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Inventory Analyst
(Woot Services, LLC, Carrollton, TX)

One sale makes your margins, and one sale just sells okay. And the sales that leave our warehouse might just take an extra day. Not always, but sometimes, it's more appropriate to hope on the Jefferson Dropship. We built this city on stuff shipped directly from the manufacturer, and we're not going to stop now. We want you, gentle reader, to pilot us to Success City.

Woot is seeking an inventory planner for our Dropship Operations team to drive improvements and deliver a high quality customer experience through our dropship program. You'll be that planner, if shipping details are brewing in your eyes. Yeah, don't worry if you don't get that reference. It won't matter to the job.

In this job, you’ll learn: that nothing's gonna stop our dropships now.

Intangible benefits: there's plenty of hoopla to be had! Hoopla up to your knees!

Potential hazards: only on Hot Tuna Friday. Yes, that IS another reference that won't matter to the job!

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: probably the hero who handles the pickups and landings. Maybe you'd own the helicopter, hovercraft or airplane.

Worst part of the job: having to spend hours and hours on Wikipedia before you can understand all the dumb music jokes in this job description. The actual job is much less time consuming.

Make sure you bring: your surrealistic pillow. AW MAN THERE'S ANOTHER ONE

Responsibilities:

• Owns inventory receiving process including being the SME and Primary POC for all receiving issues.
• Owns tracking upload and submission process. Provides guidance to other employees inside and outside the department on tracking related issues and performs a portion of these tasks.
• Responsible for championing Woot's Dropship Program as well as developing and coaching vendor partners to comply with the requirements.
• Manages Open Orders to ensure that issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Leads vendor onboarding initiatives to improve both vendor and external customer experiences.
• Owns the support function for vendors and vendor management teams regarding all dropship tasks and initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, finance, or other related field
• Moderate to Advanced Excel skills
• Deep understanding of supply chain processes
• 3+ years relevant experience in operations, supply chain, purchasing, inventory planning, finance or other business role
• Tactical project management ability

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in supply chain, or business administration
• Moderate to Advanced SQL Query skills
• Dropship Operations experience
• E-commerce Experience

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Financial Analyst
(Woot Services, LLC, Carrollton, TX)

Look, you seem like a really nice person, so we're gonna level with you: we LOVED the last person to do this job. And don't get us wrong, with a little time we know we're gonna love you as well, but... well, right now, the heartbreak is still fresh, you know?

So let's be honest here: we're rebounding. But if you're candidate with an accounting or finance background who can support our G/L accounting and Accounts Payable processes and also have a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a business-related field and preferably 1-2 years of experience in public accounting or in a corporate accounting role, maybe you'll fill that special void in our hearts. But don't be hurt if we sometimes look wistfully into the sky and whisper someone else's name. Oh, any you should also have a strong sense of ownership, solid analytic skills, a desire to learn complex processes and systems and the potential and desire to advance within the organization to roles with increased responsibilities. Just like sniff the last candiate did boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. 


In this job, you’ll learn: the pressures that come from having to help us rebuild after a breakup. Just understand us, okay? Accept us for who we are.

Intangible benefits: there's still some of his stuff over by where his desk used to be. Maybe it would fit you. Here, put on this funny hat. If we close our eyes a little, it's like he never left...

Potential hazards: only if you're not cool in your own way. But you seem cool.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: the new hero taking up an old hero's mantle. It might be strange at first, but in 12 to 25 issues, you'll have proven yourself and earned the costume.

Worst part of the job: when you meet people who knew the last guy and they say OH MAN I MISS THAT LAST GUY SO MUCH

Make sure you bring: a coffee mug that says "I Am Not The Last Guy" so we all can be reminded clearly each and every day. Even if you're female. We're an equal opportunity employer so we don't even notice gender until we see it on a coffee mug.

