Objective C Developer (Junior or Senior)

The first step to determine compatibility is to get a bit more information from you. Please fill out the form below and answer the questions. They get progressively harder, so don’t feel bad if you don’t know the answers to all of them, that will just let us gauge your skill level. And in fact, we’re looking for developers at all skill levels, so it’s OK not to know some of this – we’ll teach you a lot!

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Intern (Manage Twitter & other new media)

We’re looking for an intern who can help us get a lot of stuff done. While we can’t pay you for the internship, we may be able to pay your travel expenses. And if you’re really good at what you do, you might end up like our last intern – she was so good that we ended up promoting her into a paying project management job within her first 3 months with us.

Specifically, we need someone to handle Twitter, Facebook, and other new media for our app making service, www.AppMakr.com. There’s lots more to be done, though, so if you’re not well versed in social media, that’s OK too. The most important thing is that you’re really motivated to get involved with a hot mobile company (we were picked as one of the top 100 private companies in the world to watch by OnMedia, you can see details here) and you’re really good at getting things done.

We’re located in great offices at 1410 Q st NW in downtown DC. You can learn more about the space at www.1410Q.com.

Customer Service Reps

We’re looking for 3 to 5 really great customer service reps. This is an immediate opening! Pay is $10/hr.

If you have great customer service and writing skills, and experience with websites like Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc., and you’re comfortable navigating around in a browser, then you’ll enjoy this job. Bonus points if you own an iPhone, know Macs, and/or own a Mac laptop you can bring to work.

Tell us about yourself:

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A Few Questions…	**** Tell us more about yourself: **** // 1. What customer service or retail work have you done in the past? // 2. How are your typing skills? Have you ever used keyboard shortcuts? If so, name a few of your favorites. // 3. How quickly can you start? // 4. Are you comfortable commuting to downtown DC (14th & Q NW)? // 5. What else should we know about you?

Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for a senior web developer to be deeply involved in the build out of our AppMakr iPhone builder product.

The first step to determine compatibility is to get a bit more information from you. Please fill out the form below and answer the questions. They get progressively harder, so don’t feel bad if you don’t know the answers to all of them, that will just let us gauge your skill level. And in fact, we’re looking for developers at all skill levels, so it’s OK not to know some of this – we’ll teach you a lot!

Tell us about yourself:

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Your Website (if none write “none”)
A Few Questions…	**** Tell us more about yourself: **** // 1. What languages can you develop in? // 2. What experience do you have coding in scripting languages like Ruby on Rails, Django/Python, or PHP? // 3. Would you consider yourself a “senior” developer or a “junior” developer? // 4. Are you currently employed? If so, how much notice would you have to give your employer before you could start? // 5. What are your salary requirements? Please be as specific as possible. // 6. What else should we know about you? // 7. What other questions do you have for us? // **** Please Answer These Dev Questions (it’s OK if you don’t know all the answers, just do your best) **** // 8. Do you have examples of other dev work you’ve done? If so, please include a link and/or screenshots. // 9. What are some of the positive and negative qualities of using an abstracted scripting language? // 10. What’s the benefit of using jQuery? // 11. Why is it sometimes not a good idea to use session objects? // 12. Out of these 3 things, which should be server-side and which should be HTML? a) Calculating Cost b) Ordering c) Displaying whether or not a button should appear // 13. Database question: Given this select statement: Select * from people where name=”isaac” and sex=”M”, and given the table is made up of the columns ID, Name, Sex, Weight, Phone, which columns would you index to maximize speed using the appropriate number of indexes, and why? Which columns wouldn’t you index, and why?

Seeking Rockstar Salespeople (Senior, Junior & Intern)

We’re a rapidly growing iPhone and Android development company. We’re still very small – 12 people (update: make that 18 people!) – and we were just 4 people just a few months ago. If you want a shot at getting into a hot DC-based technology company early, you’ll love it here.

SENIOR SALES POSITION: We’re looking for a rockstar sales rep who’s sold enterprise SAAS / software before, both inside and outside sales.  You have a deep rolodex of names you can call on, especially in the media space (both large and midsize companies).  This position is to sell our iPhone consulting services, which we’ve done for companies like The Washington Post, Gannett, Politico, Cars.com, Kaplan and other top brands.  These apps range from a minimum of $25k up to $1MM+ sized sales.  We’ll pay a base salary + a strong commission structure.

