Merry band of comrades seeks nice, hard-working, diligent, motivated, fun-loving people to join their mission: to democratize publishing and make WordPress.com the best it can be. Work with us.
Last year at Automattic (WordPress.com’s parent company) we hired 48 people:
- 19 developers/systems folk — those who write code and make sure servers are running.
- 14 Happiness Engineers — those who support our users in the forums and answer requests for help.
- 6 themers and designers who create beautiful themes and sites.
- 8 in business and operations — those who work internally with Automatticians and with our VIPs.
- 2 in editorial curating Freshly Pressed, and inspiring bloggers to keep on blogging.
We expect to hire 60 new Automatticians in 2013. We’re a distributed company: Automatticians work from home, their local coffee shop, co-working spaces — the location in the world where they’re most comfortable and productive. Our hiring pool is planet Earth.
We need developers, designers, themers, support folks, and more. Are you a mobile developer? Apply. Are you smart about WordPress, incisive, and compassionate? You might be an awesome Happiness Engineer.
What qualities do we seek? We look for people who are willing to work hard, share their ideas, learn from their colleagues, take initiative to get things done without being told, and those who aren’t afraid to ask questions.
To help you get to know your future colleagues a little better and learn about the awesome people who fuel Automattic, we’re starting a new series here at WordPress.com News called “Five Minutes with an Automattician.” First up, on Monday, January 21st, Mr. Tim Moore.
Think you’ve got the right stuff? Work with us.
Curating Freshly Pressed would be a dream job!
Reblogged this on Peter H. Slutsky and commented:
Interested? Let me know!
I love the job title “Happiness Engineer”. I may use it for a novel I’m writing called “The Pursuit of Happiness” about one man who is none too happy about how the world insists on his being happy.
Reblogged this on Dreaming of the Things In Between and commented:
Looking for work? Come join us at Automattic!
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Come join us at the best distributed company!
Sounds like a very happy company to work for
Do you need an artist? I can create one freshly press art a day just for you.
Hey Peter, I am 61, a new blogger, a compulsive writer and would be quite willing to assist on simple jobs or even more difficult jobs if you give volunteers a bit of training! Let me know.
I would love to be a blogger/ editorial team member. Praise Jesus.
I have to say, I’ve been writing for years and looking for an outlet that I can handle. “WordPress” is it. I’ve looked at several other blog sites and they don’t hold a candle to the ease of operations that WP has. I’ve become addicted. Can’t wait to get my archive from Canada (expat in Dominican Republic – sounds glam but remember it’s still 3rd world) to revamp and publish on WP. One day I may just apply to you!
I would love to curate Freshly Pressed. I look forward to an opportunity to present myself for this role.
Antonio, you need to apply following the instructions on the job posting page in order to be considered: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/story-wrangler/
Shayn, check out the instructions to apply here: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/story-wrangler/
The closest we have is a Designer vacancy. Check out all our current openings here: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/
You are welcome to volunteer in our Community Support forums, it’s “learning by doing”. To get started, you might want to read some tips from a seasoned volunteer.