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Our Mission: Make the web work for real estate.

Bridging the gap between real estate professionals and their clients.

Real estate is the largest industry in the world. It’s also one of the most important—after all, everyone needs a place to live. Millions of consumers are looking for their next home online, and they expect the same kind of browsing and buying experience they get on sites like Amazon and Facebook.

Unfortunately, real estate agents are struggling to provide that experience. That’s where Placester comes in. We’re creating an industry where it's quick and simple for real estate professionals to get their information on the web.

Don’t let that simple description fool you. We’re addressing the hardest problem in the largest industry in the world. As you might have guessed, not everything is written on the home page yet.

Our Culture: Team.

Join the team that makes a difference in a big, complex industry.

Our culture is all about teamwork. That being said, we're composed of folks who are their own brand of brilliant, focused, fun, intense, and friendly. If you've ever worked on a high performing team you've experienced this mix before.

You’ll be expected to get things done and be responsible for making it happen, without any bureaucratical mess. You’ll be expected to identify problems and solve them on your own. But more importantly, you may need to rally a friend or team to overcome them. Both are key tools on your belt.

You’ll be expected to have an opinion because it will matter when shaping the outcome of your company. Opinions are about courage: to speak your mind and to change it.

Everyone laughs a lot over lunch. Topics range from the standard technical, tactical and whos-doing-what in the start up world; but they also weave through topics like the proper structure for the US debt, that great restaurant down the street or how to Sous-vide the perfect piece of meat. Brilliance isn’t one-dimensional.

There’s a local coffee shop that often serves as the perfect distance for discussing a hard problem. We deal with a lot of hard problems and really like great coffee. It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem itself… which is a good reason to take a walk and discuss it over a cup.

In our spare time we also enjoy modeling in front of the server room.

The Office: In the heart of Kendall Square

Right on the red line, modern facility in a city that’s as smart as it is fun.

Our offices are housed in the state-of-the-art Cambridge Innovation Center, right in front of the Kendall Square T stop on the red line. The building is designed to inspire: floor to ceiling windows and beautiful views of Kendall and Boston. Expect the office to be social. Although Placester has it’s own offices, we share the building with many of the areas top startups. Time has shown us it’s the perfect place to make serendipitous connections that will last a lifetime.

You’ll have an Aeron chair although feel free to camp out on a couch, bean bag, or comfy chair. As well as a stipend to grab a monitor or two, headphones or any other accessories. And of course, the office comes with all the requisite (cliché?) startup goodies awesome drinks and snacks, bottomless ice cream, chess, Wii, etc..

The Office: In the heart of Kendall Square

The tools to do the job, the extras to keep you going.

Placester isn’t about playing Ping-pong and eating cheap food (although we have those if you’re looking for them). It’s about building a career with a team of brilliant and motivated individuals. Expect the atmosphere to be casual, focused, fun, intense, and social. Although you are likely looking for a kick-ass team, it doesn’t pay the bills. Here’s what else you can expect:

  • Competitive Compensation

    We don’t pay Ramen prices. We're looking for talented people that deserve to be well compensated for cultivating excellence.

  • The Benefits You Expect

    All the basics are covered, including a generous vacation policy. We work hard, and know how important it is to have time off to play hard, too!

  • Friend & Flexible Environment

    Comfortable work conditions are a priority for us. Our headquarters offers a adaptable and dynamic office environment, and remote work options are also available.

  • Hands-on Experience

    Learn directly from folks with a history of success. Our goals is to help you build a career by building up accomplishments instead of just punching a clock.

  • Required Startup Goodies

    All the cliche startup goodies, Nintendo Wii, bottomless ice cream, you name it - we've probably got it.

  • And All You Can Eat!

    With offices at the Cambridge Innovation Center, there are plenty of goodies awaiting you for lunch or snack breaks.

Open Positions

Sr. Account Manager - Enterprise Team

About the position:

We are searching for the next member of our dynamic Enterprise Team. This role will be directly responsible for managing relationships with our clients that use our enterprise products. As a representative of the Placester brand, this person’s main responsibility will be helping our partners succeed with our technologies. This position is a client facing role and will be in charge of continuing the development of our partner relationships, facilitating the onboarding process to the Placester Platform, as well as providing general support. This role reports directly to the Enterprise Team Lead.

