Why would you want to work at Pathable? There are different reasons for different people, but I can tell you with absolute honesty that virtually everyone who works here has told me at one point or another that this is the best job they’ve ever had.
Read about how awesome it is to work here and the fab benefits, then click on a job description below to learn more.
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Front-end User Interface Designer / Developer
Do you take great pleasure in designing user interfaces that are both functionally elegant and beautiful to look at? Do you obsess over bringing your impeccable sense of aesthetics to how you write code? Do you enjoy discovering how to do things in CSS that most developers thought were only possible using JavaScript? Are you tired of working for short-lived start-ups that think “angel funding” is a business model and “VC Funding” is an exit? Then, my friend, we’ve got the job for you. Our growing, profitable, bootstrapped company is seeking to add a talented, motivated expert CSS/HTML5 Designer who is excited about building the next version of our industry-leading product with us (seriously, it is industry leading).
Specific Responsibilities:
- Create interaction models, user flows, and UI designs that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience
- Design and build beautiful web and mobile application UI using jQuery, SASS, and CSS3
- Ensure perfect functionality and performance across a wide variety of mobile devices and 1st tier browsers (No IE6!)
- Be creative and proactive about feature and architecture decisions
Skills and Experience:
- Extensive experience developing consumer web application interfaces
- Solid intuition of best practices and tools used in user-centered interaction design
- Solid visual design skills, including an eye for typography and the use of color
- Proven ability to design in Photoshop, Illustrator or the like
- Expert experience implementing designs using HTML5, SASS and CSS3
- JavaScript ability a huge plus
- Comfort working in an agile startup environment. Our cycles are extremely fast and your code will be up and running on our production site the first week you start
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy, best-idea-wins environment
Benefits:
- Significant equity
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Offices in Seattle, remote working encouraged
Apply:
http://jobsco.re/thC5vL
JavaScript (CoffeeScript) Developer
Do you scoff at those who claim JavaScript is not a “real” language? Have you been hacking a side project just to experiment with Node? Does the idea of moving the entire web framework into the browser excite you? Are you tired of working for short-lived start-ups that think “angel funding” is a business model and “VC Funding” is an exit? Then, my friend, we’ve got the job for you. Our growing, profitable, bootstrapped company is seeking to add a talented, motivated expert JavaScript developer who is excited about building the next version of our industry-leading product with us (seriously, it is industry leading).
Specific Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop a full featured client application using JavaScript/CoffeeScript and Backbone.js — we’re serious about using the latest and best technologies available
- Help design a beautiful front-end interface using jQuery, SASS, and CSS3
- Aggressively test front-end code using Jasmine and other JavaScript testing frameworks
- Contribute to open-source projects we’ve been developing in-house
- Be creative and proactive about feature and architecture decisions
- Occasionally spend time with Ruby/Rails3 on the back-end
Skills and Experience:
- Expert experience developing web applications and web services with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS
- Ruby/Rails experience a big plus
- Comfort working in an agile startup environment. Our cycles are extremely fast and your code will be up and running on our production site the first week you start
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy, best-idea-wins environment
- BS, MS or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline a plus
Benefits:
- Significant equity
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Offices in Seattle, remote working encouraged
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Windows (Azure) Systems Engineer
Do you have experience developing and deploying software for windows server environments? Have you ever deployed production web software to Microsoft Azure? Our growing, profitable, bootstrapped company is seeking to add a talented, motivated seasoned systems engineer who can help us migrate our existing unix-based Ruby on Rails / JavaScript application to Microsoft Azure.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Work with our Ruby/Rails engineers to deploy software to Microsoft Azure
- Migrate Amazon EC2 service dependent systems to work with Azure services
- Develop a deployment plan and toolkit to enable easy one-click software deployments to Azure
- Be creative and proactive about feature and architecture decisions
Skills and Experience:
- 3+ years experience performing Server Systems design, implementation, and administration
- 3+ years experience analyzing system failures to minimize outages and interruptions
- 3+ years experience working with Windows Server operating systems (2003, 2008, 2008 R2, etc.)
