- Company
- Disqus
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Added on
- 04/02/2010
- Keywords
- web-2-0 webdesign webservices
About the Company:
Disqus is a startup founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco. We are passionate about building products that people love to use. Our investors include Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator.
Disqus (dis·cuss • dĭ-skŭs') is all about changing the way people think about discussion on the web. We're big believers in the conversations and communities that form on blogs and other sites.
Disqus offers two services that help improve discussions on the web:
For Publishers: Disqus Comments is a comment system and moderation tool for your site. This service lets you add next-gen community management and social web integrations to any site on any platform. Hundreds of thousands of sites, from small blogs to large publications, rely on Disqus Comments for their discussion communities.
For Commenters: Disqus Profile lets you get the most out of the comments you post on sites all around the web. Take back control of what you've written by tracking and managing your comments all in one place. You can also use Disqus Profile to effortless follow and reply to what people are talking about, on and across sites.
The ideal candidate:
Responsibilities and Skills
- Help determine the best user experience across all aspects of Disqus, including the aesthetic look and feel as well as the usability.
- Take features from specs to mockups to implemented client-side code.
- Head usability experiments, such as using multivariate (A/B) testing to design and improve product flow.
- You will work with both the website application and the embedded comment system (widget-like applications).
- Design and implement features which will be used by millions of people on release.
- Work heavily with cross-domain issues and take advantage of the newest web technologies (e.g. HTML5), or bend existing web technologies to accomplish new things.
- Develop methods to improve performance across all combinations of browsers and platforms.
- Responsible for writing clean, semantic HTML and CSS.
- JavaScript experience is a big plus.
About You
- Fluent with all the appropriate tools needed, such as Photoshop or Illustrator.
- Skilled with visual and graphic design.
- Expert with HTML, CSS.
- Very experienced with common and obscure cross-browser and cross-domain issues, hacks, and solutions.
- Very skilled with UI and UX design.
- Understand user behavior and application flow. You make applications that are fun to use and leave people happy.
Job Description and responsibilities:
Disqus is searching for a passionate, creative person to lead product design and user experience. Everything we do at Disqus is heavily based in creating rewarding experiences, and we're looking for someone who shares the same ideals. Are you a client-side developer who knows UX, has the graphical design chops, and are looking for a new challenge?
About Us
Disqus is a web service that builds and connects communities through a networked comment system. Hundreds of thousands of websites rely on Disqus to power their discussions, and millions of people regularly use the comment system in discussions all over the web. Disqus is the leading comment system, reaching nearly 80 million unique people per month.
Our company is a growing startup based in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We are a small, tech-heavy team focused on building powerful, versatile software which perform and scale well, while being a joy to use and accessible to everyone.
Disqus was founded in 2007 and is backed by investors Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator.
To apply:
Please apply with a link to your portfolio, or examples of your work. http://disqus.theresumator.com/apply/5gFMOd/