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Mint is a venture–funded startup located in downtown Mountain View, CA. The company launched it’s free, effortless, online money management service, Mint.com, in September, 2007 and it’s quickly become the most popular personal finance application on the Web. Over 150,000 people are already Mint users, and we are tracking over $8 billion in transactions.

Designed to be effortless, Mint automatically pulls your data from different sources around the web and consolidates your financial life in one place. In addition, Mint goes beyond visibility and analysis to provide personalized money-saving and money-making suggestions. You should sign up today and start saving money!

Because the product solves the long–standing problem of easy and free budget and finance management, Mint.com has caught the attention of major national media. The product has also won recognition and multiple awards from Business Week, Finovate, TechCrunch and Lifehacker. It was named the one of the Top 25 Innovations of 2007, and named the highest rated Online Personal Finance service by PCWorld. Click here for more information on product reviews and awards.

The company has put together an experienced executive and engineering team, and has attracted funding from top tier venture capital firms and angel investors.

We are currently interviewing for the following positions:

Offers Management Analyst (Internship)

As a Offers Management Analyst at Mint.com you will be responsible for the quality and management of a wide range of consumer financial products and home services offers that Mint presents to its users. Mint offers are a revolutionary new form of Web advertising. Offers are only presented to users when there is a real savings opportunity which is contextually determined based on a user’s actual spending stream, and the savings are quantified in actual $ terms. Offers are prospected, evaluated and incorporated into the Mint.com backend through a broad range of sources and partnerships

Responsibilities

Ensure that Mint has the most accurate, consistent, high quality and comprehensive collection of comparative financial offers on the Web.
Work with existing sources of offers and rate information in entering, updating and maintaining Mint offers (rates, descriptions, terms & conditions, fees etc.) adding new offers and removing obsolete offers.
Respond to compliance requests from partners.
Actively gather quantitative metrics on offer conversion rates.

Requirements

Strong interest in web-based affiliate marketing, lead generation, and e-commerce.
Strong interest in personal finance, and ways for consumers to build savings.
Strong analytic aptitude, collaborative working style, coupled with a desire to deliver outstanding business impact.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and excellent quantitative skills.
Personal DNA includes Integrity, Intelligence, Energy, Execution and Passion.
Undergraduate/Graduate pursuing a degree in marketing, business, or engineering.

Hours

15 hours per week during the school year, possibly full-time during summer, flexible schedule.

Compensation

Competitive monthly stipend + stock options.

Location

Mountain View, CA: HQ office just off Castro Street.

To apply, send a resume to jobs-bd@mint.com. Your cover letter should describe why you’re excited about joining Mint and why we should be excited about having you join the team.

User Experience & Design Guru

Our product is paramount at Mint.com and as a company we are maniacally focused on delivering a jaw dropping experience with undeniable value for our users. Mint is looking for the rare and wonderful talent that can marry a background in interaction design and web development with a passion for making personal financial management engaging and entertaining. As a member of the Product team at Mint.com, you will be involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, from ideation to implementation. Specifically you will be responsible for the visual design and interaction design of our product. This position requires heavy interaction with Product Managers, Marketing and our very talented front–end engineering team.

Responsibilities

Know Mint users (be the ball) – Organize and manage usability sessions, develop mental models and task analysis, apply qualitative and quantitative methods for achieving clarity into the pleasure and pain derived from the Mint experience.
Think creatively – Design the best product on the web. Focus on simple and clean experiences. Don't be afraid to explore non-conventional approaches to address conventional problems.
Apply your skills/use your tools – Engage in concept visualizations, wire framing, prototyping and, generally, articulate the user interface designs that will make Mint.com intuitive, informative and a pleasure to use. Author designs documents and author visual specs. Deliver creative assets and html to engineering.

Requirements

Passion for Mint’s mission and vision. Since Mint helps people do more with their money, we’re making it easier for people to achieve their financial goals and get to the life they want… sooner. You’ve gotta love that idea.
BS or equivalent background in Human–Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or equivalent
5+ years of web design / development experience, some freelance is a plus
Solid working experience with Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / Flash / Flex for concept visualization. Ability to draw or otherwise wireframe user experiences from frame-to-frame is a plus
Fluent in standards–compliant web development, Javascript / DOM / DHTML experience preferred, Advanced understanding of CSS and XHTML specifications

Nice to Have:

Personal portfolio required

To apply, send a resume to jobs-product@mint.com. Your cover letter should describe why you’re excited about joining Mint and why we should be excited about having you join the team.

