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Are you ready to help manage and grow a community of hackers?

1 pointsby rvivekalmost 12 years ago
We are building an engaged community of problem solvers in different domains of CS and we need help in marketing&#x2F;biz-dev part of the company. [1]<p>Hypothesis: Every hacker has a type of challenge presented in a certain level of difficulty that really intrigues him&#x2F;her. We&#x27;re working to build the largest and the most engaging community of hackers in every domain of CS.<p>Milestones: We have over 120k hackers and our one month retention for active users is 40%! We&#x27;re growing fast and... we&#x27;re still in beta.<p>Welcome &lt;your-name-here&gt;<p>Role:<p>&gt;To actively engage &amp; interact with the current hackers (get feedback)<p>&gt;Measure every action on the site and see ways to improve the product to increase retention.<p>&gt;Feature stories on some incredible hackers (eg: Steve Jurveston&#x27;s kid who is still in high school won a math contest at hackerrank (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.fb.me&#x2F;10aPXGY)<p>&gt;Manage &amp; organize contests like (hackerrank.com&#x2F;calvsucsd; hackerrank.com&#x2F;uho)<p>&gt;Manage the hackerrank clubs in US (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerrank.com&#x2F;hackerclubs&#x2F;us) &amp; many more.. The role is a hybrid of business development &amp; a community&#x2F;user engagement specialist.<p>==============================<p>Team:<p>We&#x27;re a team of 19 almost equally split between Mountain View, CA &amp; India. This role is in Mountain View.<p>You&#x27;ll be working with an incredible smart team that comprises of ACM world finalists, ex-Googlers&#x2F;Amazonians and most importantly people who are fired up &amp; inspired to get things done no matter what. I can guarantee that this will be a place where you&#x27;ll realize your peak potential.<p>Recent coverage on Forbes: forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;georgeanders&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;17&#x2F;in-silicon-valley-talent-war-zombie-math-rules&#x2F;<p>==============================<p>Interested?<p>If this sounds interesting, e-mail us with<p>a. The biggest non-technical hack you&#x27;ve done. An example where you (or the rest of the world) thought it wasn&#x27;t possible to do but you ended up figuring out a way to get it done.<p>b. A simple program in Go that prints &quot;Hello world&quot; 100 times - you&#x27;re going to be interacting with hackers. Even though a CS degree isn&#x27;t essential, the curiosity to understand and learn a programming language is.<p>c. The biggest failure you&#x27;ve faced till now.<p>Let&#x27;s talk (vivek [at] hackerrank)<p>==============================<p>Notes<p>[1] We are looking for other positions as well (hackerrank.com&#x2F;careers)

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