Product Development/Project Manager

Location: Tasting Table Headquarters in Soho, Manhattan, New York

Tasting Table has an immediate opening for a Product Developer/Project Manager to manage the enhancement and extension of our digital epicurean brand online. As a member of our Production Team, this role will be responsible for the entire product development lifecycle, from participating in project conception through business requirements gathering, wire-framing, and functional specification through product testing and release management. As Tasting Table maintains no technology staff, the Project Manager must be a deft multitasker who is capable of facilitating among internal stakeholders and third-party developers and designers--all while ensuring that the end product is high quality and visually well aligned with our upscale brand.

This opportunity has arisen as Tasting Table continues to increase the velocity of our product development. We're looking for a hungry new teammate to help us manage the process of rolling out new features, tools and content products, while also working with us to improve the quality and coolness of those products. In short, we seek an ambitious product developer who is tuned in to the best the web has to offer, and who wants to help us translate that knowledge into real products for our audience of adventurous eaters.

Requirements:
- Product dev experience in digital media or in an agency environment; aware of the common pitfalls inherent in this type of product dev
- Expert communication skills are vital, both verbal and written. Must be able to translate nontechnical requirements from internal product owners into SDLC collateral, like functional specs
- Sufficient understanding of the vocabularies used in web design, coding/development, testing, etc. to proficiently negotiate among developers and designers
- Updated familiarity with the coolest things currently happening in web design; this role will actively participate in product brainstorming sessions and will constantly suggest enhancements/extensions to our current products
- Experience with data management/analytics preferred
- Proud geek or card-carrying nerd preferred. Condescending know-it-alls not welcome

TT tech highlights, to help you understand the opportunity:
- Entire tech back end (Java) is custom-built and owned by TT; our system integrates all core business functions, including member list management, TastingTable.com CMS, email send service (via a direct-to-internet MTA), and ad-serving facility, along with custom reporting capabilities
- Tech is maintained and extended as required by our third-party tech development partner, which works closely with TT on a day-to-day basis
- TT retains a core design agency for brand identity projects and related collateral, but also works with a network of independent freelance designers for day-to-day design work and non-core/non-identity projects
- All product development and related project management is coordinated online using 37signals Basecamp
- Customer bug reports and defects are captured by our customer ticketing system, which allows routing and tracking of discovered issues within TT and out to our developers as necessary

To apply, please send a brief description of your qualifications and interest, along with your résumé in PDF format, to devjob@tastingtable.com.

Editor (Wellness Edition)

Location: Tasting Table Headquarters in Soho, Manhattan, New York

TastingTable.com, the daily email devoted to the best of food and drink culture, is launching a new edition and is looking for an experienced editor. The focus of this new edition will be wellness, and will cover all the topics and subjects that word connotes, i.e. healthful, local, sustainable, organic and, like the rest of Tasting Table’s content, tasteful and delicious. The editor of this new edition will be responsible for researching, reporting and writing stories about the best and most interesting wellness-related recipes, products, drinks and trends happening across the country. If you have a strong interest in the digital publishing industry, a passion for food and health, a love for the written word and a hunger to succeed in a start-up environment, Tasting Table wants to hear from you.

Responsibilities:
- Researching, reporting and writing stories for the new wellness edition of Tasting Table
- Managing a network of contacts, publicists, freelancers and tipsters to feed and facilitate great content
- Representing the publication as a member of the editorial team
- Evangelizing our brand by telling everyone and anyone who will listen about our publication
- Working alongside the other members of Tasting Table’s editorial team to keep the editorial content accurate, fresh and exciting
- Contributing any brainstorming required to support all of the Tasting Table teams/departments in pursuit of creating and maintaining a high-quality digital epicurean brand

Skills required:
- Four-year college degree
- At least 4 years editorial experience, with an emphasis on wellness-related content
- A comprehensive knowledge of the health-and-wellness world
- Whip-smart writer who knows that good taste is merely the beginnings of good writing about food and drink
- Understands the Tasting Table editorial voice and style
- Strong attention to detail, verging on OCD-like tendencies to re-check your work twice before becoming comfortable that the work is correct
- Graceful under pressure
- Superb communication skills
- Wit / humor. Ability to produce a serious work product without taking yourself too seriously
- Obsessive attention to accuracy of facts, details, etc.
- Impervious to writer's block. Doesn't make excuses. Loves this business.
- Mac savvy
- Generally “digitally minded”
- Detail-oriented
- Fun, funny, easy-going but deadline-driven and committed to delivering on time and beyond expectation

Salary: A competitive salary plus health and dental benefits and paid vacation will be provided.

