Jobs at DoSomething.org


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Our office is located in New York City


Positions Available:

DoSomething.org helps young people (25 and under) rock causes they care about.

Rules we live by:

  1. Believe in young people. Young people can lead today. We don’t require old people.
  2. Trust young people. We provide reliable, easy to access information and activation strategies, but young people decide for themselves what to do.
  3. Celebrate young people. We think all measurable contributions from young people are valuable.
  4. Listen to young people. We must always respect their varied abilities and time constraints.
  5. Value young people. Our programs and products are free. We’re not after young people’s money; we want their passion, time, and creativity.

Position: Social Web Developer

Reports to: CTO

Description

Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new challenges with innovative tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented people to help drive this. DoSomething.org offers incredible career development and networking as we partner with top fortune 500 companies and top Silicon Valley companies. We need a social web developer that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our national action campaigns to the next level. This position will focus on ‘5X’-ing the way we build on our social network presence and integrate it with our site. Check out the design for our new web site, launching soon! All you really need to know: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

Responsibilities:

  • Help expand and improve functionality of DoSomething.org
  • Contribute ideas and work as a member of the tech team in solving problems
  • Work with innovative technologies that increase the ways young people take action
  • Some Front-end web development for cause campaign micro-sites, and programmatic sections of the site
  • Help A/B test high volume sections of DoSomething.org
  • Good to great kickball or settlers player

Requirements:

  • College degree or relevant experience in the field
  • Experience working on content/community based sites
  • Knowledge of the following technologies: HTML, CSS, JQuery, XML, JSON
  • Knowledge of following platforms: Facebook Developer API, Twitter API, Tumblr, Drupal
  • Applications/software: Adobe Suite 4+, version control (GitHub or like system)
  • Keen interest in young people taking action
  • Interest in innovation, brainstorming, all things creative, etc...
  • Play nicely with others: ability to work with a team...

How to apply:

  • Send a one page resume to george+developer@dosomething.org with the subject line “I LIKE Dosomething.org!"
  • Send at least two URLs of sites or projects you have worked on with a brief (1-2 sentence) explanations of your responsibilities on those sites.
  • Answer the following questions:
    • 1.What is your favorite use of social media on a website?
    • Google+ vs. Facebook (for teens)- Discuss (in 2 sentences):
    • Describe your dream job culture?

Position: Front-End Developer

Reports to: CTO

Description

Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new challenges with innovative tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented people to help drive this. DoSomething.org offers incredible career development and networking as we partner with top fortune 500 companies and top Silicon Valley companies. We need a front-end web developer that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our Mobile and Drupal- based platforms to the next level. Check out the design for our new web site, launching soon! Being an awesome kickball player & karaoke all-star is a huge plus. All you really need to know: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

Responsibilities:

  • Help expand and improve functionality of DoSomething.org
  • Contribute ideas and work as a member of the tech team in solving problems
  • Work with innovative technologies that increase the ways young people take action (analytic-driven messaging, Mobile SMS & WAP)
  • Front-end web development for cause campaign micro-sites, and programmatic sections of the site
  • Good to great kickball or settlers player

Requirements:

  • College degree or relevant experience in the field
  • Experience working on content/community based sites
  • Knowledge of the following technologies: X/HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP (a plus), MySQL
  • Knowledge of Drupal, or like CMS a plus
  • Applications/software: version control (GitHub or like system), Unix, Adobe Suite 4+
  • Keen interest in young people taking action
  • Interest in innovation, brainstorming, all things creative, etc...
  • Play nicely with others: ability to work with a team...

How to apply:

  • Send a one page resume to george+developer@dosomething.org with the subject line with the subject line “I eat CSS for breakfast”
  • Send at least two URLs of sites or projects you have worked on with a brief (1-2 sentence) explanations of your responsibilities on those sites.
  • Answer the following questions:
    • 1.What is your favorite use of social media on a website?
    • Form vs. Function - Discuss (in 2 sentences):
    • Describe your dream job culture?

Position: Drupal Developer

Reports to: CTO

Description

Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new challenges with innovative tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented people to help drive this. DoSomething.org offers incredible career development and networking as we partner with top fortune 500 companies and top Silicon Valley companies. We need a developer that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our Mobile and Drupal- based platforms to the next level. Check out the design for our new web site, launching soon! Being an awesome kickball player & karaoke all-star is a huge plus. All you really need to know: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

Responsibilities:

  • Help expand and improve functionality of DoSomething.org
  • Contribute ideas and work as a member of the tech team in solving problems
  • Work with innovative technologies that increase the ways young people take action (analytic-driven messaging, Mobile SMS & WAP)
  • Some front-end web development for cause campaign micro-sites, and programmatic sections of the site
  • Good to great kickball or settlers player

Requirements:

  • College degree or relevant experience in the field
  • Experience working on content/community based sites
  • Knowledge of the following technologies: HTML, CSS, Object-Oriented PHP, MySQL, JQuery
  • Knowledge of following platforms: Drupal, Facebook developer (a plus)
  • Applications/software: version control (GitHub or like system), Unix, Adobe Suite (familiar)
  • Keen interest in young people taking action
  • Interest in innovation, brainstorming, all things creative, etc...
  • Play nicely with others: ability to work with a team...