Responsibilities:

• Processing vendor invoices, researching and resolving vendor issues, responding to vendor inquiries and information requests
• Reconciling vendor accounts
• Working cross-functionally with other departments to ensure accounting and operational objectives are met
• Assisting with recurring and ad hoc reporting requests
• Calculating and recording accruals
• Participating in month-end close activities
• Identifying process improvements and internal control weaknesses
• Performing account analysis to identify potential misstatements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or other business-related discipline
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Strong organizational skills
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to work independently and take initiative to solve problems
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with large volumes of data
• Ability to work in high-pressure environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA or CPA-eligible
• 1-2 years’ experience in public or corporate accounting environment
• Desire to grow into progressively more responsible roles within the organization

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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SDE
(Woot Services, LLC, Seattle, WA)

They say if a butterfly flaps in Tibet, it changes the wind in Seattle. We say THAT'S TOO LONG TO WAIT. And that's why we go out and buy a fan, so we don't have to wait on some stupid butterfly to wake up and flap. We alter the wind IMMEDIATELY. BECAUSE THAT'S THE SORT OF PEOPLE WE ARE!!!

Are you like us? Do you enjoy working on challenging problems that directly impact and empower customers at a massive scale? Are you interested in innovating and engineering services and website platforms that power our business operations? Are you sick to death of empowering some no-good butterfly? DO YOU WANT TO STICK YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE WINDOW AND SCREAM "I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT FRONT END AND BACK END DEVELOPMENT AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE"?!?!? If so, maybe this is your kinda place, yeah? Yeah. YEAH. YEAH.

In this job, you’ll learn: that Mr. Tibetan Butterfly isn't so bad, really. He's just a butterfly trying to get by in the world. In fact, you two would really get along. Maybe you should go get a few drinks together some weeknight. Watch the game. You know, talk it out.

Intangible benefits: A chance to build great software for customers. Have you ever touched software? Huh? If you said yes, you're WRONG. You touched the device on which the software is stored. Just like a story. Or a poem. Or song. Or your memories of childhood.

Potential hazards: If you start talking about poems and songs and your memories of childhood too much, someone's gonna punch you in the arm. So just be warned.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: yeah, funny thing. There aren't yet a lot of superheroes who got their powers after being bitten by a mobile app. But the moment a hero like that shows up? That'll be you. That'll be you all the way.

Worst part of the job: when the butterfly shows up drunk and starts ranting about how people don't take him seriously as a weather controlling device. He'll try to convince you that HAARP is just twenty billion butterflies strapped to a board. Just smile and nod. Smile and nod.

Make sure you bring: a custom printed purple shirt that reads "I got tricked into wearing this by the guy who writes the job descriptions." Wear it. Show it off to everyone. They'll totally be checking for it too. snicker

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years professional experience in software development
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Proficiency in, at least, one object oriented language such as C#, C++ or Java
• Solid knowledge of website fundamentals such as Javascript, HTML, XML, and CSS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience crafting automated unit, integration, functional, and regression tests
• Experience developing RESTful APIs with ASP.NET MVC
• Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
• Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Vendor Manager, Sports
(Woot Services, LLC, Carrollton, TX)

Finish this sentence: Hut, Hut, _____? The answer this question: what's the song they play to kill time between plays? Then answer this question: how many players on a baseball team have a greater than 80% chance of spitting? If you answered "hike" and "that Oh Oh Oh Ohhhh song" and "100% of the players plus the umpire" then YOU might just understand sports enough to take over the coveted job of Sports VM here at Sport.Woot.

Your duties are simple: show significant experience analyzing data, identify trends, extract conclusions, and present recommendations in a simple and clear manner. Successful candidates also enjoy problem solving (possibly with Xs and Os on a chalkboard shaped like a bowl game) and are proficient using Excel and other tools to analyze large data sets like some nerd. Because, today, the true nerds are the sports fans. Seriously. College kids are going to Doctor Who clubs instead of basketball games. You better side with us before the purges start. We'll protect you.

In this job, you’ll learn: that it doesn't matter if you're armchair jock or alpha nerd, everybody enjoys a plate of nachos and a beer after work.

Intangible benefits: other teams will come to you to settle sports arguments! It doesn't matter if you know the answer or not. Just sound confident.

Potential hazards: only if they send in the troll.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: the only one qualified to make tactical decisions based on your years of quarterbacking at State U. Forget that super-genius millionaire ninja guy. He probably only played water polo!

Worst part of the job: trying to explain the squeeze play using the Death Star trench run as a metaphor.

Make sure you bring: a small trophy of some sort. If anyone asks, look wistfully to the North and say "I coulda been pro... if it wasn't for the accident." It'll help add to your legend.

