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We are looking for people who are passionate and dedicated while leading a balanced life. We like to work hard and play hard. Do you?

Tapatap, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We offer competitive health, stock, and compensation packages.

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• Sponsorship/Ad Sales Executive
• Front-End Web Developer
• Interns: Marketing and Business Development
• Interns: Photoshop/Flash Web Artist

Sponsorship/Ad Sales Executive.

Tapatap, Inc., a hot mobile content startup, has a great opportunity for an advertising sales executive to sell digital advertising and sponsorships. We're looking for someone with a strong digital sales foundation and great relationships with agencies, media companies, and consumer products companies. Tapatap (m.tapatap.com and http://www.tapatap.com ) is a direct to consumer mobile service that delivers a mobile social games community where users play and create photo games on their mobile phone for fun and prizes. The service is live and doing great-check it out on your phone. Tapatap was founded by an experienced executive team that has been creating consumer facing mobile companies since 2002. We are currently a small team of 12 people located in downtown San Mateo, CA four blocks from the Caltrain station. We are VC funded. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual to build a business and be at the forefront of the mobile advertising space. Send resume to jobs@tapatap.com

Responsibilities:

• Identify and initiate contact with advertising prospects, through cold calls, in-person presentations and/or leveraging of existing contact lists
• Assess customer needs; develop effective sales proposals; negotiate deals; and ensure successful delivery of advertising campaigns
• Manage all communications, scheduling and approvals between the client/agency and operations team throughout the implementation process
• Negotiate unit rates, secure IOs, and secure payment
• Collaborate with development team on implementation, delivery and optimization of campaigns
• Meet quarterly and annual revenue goals according to sales plan
• Effectively identify a prospect's needs and offer quality solutions, presenting products to C-level decision makers, through online and in-person demonstrations
• Maintain accounts and deliver superior customer service for multiple clients
• Work closely with the ad network and agency teams to maximize margin opportunities

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree with 2+ years online ad sales experience
• Strong track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets
• Knowledge of business and advertising trends and the ability to translate this knowledge into advertising solutions for clients
• Solid understanding of mobile/online advertising and marketing, including pricing structures (CPM, CPC, CPA) and media types (e.g., banners, text ads)
• Strong understanding of the various distribution channels - media, search, email, co-reg and other web 2.0 channels
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organized and flexible
• Superior oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently as a motivated team player
• Ability to handle multiple priorities
• Proficiency with Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Word and the Web
• Startup Experience is a big plus

Preferred:

• A rolodex of great contacts in the following verticals is HIGHLY desirable: Consumer Products, Media and Entertainment, Eashion, Men's Lifestyle, Beverage Industry, Advertising Agencies
• Prior mobile game or video game industry experience a plus
• Prior web 2.0 or social media industry experience a plus
• Prior advertising or media and entertainment industry experience a plus

Please send us a brief overview about yourself and your resume.
jobs@tapatap.com

Tapatap, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer with competitive compensation, stock, and benefits plans.

Front-End Web Developer—Contract to Hire. Hiring immediately.

Tapatap, Inc. is a next generation mobile 2.0 content entertainment services company. We are creating exciting consumer focused mobile applications for generation wireless. We are located in beautiful downtown San Mateo, CA and are venture backed. We are launching our service in June and we need another leader on the web development side to get our site ready for public consumption. Can you help us? http://www.tapatap.com

Position Summary

The web developer HTML/CSS production person will play an active role in product feature implementation and design. The resource will be responsible for creating dynamic web interfaces using the very latest client-server techniques building smart DHTML/AJAX components for all major platforms as well as implementing and developing small and large-grain user interface elements.

Requirements

• Proficient in hand-coding HTML and CSS.
• Experience with creating dynamic content using JavaScript is a plus
• Working knowledge of Photoshop and Flash
• Experience working with a CVS (i.e. Perforce) with multiple stage and production environments is a plus.
• 2+ years development experience with HTML, xHTML, CSS, DHTML, AJAX (WML/XHTML-MP experience a huge plus)
• Ability to quickly build and implement mocked up pages by the web designer
• Ability to see tasks through their full lifecycle without losing focus
• Able to see both the Big Picture and the Small Picture, simultaneously
• Must have experience maintaining large web sites.
• Understanding of client-server performance issues
• Understanding of web browser compatibility issues
• 1+ year actively using DHTML to build dynamic web pages (live samples required)
• 1+ year actively using AJAX to build dynamic websites (live samples required)
• 1+ year building web clients for highly-scalable, distributed, dynamic client-server applications (server-side Java, Python, PHP, Ruby experience a plus)

Education:
BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Please send us a brief overview about yourself and your resume with a list of live sites that we can review. Please send the list of live sites----this is important.
jobs@tapatap.com

Tapatap, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer with competitive compensation, stock, and benefits plans.