To apply, complete the information in this online application: http://goo.gl/8Vsp9. Resumes will not be accepted in other form. Thanks for your interest!

Business Finance Analyst

Location: Tasting Table Headquarters in Soho, Manhattan, New York

Tasting Table (http://TastingTable.com) has an immediate opening for a Business Finance Analyst to join our fast-growing start-up in New York City. The Analyst will work with Tasting Table's executive team to keep the trains running on time across our financial, analytical and operational functions. Reporting directly to the COO, with dotted-line reporting to the CEO, this role will assume day-to-day responsibility for critical financial functions while supporting the maintenance and expansion of our tactical and strategic resources in key areas, including these:

OPERATIONAL:
- Oversee all financial accounting and reporting (managing outsourced bookkeeper / liaising with CPA)
- Managing payroll and benefits administration
- Producing internal financial management reporting, including investor reporting and ad hoc analyses
- Monitoring and managing operating cash flow
- Producing weekly Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reporting for Tasting Table management and investors
- Managing some aspects of new hire on-boarding / setup processes

TACTICAL:
-Interfacing with external accounting, legal and other professional services partners to de-risk Tasting Table wherever possible
-Managing key vendor relationships, including contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) negotiation and monitoring to maximize ROI
- Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for key partners and managing to those metrics
- Managing annual external audit
- Project Managing certain Tasting Table initiatives as needed
- Building Excel-based or GoogleDocs Spreadsheets-based models as needed
- Analyzing operating data as needed

STRATEGIC:
- Working with Tasting Table Directors to identify strategic partnerships that could expand or enhance Tasting Table's market position
- Pursuing and developing those strategic partnerships
- Implementing achieved partnerships across Tasting Table departments
- Monitoring Tasting Table's market position versus key competitors and identifying trending competition (on-g0ing SWOT )
- Participating in annual Strategic Planning Process among all departments to clarify Tasting Table's forward goals and build an actionable, achievable plan
- Working with Tasting Table Directors to develop departmental budgets for cost centers and managing/optimizing those budgets on-going

REQUIREMENTS (HARD):
- MBA or equivalent experience
- Minimum 3 years professional work experience in a related role or in a strategy consulting, investment banking, financial services or related professional service role
- Experience in the media business preferred but not required
- Financial Accounting experience; must be able to oversee day-to-day AP and AR, manage the bookkeeper, deal with our taxes, balance the books, manage the financial reporting
- Extremely analytical, numbers-minded, deadline-oriented
- Task-oriented / doesn't have to be asked twice; personally driven to succeed with minimal oversight

REQUIREMENTS (SOFT):
- Utterly digital: Excel guru, expert Google research artist; Mac savvy preferred but not required
- Hungry to chalk up a major win at Tasting Table to propel his/her career
- Prepared to leap obstacles, bulldoze naysayers and swim through complexity to achieve that win
- Caffeinated, energetic, always "on"
- Most importantly: Team-oriented; fun; funny; serious without taking herself/himself too seriously; not a jerk

SALARY & BENEFITS:
- Competitive salary based on experience and wow-factor
- Three weeks vacation
- Health and dental insurance
- 401(K) program -- after you go through the brain damage to set the plan up for us
- Access to waistline-damaging quantities of food and drink passing through office weekly
- Soho office location
- Opportunity to work with 30+ driven food lovers who fulfill all the "Soft Requirements" above