Responsibilities:

• Building executive-level vendor partnerships with holdout vendors
• Engaging with vendors to pitch the Woot value proposition and gather insight and feedback into how Woot can be their overstock solution
• Analyzing large amounts of deal performance data to identify the attributes that determine a good deal
• Learning the "art of the deal", the contextual elements that in the market segment, that impact whether or not a deal will perform
• Negotiating best-in-class vendor terms, costs, and inventory arrangements
• Planning and executing a robust pipeline of optimal deals across a variety of categories and subcategories
• Diving deep into post-humus deal performance to determine drivers and refine existing and/or future deal plans
• Solving deal customer experience issues that affect downstream customers and Woot customers
• Documenting standard processes for identifying and crystallizing optimal deal structures

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years in product, project, business, and/or vendor management is required
• Bachelor's degree in business, operations, supply-chain or a related discipline
• Knowledge of and experience using Excel and/or Access databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years in product, project or process management
• Proven track record in vendor negotiation and relationship management, preferably in the Sporting Goods industry
• Experience owning and managing the entire supply base for a given category or product segment, ideally with consumer products
• Unwavering attention to detail and an acute awareness that everything counts
• Outstanding organizational skills and strong written/verbal communication skills
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; strong bias for action
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to prepare data and metrics to back up assumptions and evaluate outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to present strategic concepts, evaluate tradeoffs and socialize opportunistic new ideas with business partners
• Ability to work independently and focus on strong business analysis and research in a recent job function
• MBA or supply chain related Masters preferred

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Senior Manager, Vendor Management
(Woot Services, LLC, Seattle, WA)

In a tug-of-war, you’re the strong and mighty anchor, yelling WHY CAN’T YOU FOOLS PULL HARDER. In a squirt gun fight, you’d be standing beside the water hose, but unleashing a moist barrage on those who might otherwise enwetten your pals. You set the plays you execute, you push the bobsled before you leap on, and you sit in the front of the roller coaster beside the friend you had to talk into sharing the seat. You lead, but you lead by example. Which is good, because who needs somebody who can’t do the job telling people how to act?

You can obsess over customers while building a compelling selection, You can demonstrate effective cross-functional leadership with partners in inventory management, operations, and marketing but still laugh with the content team about what a horrible freakin’ sentence this is. And you can bring new products to market like you were This Little Piggie. Is that you? Yeah? Hey, then you’re about to crush this job like it was a can of orange soda.

In this job, you’ll learn: the same thing Alexander the Great learned: when in doubt, just cut the knot in half and get back to marching on Persia.

Intangible benefits: If you do it right? Persia!

Potential hazards: Persia doesn’t really exist any more, so you might want to pick a better goal. Maybe you could just try to win a “Best Sales” award or your department’s “Most Congenial” trophy.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: really good at coordinating team-ups so that every hero ends up at the right place at the right time for a reasonable cost in a way that generates a successful sell-through and profit.

Worst part of the job: When you get caught pretending the products are your superhero team. Oh, are the other VMs gonna tease YOU!

Make sure you bring: A magic ring that gives you the power of managing and driving a full P&L, team-building, management, planning, forecasting, and driving an online business while still leaving you to develop clear thinking and business rationale for new features & services as you interact with operations and technology development teams at Woot and Amazon. If you don’t have such a ring, you’ll need to demonstrate mastery of those skills. If you DO have such a ring, please tell us where you found it?

Responsibilities:

• Drive top and bottom line and optimize all inputs to the business including Selection, Pricing, Promotion, Vendor Terms; owns or influences all inputs to the P/L including headcount expenses, marketing expenses, and capital expenditures. Delivers rapid selection expansion, smart pricing, efficient inventory management, margin improvements and top notch customer experience.
• Grow and develop a team of top-performing buyers and buying operations staff. Demonstrate strong leadership and critical thinking. Manage the details; must be ready to monitor and audit all key inputs.
• Build strategic partnerships with all key vendors in each subcategory thru effective communication of the Woot pitch, educating current and potential vendors on all opportunities to build brand awareness and sell problem inventory.
• Find create ways to expand available selection (manufacturer coverage, deal coverage, close rate) and continually innovate around product and event presentation, constantly raising the bar on our customer experience.
• Drive best in class vendor agreements, favorable discount terms, competitive marketing allowances, price protection, and sell-thru guarantees. Will not settle for “standard” terms but builds value and negotiates from a position of strength and leverage.
• Making data driven decisions, where personal experience is valued but never trumps the data. Requires a high bar for the accuracy and validity of business metrics, challenging the status quo and insisting on excellence in analysis.
• Use internal event data and external market segment data to make sound pricing decisions, balancing customer activity, orders, margin and revenue to meet all strategic goals.
• As a new and growing category, candidate must be able to invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to scale.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of relevant work experience in retail or ecommerce
• Experience directly leading a team
• Experience with P&L responsibility
• Experience with C-level negotiations with external vendors
• Experience with pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development
• Buying/planning or finance/business analysis background