About Placester:

Placester is the next major player in the real estate industry. Our goal is to create beautiful, effective and affordable products to serve real estate professionals. With products for agents, brokers and enterprise customers, we’re working across the board to disrupt, but empower an industry mired by outdated technology. Placester is looking for the next echelon of talent to help us grow our already established success.

Learn more: Placester.com

Responsibilities

  • Maintaining the overall health of the client relationship
  • Managing new implementations of the Placester Platform
  • Being fully-versed in current and future Placester products and features
  • Working with product team to help shape the development roadmap of the platform
  • Investigating / prioritizing technical issues and escalating to the engineering team
  • Troubleshooting and resolving general support issues

Required Skills

  • 2-3 years experience in consulting, project management or account management
  • Proven written and verbal communication skills
  • Detail and quality-oriented
  • Ability to multi-task, prioritize and switch gears on a dime
  • Passion for working in an extremely fast-paced environment
  • BA/BS degree

Pluses

  • Familiarity with digital advertising products, standards and technologies
  • Experience with WordPress
  • Appreciation of caffeine
How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Sr. Account Manager - Enterprise Team" in the subject line.

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Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager
The Senior Product Manager will directly impact the prioritization and direction of product development for the business.  Placester is a two-sided market model so we build products for two audiences, consumers seeking real estate and the real estate professionals that want to advertise to those consumers.

This position is very early on in the formation of the Product Management team at Placester and for the right person, has a lot of opportunity and upside.  The Product Management team works principally with UX and Engineering to guide product development from conception to launch and then optimization.  As part of the Product Management team you will bridge the technical and business functions as you design products that our customers use, love and tell others about because they’re remarkable experiences that create real value and delight in their use.

About you as a Product Manager:
  • You want to work in a very rapid paced environment where important decisions are made frequently
  • You are a self starter and a leader
  • You have a strong interest in helping to define the product’s business vision and strategy
  • You can clearly articulate product vision and requirements to ensure their development
  • You desire to drive the bulk of the day-to-day product development operation for PM
  • You enjoy working closely with Engineering, UX, Account Management, Marketing, Sales and Support
About You:
  • BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • 3-5 years relevant product work experience
  • Highly organized and detail attentive
  • Demonstrated success with cross-functional communication and leadership
  • Ability to understand business needs and drive results
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills – data minded
Bonus:
  • MS, MBA or PhD
  • 5+ years of relevant product work experience
  • Entrepreneurial drive and ability to achieve stretch goals in a fast-paced environment
Benefits:
  • Competitive salary
  • Medical, dental, & vision benefits
  • Environment where the best ideas always win
  • All of the required startup goodies: espresso, snacks (even healthy ones!), drinks and Ping-Pong)
How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Senior Product Manager" in the subject line.

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Inside Sales Representative

Interested in working for a growing tech startup who’s shaking up the real estate industry? Placester is a Techstar alum in the heart of Boston. We work with real estate agents to increase their online presence. We’re currently looking for an Inside Sales Rep who can assist a tight knit sales team on growing our customer base.

Your job would consist of connecting with inbound leads via phone and email to answer product questions and help explain the value of our services. With our primary clients being small business owners, you’d get the opportunity to help grow their business by consulting them on their online strategies. We need an individual who’s not only able to articulate the value of our products and service, but can advise on marketing and advertising tactics for our clients.

