[Chicago] Now Available For Hire

[Tal Liron]

It's a small startup doing interesting stuff integrating lots of social 
networks (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, SMS, others) into a dashboard 
that would enable small merchants to market and send promotions to their 
customers. We also integrate with POS systems and loyalty cards.


The company is legit, and has VERY impressive financial backing (there's 
a marketing team of 100 people waiting to sell it), even though it 
doesn't look that way from visiting the office. We rely on cutting edge 
technologies: MongoDB, REST, JavaScript-on-the-server, cloud. The 
business plan is realistic and should be profitable within a few months.

The environment is extreme startup: the team is evolving fast, but we 
only just got a project manager, and scope is never very clear. 
Management does not have experience with this type of development work 
and technology (well, who does?). We make it up as we go along. I think 
a good match -- culturally, temperamentally -- is someone who is 
comfortable with such partial formations, and can even thrive in them: 
self-managed, responsible, calm under pressure, and who can contribute 
to a team culture "in the making."


My slight worry is that you identify as an "Agile" guy, which to me 
spells very formal work styles (scrum) that would be impossible to 
implement at this company right now, if ever... I'm believe in being 
upfront about it to avoid disappointment!

If this sounds interesting, feel free to forward a resume to me, and I 
can get you interviewed this week.

-Tal



On 01/05/2011 11:59 AM, Jon Sudlow wrote:

> Tal,
>
> Yes I would. I live in Naperville and have used the train in the past 
> to commute. If the job is a good match than I do not mind the travel.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Tal Liron 
> <tal.liron at threecrickets.com <mailto:tal.liron at threecrickets.com>> wrote:
>
>     Would you be interested in a job in the Loop?
>
>
>     On 01/05/2011 10:16 AM, Tim Ottinger wrote:
>
>         The company I work for was just acquired, mass layoff
>         followed.  It's been an interesting morning.
>
>         If you're in NW area and looking for Agile guy, C#, Python,
>         some ruby, older experience with C, C++, etc, feel free to
>         contact me.
>
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