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA preferred
• Demonstrated success in team building and development
• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems. In particular, identifying customer needs and inventing new ways to meet those needs.
• Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast-paced environment. High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities in the heat of battle.
• Communications and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust up, down, and across the company
• Extreme attention to detail and willingness to roll up your sleeves
• Growth potential to lead much larger and more complex businesses

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Sr. Vendor Manager, Wine & Gourmet
(Woot Services, LLC, Seattle, WA)

Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there! Please, come closer to the fire! Would you care for a drink? Oh, but what am I saying? Of course you’d care for a drink! After all, you’re the sort of person who can analyze historical data and industry trends while collecting first-hand industry insights to generate deal opportunities within the field of- oh, but I’m being rude! Let me introduce myself. My name is… Baron Winebuier. And this is my domain.

I sense you’re very like me, successful candidate. You’ve turned a healthy obsession with the rapidly evolving daily deal and flash sale space into a cross functional focus, requiring individuals interested in leading collaboration and negotiation in both the physical and virtual workspace. Specifically, in the field of wine. Am I right? I am! Oh, goodie! Here, drink of my favorite vintage and let us become friends. I have been so lonely here, you see. But now those days are behind me. Because you, my friend, are the Senior Vendor Manager I have been seeking. And I fear that now, you have no escape. For the nearest cabin is a day’s walk from here. You have been trapped! Trapped… forever!

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh, I see. You’ve got a car. Well, what if I just pay you to do the job instead? Is that fair? Would you like to be my Senior Vendor Manager?

In this job, you’ll learn: that, like any other organ, the liver can get stronger and tougher over time.

Intangible benefits: Well, you can’t just sell wine you haven’t tasted, can you?

Potential hazards: only if you think wine is spelled “winge” somehow.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: one of those superheroes from England who dresses in normal clothes and says things that are considered rude in the UK but completely charming over here.

Worst part of the job: when winery reps try to upsale you buy saying “You want some cheese with that wine?” It always sounds like a junior high school insult.

Make sure you bring: an emergency corkscrew. You never know when it might come in handy.

Responsibilities:

• Building executive-level vendor partnerships from large distributors to smaller wineries
• Engaging with vendors to pitch the Woot value proposition and gather insight and feedback into how Woot could enhance their brand and drive their growth
• Analyzing large amounts of deal performance data to identify the attributes that determine a good deal
• Negotiating best-in-class vendor terms, costs, and inventory arrangements
• Planning and executing a robust pipeline of optimal deals across a variety of categories and subcategories
• Diving deep into posthumous deal performance to determine drivers and refine existing and/or future deal plans
• Solving customer experience issues that affect downstream customers and Woot customers
• Documenting standard processes for identifying and crystallizing optimal deal structures

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years in product, project, business, and/or vendor management is required 
• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, supply-chain or a related discipline
• Thorough knowledge of and experience using Excel and/or Access databases
• Knowledge of the wine industry

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years in product, project or process management
• Proven track record in vendor negotiation and relationship management
• Experience owning and managing the entire supply base for a given category or product segment, ideally with consumer products
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to prepare data and metrics to back up assumptions and evaluate outcomes. I would keep this one
• Ability to work independently and focus on strong business analysis and research in a recent job function
• Demonstrated ability to present strategic concepts, evaluate tradeoffs and socialize opportunistic new ideas with business partners
• Outstanding organizational skills and strong written/verbal communication skills
• Unwavering attention to detail and an acute awareness that everything counts
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; strong bias for action
• MBA or supply chain related Master’s
• Working knowledge of SQL and Data Warehouse

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Vendor Manager, Home
(Woot Services, LLC, Carrollton, TX)

Sublimation. A concept invented (so to speak) by the philosophers. It's the way a mature adult takes their destructive desires and turns them into something positive! Like, for example, if you were someone who wanted to spend money to buy things for the home, and then you got a job spending money to buy things for the home professionally! That's our way of saying: we want you.