As an Inside Sales Rep for Placester:

  • You’re able to strike up conversation with anyone
  • You know tactics for following up with inbound leads via phone and email
  • Working on a team is your thing. We won’t be singing songs by the campfire together, but collaboration is a good part of what makes us successful
  • You are comfortable with being held accountable with hitting monthly sales goals
  • If something isn’t working or you need help, you speak up
  • Online marketing and advertising excites you and you want to stay relevant to what the market is doing
  • You want to take a stake in helping small business owners build their brands and business
  • You have the ability to take a traditional approach to solving a problem, but you’d rather turn it upside down and see what that would do

Things we’d love to see:

  • Previous Sales or Business Development experience
  • Solid understanding of internet technologies and website experience would be a plus
  • Comfortable interacting with colleagues of all levels and abilities
  • The desire to work in a forever developing and sometimes hectic environment
  • The ability to self motivate
  • Experience in a role where you’ve had to multi-task with scope and scale of work
  • Enthusiasm for working on a team and helping grow it.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and commission plan
  • Medical, vision and dental benefits
  • Paid holidays and generous time off policy
  • All the required startup goodies: coffee, snacks (even healthy ones), drinks and Ping-Pong

Being a sales job, one of the biggest qualities we’re looking for is the ability to listen and understand the needs of our clients. If you’re the type who can build a good rapport with anyone you talk to and loves problem solving, this would be an opportunity for your to excel.

How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Inside Sales Representative" in the subject line.

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Marketing Intern

How you’ll know you’re the next Marketing Intern at Placester:

We know how to create fantastic content marketers, you just need to know you want to be one. At Placester we’re really fortunate that almost 100% of our customers find us because of the blog posts, infographics and slides that we create. Each of the first 75,000 users found us through content we created and shared on the web.

Creating fantastic content is something that the entire team participates in, from support and sales to marketing and engineering. Everyone is focused on writing useful content that resonates with audiences that can benefit from our products and content that has the power to be shared on various platforms across the web. This has become so effective for us that we generate hundreds of referrals per day from our Real Estate Marketing Academy.

We’re looking forward to training the next generation of kick-ass content marketers. There’s so much to learn, and our team is growing so quickly, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to dive right in and get your hands dirty creating content that delights our customers.

Are you a good fit?
  • You love helping people learn and discover new things that can make their lives better
  • You’re a passionate writer who knows how to create a blog post that gets people excited
  • You’re social, and your content gets discovered, shared and liked online
  • You are ready to become an expert on business marketing tips, tactics and other topics that we write about at Placester
  • You’re eager to learn new things and especially love learning about online marketing and what’s happening in the worlds of content marketing, social media marketing and advertising
  • You really want to be a marketing rock star (this is most important, because the passion has to come from you)
What you can expect:
  • Build an amazing personal brand and exposure through articles that tens of thousands of people will read
  • Learn what it takes to execute a marketing plan with a team of smart and driven marketers looking to get to the next level
  • A portfolio of completed work with authorship
  • Environment where the best ideas always win
  • Ground floor opportunity at a fast growing company that is changing the face of real estate publishing online.
  • We’re not just another web app: we power some of the largest newspapers in the world and help over 100,000 real estate professionals become better marketers.
  • Amazing, hands-on experience to build your skills and resume
  • All of the required startup goodies: espresso, snacks (even healthy ones!), drinks and Ping-Pong
  • 8 Weeks of non-stop learning and creating
  • Weekly stipend (spending money)
  • The best marketing internship you’ll find anywhere in Boston

If this sounds like you, send us a cover letter and resume via e-mail to jobs@placester.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Marketing Intern" in the subject line.

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Sales Development Representative

A Sales Development Representative at Placester (www.placester.com) is responsible for reaching out to users and prospects and establishing if there is a fit for additional Placester services. You’ll be engaging with people on a daily basis to uncover their needs.

What does that mean? You’ll be reaching out by phone to prospects on a daily basis to understand their needs, qualify them and scheduling appointments with an inside sales person. You will work closely with our inside sales reps and sales managers to implement and carry out the appropriate strategies for communicating with and passing along prospects.

