Work at Snooth
Snooth is revolutionizing the way people buy wine. We're the world's largest and fastest growing wine marketplace. We're a nimble, New York based, venture capital backed company and a great place for smart, hard working people to make a difference and help us change the wine industry.
Competitive Salaries, Full Benefits
All positions come with a comprehensive benefits package, belying our startup status: health, dental, vision, vacation, stock options, meals, travel reimbursement etc.
Work With Interesting People
Snooth is a small startup with less than 10 employees, but we're a unique group of people with a wide range of previous experience. Between us we've done things from climbing Everest to DNA sequencing, as well as created and built popular products for such companies as Lucent, Vivastreet, Merrill Lynch, Sony Ericsson and many others. Snooth's employees have over 30 years of combined experience in the wine industry.
If you see a job you're interested in, send us an email telling us about yourself and your relevant experience to jobs@snooth.com.
If you refer someone to us and we end up hiring them (and they are still with us after 3 months), we'll send you a check for $2,000 as a thank you.
Current Positions
All positions are full time and based in New York or San Francisco. We're currently looking to fill the following positions:
- Direct Sales Manager
- Systems/Software Engineer
- Product Manager / UI Whiz
- LAMP Developer
- Engineering Intern
- Marketing Intern
Direct Sales Manager
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Snooth (snooth.com), the largest wine site in the world, is looking for a highly talented and motivated Direct Sales Manager. This position will be responsible for selling Snooth's online ad inventory as well as working cooperatively with the Marketing Director to design and sell integrated marketing packages to winery trade groups.
- Increase revenue through sales of advertising inventory and marketing campaigns.
- Define and maintain client list.
- Develop and sell online ad campaigns.
- Build relations with wine trade groups and develop highly integrated marketing campaigns for them.
Duties Include:
- Knowledge of and contacts in luxury brand advertisers.
- 3+ years experience selling advertising in online or offline media.
- Thorough understanding of the entire sales cycle from prospecting to closing.
- Experience with food, wine, and lifestyle brands.
- Good understanding of the wine industry and its unique structure.
- Good understanding of the digital media landscape, as well as a solid grasp of the web and social networks.
- Excellent understanding of agency dynamics and how they operate.
- Understanding of audience demographics, online ad targeting, and campaign optimization.
- BA/BS degree required.
Skills Needed:
Position Description:
The Direct Sales Manager position will work alongside a dedicated team to drive Snooth's growth. Snooth has proven revenue streams but it is up to this person to expand the client list and develop and maximize new sources of revenue.
This is a new position at Snooth - we are looking for a highly motivated hunter type who is hungry and does not take no for an answer. Snooth is a fast growing brand with a highly desirable demographic, but is still relatively new to the advertising world. You must be able to turn an initial No into Yes.
Snooth's team is smart, ambitious, and passionate; the environment is relaxed and a lot of fun despite lots of tight deadlines. We are focused on quick, quality completion of projects and excited by what we do. If you like wine, that's always a plus.
If you fit the profile above, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@snooth.com. Your cover letter must include salary requirements and what inspired you to apply for a position at Snooth.
This is a full-time position based in our Union Square, New York office. Exceptional candidates based in San Francisco, CA may be considered.
No recruiters. Qualified candidates only please. This is not an entry-level position.
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Snooth (snooth.com), the world's largest online wine marketplace, is looking for a smart, hardworking systems/software engineer.
- Meet Snooth's hardware needs including server configuration, maintenance, backups, recovery, and future deployment.
- Build software in Perl to clean and analyze the data in our massive database.
- Maintain existing Perl code.
Duties Include:
- System's administration (15+ CentOS 5 machines and growing rapidly)
- Object-oriented Perl
- SQL (PostgreSQL experience a plus)
- Shell scripting
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
Skills Needed:
- Participate in a dynamic and motivated team.
- Work with a mature, scalable, and stable platform.
- Be encouraged to own projects, generate ideas, and work independently.
- Understand and deploy cutting edge technology.
You Will:
Position Description:
Snooth's team is smart, ambitious, and passionate; the environment is relaxed and a lot of fun despite lots of tight deadlines. We are focused on quick, quality completion of projects and excited by what we do. We work with a variety of cutting edge, open source technologies. If you like wine, that's always a plus.
If you fit the profile above, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@snooth.com. Your cover letter must include what inspired you to apply for a position at Snooth as well as salary requirements. Resumes without cover letters will NOT be considered.
This is a fulltime position, based in our Union Square offices. Please reference the job title in your subject line.
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Snooth (snooth.com), the world's largest online wine marketplace, is looking for a smart, experienced and driven Product Manager.
- Work closely with CTO and Director of Marketing in defining and enhancing product feature set.
- Identify new product opportunities and focus on user experience optimization.
- Optimizing user experience through split testing and other methods.
- Define product use cases and making sure product meets user needs.
Duties Include:
- 3-5 years experience in web product management, ideally related to specifying and rolling out complex, dynamic, consumer-facing websites and online products / applications.
- Strong statistics background - HCI, information architecture etc.
- Experience analyzing quantitative data and translating it into actionable information.
