Current Job Openings
Director of Business Development
Credit Sesame is looking for a business development executive with extensive experience in securing partnerships with issuers and publishers in the consumer finance space and financial verticals such as credit cards, consumer loans, mortgages, etc. The position reports directly to the CEO and is responsible for the growth strategy and execution of the business objectives in chosen financial verticals.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the growth of the Company’s business in financial verticals such as credit cards, consumer loans and other financial verticals
- Prospect and evaluate new distribution, partnership and revenue opportunities
- Develop new business relationships with issuers and advertisers
- Negotiate business terms and agreements with partners
- Manage and grow existing partnerships
- Ensure product compliance with partner marketing guidelines
- Help optimize performance of partnerships and financial verticals
- Scope projects and work cross functionally to bring new opportunities to life
- Develop the business case and forecast for new partnership opportunities
- Report partnership performance to the CEO and the rest of the management team
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience and relationships with issuers and advertisers in financial verticals such as credit cards, consumer loans, mortgage, insurance, etc.
- Experience in business development, lead generation, affiliate and partnership marketing, and Consumer Finance expertise.
- Experience with acquisition models: CPL, CPA, CPC, CPM.
- Ability to translate strategic goals into plans and actionable objectives.
- Strong sales and negotiating skills
- Strong communications skills
- Self-starter
Benefits:
- Competitive salary, commission and bonus based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Equity Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country must be: you are able to work for any employer.
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Java Frontend Web Engineer
We are looking for a passionate, highly skilled Java frontend web engineer to develop features for our leading online personal finance website.
Our Software Environment:
- Hosted, web-based application accessed via web browsers and mobile devices
- Java and JavaScript: J2EE, Spring, Hibernate (JPA2), JQuery
- Mostly open-source: Ubuntu Linux, MySQL
- Fast-paced, rapid-release, agile environment
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, unit test new consumer website features with rich Ajax user interface and experience
- Design, develop, unit test features for web widgets hosted on partner sites
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming
- Extensive web application development skills, HTML, CSS, HTTP, JavaScript / Ajax / JQuery
- Excellent Java development skills: J2EE, JPA2 (Hibernate), Spring
- Experience in configuring and running A/B and multivariate web page experiments
- Experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities
- Competency in agile methodologies, e.g. Scrum
- Skills in Linux, web services, and/or SQL a plus
- Undergraduate degree required with graduate degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
- You must be self-directed, self-motivated, committed
- Have the ability to adapt in a dynamic, fast-moving startup environment
- Strong teamwork
- Quick learner
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Includes Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot
support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country
must be: you are able to work for any employer. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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Mobile Software Developer, Android
We are looking for a passionate, highly skilled Android mobile engineer to develop features for our leading online personal finance website.
Our Software Environment:
- Hosted, web-based application accessed via web browsers and mobile devices
- Java and JavaScript: J2EE, Spring, Hibernate (JPA2), JQuery
- Mostly open-source: Ubuntu Linux, MySQL
- Fast-paced, rapid-release, agile environment
Responsibilities:
- Delivering a best in class mobile offering.
- Delivering effective strategies in order to meet challenging revenue targets for the mobile channel.
- Driving continual improvement of development and testing
Qualifications:
- Delivered commercial mobile application with Android platform.
- Expert knowledge of the Android development environment.
- Experience developing software in Java or C++ to solve technically difficult problems.
- A working knowledge of UI programming.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Experience working with cross-functional, geographically diverse teams.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming
- Skills in Linux, web services, and/or SQL a plus
- Undergraduate degree required with graduate degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
- You must be self-directed, self-motivated, committed
- Have the ability to adapt in a dynamic, fast-moving startup environment
- Strong teamwork
- Quick learner
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Includes Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot
support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country
must be: you are able to work for any employer. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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User Experience and Interaction Designer
We are looking for a passionate, highly skilled UI and UX Designer to develop designs for user interactions for our high- traffic public website and our leading online personal finance applications.
Responsibilities:
- User Interaction Design, UI, Web, UX Designer
- Developing useflows, diagrams, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, etc.
- Managing design practices, style guides, color, typography, artwork, brand alignment and all other visual and interactive expressions of the user experience
- Creating new visual elements that engage consumers and optimizing existing consumer-facing pages
- Taking business requirements and translating them into desired customer experiences.