LEARN MORE:
- Join our membership of adventurous eaters & drinkers at http://TastingTable.com
- Review past press and the announcements leading up to our current state: http://www.tastingtable.com/header/nyc/press.htm
- Check out our current team: http://www.linkedin.com/company/tasting-table
- Envision our "conference room": http://TastingTable.com/kitchen
- See what we're up to on Facebook: http://Facebook.com/TastingTable
- Or on our various Twitter feeds: http://Twitter.com/TastingTable, /TastingTableNYC, /TastingTableSF, /TastingTableCHI, /TastingTableDC, /TastingTableLA

APPLY:
Due to the number of applicants we receive for career openings at Tasting Table, we ask that that all applicants (referred or not) complete our online application at http://www.tastingtable.com/business-analyst-app.

Unsolicited resumes will not be accepted by email, post, fax, FedEx, etc.

Thanks for your interest in joining our team!

Operations Assistant

Location: Tasting Table Headquarters in Soho, Manhattan, New York

TastingTable.com, the daily email devoted to the best of food and drink culture, has an opening for an entry-level Operations Assistant. If you have a strong interest in the digital publishing industry, a passionate love of food and a hunger to succeed in a start-up environment, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:
The Operations Assistant will perform a variety of duties across our Operations department.
- Advertising Campaign Execution:
- Client outreach: acquiring collateral, writing advertorial copy, creating previews and receipts of placements, obtaining timely approvals, and invoicing and collecting payment
- Interdepartmental collaboration: coordinating sponsored events, sweepstakes, custom technology and any custom advertorial features
- Research and Analysis:
- Generating and monitoring advertising campaign reporting in Excel
- Analyzing metrics to determine ways of optimizing overall performance
- Customer Service Management:
- Overseeing Tasting Table's internal ticketing system
- Integrating consumer feedback applications on TastingTable.com
- Quality Assurance Maintenance:
- Creating and maintaining advertisement inventory (website/mobile) via DoubleClick for Publisher
- Technology product design and testing
- Identifying and troubleshooting any and all issues that affect the implementation of TT's digital publication
- Other responsibilities as required to maintain the general health of our start-up:
- For example: assisting with general administrative duties, such as handling the telephone and other office management tasks

Qualifications:
- College degree required; recent graduates without professional experience are welcome
- Above all else, a high energy level is necessary
- Strong attention to detail, verging on OCD-like tendencies to recheck your work twice before becoming comfortable that the work is right
- Accurate and thorough
- Able to prioritize multiple streams of work without becoming overwhelmed
- Enjoy troubleshooting, researching and needling your way to a solution without tears
- Great communication/interpersonal skills--written and verbal
- Fun, outgoing, good-humored and able to work with a variety of personalities (who may not be as fun, outgoing and good-humored as you are)
- Great with computers (Mac experience preferred), including word processing (Google Docs and/or Word), spreadsheets (Google Docs and/or Excel) and general Internet savvy
- Insanely organized
- Ability to multitask
- Fast learner
- Curious, interesting and interested in the world of online publishing
- QuickBooks, Google Analytics, and DoubleClick for Publisher experience a plus (not required)

If you are interested in this opportunity to join the Tasting Table team, please complete the application here http://bit.ly/y4rCUa.

**This is not an editorial position and is not on a career path leading to a role in our editorial group. This position is located within our business group and is a great fit for recent grads or other new professionals looking to develop their business skills.**

Advertising Sales Account Manager

Location: Tasting Table Headquarters in Soho, Manhattan, New York

TastingTable.com, the fast-growing daily email publication about food & drink, is looking for seasoned account managers to join our growing advertising sales team.