JUNIOR SALES POSITION: We’re looking for someone who has phone sales experience.  You know how to manage a web-based CRM system, make follow-up calls, etc.  You’re not afraid of picking up the phone and making 50 – 150 calls per day.  This position is to sell our low-cost apps made through our AppMakr.com service, which cost between $199 to $499 + some consulting revenue.  We’ll pay a base salary + a strong commission structure.

INTERN POSITION: We’re looking for someone who’s interested in helping us build our sales organization out. This is going to require a lot of sales “grunt work” such as compiling sales lists, and then on to making initial calls and emails, etc.  We’re specifically looking for someone who’s willing to be a sales intern. We will work a salary + commission structure out with you after you have been with us for 90 days.

Ready to get started? The first step to determine compatibility is to get a bit more information from you. Please fill out the form below and answer the questions.

Tell us about yourself:

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A Few Questions…	**** Tell us more about yourself: **** // 1. Tell us about your previous sales experience. // 2. What phone-based sales work have you done? // 3. Have you ever sold any software? If so, what? // 4. What’s your most impressive sales story? // 5. What else should we know about you? // 6. What other questions do you have for us? // **** Please Answer These Sales Tool Questions (it’s OK if you don’t know all the answers, just do your best) **** // 7. What sales CRM systems have you used? // 8. Have you ever heard of Jigsaw? // 9. How many words per minute can you type? // 10. Have you ever used Photoshop? If so, how good are you with it? // 11. Do you know any HTML? If so, how much? // 12. What’s your favorite Google search trick, if you have one?

Project Manager

There are good project managers, and there are bad project managers. We’re looking for that rare stellar project manager that can work with the biggest brands & events on the plant (like Burger King and the Obama Inauguration) and still relate to the most technical developers on the planet (ours!). If you think you have the skills & qualifications, we’d love to know about you.

Tell us about yourself:

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A Few Questions…	**** Tell us more about yourself: **** // 1. What project management experience do you have? // 2. How comfortable are you with development languages on a scale of one (none) to ten (expert), and which ones: // 3. What project management best practices and software do you use? // 4. Are you currently employed? If so, how much notice would you have to give your employer before you could start? // 5. What are your salary requirements? Please be as specific as possible. // 6. What else should we know about you? // 7. What other questions do you have for us? // **** Please Answer These Dev Questions (it’s OK if you don’t know all the answers, just do your best) **** // 8. What strategies do you employ to prioritize & allocate dev resources to multiple projects? // 9. What’s the one thing that most project managers get wrong? // 10. Have you ever used Basecamp or Unfuddle? // 11. Can you send us a sample Software Requirements Document that you’ve been involved in creating?

Management Team

PointAbout was created in July, 2008 by four co-founders in Washington, DC.

Scott Suhy, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Scott is currently on the board of advisors of several technology companies and is an associate partner of the Mita Group. Most recently Scott spent 16 years at Microsoft in many leadership capacities including General Manager of Microsoft’s Public Sector Business Development organization and General Manager for the Mid-America sales and services district.

Daniel R. Odio, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer Daniel is a proven technology entrepreneur and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, TLC, Forbes, WSJ, Washington Post and others for his innovative use of technology in the real estate market. Prior to real estate, Daniel was the VP, Sales of Accelerated Servers, a Beowulf supercomputing cluster company. Daniel was a member of General Electric’s Technical Leadership Program while at GE, working in Latin America, including Brazil and Argentina. Learn more about Daniel.

Sean Shadmand, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Sean was lauded as a “strategic genius” by The Washington Post.  He is the visionary behind AppMakr.com, which has altered the mobile application development landscape and been featured worldwide in publications such as TechCrunch, Mashable, PBS, CBS, and by top tier bloggers such as Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin. He often speaks on social media and mobile panels. Previously, Sean was instrumental in growing Tagged.com from a 2 million member startup to a 40 million member profitable company. Sean focused on viral tuning, user acquisition and email deliverability. Sean is a co-founder of FamilyOven.com which gained 380K members and became operationally profitable within the first six months of operation.

Isaac Mosquera, Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer Isaac has been architecting large-scale systems for the past 13 years. He is the co-creator of FamilyOven.com, one of the largest food-oriented social networking sites, which has been doubling in size month over month since 2007. Isaac brings extensive experience in architecting online publisher content and creating high scalability/load websites for brands such as Games Radar by Future Publishing (topping 100MM page views monthly) and XM Radio (XM’s traffic was greater than YouTube’s at the time), as well as a background in user acquisition and retention strategies. At PointAbout, Isaac has spearheaded the creation of AppMakr.com, an automated build platform to create applications across multiple phone platforms without the user needing to have any programming skills. Isaac resides in Arlington, VA.

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