This week in Jobs of the Week we are featuring two positions located in Halifax, from Proposify and Gracenote, and one opportunity from St. John’s-based Software-as-a-Service company HeyOrca.
Proposify is a Halifax-based SaaS company, and creators of a document-editing software specifically tailored for writing digital proposals. Proposify also captures analytics information such as win/loss ratio.
Gracenote provides entertainment industry information to databases on the TV, movie and music industry.
HeyOrca is a software platform that simplifies planning and collaboration between ad agencies and their clients for social media campaigns.
Entrevestor and Qimple operate the Entrevestor Job Board, which helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities. It’s a cost-efficient way to reach the best people in the new economy.
Halifax
Proposify
Proposify is seeking an experienced marketer/growth hacker to join their small team in Halifax. The ideal candidate would fit in with Proposify’s corporate culture of customer service, inter-departmental communication/cooperation, respect and humour. The applicant should have a track record of driving revenue for SaaS companies, be data-driven, analytical, innovative, creative, and posses a diverse set of skill to drive growth. This includes SEO marketing automation, conversion optimization, and consumer psychology. Responsibilities for the role include using data and analytics to develop insight for improved decision making, and drive growth related to revenue, retention and referrals. Qualifications for this position include five plus years’ experience in a similar role.
Gracenote
Gracenote is looking for an applicant to fill the position of web developer in its Halifax office. The successful applicant will work independently alongside a technical team, and write web, desktop, and mobile applications. They will be responsible to expose themselves to relevant industry applications (IIS, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence, Fisheye, etc.) and technologies (NuGet, Gradle, MongoDB, etc.). Qualifications include a Computer Science Degree or equivalent, five-plus years’ experience working with the following – Java and/ore NET (C# and VB), HTML, XML and SQL Server. Experience with third party and open source tool such as Hibernate and Spring would be considered an asset.
St. John’s
HeyOrca
User Experience and User Interface Designer
HeyOrca is looking for a designer to ensure a consistent user interface design throughout the application while working as part of the development team to implement web user interfaces. The position will entail identifying weak spots in the software and providing solutions, collecting direct feedback, implementing a data-driven approach to collecting and analyzing user behaviour, and providing the development team mock-ups for new features. Qualifications for the position include being open to moving to St John’s, having experience with designing SaaS products, and have two to eight years’ experience in a similar role.