- Scripting/Development Experience (.Net, Powershell, VBScript, etc.)
- Experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails a huge plus
- 3+ years experience implementing solutions utilizing Microsoft technologies such as Windows Clustering, IIS 7.x, DFS, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint 2007/2010, Systems Center Operations Manager, etc
- Comfort working in an agile startup environment. Our cycles are extremely fast and your code will be up and running on our production site the first week you start
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy, best-idea-wins environment
Benefits:
- Part time or full time available
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Offices in Seattle, remote working encouraged
Apply:
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Account Manager
Let me tell you something about our customers: they’re an ornery lot.
Don’t get me wrong, big respect and all, but when your job is to make sure that 20,000 people who arrived in a foreign city an hour ago get through registration quickly and into the convention hall where your $100,000 speaker is ready to proclaim the future on 40′ video screens, and the speaker better be on time and not drunk, and the A/V equipment better work the first time, right down to that flaky lapel mic, and someone better have remembered to restock the TP in the restrooms, well, you have a good reason to be intolerant of things going off plan.
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to make these people happy.
Pathable provides private, branded social networks to conferences and events. Our account managers are responsible for everything from the moment the sale closes on. You’ll master our provisioning and deployment dashboard, you’ll be sweet-talking the important details out of the harried and over-worked event planners that are our customers, preparing and launching the sites, and then providing “best practices” nudges and hand-holding to help them get the most out of the on-line community you built for them. When something goes wrong and a customer calls, hot under the collar, you’re imperturbable. When they finish talking to you, they’re thinking “whew, that’s one less thing I need to worry about!”
We are a Web 2.0 company (ugh, put a quarter in the jar for using that phrase), which means you should be adept and comfortable with computers, the Internet and the modern way of doing things: you know when to right-click in your browser, you use formulas in Excel, you’re on Skype, you can tell me why you prefer your mobile device to the one that you don’t have. You can send a text message (without using any of the following: ROFL, LOL, or most especially 4EVA), you check your e-mail somewhat obsessively and you know that sometimes, work has to be done at 1 AM because it has to be done at 1 AM.
You are fun to work with, you dress however you feel like, and you don’t mind company meetings that might take you on a bus ride.
Essential Job Functions:
- Provision, configure and deploy Pathable communities for our customers using our web-based management dashboard
- Educate conference planners and other customers on the use of the community tools using the phone, e-mail and GoToMeeting / web conferencing
- Provide Tier 1 support to conference planners and attendees on the use of the community service, by phone and e-mail
- Cool hot tempers, amuse the amusable
- Ensure our customers meet their goals successfully and with a minimum of hassle
- Provide integrity and credibility as the “main point of contact” for your customers
- Provide input and insights into how to make the process more effective or more efficient
Requirements
- Proven success in customer relations
- Grace under pressure
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, instinct to figure out “how to do it” when faced with a “it can’t be done”
- Proven ability to successfully communicate company goals and vision to customers and prospects
- Comfort and facility with modern computers, the Internet, and the web lifestyle
- Superior communication and demonstration skills (verbal and written)
- Self-motivated professional who operates well in an empowered, dynamic, and fast-paced environment
- Creative and strategic thinking skills to help introduce, develop and promote new ideas into corporate vision, marketing strategy and programs
- Ability to juggle multiple projects, prioritize effectively and meet deadlines with minimal staff support
- Strong organization, planning and execution skills with an emphasis on successful delivery against established goals.
Desired but not required
- College degree
- 2+ years in the conference and event industry in a customer-touch position (including sales, customer service, or support)
- Experience in the technology field, and in particular, experience in translating technical products and services into meaningful value for customers and prospects
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Stock options
- Health insurance
- Mix of work-from-office and work-from-home schedule
- Joie de vivre

