ThinkGeek is hiring! w00t! Open positions are detailed below. Please e-mail your resume to us at the address listed in the job description. Text, HTML and PDF formats are preferred. Don't be shy, if you've got the skills and want to work hard and have fun with a bunch of geeks and their dogs, we want to hear from you!
Current Open Positions:
Product Photographer & Retoucher
Posted: June 16, 2009
ThinkGeek is looking for a Photographer with excessively mad Photoshop
skills. Primary responsibilities will include shooting and retouching
product photos and preparing images for web and print. You will also
assist our lead Photographer in planning and executing photo shoots. In
both cases, you will be working closely with our Merchandising and
Creative teams to ensure photos meet the creative and branding needs of
the site.
Requirements
- Expert in digital photography and photo retouching.
- Expert in Adobe Photoshop and other digital capture and retouching
applications
- At least 2 years of photography experience (SLR Digital Cameras);
professional studio and/or product photography experience a BIG plus
- Experience designing & setting up various types of studio lighting
- Experience creating product animations for web use (animated gif,
Flash, etc)
- Excellent communication skills and willingness to be given creative
direction when necessary
- Familiarity with Internet culture, gaming, and an affinity towards geeks
Other desired skills (very nice to have):
- Product-specific photography & styling experience
- Portrait photography
- Experience with shooting and editing video
- Graphic Design
- HTML and web design
When applying, please include photography samples or links to sites with
samples and portfolios. If we can't look at your work, we can't hire
you. Just like we can't hire programmers who don't have code samples,
or bounty hunters who don't have trophies.
ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun and enthusiastic people
who run one of the most successful geek-related e-commerce sites on the
Internet. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company,
ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying
the additional benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment
in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full
time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or
those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.
Please submit your resume, portfolio, and salary requirements when applying. Sorry, freelance or offsite requests will absolutely not be accepted.
To apply, click the "Apply Now" button. You will get an email from us confirming that we have received your application.
Apply for the Product Photographer & Retoucher position here:
Merchandiser & Product Buyer
Posted: May 29, 2009
The ThinkGeek Overlords are seeking a Merchandiser & Buyer that will be responsible for growth, profitability and overall awesomeosity of several product lines.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Source and buy products that fit into the unique ThinkGeek product mix
- Develop and maintain vendor relationships
- Predict, manage and reorder inventory for several ThinkGeek product lines
- Merchandise and manage your products throughout the ThinkGeek website
- Work with our customer service, marketing and development staff on items related to your product lines.
Required:
- College degree or equivalent
- 4-6 years experience as product manager or buyer, preferably for toys, gadgets, or consumer electronics.
- Excellent person-to-person skills
- Highly detail oriented and organized
- Strong spreadsheet and word processing skills required
- Strong computer and internet use skills
- An understanding of Internet & Geek Culture. An ability to Grok ThinkGeek.
- Willing to occasionally drive to New Jersey to visit our warehouse when needed.
- Must be willing to play with a pile of gadgets and gizmos in the search for the perfect products for the site.
This position is on site in our Fairfax, Virginia offices only. No outsourcing or freelance positions for this job will be considered. Thanks for asking!
ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun, weird, and enthusiastic people who run one of the most successful niche e-commerce sites on the Internets. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company, ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying the benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.
Please submit your resume and salary requirements in PDF, HTML or plain text format. Sorry, freelance or offsite requests will absolutely not be accepted. To apply, click the "Apply Now" button. You will get an email from us confirming that we have received your application.
Apply for the Merchandiser & Product Buyer position here:
Graphic Designer
Posted: May 22, 2009
ThinkGeek is looking for a seriously wicked Graphic Designer with skills and experience in creating optimized web graphics, illustration, print work, t-shirt design, and marketing/branding. Primary responsibilities will include supporting the graphical needs of our web development and marketing teams. Additional responsibilities will include T-shirt design and illustration, catalog and other print work, and miscellaneous 'projects of the moment'.
Requirements:
- At least 2 years of professional graphic design experience.
- Degree in graphic design or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Proficiency in designing graphics optimized for web use.
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, the Gimp, or other similar design software.
- Intermediate to advanced illustration skills.
- Familiarity with Internet culture, gaming, and an affinity towards geeks
Other desired skills: (not required, but very nice to have)
- Digital photography and photo retouching
- Branding experience
- Experience in catalog design and production
- Knowledge/Use of Flash
- Familiarity with writing HTML
- DHTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, Perl * Linux or Unix
- Ability to draw an identifiable Boba Fett in < 60 seconds.
Only applications that include links to portfolios of previous design work will be accepted. It would be pretty silly to apply for a design job and not link to examples if your work!
This position is on site in our Fairfax, Virginia offices only. No outsourcing or freelance positions for this job will be considered. Thanks for asking!
ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun, weird, and enthusiastic people who run one of the most successful niche e-commerce sites on the Internets. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company, ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying the benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.
Please submit your resume, portfolio, and salary requirements in PDF, HTML or plain text format. Sorry, freelance or offsite requests will absolutely not be accepted. To apply, click the "Apply Now" button. You will get an email from us confirming that we have received your application.