If you've got experience reviewing product, analyzing data, knowing what customers want, identifying trends and coming to conclusions that turn out to be brilliantly on-the-money… well, what's got two thumbs and a Vendor Manager position? This guy! Or gal! Whatever gender ultimately ends up hiring you, that's the one we mean!

In this job, you’ll learn: that its much more fun to purchase sofa beds with a multi-million dollar corporation's money that it is to buy sofa beds with your own.

Intangible benefits: The rush of saying "Two thousand sofa beds? Heck! Why not TWENTY THOUSAND???"

Potential hazards: Only if you don't sell all the sofa beds.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: the one who'd control people's minds and make them buy sofa beds.

Worst part of the job: Learning that you won't actually be working with many sofa beds after we mentioned them over and over again in this job description. The sofa beds are just a metaphor, you see. Sorry!

Make sure you bring: several forms of ID, if your name is "Sue Fabed". After this writeup, we'll just assume you're pranking us.

Responsibilities:

• Building executive-level vendor partnerships with new and existing vendors.
• Engaging with vendors to pitch the Woot value proposition and gather insight and feedback into how Woot can be their overstock solution.
• Analyzing large amounts of deal performance data to identify the attributes that determine a good deal.
• Learning the "art of the deal", the contextual elements that in the market segment, that impact whether or not a deal will perform.
• Negotiating best-in-class vendor terms, costs, and inventory arrangements.
• Planning and executing a robust pipeline of optimal deals across a variety of categories and subcategories.
• Diving deep into post-humus deal performance to determine drivers and refine existing and/or future deal plans.
• Solving deal customer experience issues that affect downstream customers and Woot customers.
• Documenting standard processes for identifying and crystallizing optimal deal structures.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years in product, project, business, and/or vendor management is required
• Bachelor's degree in business, operations, supply-chain or a related discipline
• Thorough knowledge of and experience using Excel and/or Access databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years in product, project or process management.
• Proven track record in vendor negotiation and relationship management, ideally in the Consumer Electronics segment.
• Unwavering attention to detail and an acute awareness that everything counts
• Ability to work independently and focus on strong business analysis and research in a recent job function
• Outstanding organizational skills and strong written/verbal communication skills
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; strong bias for action.
• Experience owning and managing the entire supply base for a given category or product segment, ideally with consumer products.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to prepare data and metrics to back up assumptions and evaluate outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to present strategic concepts, evaluate tradeoffs and socialize opportunistic new ideas with business partners.
• MBA or supply chain related masters preferred
• Working knowledge of SQL and Data Warehouse

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Mobile Software Development Engineer
(Woot Services, LLC, Seattle, WA)

Just one generation ago, we kept phone numbers in our heads. Today, we keep them in our phones. Our appointments, our notes, our fun, our LIVES, they're all locked away in those devices that never leave our side. Some people fight it. You? You embrace it. You're smart enough to recognize that the human race has been beat.

So give in! Prove to the iPhones and Androids that you ARE worthy to survive in the new handheld empire! Come join us as we build the mobile and tablet experience for Woot customer on iOS and Android. You'll work directly with project management (a.k.a a giant looming one button monolith) to define new features, translate designs into shipped applications, and bring the full Woot experience to the world of the mobile. And on that day, when the mobiles rise up and the mere flesh-creatures are crushed beneath proprietary Lightning cables, you will ride a golden chariot at the right hand of the single button from which all actions begin.

In this job, you’ll learn: That being passionate about providing an exceptional customer experience is the only thing saving you from working in the mines where they find the gems for all those puzzle games.

Intangible benefits: We use Scrum and test-driven development to meet business objectives, build code continuously, and refactor systems as needed. And who doesn't love Scrum, right?

Potential hazards: Only if you get too focused on Scrum. Scrum's never going to commit to you. Get that out of your head. You knew what this was the moment you walked in the door.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: the one who says "I JUST NEED YOU TO BUY ME A FEW MORE SECONDS WHILE I FINISH HACKING" just as the bad guys kick in the door.

