adobe Flex
- Audio and Video application experience
- Rich Internet application development
- Strong working knowledge of usability focused interfaces
- Ability to write organized, well documented, reusable code
- Love music!
The Online Marketing Specialist creates, measures, analyzes and optimizes online marketing programs. The Online Marketing Specialist will collaborate with internal and external teams to create and deploy highly effective online marketing programs, particularly email campaigns, but also social network messaging, blogs and more.
This position will play a key role in identifying, developing and implementing awareness and acquisition strategies to directly impact critical business metrics. The ideal candidate will apply email marketing best practices to capture/increase activity of our existing user base and newly acquired audiences.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and manage online marketing programs, focusing on user acquisition, driving user activity and generating revenue.
- Plan, manage and implement email marketing campaigns including email copy, message templates, landing pages, and other marketing collateral.
- Determine best mix of call to action, subject lines, special promotions, timing of releases, etc that drive increased user response.
- Analyze key metrics including open rate, click troughs, bounce rate, etc, and provide strategic recommendations to constantly improve upon these metrics.
- Work with other departments to ensure editorial and business needs are met.
- Effectively manage outside partnerships to maximize ROI on program investment.
- Leverage a "test, measure and refine" approach to constantly improve program results and increase the impact of online marketing on revenue and profitability.
- Propose new marketing program ideas and then secure support from internal and external stakeholders to fund and execute these programs.
- Create feature specification documents for changes to the website and other online projects.
- Manage weekly and monthly reporting and tracking, flagging issues for internal stakeholders and report metrics appropriately.
Requirements:
- BA/BS Degree required.
- Understanding of email marketing programs, industry standards for best practices and general online marketing tactics a must.
- Solid experience with email service provider applications and content management systems.
- Strong commitment to great user experience and overall quality of campaigns.
- Ability to manage budgets, perform ROI analysis and identify tactics for constant improvement.
- Familiarity with web services, APIs and data feeds a plus.
If you've created or contributed to any open source projects we'd especially enjoy talking with you. If anything you've read sounds like you, send your resume to jobs@playlist.com.