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About Allrecipes

Allrecipes, the world’s largest social network of food and entertaining enthusiasts, receives more than 35 million annual unique visits from users who share and download recipes, reviews, photos, personal profiles, and meal ideas. For more than 10 years, the Seattle-based site has served as a dynamic, indispensable resource for cooks of all skill levels seeking trusted recipes, entertaining ideas, everyday and holiday meal solutions, practical cooking tips and food advice. As the fastest-growing independent food Internet site, and part of the Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Food & Entertaining Division, Allrecipes provides insights into the kitchens and cooking passions of home cooks everywhere. For additional information regarding Allrecipes, please visit www.allrecipes.com

About Reader’s Digest

Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) is the world’s leading food publisher with businesses centering on magazine and book publishing, nationwide cooking schools and interactive media. RDA’s food-related magazines include the nation’s largest-selling cooking title, Taste of Home, as well as Light & Tasty, Cooking for 2, Simple & Delicious, and Every Day with Rachael Ray, America’s fastest-growing food-lifestyle magazine featuring the best-selling author and television personality.

Vice President, Content

We are looking for a leader with strategic vision to lead our Content Team, and help take the company to the next level. The Vice President, Content is responsible for overseeing all creative design, user-generated content and editorial initiatives for the company.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership for the creative design team, the editorial team, and the UGC team.
• Develop and establish a consistent design and editorial voice reflecting the mission of Allrecipes.
• Establish and drive Allrecipes content strategy from the moment a visitor comes to the site.
• Work with Product Team to develop a rigorous approach to product design and development.
• Lead and motivate UGC, editorial, and design staff to implement vision, including talent acquisition, performance management, and career development. Manage vendors, outsourcing contracts, and contract labor.
• Oversee the day-to-day online editorial operations of all content (e.g. user-generated recipes and content, editorial features, newsletters, experts, video, etc.) to support revenue goals.
• Collaborate strategically with product and development in building new site features and functionality.
• Develops and manages content budget, and drives improvements to operational efficiency to contribute to overall profitability of company.
• Contribute as part of executive team in achieving overall company goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of successful content or creative management experience at a senior-executive level.
• BFA or BA in design, advertising, or writing preferred.
• Experience in managing designers, writers, and other creative resources in an online setting. Provide direction and motivation to staff.
• In-depth Internet industry knowledge of new technologies to continue to improve overall user experience.
• Strong strategic and creative thinking skills; ability to identify the key issues to dramatically increase brand equity with Allrecipes existing users and meet changing marketplace demands.
• Must have passion for the Internet and ability to understand and embrace new technology.
• Love of food preferred.
• Social media experience preferred.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Have positive, optimistic demeanor and work well as a team member.

Location: Seattle, WA

Reports To: President, Allrecipes.com

Please send a cover email and resume to jobs@allrecipes.com, referencing “Vice President, Content”. No phone calls please.

Australian/New Zealand Program Online Content Manager (Based in Sydney)

We need an exceptional leader with the vision, experience, and drive to help us accomplish our goals. This position manages the production and launch of editorial and user-generated content for international Allrecipes.com sites.

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversees content development for new Australian/New Zealand Allrecipes.com site to ensure recipe and related content is ready and of high quality at time of launch, and on-going thereafter.
• Ensures that content reflects brand principles and follows style guidelines. Oversees quality control of content to ensure that recipes and any other content is high quality, accurate, and appropriate for the country site.
• Writes regular email newsletter(s) reflecting country content and readership interests.
• Edits and loads recipes.
• Ensures recipe categorization accurately supports SEO.
• Provide custom copy as needed to support advertising and marketing efforts.
• Develops and manages project plan for up front content loading and hiring to meet aggressive project launch timelines.
• Works with international launch team in Seattle to ensure successful launch.
• Works with international team and local country manager to ensure successful launch.
• Works as part of country and International team and ensures that content is maintained and updated and that content supports the Allrecipes.com brand, site traffic growth, and advertising sales.