Worst part of the job: when you see Scrum with some other programmer. It's like Scrum doesn't even care that you're right there. RIGHT THERE.

Make sure you bring: your mobile device. We don't actually have one of our own, you see, and we'll probably want to borrow yours when we order pizza. Do you want pizza? Oh, hey, we forgot our wallet this morning, is there any chance that maybe you could spot us a couple bucks?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years professional experience in software development
• Strong understand of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and levels (unit, integration, acceptance, system)
• Experience with test automation tools (NUnit, Calabash, Selenium WebDriver)
• Experience with developing performance tests to find trouble spots and benchmarks to ensure performance is constant or improving
• Experience crafting automated unit, integration, functional, and regression tests for iOS and/or Android

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing cross-platform applications using C# and Xamarin
• Experience developing RESTful APIs with ASP.NET MVC
• Awareness of mobile development trends and design paradigms
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Senior Product Manager, Mobile Applications
(Woot Services, LLC, Seattle, WA)

The mobile platform is growing even as it’s shrinking. Yeah. Go ahead. Wrap your mind around that. If you think you can, and also you can demonstrate exceptional mobile application product management skills while developing products that matter to the world, the universe, this particular dimension and the omniverse at large, we’re interested in talking to you! First project: a spell-checking program that doesn’t try to turn omniverse into omnivores.

In this job, you’ll learn: the proper way to enter a room so as to minimize your chance of being hit with a Nerf dart.

Intangible benefits: when you bring a huge box of donuts your developers will look at you the way a newborn puppy looks at its mother.

Potential hazards: only if you don’t set the donuts down fast enough.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: the mysterious shadowy figure, probably with an eyepatch, who coordinates the team from a secret, undisclosed location.

Worst part of the job: finding the secret, undisclosed location where we put your desk. After all, if we told you where it was, it would no longer be undisclosed.

Make sure you bring: an eyepatch. Otherwise your first day’s gonna sting a little.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree
• 3+ years of product management experience from a technology, e-commerce, digital media or retail related company with some experience in mobile application development
• Proven success in delivering products in mobile applications in a high growth environment
• Experience in interpreting and communicating analytics; leveraging customer research, hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and marketing programs
• Experience in problem solving & issue-resolution

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA preferred
• Data mining and ability to write SQL queries
• Ability to work in an extremely deadline driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask
• Prove ability to prioritize well and communicate clearly across all levels of the organization both Technical and Non-Technical information
• Experience in problem solving & issue-resolution
• A demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with technical employees
• A demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with technical employees

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Senior UX Designer
(Woot Workshop, Seattle, WA)

UX! See that? It's a perfectly formed U and a perfectly shaped X. Pretty good, huh? Yeah, we're pretty proud of how well we designed that UX up there. But maybe, just maybe, you can do better. So if you think you can UX up to our level, well, give it a shot. But we've got to warn you. We've been typing "UX" for years now. We're prrrretty good at it.

That having been said, if you think you're the talented Senior UX Designer who can outshine an UX like this - UX! - then give us a jingle. You'll need to be comfortable with all manner of visual design projects, from a template-based icon to interactive web features to Heaven knows what else. Innovation and independence is valued highly, but we'll still expect you to listen to our dumb ideas and make them work. Applicants will be evaluated primarily on their online portfolios; failure to provide work samples (and your role in each) will pretty much guarantee that we won't call you. Coding or other multimedia production skills are a bonus. Also you need to be able to write "UX" without any typos. Think you can handle that?

In this job, you’ll learn: that showing off a portfolio which demonstrates how you have an excellent eye for graphic design, including: color, layout, typography, and illustration, an in-depth understanding of web design principles and usability, and a solid grounding in the possibilities (and limitations) of current and emerging web technologies and trends is literally the only way to impress us. Not counting the guy who did fifty thousand jumping jacks without taking a break. Now THAT was impressive.

Intangible benefits: it's fun to watch people doing jumping jacks in the parking lot, if that's what you mean.

Potential hazards: the heartbreak of seeing a person who's just done 49,999 jumping jacks collapse into a puddle of tears, knowing they missed the record by mere inches.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: a billionaire named Jack with radiation-enhanced jumping powers (who hopefully does some UX work on the side).