Summer MBA Marketing, Product Management, and Business Development Internships at Tapatap

Tapatap, Inc., a mobile content startup that is creating the world's first mobile contest community network, seeks three MBA students between their first and second years for summer Business Development, Consumer Marketing and Product Management intern positions to help our team on a part time/fulltime basis summer 2007. Tapatap (http://www.tapatap.com) is a direct to consumer mobile service that will be launching in early summer 2007 that is founded by a experienced executive team that have been creating consumer facing mobile companies since 2002. We currently a small engineering team of nine people located in downtown San Mateo, CA four blocks from the Caltran station. We are VC funded.

This is a great opportunity for MBA students that think they might be interested in pursuing a career in the mobile content industry or the digital media industry. If you think you want to be in our industry, you will have the ability to immediately influence and create an impact at Tapatap---actual experience to put on your resume. We have working relationships with Verizon Wireless, Creative Artists Agency, Fox Interactive Television, T-Mobile, Qualcomm, Nokia, Motorola, and others.

We are seeking interns for three different roles:

1. Business Development
   Be part of the business development team to---
   Create target lists of media, marketing and branded business partners
   Make business development sales calls and close deals on the lists
   Create presentations and messaging to close deals on the lists
2. Consumer Marketing
   Determine key selling points for new products
   Design and implement customer acquisition programs for the service
   Lead CRM communication system for customer capture and retention
   Create product descriptions, press releases, presentations, and marketing collateral
   Work with product managers and artists to create assets for marketing initiatives
   Coordinate the creation and submission of marketing assets for campaigns and programs
3. Product Manager
   Coordinate all aspects of the creation of our mobile service
   Manage schedule, budget, and team for delivering product on time
   Able to manage internal and external resources to get the job done
   Ability to do some Project, PowerPoint, Photoshop, and concept sketches to better explain your ideas

Job requirements:
Available for a minimum 20-40 hours a week
Good eye for detail
High level of creativity
Strong work ethic
Must be able to get up to speed quickly and with minimal direction
Must be comfortable working in a highly dynamic, fast-paced, multi-tasking environment
Strong Microsoft Office skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Prior mobile game or video game industry experience a plus
Prior web 2.0 or social media industry experience a plus
Prior advertising or media and entertainment industry experience a plus
Compensation depends on experience and time commitment.

This is great opportunity to learn on a part time/full time basis.

Please send us a brief overview about yourself and your resume.
jobs@tapatap.com

Tapatap, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer with competitive compensation, stock, and benefits plans.

Photoshop/Flash Web Artist Production Internship at Tapatap

Are you looking to break into the mobile content space, game space, mobile game space, web 2.0 space, and want experience on your resume? Are you between jobs, about to graduate, recently graduated and want to break into our industry? Here is your opportunity!! Most good people that take these internships are either hired by us or they get full time jobs with our friends

Tapatap, Inc., a mobile content startup that is creating mobile 2.0 direct to consumer entertainment applications seeks a talented Photoshop/Flash intern. Tapatap is a direct to consumer mobile service that will be launching in 2007 that is founded by very experienced executive team that have been creating consumer facing mobile companies since 2002. We are located in downtown San Mateo, CA two blocks from the Caltran station.

This is a great opportunity for anyone that thinks they might be interested in pursuing a career in the mobile content industry or the digital media industry. If you think you want to be in our industry, you will have the ability to immediately influence and create an impact at Tapatap---actual experience to put on your resume.

Responsibilities:
Optimizing raw PhotoShop files for web and mobile
Designing and developing icons for web and mobile.
Designing and developing flash animations.
Creating and designing artwork for web and mobile marketing campaigns.
Make on going CSS, HTML, and Javascript changes to our web site.

Job requirements:
Available for a minimum 15-20 hours a week
BA/BS/MFA degree from a top design/art school or working towards one and will graduate soon.
Strong knowledge of CSS, HTML, and Javascript
Strong knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design programs
Strong knowledge of Flash for multimedia work
A creative mind is a must.
Ability to demonstrate a thorough understanding to work in web, mobile and print
Understanding of web interface usability
Enough initiative to be able to work with engineers and marketing professionals to help understand the broad thrust of the technical message, and communicate it visually
A high quality online portfolio is a huge plus.
Good eye for detail
High level of creativity
Strong work ethic
Must be able to get up to speed quickly and with minimal direction
Must be comfortable working in a highly dynamic, fast-paced, multi-tasking environment
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Prior mobile game or video game industry experience a plus
Students who have part time availability welcome
Compensation is dependent on experience. This is great opportunity to learn on a part time/full time basis