How to apply:

  • Send a one page resume to george+developer@dosomething.org include “I want to develop something!”
  • Send at least two URLs of sites you have worked on with a brief (1-2 sentence) explanations of your responsibilities on those sites. Huge points for listing any Drupal modules or open source project you’ve contributed to.
  • Answer the following questions: 1. What is one thing you’d change on the DoSomething.org site to increase # of young people taking action? 2.What does the word ‘wikiality’ mean?
  • Note - H-1B visas are available for this position.

Position: Tech Maverick

Reports to: CTO

Description

Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new challenges with innovative social change tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented tech people to help drive this. We need a someone that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our Mobile and Drupal-based website to the next level. All you really need to know about us: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

Responsibilities and Requirements:

  • You tell us. Seriously. We need super smart people that think outside the box, so why not start with creating one for you to fit right in...

How to apply:

  • Send a one page resume to george+developer@dosomething.org with the subject line “I am a tech maverick!?”
  • Send at least two URLs of sites or projects you have worked on with a brief (1-2 sentence)
  • Answer the following questions: 1. Why are you qualified for the tech position you've described? 2. Describe your dream job culture?

Position: Business Development

Reports to: COO

Description

DoSomething.org is a unique, one-of-a-kind place to work. Everyone here is super-smart, super-diverse and super-passionate and we want someone who fits in with our Karaoke-loving, hard-working, execution-oriented office.

The business development team at DoSomething.org gets to work with awesome companies like American Express, VH1, Aéropostale, Popcorn Indiana and other top youth brands in order to make our national cause campaigns come to life. You are an excellent DoSomething.org brand ambassador and you get to show it off in various external meetings, presentations, pitches and conferences. This is a super fast-paced and exciting job.

Responsibilities:

  • Business Development
    • Corporate fundraise for all DS programs including Campaigns, Clubs, Membership, Boot Camp and Grants/Scholarships programs
    • Cold-call, attend conferences, and liaise with board of directors for appropriate sponsor contacts
    • Work with graphics team to create on-brand sales materials
    • Pitch Do Something in-person, on the phone, and at key conferences
  • Sponsor Management
    • Primary contact for sponsor relationships
    • Ensure sponsor is happy and all goals are met for each campaign
    • Retain and re-sign key sponsors
  • Campaign Creation
    • Work with the Campaigns team to dream up new and exciting calls to action that are both impactful and attractive to sponsors

Requirements:

  • Super outgoing, personable and high energy
  • You’re not afraid to march up to the CEO of your favorite company and ask to meet her for lunch
  • A self starter - you have the ability to foresee what needs to be done and when
  • Multi-tasking is your preferred work style
  • A good sense of humor
  • Passionate about social change
  • You know what’s up when it comes to pop culture and the teen lifestyle
  • You’re super creative and not afraid to share your awesome ideas

Additionally:

  • 3 weeks vacation plus the week between Christmas and New Years, office on Union Square, fun office environment, a spot on our summer kickball team, occasional brownie bake-offs. Plus, you don’t have to come to work on your birthday (but we’ll probably bake you cookies if you do)
  • Competetive salary on a not-fot-profit scale plus a competitive benefits package
  • Do Something is an equal opportunity employer (Although we do reserve the right to discriminate against people who wear white socks with dark shoes...)

How to apply:

  • Email cover page and one page resume to to Aria Finger at afinger@dosomething.org with the subject line “BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT”
  • Please also include:
    • What is your favorite DoSomething.org campaign and why?
    • Send a list of the top five companies Do Something should partner with and why
  • Send names, emails, and telephone numbers of two professional references
  • No phone calls please

Position: External Data Developer

  • Reports to: CTO

    • Description

    Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new challenges with innovative tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented people to help drive this. DoSomething.org offers incredible career development and networking as we partner with top fortune 500 companies and top Silicon Valley companies. We need a web developer that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our national action campaigns to the next level. This position will focus on dramatically improving the way we engage with young people on our site by building and overseeing operations of a teen “listening post,” which will gather data from Twitter, Facebook, and other rich data sources on what factors increase and inhibit teen volunteerism and social change, with an eye towards helping our organization and other non-profits to better engage with teens. All you really need to know: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

    Responsibilities:

