LimeBits is developing an innovative software platform intended to empower people to share their own creations and to collaborate on group creations. You'll join the LimeBits team and help overturn the ancient traditions of software development. Your community interaction design, leadership, and management skills will guide LimeBits's outsource developers and motivate and excite our open-source volunteers. As a key member of the team, you have a blue-sky opportunity to lead us in
* Designing and establishing community/team interaction processes to apply and demonstrate LimeBits's share-and-refine model of code development. * Designing and establishing social experience and structure for productive, effective, distributed, grassroots collaboration via LimeBits. * Designing and promoting collaborative, open-source culture and ensuring healthy community morale. * Organizing and producing community-building activities, such as contests, discussions, games, festivals, and conferences, both online and in person. * Managing the specification, development, implementation, delivery, and acceptance of outsourced LimeBits projects. * Creating specifications, design documents, and planning documents for outsourced projects. * Facilitating tests, quality assurance, and usability feedback from community members, testers, and other stakeholders. * Establishing, evaluating, and improving technical project procedures for outsource projects. * Establishing distributed processes and procedures for collaborative projects, including tests, reviews, and reports. * Managing multiple simultaneous projects with diverse collaborative teams and with individuals. * Recruiting, encouraging, motivating, mentoring, and training LimeBits community volunteers and leaders. * Proposing and facilitating compelling, exciting, innovative open-source community projects. * Researching and representing the user community internally within LimeBits. * Networking with community members to identify and realize partnerships. Managing relationships with external partners. QUALIFICATIONS: * Skills in community experience design and team interaction design. * Strong interest in organizational behavior and building community cohesion. * Demonstrated leadership and communication skills in project leadership and management. * 2+ years leadership as software project manager or product manager. * Experience managing communications and relationships with external vendors and internal personnel. * Experience estimating costs and negotiating and implementing external/outsource deals and contracts. * Strong experience in ensuring compliance with software specifications. * Knowledge of the software development life cycle. * Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate degree. * Bonus: Experience contributing to open-source software development projects. COMPANY: LimeBits is a startup project in the Lime Group, home to such companies as Lime Wire, Lime Brokerage, and Tower Research. The Lime Group companies offer a dynamic and intellectually stimulating work environment. While we work hard, we also play hard and believe in supporting our team. We provide free lunches, snacks, and beverages, tickets to NY events, 5 weeks vacation, and great views from our garden roof deck. TERMS: Employee or individual contractor -- no contract firms. COMPENSATION: Very competitive. RECRUITERS: No -- principal only. LOCATION: TriBeCa, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. ONSITE: Fulltime. URL: http://limebits.com/ APPLY: Send your cover letter, resume, and links to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