Web Developer – Contract Position

Our product is paramount at Mint.com and as a company we are maniacally focused on delivering a jaw dropping experience with undeniable value for our users. Mint is looking for the rare and wonderful talent that can marry a background in web development with a passion for making personal financial management visually engaging and functional. As a web developer contractor, you will be involved in assisting the implementation of Mint's marketing efforts, from idea to implementation. This position requires interaction with Product, Marketing and our very talented front–end engineering and design team.

Experience & Requirements

Implementing plans laid out by the Marketing team - HTML coding of web pages, emails, and other marketing assets
Creating graphic designs with the Marketing team, working with the existing design and web development team at Mint in an efficient manner

Absolutely Required

Hand-coded, valid HTML/CSS
Basic JavaScript and/or PHP
Basic SEO best practices
Proficient with Adobe design software
HTML email development

Strongly Recommended

Advanced Javascript, PHP and/or ASP
Advanced SEO Experience
eCommerce Experience

To apply, send a resume to jobs-marketing@mint.com. Your cover letter should describe why you’re excited about joining Mint and why we should be excited about having you join the team.

Senior Product Manager

Mint is looking for an intelligent, experienced Product Manager who is passionate about building the best personal financial management tool on the Web. As a Product Manager on the Mint team, you will be responsible for developing product strategy, conceiving of features, defining product requirements, working with a cross functional team through implementation, and performing detailed analysis on features.

Ultimately, Product Management at Mint is responsible for building an engaged user based that positions the company to achieve is overall business objectives. The position requires heavy interaction with Marketing, Business Development and Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams.

Responsibilities & Deliverables

Contribute to the Roadmap - Develop product strategy that is founded in the needs of Mint users, in line with Mint’s objective to help individuals save money and achieves Mint’s business objectives.
Know the customer - Partner with Marketing to design & execute qualitative consumer research. This will include fielding surveys, participating in forums, organizing usability sessions. Understanding the needs of Mint users is central to your responsibility as a Product Manager.
Know the business – work closely with Business Development to cultivate relationships with advertisers and partners.
Define the experience - Author product requirements documents (PRD) for a rapidly evolving set of product features. Product requirements will be rooted in detailed use cases as well as quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Own the product - Partner with engineering and quality assurance through the review of PRD’s and the implementation of each release to ensure the best user experience possible.
Know your numbers - For appropriate initiatives, you will define, maintain and report on a set of metrics that describe adoption, usage and monetization of the feature.

Requirements

Passion for Mint’s mission and vision. Since Mint helps people do more with their money, we’re making it easier for people to achieve their financial goals and get to the life they want… sooner. You’ve gotta love that idea.
6+ years of Product Management experience at a consumer Internet company, or equivalent experience (Nice to have prior early-stage startup experience).
Experience in user interface design, interaction design, information architecture, usability.
Strong analytical\problem solving skills (experience with web analytics, comfortable working with data is a big plus).
Proven track record of shipping successful products.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working in cross–functional teams.
Minimum bachelor’s degree from top tier school.

To apply, send a resume to jobs-product@mint.com. Your cover letter should describe why you’re excited about joining Mint and why we should be excited about having you join the team.

Front-End AJAX / Javascript Engineer

We are seeking a smart, experienced engineer who gets things done to join our team and specialize in building responsive and elegant web UIs with JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX and server-side Java. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript UIs. This is an exceptional opportunity involving substantial equity.

Responsibilities

Help us build responsive and elegant web UIs with JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX and server-side Java
Design, implement, deploy, and extend the infrastructure, which supports our secure, scalable, and quickly evolving Web application.
Depending upon the candidate's experience and interests, we also have important and rewarding challenges in the backend and data/analytics tiers.

Experience and Requirements

Absolutely Required

Deep Javascript/AJAX/DHTML experience, especially framework experience such as GWT, Prototype, Dojo, YUI
Able to design, code, unit test, and debug complex, DOM-based web software applications supporting multiple browsers
Fluent with HTML and CSS, and able to code them by hand
Experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript
Proficient with at least one JavaScript debugger (Venkman, FireBug, etc.)

Strongly Recommended

2+ years of Java experience.
Strong OO design skills, and understanding of design patterns.
Strongly familiar with at least one Java web presentation framework.
Fluent in SQL (mySQL experience preferred).
Prior experience developing a production Internet application.
B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science from a competitive school.

Nice To Have

Flash experience.
Experience with issues involved in production Web site operations: networking, load-balancing, monitoring.
Familiarity with personal finance software applications, statistics, and algorithms.
Previous start–up experience.

To apply, send a resume to jobs-engineering@mint.com. Your cover letter should describe why you’re excited about joining Mint and why we should be excited about having you join the team.