    • External Listening Post
      • Drive strategic thinking/assessment around external explicit and implicit data opportunities (ie the ability to “listen” to teens). Which platforms are valuable and how can we pull from them?
      • Oversee plan for monitoring DoSomething.org’s mobile phone user behavior and interactions across various social networks
      • Continuously improve functionality of external data gathering (i.e. fine-tune listening ability)
    • Data Marketing and Product Development
      • Work with other DoSomething.org developers, data analysts, and creative team to present listening post findings to staff and other non-profits in compelling and actionable ways
      • Assist in proper marketing of relevant APIs to other non-profits
      • Inform new DoSomething.org content, marketing and campaign strategies based on external data
    • Problem Solving, Innovation, and Testing
      • Contribute ideas and work as a member of the tech and data teams in solving problems
      • Work with innovative technologies that increase the rate of young people taking action
      • Help A/B test high volume sections of DoSomething.org
      • Work with data analysts to automate reporting of relevant metrics to staff members
      • Good to great kickball or settlers player

    Requirements:

    • College degree or relevant experience in the field
    • Experience working with structured and unstructured data
    • Understanding of NoSQL database management systems, with strong knowledge of 1+ software frameworks that support data-intensive distributed applications (e.g., Hadoop)
    • Knowledge of the following technologies: HTML, CSS, JQuery, XML, JSON
    • Knowledge of following platforms: Facebook Developer API, Twitter API, Tumblr, Drupal
    • Applications/software: Adobe Suite 4+, version control (GitHub or like system)
    • Keen interest in young people taking action
    • Interest in innovation, brainstorming, all things creative, etc.
    • Play nicely with others: ability to work with a team

    Additionally:

    • 3 weeks vacation plus the week between Christmas and New Years, office on Union Square, fun office environment, a spot on our summer kickball team, occasional brownie bake-offs. Plus, you don’t have to come to work on your birthday (but we’ll probably bake you cookies if you do)
    • Competetive not-for-profit salary plus a great benefits package
    • Do Something is an equal opportunity employer

    How to apply:

    • Send a one page resume to george+developer@dosomething.org with the subject line “Listen carefully, Dosomething.org!"
    • Send at least two URLs of sites or projects you have worked on with a brief (1-2 sentence) explanations of your responsibilities on those sites or projects.
    • Answer the following questions:
      • What is your favorite distributed database management system?
      • Implicit vs. Explicit Data (for understanding teen behavior), Discuss (in 2 sentences)
      • Describe your dream job culture

      Position: Internal Data Developer

    • Reports to: CTO

      • Description

      The strongest data-driven organizations live by the motto: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t fix it.” Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new data challenges with innovative tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented people to help drive this. DoSomething.org offers incredible career development and networking as we partner with top fortune 500 companies and top Silicon Valley companies. We need a web developer that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our national action campaigns to the next level. This position will focus on dramatically improving the way we engage with young people on our site by overseeing database creation and management, as well as internal data processing at scale. All you really need to know: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

      Responsibilities:

      • Inetrnal Data Systems Management
        • Develop and manage what DoSomething.org needs to process internal data to create intelligent communication systems and implement analytics at scale
        • Improve accessibility of information to staff via integration of database systems with a CRM, such as SalesForce or Drupal
      • Implicit Data and Product Development
        • Assist with strategic thinking, assessment, and implementation around implicit data
        • Inform new DoSomething.org product strategy and design based on data findings
        • Help to develop data-driven products, some of which interact directly with end-users
      • Problem Solving, Innovation, and Testing
        • Contribute ideas and work as a member of the tech and data teams in solving problems
        • Work with innovative technologies that increase the rate of young people taking action
        • Help A/B test high volume sections of DoSomething.org
        • Work with data analysts to automate reporting of relevant metrics to staff members
        • Good to great kickball or settlers player

      Requirements:

      • College degree or relevant experience in the field
      • Knowledge of Customer Relationship Management Systems (e.g., Salesforce)
      • Knowledge of the following technologies: HTML, CSS, JQuery, XML, JSON
      • Knowledge of following platforms: Facebook Developer API, Twitter API, Drupal
      • Applications/software: Adobe Suite 4+, version control (GitHub or like system)
      • Keen interest in young people taking action
      • Interest in innovation, brainstorming, all things creative, etc.
      • Play nicely with others: ability to work with a team

      Additionally:

      • 3 weeks vacation plus the week between Christmas and New Years, office on Union Square, fun office environment, a spot on our summer kickball team, occasional brownie bake-offs. Plus, you don’t have to come to work on your birthday (but we’ll probably bake you cookies if you do)
      • Competetive not-for-profit salary plus a great benefits package
      • Do Something is an equal opportunity employer

      How to apply:

      • Send a one page resume to george+developer@dosomething.org with the subject line “DoSomething.org: To Be or Not to Be Structured"
      • Send at least two URLs of sites or projects you have worked on with a brief (1-2 sentence) explanations of your responsibilities on those sites or projects.
      • Answer the following questions:
        • What is your favorite distributed database management system?
        • Implicit vs. Explicit Data (for understanding teen behavior), Discuss (in 2 sentences)
        • Describe your dream job culture