Apply for the Graphic Designer position here:
Systems Administrator
Posted: May 13, 2009
Do you dream shell commands? When someone jokes, "Is there an echo in here," do you think "Of course, it's a shell builtin!" When you wake up at 0 8 on a Saturday morning, do you wish you could adjust that last asterisk in your circadian cron job to 1-5? Do you swing from package dependency graphs like Timmy on his monkey bars? Does the prospect of three consecutive nights of post-midnight operations sound exciting? Can you do all that and still not curse under your breath when someone makes a boneheaded move on their workstation and needs your help to recover? If this sounds like you, you should apply to be our new staff systems administrator!
Applicant Objectives
- 3+ years professional experience managing and maintaining Linux servers
- Experience supporting Windows and Macintosh desktops
- Extensive knowledge of Apache configuration
- Experience with MySQL backups, maintenance, and recovery
- Familiarity with various package management systems, including RPM, emerge, etc.
- Thorough understanding of networks, including firewalls and routing
- Experience automating alerts and tasks using Perl
- Ability to comprehend and implement complex business requirements in an exacting manner
- Team-oriented personality
- Good desk-side manner
Bonus Objectives
- Some knowledge of SQL
- Experience with heterogeneous VPNs, load-balancing network services, or wireless networks involving multiple locations
- Experience identifying performance bottlenecks in network and server systems
- Experience using BIND to deliver DNS service
- Experience specifying hardware to meet software requirements and other business needs
ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun, weird, and enthusiastic people who run one of the most successful niche e-commerce sites on the Internets. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company, ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying the benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.
Please submit your resume and salary requirements in PDF, HTML or plain text format to sys-admin-jobs@thinkgeek.com. Sorry, freelance or offsite requests will absolutely not be accepted.
Senior Perl Programmer
Posted: May 13, 2009
Here at ThinkGeek Laboratories, we are constantly developing new technologies to drive our web site and its attendant systems, but we have reached the bandwidth limits of our current team and need to further parallelize. Thus, we have embarked on an experiment to overlay Randal Schwartz's programming-related memory engrams on other staff members.
Unfortunately, early test subjects have not taken the process well. Not only are we nearly out of PHBs, but our budget for institutionalizing prior subjects is limited. We are therefore seeking subjects with extensive Perl coding experience, as we believe this will ease the restructuring of the mental pathways.
Subjects in ThinkGeek experiments will have opportunities to play with cool new stuff long before it appears on Engadget or Gizmodo, root access to the machine that goes "ping," and an atmosphere where you can pick your hours, run any desktop OS you like, and the freedom to wear shoes whenever your pinky toes are not hooked up to transcutaneous electrodes.
Our software is developed in-house, so projects will run a wide gamut of business areas (accounting to warehouse management, and everything in between). Development will be on an existing suite of software, so the ability to adapt to and extend an existing architecture is a must. Responsibilities will include: web/console/batch based application development, maintaining and configuring development servers, participation in requirements and specifications gathering processes, software quality assurance and internal documentation. The ideal candidate should have strong Linux skills and be able to work and learn new skills independently when necessary, but also work as part of a team.
Applicant Objectives
- 5+ years professional programming experience with Perl 5
- 4+ years professional experience working with databases (SQL)
- Extensive knowledge of Apache and familiarity with Apache module development
- Ability to comprehend and implement complex business requirements in an exacting manner
- Team-oriented personality
- Know how to work hard and have fun
Bonus Objectives
- Experience developing automated functional and performance testing suites
- XML
- HTML/XHTML
- Javascript/AJAX
- Solid Linux Knowledge (4+ years of experience with Linux or Unix systems)
- Retail industry software development experience
- Web Services development (servers/clients)
- First name Jen or Tim a plus
ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun, weird, and enthusiastic people who run one of the most successful niche e-commerce sites on the Internets. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company, ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying the benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.
Please submit your resume and salary requirements in PDF, HTML or plain text format to coder-jobs09@thinkgeek.com. Sorry, freelance or offsite requests will absolutely not be accepted.
Director of Marketing
Posted: March 30, 2009
ThinkGeek is looking for a strategically oriented leader who is not above doing the legwork. This is an opportunity to help set the future direction of a fun, rapidly growing, highly successful Internet retailer. If you're interested in joining ThinkGeek as our Director of Marketing, write and tell us about the results you've accomplished in the following areas:
- Refining and determining short and long term marketing strategies and plans
- Identifying, implementing and maintaining tactical marketing initiatives including: affiliate programs, online advertising, email marketing, periodic promotions, catalog marketing and creative grassroots initiatives including social networks, blogs, strategic partnerships, and mobile marketing.
- Building an exhaustive understanding of customers
- Making the most out of your marketing budget
Requirements:
- Bachelors' in Marketing, Business, or other related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years Internet marketing experience.
- Strong knowledge of web marketing, email marketing and direct mail production processes.
- Strong quantitative skills required to analyze and optimize campaign performance.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams and to manage multiple projects simultaneously in order to meet ROI goals.
- Must be results driven, detail oriented, and a team player.
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced team environment
This position is onsite in our Fairfax, Virginia offices only. No outsourcing or freelance positions for this job will be considered. Thanks for asking!
ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun, weird, and enthusiastic people who run one of the most successful niche e-commerce sites on the Internets. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company, ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying the benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.
To apply for this position or refer someone you know, please use our online interview system managed by Accolo.
Once you have completed the online interview, your information will be forwarded to the hiring authority for decisions on next steps. Sorry, freelance or offsite requests will absolutely not be accepted.