Mint.com Blog Manager

Mint is looking for a personal finance guru with a passion for educating others about their money management and their investments... so they can focus on living instead of worrying about accounting.

As the Mint.com BlogMaster (BlogMistress?), you will be responsible for implementing of a blog design and content strategy which delivers valuable information to our 4,000+ readers, positive product and brand awareness/image and customer acquisition among 20-40 year old, tech-savvy (but not yet finance–savvy) professionals. Responsibilities and success metrics are:

Responsibilities

Blog Editor: Create and manage an editorial calendar and the blogs site design to deliver on blog channel objectives for brand building, delivering user value and generating traffic/revenue to mint.com service.
Writing/Writer management: Personally write for the blog, and identify, brief and manage high–caliber bloggers contributing relevant and compelling content across multiple targeted segments.
Blogger Relationships: Develop and maintain positive relationships with key bloggers in the Personal Finance, Lifestyle and Technology blogospheres. Success metrics will be qualitative as well as quantifiable in terms of link backs to mint.com, distribution of mint.com content and traffic generated from referring sites.
Leverage Blog/Content: Develop and execute programs which are consistent with our brand and values which drive link-sharing, SEO, and third party recommendations of Mint blog content, e.g. Digg, StumbleUpon, del.ici.o.us, etc.
Collaborate with PR, online marketing and customer service to ensure that Mint’s voice is consistent and our messaging is relevant across all blog content and tactics.
Collaborate with product management team to create roadmap for blog experiences within the site and on the Web.
Manage tracking and reporting to measure the blog’s impact on Mint’s brand awareness/image, site traffic and user conversion rates.

Experience and Requirements

Absolutely Required

Passion for Mint’s mission and vision. Since Mint helps people do more with their money, we’re making it easier for people to achieve their financial goals and get to the life they want… sooner. You’ve gotta love that idea.
Experience in journalism, editorial management or personal/professional blogging on personal finance topics.
High energy, creative, innovative and results–driven attitude.
Strong self motivation and ability to work independently.
Bias to action and ability to work efficiently within a fast paced, start–up environment.
Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
Willing to relocate to Bay Area.

Strongly Recommended

B.S. or equivalent from a top tier school.
Experience working for a financial services company.

Nice To Have

Prior early-stage startup experience.
Experience using Wordpress.
CSS, PHP, XML, and D/HTML skills.

To apply, send a resume to jobs–marketing@mint.com. Your cover letter should describe why you’re excited about joining Mint and why we should be excited about having you join the team.

Manager of Social-Viral Marketing

We believe that we’re building a truly innovate product which will deliver real value to millions of users. And the users and media who have already found us seem to agree. As Manager of Social and Viral Marketing, you’re the one to "get the word out" about what we offer via social networks and online communities, referral and affiliate programs, and events. Responsibilities and success metrics are:

Responsibilities and Deliverables

Generate positive brand awareness/image and new user acquisition among our target market via social, viral, affiliate and event marketing.
- Social Network Marketing: Identify, prioritize, specify and manage Mint applications and widgets hosted on targeted sites.
- Affiliate and Referral Marketing: Design, execute and manage programs which cost-effectively drive new user growth.
- Event Marketing: manage Mint WebEx-type presentations as well as Mint’s “real world” presence at conferences, trade shows, etc.
Identify and execute programs which are consistent with our brand and values
Collaborate with PR, online marketing and customer service to ensure that Mint’s voice is consistent and our messaging is relevant across all “evangelist” tactics
Collaborate with product management team to create roadmap for community, viral and network marketing experiences within the site and on the Web
Manage tracking and reporting to measure ROI of community, social network, blog and event marketing efforts on Mint’s brand awareness/image, site traffic and user conversion rates
Oversee all financial impacts and maximize ROI

Experience and Requirements

Absolutely Required

Passion for Mint’s mission and vision. Since Mint helps people do more with their money, we’re making it easier for people to achieve their financial goals and get to the life they want … sooner. You’ve gotta love that idea.
Track record of success in internet, online and/or social media marketing, ideally for a Web 2.0 application with a strong community focus
3+ years of hands–on experience in either marketing, product management or community leadership for an internet based services OR
3+ years experience in online marketing agency serving clients providing internet based services
High energy, creative, innovative and results–driven attitude
Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills

Strongly Recommended

Personal interest in helping people better manage and save money
Strong self motivation and ability to work independently
Bias to action and ability to work efficiently within a fast paced, start–up environment
BS or equivalent from a top tier school

Nice To Have

Prior early–stage startup experience

To apply, send a resume and samples of your personal finance writings to jobs-marketing@mint.com. Your cover letter should describe why you’re excited about joining Mint and why we should be excited about having you join the team.