Trapster.com is hiring on HN (and just hit 5,000,000 mobile users)
Trapster is a start-up by one of my good friends that is growing like a weed in San Diego with a tiny staff - short version is they're looking for a young biz-dev guru and a AJAX / JAVA / PHP engineer - great team and huge opportunity.
I'm posting here first outside of my personal contact list so drop me a line @ the email listed at the bottom and I'll make sure it gets looked at - please stick "HN" somewhere in the subject line.
The biz-dev position is brand new and posted below, the link to the developer role is here:
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/sof/1700268416.html
Trapster: Searching for a Marketing Minded Entrepreneur. . .
Trapster helps users avoid speed-traps & red-light cameras through notifications on their GPS-enabled mobile phones.
Turns out that a lot of people thought that was a pretty good idea, and in the past 18 months we’ve grown to become one of the largest mobile services in the world, with more than 5,000,000 users and tens-of-thousands of new users every day.
As we enter Phase 2 of our business plan, we’re looking for a young, motivated, and hard-working marketing / biz-dev guru who can get passionate about the service, and is ready to live & breathe this startup with us to take Trapster across the finish line.
What you’re going to do:
• Increase our user engagement rate. Some people who download Trapster use it only occasionally. We need to improve our core engagement rate by encouraging more people to use it every day.
• Increase our user base. Lots of people are downloading Trapster every day, but lots more aren’t - how do we get Trapster into the hands of everybody, everywhere, that has a cell phone?
• Evangelize Trapster. We’ve gotten a lot of press which has helped drive our business, but we can do better - we want more consistency and somebody with the capacity to represent our brand and evangelize our product.
Who you are:
• Passionate - If you’re just looking for a paycheck, look elsewhere. We’re here to take over the world, and want somebody with that big of a vision on board.
• Data Driven Creativity - Analyze Trapster - and make suggestions based on your observations.
• Fearless (Shameless?) Marketer - No wanna-be marketers - we want somebody who will do whatever it takes to evangelize Trapster. Ever see that video of the guys that showed up at Michael Arrington’s house unannounced to pitch their product? Yah, like that.
• Proven Builder - Great ideas are a dime a dozen - you’re going to be responsible for pushing the needle forward.
• Web 2.0+ - You don’t need to be a programmer, but you need to be a hacker. Somebody that gets the power of the social media revolution.
• San Diego Resident - working in our Cardiff office daily is a must.
Fun facts about Trapster:
• We’re huge. We crossed our 5,000,000 user milestone a few weeks ago.
• We’re growing. We’re adding 15,000 - 50,000 new users a day.
• We’re techies. Our founder invented commercial load-balancing (and has the patents to prove it)!
• We drink our own kool-aid. We’re passionate drivers - we built the service for us.
Compensation:
• $40 - 50k base salary DOE
• Meaningful stock options
• An unbelievable education
To apply please send an email including your resume to jobs - at - trapster - dot -com and