ABOUT YOU AS A Sales DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE:
  • You are able to thrive under pressure.
  • You are comfortable being held accountable for hitting a monthly sales goal.
  • You think outside the box, you love coming up with new and unique ways to solve problems, present findings and help customers.
  • You’re eager to learn new things and especially love learning about online marketing and what’s happening in the web technology space.
  • You’re passionate about what you do and approach your work with enthusiasm
  • You’re analytical and love figuring out how to measure and gauge the effectiveness of your ideas
  • You’re social, you love the internet and are excited to help others find the best way to get value out of their efforts online.
  • You are super organized and are used to juggling multiple projects at once, keeping priorities in mind and always have a method for getting everything done well and on time.
ABOUT YOU:
  • Interest in working in a sales role
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively explain possible solutions to a customer’s challenges and opportunities
  • A self starter who is details and results oriented
  • Demonstrated analysis, problem solving and troubleshooting expertise
  • Solid understanding of Internet technologies, website creation and online marketing
  • Ability to multi-task and perform effectively under pressure
  • Comfortable interacting with all levels of management and roles within the client organization
  • Ability to learn and assimilate technical information quickly
  • Enthusiasm, strong work ethic and a positive attitude
BONUS:
  • Experience with online marketing and advertising
  • Knowledge of SEO and SEM
  • Previous experience in sales
  • Experience with WordPress or other CMS
BENEFITS:
  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Full medical, dental, and vision
How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Sales Development Representative" in the subject line.

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Website Genius (Customer Support)

A Website Genius at Placester is responsible for making sure our customers love their online presence. This is a big role. You’ll be engaging and onboarding customers on a daily basis; answering their questions and guiding them in how to best use our products in a way that brings them value.

What does that mean? You’ll be helping them create and launch successful real estate websites, listening and responding to customer insight; supporting multiple customers at any given time through your amazing pipeline and time management skills. But let’s be clear about one thing: you’re not just answering emails. We need a dynamic individual who can provide top notch consultative service and support for our customers. Someone who can clearly express what they learn and play a pivotal role in getting that learning into our product.

ABOUT YOU AS A WEBSITE GENIUS:
  • You’re eager to learn new things and especially love learning about online marketing and what’s happening in the web technology space.
  • You think outside the box, you love coming up with new and unique ways to solve problems, present findings and help customers.
  • You’re passionate about what you do and approach your work with enthusiasm
  • You’re analytical and love figuring out how to measure and gauge the effectiveness of your ideas
  • You’re social, you love the internet and are excited to help others find the best way to get value out of their efforts online.
  • You are super organized and are used to juggling multiple projects at once, keeping priorities in mind and always have a method for getting everything done well and on time.
ABOUT YOU:
  • Interest in working in a customer service or technical support environment
  • Demonstrated analysis, problem solving and troubleshooting expertise
  • Solid understanding of Internet technologies, website creation and online marketing
  • Ability to multi-task and perform effectively under pressure
  • Comfortable interacting with all levels of management and roles within the client organization
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and escalate customer issues as required
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively explain possible solutions to a customer’s challenges and opportunities
  • Detailed, organized and results oriented
  • Ability to learn and assimilate technical information quickly
  • Enthusiasm, strong work ethic and a positive attitude
BONUS:
  • Experience with SEO and Content Marketing
  • Experience with Social Media Marketing
  • Experience in graphic design
  • Experience with WordPress
  • Experience in a web development shop
BENEFITS:
  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Full medical, dental, and vision
How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Website Genius (Customer Support)" in the subject line.

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Account Manager - Partner Team

Placester is looking for an Account Manager to join our growing Partner team. The Account Manager will cultivate relationships with, and support, a growing set of strategic web development partners. The Account Manager will be responsible for increasing sales and maximizing revenue generated by those partners. This position is a client facing role and will be in charge of developing the partner relationship, facilitating the onboarding process to the Placester platform, as well as providing general support / troubleshooting.

Responsibilities
  • Maintaining the overall health of the partner relationship.
  • Identifying major partner prospects and designing a strategy to win a majority of their business
  • Being fully versed in current and future Placester products to advise partners on how best to achieve their goals
  • Troubleshooting and resolving general support issues
  • Investigating / prioritizing technical issues and escalating to the engineering team as appropriate
  • Advocating for partners internally to ensure resolution of issues in a timely manner
Required Skills
  • 2-3 years experience in account management, sales, or consulting
  • Proven experience communicating with clients, including effectively communicating across a wide range of personality types and skill sets
  • Demonstrated ability to proactively manage and grow a line of business
  • Must be results-oriented; the ability to define, commit to, and exceed goals is a key success factor for this position
  • Exceptional ability to multi-task and prioritize
  • Familiarity with internet technologies and website creation
  • Previous experience with WordPress and/or CSS a strong plus
  • Passion for working in an extremely fast-paced, startup environment
  • BA/BS degree required
How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Account Manager - Partner Team" in the subject line.