Qualifications:
- Proven go-getter with experience in the following areas: high-volume cold calling, pitching to senior executives, selling integrated programs (more than just banners)
- Motivated: works independently, doesn't take "no" for an answer, leader in developing necessary materials to close new business
- Excellent communicator: outgoing, great writer & speaker
- Intelligent: well-educated & career-driven, understands the value and challenges of selling a start-up brand
- Extra pluses: digital media experience, history calling on travel, auto, financial, retail, liquor

Responsibilities:
- Prospect, negotiate and secure media partnerships with agencies and clients
- Achieve quarterly sales goals and maximize all revenue and growth opportunities for Tasting Table
- Foster client relationships and be respected, visible and relevant to designated account list
- Create advertisers solutions/advertising proposals, partnership programs, for clients and agencies
- Participate in regular sales meetings and provide on-going reporting and feedback to sales management

About working at Tasting Table:
Our office is an extremely fast-paced and exciting place to work - a true start-up environment headquartered out of a SoHo loft. Every member of our team goes above-and-beyond his/her job description to make a true contribution to our budding company. If you're excited about the prospect of a company that will grow along with your career, and you're committed to working as hard as necessary to succeed, this is an amazing (and fun) place to work.

Compensation: Competitive salary plus commission; benefits

Please send résumé, cover letter, and salary requirements to adsales@tastingtable.com

Graphic Designer

Location: Tasting Table Headquarters in Soho, Manhattan, New York

TastingTable.com, the daily email publication devoted to the best of food and drink culture, is looking for a full-time graphic designer to work on our digital design projects. The ideal candidate will be a creative professional who is an expert in digital design and understands Tasting Table's design/mood/brand feel and is able to create new graphical treatments and concepts within our vocabulary. The ability to take verbal and written design direction, change requests, etc. from concept to reality is key for this work. Please note that this is a full-time design position located in New York, NY with yearly salary and full benefits.

Responsibilities:
- Participate in design and execution of projects managed by a Tasting Table teammates using our online project management platform (Basecamp)
- Create new graphical assets and work with existing assets within the parameters of our brand's current look and feel.
- Typical assignments include:
- web banners
- Facebook tabs/forms
- web landing pages
- web microsites
- visual updates to existing web pages
- mobile banners
- website icons and buttons
- downloadable PDFs

Qualifications:
- Mastery in Adobe CS 4 or 5 Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Detail oriented, well organized, deadline driven, good-humored multitasker
- Excited to iterate through design concepts to yield the best graphic solution
- Expert knowledge of current web design trends and techniques a bonus
- Experience specifically in web design
- Strong sense of design, layout, typography and branding for the web
- Clear understanding of information architecture
- Experience web & mobile UX a bonus
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JQUERY, Javascript and PHP a plus
- Knowledge of Basecamp a bonus

To apply, complete the information in this document: http://goo.gl/BdTGD. Resumes will not be accepted in other form. Thanks for your interest!

Freelance Graphic Designer

Location: Varies

TastingTable.com, the daily email devoted to the best of food and drink culture, is looking for a freelance graphic designer (independent / 1099) to work on our digital and print design projects. The ideal freelance designer will be a creative professional who understands Tasting Table's design/mood/brand feel and is able to create new graphical treatments and concepts within our vocabulary. The freelancer will work independently under his or her own direction in order to deliver high-quality design on-time, on-budget and as-described. The ability to take verbal and written design direction, change requests, etc. from concept to reality is key for this work. The designer can be located anywhere but must be on EST to make collaboration effective during the NYC work day.

Responsibilities:
- Participate in design and execution of projects managed by a Tastign Table teammate using our online project management platform (Basecamp)
- Create new graphical assets and work with existing assets within the parameters of our brand's current look and feel. Typical assignments include:
- we banners
- Facebook tabs/forms
- web landing pages
- web microsites
- visual updates to existing web pages
- mobile banners
- website icons and buttons
- downloadable PDFs
- print creative such as menus, invitations, stationary and signage

Qualifications:
- Mastery in Adobe CS 4 or 5 Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Experience with web technologies:
- HTML, CSS a must
- JQUERY, Javascript and PHP a bonus
- Strong sense of design, layout, typography and branding for the web
- Clear understanding of information architecture
- Detail oriented and well organized
- Excited to iterate through design concepts to yield the best graphic solution
- Expert knowledge of current web design trends and techniques a bonus

Please send résumé, cover letter and website/portfolio to design@tastingtable.com