- Proven experience creating successful, large-scale, consumer-facing sites.
- Knowledge of online advertising, web analytics and conversion metrics a plus.
- BA/BS or equivalent.
Skills Needed:
Position Description:
You'll work alongside a smart, dedicated team in building the next generation of Snooth. You should have direct experience in product management and user experience optimization at a consumer focused web company. You should be able to effectively communicate with the technology team as well as with the business units. You'll need a creative eye, yet also be expected to rely on quantitative approaches to optimize the user experience.
You will be responsible for creating a world-class online experience for the leading online wine marketplace with a sophisticated, demanding and international audience. You will contribute to an ambitious online strategy with experience planning and customer insights, and executes on the strategy with information architecture, interaction design and visual design, in close collaboration with our technical and marketing teams. User Experience is important at Snooth and you will play a key role in the team. We are looking for a strong practitioner who will gather requirements, review and interpret web statistics and other research data, and help create effective, desirable and intuitive user interfaces. Projects include the Snooth.com website as well as applications and products for other delivery platforms.
Snooth's team is smart, ambitious, and passionate; the environment is relaxed and a lot of fun despite lots of tight deadlines. We are focused on quick, quality completion of projects and excited by what we do. If you like wine, that's always a plus.
If you fit the profile above, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@snooth.com. Your cover letter must include salary requirements and what inspired you to apply for a position at Snooth.
This is a fulltime position, based in our Union Square offices. Please reference the job title in your subject line.
Back to the top LAMP Developer
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Snooth (snooth.com), the world's largest online wine marketplace, looking for a smart, hardworking and meticulous front end engineer. Projects include the Snooth.com website as well as applications and products for other delivery platforms.
- Take detailed project specs and implement them on the application.
- Improve current features with new functionality or better cross-browser support.
- Test code before it is released on the production environment.
- Build unit tests.
- Track down and fix any reported bugs.
- Light design support. Work with the designer to ensure the pages are consistent and well formed.
Duties Include:
- Excellent (3 years+) with PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML.
- Good (1-3 years+) with SQL, Photoshop.
- Strong understanding of web technologies and standards.
- Excellent communication skills.
Skills Needed:
- Learn best coding practices.
- Participate in a dynamic and motivated team.
- Work with a mature platform.
- Be encouraged to own projects and work independently.
You Will:
Snooth's team is smart, ambitious, and passionate; the environment is relaxed and a lot of fun despite lots of tight deadlines. We are focused on quick, quality completion of projects and excited by what we do. If you like wine, that's always a plus.
If you fit the profile above, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@snooth.com. Your cover letter must include salary requirements and what inspired you to apply for a position at Snooth.
This is a fulltime position, based in our Union Square offices. Please reference the job title in your subject line.
Back to the top Engineering Intern
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Snooth (http://www.snooth.com), the world’s largest online wine marketplace, is always on the lookout for smart, hardworking software engineering interns.
- Build tools (largely in PHP and Perl) to help the team work more efficiently.
- Help to test code before it is released on the production environment.
- Work with a large data set — improve quality of the data as the quantity scales.
- Work with the team to uncover and resolve potential issues.
Duties Include:
- Good knowledge (1 year experience+) of some combination of PHP, Perl, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and XML.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
Skills Needed:
- Learn best coding practices.
- Participate in a dynamic and motivated team.
- Work with a mature platform.
- Be encouraged to own projects and work independently.
You Will:
Snooth's team is smart, ambitious, and passionate; the environment is relaxed and a lot of fun despite lots of tight deadlines. We are focused on quick, quality completion of projects and excited by what we do. If you like wine, that's always a plus.
If you fit the profile above, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@snooth.com. Your cover letter must include salary requirements and what inspired you to apply for a position at Snooth.
This is a fulltime position, based in our Union Square offices. Please reference the job title "Engineering Intern" in your subject line.
Back to the top Marketing Intern
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Snooth (http://www.snooth.com), the world’s largest online wine marketplace, is always on the lookout for smart, hardworking marketing interns.
- Contacting prospective business partners.
- Customer service.
- Search engine marketing and web analytics.
- Administrative duties as needed.
Duties Include:
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Proficiency with Excel and other Office apps.
Skills Needed:
- Participate in a dynamic and motivated team.
- Learn about search engines, e-commerce, wine, and social networks.
- Be encouraged to own projects and work independently.
You Will:
Position Description
You will work alongside a smart, dedicated team in building the next generation of Snooth. Candidates should be smart, energetic and mature enough to take on significant responsibility in this rapidly growing company, yet able to do their fair share of grunt work too. An internet obsession is good too.
Snooth's team is smart, ambitious, and passionate; the environment is relaxed and a lot of fun despite lots of tight deadlines. We are focused on quick, quality completion of projects and excited by what we do. If you like wine, that's always a plus.
Excel skills are highly valued.
If you fit the profile above, please submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@snooth.com. Your cover letter must include what inspired you to apply for a position at Snooth. Resumes without cover letters will NOT be considered.
This is a paid position, based in our Manhattan office (located along 6 line). Hours and duration are flexible. Please reference the job title in your subject line.
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