Qualifications

• Must have thorough experiential professional knowledge of Australian and New Zealand cuisine, recipe editing, and online community sites including editorial and user-generated content.
• Strong writing and editorial skills; understanding of writing for marketing content.
• Minimum two years of professional cookbook, food blog writing or other food-related content, and copywriting experience.
• Familiarity with web-based content development.
• High attention to detail; Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in global, matrixed corporate setting.
• Proficiency with MS Word, MS Excel, databases, and Outlook. Experience using Internet for research.
• Ability to travel internationally occasionally. Ability to spend first 4-6 weeks in Seattle to work with international team.

Location: Sydney, Australia

Reports To: International Program On-line Content Manager (Seattle, WA USA) and Australia Country Manager

Please send a cover email and resume to jobs@allrecipes.com, referencing “Australian/New Zealand Program Online Content Manager”. No phone calls please.

Regional Sales Manager – Bay Area

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing an assigned geographic territory and accountable for achieving territory revenue goals for business-to-consumer model.
• On-line advertising, licensing agreements and other promotional sales to corporations.
• Maintain effective and productive relationships with customers and prospects; understand advertising and agency positions and branding; offer strategic solutions to meet advertisers’ needs.
• Establish a sales pipeline by identifying, prioritizing and contacting sales prospects. Develop long standing quality relationships with key business decision makers that result in increased revenue and high standing for Allrecipes in the marketplace.
• Clearly identify prospect needs, marketing initiatives/objectives, budget cycles and key decision-makers.
• Develop strategic sales proposals with marketing teams.
• Present and close corporate account deals.
• Submit required reporting, expenses and enter Salesforce data in a timely manner.
• Manage workflow in a timely fashion and have ability to prioritize activities so that deadlines are met, goals are achieved, and processes run effectively and efficiently.
• Develop thorough knowledge of Allrecipes software systems to promote understanding of technical aspects of on-line advertising and efficient/effective workflow.
• Stay current with industry and competitive trends.
• West coast and local travel required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of successful consultative on-line advertising sales and dealing with senior-level executives of major organizations.
• Strong strategic and creative thinking skills; ability to identify the key issues to close deals.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Lead generation experience.
• Positive, optimistic demeanor and passion the future of the Internet.

Location: San Francisco

Department: Sales

Reports To: Director Advertising Sales, Western Region

Please send a cover email and resume to jobs@allrecipes.com, referencing “Regional Sales Manager – Bay Area”. No phone calls please.

Director, Advertising Sales – Eastern Region

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing direct sales advertising Regional Account Managers (RSM’s) for the eastern region of the U.S.
• As part of senior sales team, accountable for achieving direct revenue goals for business-to-consumer model. As key member of senior sales team, helps develop strategic plan for sales, creates annual revenue and expense budgets for direct sales.
• Ensure adequate business support, appropriate territories, and sales and product training for the RSM's.
• Monitor performance to ensure that RSM’s and overall direct sales team are on track to meet revenue and CPM targets. Sets objectives and manages performance for RSM team. Assists in recruiting sales staff as needed.
• Accompany RSM’s to close on-line advertising and promotional sales to major accounts and for training purposes.
• Work with ad operations, product, creative, and the proposal and marketing teams to help develop effective, efficient sales cycle and reporting.
• Develop long-standing quality business relationships with key business decision makers for key accounts that result in increased revenue and high standing for Allrecipes in the marketplace.
• Assist RSM’s in developing strategic sales tactics for key accounts.
• Present and close corporate account deals as needed to support company revenue goals.
• Develop thorough knowledge of Allrecipes software systems and website (i.e. Intranet, website architecture, reporting software, etc), contact management software, and general software (MS Office) to promote understanding of technical aspects of on-line advertising, and efficient/effective workflow.
• Stay current with industry and competitive trends.
• Approximately 35% travel required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of successful consultative selling and minimum 3 years in sales management. Minimum of 2 years in online advertising sales.
• Experience in dealing with senior level executives of major global organizations.
• A proven track record of success in on-line advertising sales required.
• Strong strategic and creative thinking skills; ability to identify the key issues to close deals.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Have positive, optimistic demeanor and have passion for food and the future of the Internet.

Location: New York City

Department: Sales

Reports To: Senior Vice President, Sales

Please send a cover email and resume to jobs@allrecipes.com, referencing “Director, Advertising Sales – Eastern Region.” No phone calls please.

