Jobs at Topix

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Whether your passion is French cuisine, family and parenting, or social technology, you can find the latest news and information - from mainstream media and bloggers - on Topix.

Topix crawls and categorizes breaking news from over 50,000 news sources, 24 hours a day. Our technology reads every story as it is released and then categorizes each one into one or more of the more than 360,000 news pages.

Currently, Topix has separate pages for the 30,000 US cities and towns, 5,500 public company and industry verticals, 48,000 celebrities and musicians, 1,500 sports teams and personalities, and many, many more.

But Topix does more than tell you what's happening in the world. Through our easy-to-use publishing system with a built in audience of millions, we're handing a bullhorn to anyone who wants to voice their opinion.

We're expanding the concept of news to include blogs, comments, and forums. We're breathing life into local news, turning passive news into active dialogue.

To learn more about Topix, check out our blog, and peruse our open positions. If you like what you see, please send your resume and cover letter to recruiter@topix.com with the position name as the subject line.

Current Open Positions

• Online Community Manager

Community Management

Online Community Manager

Topix is looking for an Online Community Manager to join our team!

A Topix Community Manager is responsible for responding to a daily influx of user questions, suggestions and concerns via email and forum posts, monitor forums for adherence to Topix Terms of Service, and step in where needed to right the proverbial ship.

Topix Terms of Service enforcement can sometimes involve meticulous research and investigative work into user and forum activity over extended periods of time. Other responsibilities include photo moderation, editor management, helping our newspaper partners with their forum management and diligence in fighting the good fight against would-be spammers from around the globe.

Requirements

Requirements include the ability to evenhandedly enforce Terms of Service in the face of potentially radical posted opinion that may challenge your own political, moral, spiritual or other beliefs. Candidates must have a strong stomach, abundance of good humor and a passion for online community. Previous forum experience as a Moderator or "Power User" is highly relevant to this position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Working with Business Development, Legal, Technology, and Product teams to understand the needs and priorities of the Topix Community.
• Enforcing the Topix Terms of Service in an even-handed and judicious manner.

Education and Work Experience

• Four years of college (or equivalent) and two years of related online Community experience are required.
• Experience maintaining a public forum and/or user-generated content (including personal blogs) is highly desirable.
• Experience working in a rapidly growing technology company, particularly a consumer-facing website is as also highly desirable.

Specialized/Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and have the ability to interact productively with co-workers and others across departmental lines.

If you are still reading and all of this hasn't scared you off, please send your resume and include some links to any relevant online presence to jobs@topix.com.

Note: This position is ONSITE in Palo Alto, CA and is also for an ONLINE community manager, not a building manager.