Qualifications:
- Strong visual and UI design skills
- Bachelors in design, marketing, advertising, or human-computer interaction
- 3+ years of experience in graphics and UI Design
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, Dreamweaver
- Experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities
- Must have a strong passion for customer experience
- Ability to prioritize multiple design projects in a fast-moving environment
- Agile team player with an ability to switch gears quickly and learn new technologies to get the job done
- Self-motivated and organized
- Attention to detail
- E-commerce experience is a plus
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Includes Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot
support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country
must be: you are able to work for any employer. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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Customer Support Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Responds to customer inquiries:
- Emails 75%
- Live Chat 20%
- Inbound phone calls 5%
- Ability to analyze user problems and deliver creative solutions
- Responsible for classifying customer requests into reports determining the most common issues
- Work with engineering team to find solutions to most common user problems
- Excellent time management skills
- Customer friendly demeanor
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
- Tech savvy
Qualifications:
- Need +2yrs 2-3 yrs experience in personal finance, credit reports and/or mortgage
- Ability to work independently
- Detail Oriented
- Ability to Multitask
- Strong PC knowledge
- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills
- Analytical; proactive; creative problem solver
- Agile team player with an ability to switch gears quickly and learn new technologies to get the job done
- Self motivated and organized
- Must be able to successfully obtain a government security clearance which includes a background investigation
and verification of US Citizenship.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Includes Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot
support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country
must be: you are able to work for any employer. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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Email Marketing Manager
Credit Sesame is looking for a seasoned email marketing manager to drive user engagement and associated revenue for its online web service and mobile apps . The marketing manager will be responsible for planning, strategy and implementation of successful email campaigns, including content, creative, testing, reporting and analytics. The ideal candidate has a mix of analytical and quantitative skills, experience with large lists, customer segmentation and targeting, a proven track record of consumer email marketing success and coming up with innovative ways to retain, engage and monetize users.
As our email marketing manager you will have the opportunity to take our email communication to the next level.
Responsibilities:
- Develop email marketing strategies, audience segmentation, design and test plans and implement email marketing campaigns to increase engagement and grow revenue
- Work cross functionally with the product, design and content teams to create varying messaging and email deployment strategies for aging vs. new customers
- Monitor, analyze and report on email performance vs. goals to the executive team
- Identify, test and implement new opportunities to improve conversion and customer satisfaction via email communications
- Coordinate with internal/external teams to develop campaigns, briefs, effective designs and landing experiences for email initiatives
- Maintain email best practices including browser/client compatibility, appearance of subject lines, use of images
- Monitor and minimize unsubscribe/bounce/complaint rates and ensure spam regulation compliance (e.g. CAN-SPAM)
- Analyze email marketing key performance indicators (KPIs) to continuously optimize email programs, including key components of each campaign, such as lists, offers, messaging, creative, deliverability, open rates, click through rates, conversion
- Conduct A/B and multivariate testing to continuously improve email strategy and drive higher returns
- Own management and administration of email platform, SendGrid
Qualifications:
- 3-6 years of proven and successful consumer email marketing experience
- A bachelors degree in marketing, advertising, communication studies or a related major
- Exceptional work ethic, ability to perform under pressure, meet deadlines, and prioritize
- Strong strategic, analytical and quantitative skills
- Outstanding written communication skills
- Basic knowledge of HTML preferred
- Prior experience with financial technology industry is a plus
- Experience with segmentation and targeting
- Experience with database management and list creation
- Must be a detail-oriented team player with strong organization skills and ability to work independently
- Experience with web analytics systems (e.g., Google Analytics, Mixpanel, SendGrid)
- Ability to articulate and champion email marketing best practices and standards
- Exceptional project management skills and attention to detail
- Ability to develop email strategies, segmentation, list management, and content management to optimize engagement and continuously improve results
- Ability to effectively network and leverage internal and external resources
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Includes Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot
support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country
must be: you are able to work for any employer. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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Senior Java Developer : Analytics Engine
We are looking for a passionate, highly skilled Senior Java Developer for our high- traffic public website and our leading online personal finance applications.
Responsibilities:
- Designing, coding and debugging of applications
- Should be a proponent of Agile methodology and adapt and adhere to changing requirements
- Drive the full development lifecycle from requirements to release
- Build/Suggest scalable architecture for Advice Engine
- Interact with the team on a daily basis for status update and discussions
Qualifications:
- Expertise in Java, Spring, iBatis, Hibernate and other java/j2ee technologies
- Expertise in developing RESTful Services both in SOAP and JSON
- Experience in building analytics using statistical functions
- Strong experience with designing, optimizing and querying of databases especially MySQL
- Experience in Rule Engines like Drools preferred
- Strong verbal and written communications in English
- Knowledge of JMS and other async technologies
- Experience in Maven, Eclipse and other development tools a must.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Includes Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot
support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country
must be: you are able to work for any employer. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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Data Engineer : Analytics
We are looking for a passionate, highly skilled Data Engineer for our high- traffic public website and our leading online personal finance applications.
Responsibilities:
- Design, architect and develop data solutions to help product and business team to make smart decisions.
- Analyze data and data trends to uncover new insights.
- Build reports and analytics for a variety of customers.
- Support analysts, sales and researchers across the company by serving as a domain expert and teacher.
- Maintain and enhance existing code in Matlab and/or R language
- Analyze web metrics, surveys, and other data using tools like R to understand consumer behavior in making financial decisions and generate reports
Qualifications:
- Expertise in SQL
- Experience in working on MySQL database.
- Experience in Matlab, R is preferred
- Experience in Java, Hadoop, ETL Tools is a plus
- You must be self-directed, self-motivated, committed
- Have the ability to adapt in a dynamic, fast-moving startup environment
- Strong teamwork
- Quick learner
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Includes Stock Options
How to Apply:
- Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@creditsesame.com
- Credit Sesame is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot
support, transfer or accept candidates with H1 visas. Your legal authorization to work in this country
must be: you are able to work for any employer. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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