Senior Vice President, Sales

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic direction and management of advertising sales to meet company revenue goals.
• Work with Allrecipes.com executive team to develop and offer strategic solutions to meet advertisers’ needs.
• Collaborate with RDA affinity and digital business executives to architect a cross-property sales strategy and develop detailed strategic and tactical execution plans.
• Build, lead, and motivate high-performing sales teams to ensure that company goals are met.
• Set regional and individual sales goals, territories, and manage daily performance to goals.
• Ensure that the sales team has adequate training and product knowledge to sell all Allrecipes ad products in today’s changing marketplace.
• Work with Product Marketing and Consumer Marketing to develop strategy for complex corporate sales.
• Make sales calls to close large corporate contracts and partnerships.
• Represent company in public forums.
• Contribute to success of the company as part of the executive team.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of successful sales management experience at a senior executive level in online advertising.
• A proven track record of success in complex online advertising sales with Fortune 500 clients.
• In-depth industry knowledge of metrics, trends, new ad technologies, products, networks.
• Strong strategic and creative thinking skills; ability to identify the key issues to close deals and meet changing marketplace demands.
• Must have passion for the Internet and ability to understand and embrace new technology. Love of food preferred. Social media experience helpful.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong track record of sales leadership. Ability to build and manage high-performing teams.
• Have positive, optimistic demeanor.
• Approximately 35% travel required.

Location: Position will be located in either New York City or Seattle.

Department: Sales

Reports To: President, Allrecipes.com

Please send a cover email and resume to jobs@allrecipes.com, referencing “Senior Vice President, Sales.” No phone calls please.

Product Manager/Sr. Product Manager – Licensing

Primary Responsibilities

• Is subject matter expert on licensing platforms. Maintains current licensing platform and contracts.
• Works with New Business team on new platform licensing products. May develop and oversee additional advertising products.
• Continually improve processes and products to create operational efficiency.
• Gets feedback from advertisers on product features. Designs and establishes the overall product features. May assist in conducting usability studies or other types of research with advertisers.
• Ensures good customer service and implementation on current contracts.
• Develops business plan and makes recommendations on new products or features.
• Works on cross-functional teams to translate customer needs and technology directions into product definitions. Provides specifications to Development on user requirements.
• Develops pricing and models for sales for licensing product portfolio.
• Develop wireframes and work with development on new products and features.
• Manage revenue and expense budget related to ad products.
• Works with marketing communications to develop sales materials for products.
• Goes on sales calls as subject matter expert as requested.
• Provides product training for sales and marketing staff.
• Manage licensing staff; provide coaching and career development.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in community- or user-generated content Internet site or related technological field as project manager, business or product development, or related role.
• Familiar with a variety of the product marketing concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Understanding of customer requirements; ability to translate customer requirements into project specifications.
• Must work well in a multi-tasking, cross-functional environment.
• Must understand and can work in an Internet technology organization. Must understand Web 2.0 trends and technologies, and community sites.
• BS in marketing, business, technology, or related field.

Location: Seattle

Department: New Business

Reports To: Director, New Business

Please send a cover email and resume to jobs@allrecipes.com, referencing “Product Manager/Sr. Product Manager – Licensing.” No phone calls please.

Software Engineer

Our Software Engineers participate in all areas of development, including front-end, back-end processes and middle-tier development, and internal applications. This position reports to the Software Engineering Manager.

Primary Responsibilities

• Strong knowledge of the following technologies:
• Object Oriented design and programming techniques
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• SQL – Stored Procedures, User-defined functions
• .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0 and beyond
• C# - Interfaces, Generics, and Delegates
• ASP.NET – Web Services, User Controls, Custom Server Controls
• HTML, CSS, DHTML, client-scripting with JavaScript
• Familiarity with following technologies:
• Flash and ActionScript
• XSLT
• AJAX
• Must be a self-starter needing little direction and capable of working in a fast-paced development environment.
• Must be willing to work from detailed specifications as well as being able to design and implement projects independently.
• Candidates should be willing to participate in QA, Testing, HTML development, as well as providing internal support and operational support.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills required.

Experience Requirement

• BS Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Experience developing websites in ASP.NET/C#
• Previous experience developing and supporting content management systems
• Previous experience working with SQL Server

Location: Seattle, WA

Please send a cover email and resume to jobs@allrecipes.com, referencing “Software Engineer.” No phone calls please.