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JavaScript Engineer

The JavaScript Engineer at Placester will directly impact the customers and deepen the value of our business while working alongside developers and designers on a varied technology stack. Our engineers work with product teams on collaborative projects to launch new products or enhance existing ones. To accelerate our success, we are constantly looking to push the limits on how our users interact with modern, attractive, and beautiful design. We utilize massive sets of MLS data within real estate to deliver large, highly scaled multi-tenant web hosting. Since we are engineering focused, your ideas and opinions will help shape our company and our products, every single day.

Here’s a bit about the role-

About You as a JavaScript Engineer:
  • You deliver best-in-class UI front-end code for interactive web, mobile and tablet applications on multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, web, etc.)
  • You create UI web development in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript technologies such as jQuery
  • You are able to build large JavaScript application that accounts for site speed, Ajax calls, lazy loading, paired with a deep knowledge of how the browser calls assets
  • You know that sustainable systems win in the end, and sometimes a new feature means refactoring old code to help
  • You are passionate about building APIs that enable a great customer experience
  • You have experience building web applications on the client-side, server-side, and/or full-stack
  • You can work with other developers on a large code base
  • You aren’t a stranger to bug tracking systems and workflow tools
About You:
  • Minimum 3 year’s front-end experience; BS or MS in Computer Science a plus
  • Strong, working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, XML, and JavaScript, as well as jQuery, essential
  • Experience includes JavaScript frameworks like Ember.js, Angular.js, Backbone.js, etc.
  • Familiarity with dynamic languages such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc
  • Strong communicator, can effectively explain issues and solutions
  • Proactive, self-motivated and comfortable working on diverse teams
  • Comfortable writing code that scales to millions of users
  • Passionate about great, easy to use software (we love what we do and you should too)
  • Generally happy person (we’re happy too)
Benefits:
  • Competitive salary
  • Generous and early-stage equity
  • Full medical, dental, and vision
  • A highly motivated, brilliant and fun team
How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "JavaScript Engineer" in the subject line.

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Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer will directly impact the customers and deepen the value of our business. This position is responsible for working on the core components of Placester, which powers everything from our hosted services to real-time, high traffic ad services. We utilize massive sets of MLS data within real estate to deliver large, highly scaled multi-tenant web hosting. Our platform runs on a varied technology stack and we work within different engineering techniques, such as statistical analysis and machine learning. Since we are engineering focused, your ideas and opinions will help shape our company and our products, every single day.

Here’s a bit more about the role -

About You as a Senior Software Engineer:
  • You are a polyglot: Mastery of Java, Python, and/or Ruby on Rails
  • 2+ years of large-scale NoSQL experience (MongoDB, HBase, or Cassandra a big plus as well as experience with Hadoop)
  • Experience with traditional SQL databases and APIs
  • You know your way around an Unix command line, and have experience with managing Nginx
  • You know that sustainable systems win in the end, and sometimes a new feature means refactoring old code to help
  • Experience building web applications on the client-side, server-side, and/or full-stack
  • You can work with other developers on a large code base
  • You aren’t a stranger to bug tracking systems and workflow tools
About You:
  • Thrive on collegial, collaborative, and focused team and be able to hold your own in a healthy debate
  • Strong communicator, can effectively explain issues and solutions
  • Proactive, self-motivated and comfortable leading teams
  • Comfortable writing code that scales to millions of users
  • Passionate about great, easy to use software (we love what we do and you should too)
  • Generally happy person (we’re happy too)
Benefits:
  • Competitive salary
  • Generous and early-stage equity
  • Full medical, dental, and vision
  • A highly motivated, brilliant, and fun team
How to Apply

Just drop a note to jobs@placester.com with "Senior Software Engineer" in the subject line.

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