We’re excited to bring you our sixteenth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Living Social, Princess Lasertron, HowMuchWhere.com, and Oriental Trading, all located in Omaha.
If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing and a short description of your company. We’re looking for all types of opportunities, from a week-long project to a full-time position. We hope to help you make a connection.
If you apply to one below, make sure to mention that you found it on Silicon Prairie News.
LivingSocial – Account Executive (Omaha)
LivingSocial Deals has a deal per day in multiple cities of up to 90% off at restaurants, bars, spas, comedy clubs, sporting events and more.
Thanks to our sponsor
LivingSocial is a young, fast-moving and well-funded startup that is rapidly expanding to cities all over the country. We are looking for an Account Executive to sell the company’s fastest growing product – LivingSocial Deals. This innovative program promotes local businesses to local consumers through a special “daily deal.” You’ll use your knowledge of what’s great about your city to develop and grow the local market by securing commitments from the most desirable local businesses including restaurants, spas, nightclubs, retailers, theaters, tourism venues, and more. This position offers salary (commensurate with experience) plus bonuses and unlimited commissions based on revenue, sales targets and company goals.
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of the local marketplace including consumer trends and popular area merchants and attractions
- Minimum of 3-5 years sales experience required – preferably in online advertising, direct marketing, local advertising or pharmaceutical sales but will consider all sales backgrounds
- Strategic thinker with proven consulting and interpersonal skills
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability sell at all decision-making levels
- Self-motivated team player that can exceed goals and revenue expectations.
- Knowledge of social media including Facebook and Twitter
- Able to work with minimal supervision while maintaining focus, productivity and meeting deadlines
- Flexible, and able to quickly adapt to new situations
Our clients’ receive risk-free advertising with no up-front expense or out of pocket fees and receive huge exposure in the local market. If you like selling programs that you can believe in then this is the job for you! We have a limited number of openings and are ready to hire in your city today!
Princess Lasertron – Part-Time Assistant (Omaha)
Megan Hunt, a.k.a. Princess Lasertron, is a bridal designer and blogger
A lot of wonderful opportunities and projects have come my way this year, and I am finding my plate full with more work than I can take on myself. I need a part-time assistant (10-15 hours/week) who can help me manage my business and lighten my workload.
Main responsibilities include:
- Helping to assemble kits
- Helping me answer e-mail
- Some light stitching on bouquet orders
- Photographing merchandise
- Writing product descriptions and uploading new listings in online store
- Packaging orders for shipment
- Reordering supplies
- Helping to design and package promotional materials
Sometimes you might have to:
- Help manage and promote the Princess Lasertron by Dress Forms dress line (selecting models, packaging press releases, assembling hang tags on garments)
- Help as needed with the organization/management of CAMP Coworking
- Send press releases, samples, and copy to media outlets (blogs, magazines, etc)
HowMuchWhere.com – PHP Programmer and WordPress Hacker
What did you do this summer? Worked on killer project that could be the next Facebook.
Ground floor opportunity for developer with the right skills and attitude to work with proven executives on new Internet venture.
The right candidate will receive incredible resume and career building experience while earning an equity position in company.
Must be project driven, creative and able to work independently. Flexible hours while doing custom WordPress plug-in development for project using WordPress MU with BuddyPress as platform.
Degree not required, but outstanding skills are! The successful candidate has:
- PHP programming and hacking skills
- MySQL experience
- CSS skills
- CURL skills desirable
- Ajax skills desirable
For an experience that could change your life, send your resume and examples of functional PHP code you have written to Rich Gommermann at rich@howmuchwhere.com.
Oriental Trading – Email Marketing Specialist (Omaha)
Oriental Trading Company is the nation’s leading direct marketer of value-priced novelties, toys and party supplies.
As our Email Marketing Specialist you are responsible for the development and execution of email marketing programs and site content designed to drive website traffic. You will work with our Creative and Merchandising teams to achieve marketing strategy, including theme, messaging, promotional offers and link facilitation. Additionally, you will not only monitor competitive intelligence, but, you will report on trending and untapped opportunities. Best of all, you will work with the email service provider and database team to optimize targeting, acquisition and retention opportunities
Here’s what you need to join the fun:
- Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Advertising, or related field preferred
- Must have 3-5 years online marketing experience
- Email Marketing experience preferred
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills
- Technically savvy and able to learn new concepts and software applications quickly
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present comfortably in front of large groups