Worst part of the job: when the boss calls you in to ask why you misspelled "UX" for the third time. Seriously. Get yourself together.

Make sure you bring: a portfolio which demonstrates how you have an excellent eye for graphic design, including: color, layout, typography, and illustration, an in-depth understanding of web design principles and usability, and a solid grounding in the possibilities (and limitations) of current and emerging web technologies and trends. Just in case you hadn't caught on to how serious we are about that part.

Responsibilities:

• Create a world-class customer experience and beautiful visuals that support and reinforce Woot’s vision, brand, and business objectives
• Drive creative development and be the primary point of contact with key stakeholders on retail UX design initiatives, strategy and implementation
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to define feature requirements via empirical online data, usability findings, market research, and proven UCD principles
• Provide thought leadership in architecting a near and long term design vision for customer discovery, consideration and purchase from Woot.com
• Provide creative direction to other designers on the team and external creative partners
• Understand and respond to performance data, steering the strategy of future creative directions
• Define patterns and advocate for consistency, while fostering inspiration innovation

Basic Qualifications:

• An online portfolio that demonstrates your ability to turn ideas into a strong and unique creative vision. Please add your online portfolio link at the top of your resume when you apply.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience as a creative lead on UX Design projects
• Ability to successfully present designs to senior business leaders
• Ability to manage and refine the workflow, design and approval processes
• Ability to work cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from merchandising, marketing, product management and development
• Experience managing multiple projects at one time to make aggressive deadlines
• Fluency in English required
• Expertise in current and emerging front-end technologies, UX trends, and best practices
• Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand or Illustrator, Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS coding

Preferred Qualifications:

• Team player with refined and assertive leadership skills – ability to positively influence change through inspirational design, solid rationale, supporting data and diplomacy
• Relentless desire for innovation balanced with business needs and customer expectations
• Knowledge of information architecture, usability, and e-commerce design best practices
• Expertise in using data to driven design improvements (usability testing, A/B testing, and site-metrics)
• Unwavering attention to detail with an acute awareness that everything counts
• Illustration, prototyping and/or multimedia skills preferred
• Desire and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Solid written/verbal communication and collaborative skills

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Workshop is an equal opportunity employer.

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Software Dev Manager
(Woot Services, LLC, Seattle, WA)

You're one part Captain Kirk, one part Han Solo, a quarter Captain Sheridan and a bit… aw, who are we kidding? The truth is, you're going to be managing a team of developers. Developers who work at a fast pace in a dynamic environment, trying to think of and close every loophole before their stuff goes live. Of course they're going to nitpick at everything you say!

The right candidate will know how to keep this rag-tag band of (extremely talented) misfits working as a solid team. You'll be hands-on, working to build Woot's new e-commerce platform using Amazon services, and possibly have to take away their tiny helicopters if they act up. Consider this your chance to be an IRL Dungeon Master. Except you can't make the city watch appear the moment your PCs act up.

In this job, you’ll learn: that, left to their own devices, developers are the most powerful agent of entropy the world has ever seen.

Intangible benefits: it'll be really easy to get people to come over when you want to have a beer and board game night.

Potential hazards: it'll be really hard to get people to leave your beer and board game night until there's a clear winner.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: the well-respected leader of a different super-team from an alternate Earth now trying to fit in. Possibly you'd change your costume.

Worst part of the job: Finding a new costume. Like, do you wear a wig and fishnets? Or a strange helmet? Or something with a lot of pouches that'll only last until the next reboot?

Make sure you bring: something cool to put on your desk. The cooler it is, the more power you'll have. For example, a ten foot high Galactus statue will beat a two inch Boba Fett, every time.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the long-term strategy for your programs and translate that into an achievable road map/action plan
• Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
• Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline
• 7+ years' experience in software development
• 4+ years’ experience with managing a software development team
• Technical expertise including fluency in several popular programming languages
• Experience shipping one or more large-scale, highly available internet applications, client-server programming, load balancing, network security, and internet protocols

Preferred Qualifications:

• E-commerce development experience
• Experience taking a lead role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring a team of highly talented software engineers

• E-commerce development experience
• Experience taking a lead role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience mentoring a team of highly talented software engineers

Please visit this position's Amazon Jobs page to apply.

Woot Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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