Current Open Positions:

• Custom Product Specialist


• Perl Coders

Custom Product Specialist - Help us make cool custom products!

Posted March 5, 2008

ThinkGeek has lots of great ideas on developing new custom products for our e-commerce store. Your job will be to help facilitate the process of taking that idea and turning it into a real product. Products can be as simple as a custom plush toy or as complex as an electronic gadget. You will work with our existing partners in the US and Asia and you will also work to find new partners depending on the product requirements and existing vendor strengths and weaknesses. You will be specifically responsible for negotiating costs, aggressively managing timetables and resources, researching and applying for patents and copyrights, quality control processes, packaging, licensing opportunities, and delivery arrangements for the product(s). You will be managing multiple product lifecycles simultaneously. Sound fun? It will be! Specifics below...

Requirements:

• College degree or equivalent
• 3-5 years experience working as a buyer or senior retailer
• Strong understanding of retail business practices
• Strong negotiation/sales skills
• Independently motivated with a strong work ethic
• Excellent person-to-person, communication & written skills
• Travel abroad 2-3 times/year (China/Hong Kong/Japan)
• Highly detail oriented and organized
• Very strong spreadsheet and word processing skills.
• Very strong computer and internet use skills.
• Team oriented personality with only occasional bouts of solipsism.
• Ability to grok ThinkGeek.
• An appreciation for Star Wars, good beer, dogs, monkeys and smoked bbq ribs is a plus.
• This position is on site in our Fairfax, Virginia office only. No outsourcing or freelance positions for this job will be considered. Not even you Mighty Mouse.

Strongly Desired:

• E-commerce experience
• Manufacturing experience
• Chinese Language skills a plus (Mandarin and/or Cantonese)
• Licensing experience a plus
• Keen familiarity with popular tech culture (gaming, science, computers, internet culture, etc.)

ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun, weird, and enthusiastic people who run one of the most successful niche e-commerce sites on the Internets. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company, ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying the benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.

Please submit your resume and salary requirements in PDF, HTML or plain text format to custom-prod-jobs@thinkgeek.com.

Perl-Coding Test Subjects Needed for ThinkGeek Science Experiment

This is a New Opening Posted February 13, 2008

Here at ThinkGeek Laboratories, we are constantly developing new technologies to drive our web site and its attendant systems, but we have reached the bandwidth limits of our current team and need to further parallelize. Thus, we have embarked on an experiment to overlay Randal Schwartz's programming-related memory engrams on other staff members.

Unfortunately, early test subjects have not taken the process well. Not only are we nearly out of PHBs, but our budget for institutionalizing prior subjects is limited. We are therefore seeking subjects with extensive Perl coding experience, as we believe this will ease the restructuring of the mental pathways.

Subjects in ThinkGeek experiments will have opportunities to play with cool new stuff long before it appears on Engadget or Gizmodo, root access to the machine that goes "ping," and an atmosphere where you can pick your hours, run any desktop OS you like, and the freedom to wear shoes whenever your pinky toes are not hooked up to transcutaneous electrodes.

Our software is developed in-house, so projects will run a wide gamut of business areas (accounting to warehouse management, and everything in between). Development will be on an existing suite of software, so the ability to adapt to and extend an existing architecture is a must. Responsibilities will include: web/console/batch based application development, maintaining and configuring development servers, participation in requirements and specifications gathering processes, software quality assurance and internal documentation. The ideal candidate should have strong Linux skills and be able to work and learn new skills independently when necessary, but also work as part of a team.

Requirements:

• 5+ years professional programming experience with Perl 5
• 4+ years professional experience working with databases (SQL)
• Extensive knowledge of Apache and familiarity with Apache module development
• Ability to comprehend and implement complex business requirements in an exacting manner
• Team-oriented personality
• Know how to work hard and have fun

Strongly Desired:

• Experience developing automated functional and performance testing suites
• XML
• HTML/XHTML
• Javascript/AJAX
• Solid Linux Knowledge (4+ years of experience with Linux or Unix systems)
• Retail industry software development experience
• Web Services development (servers/clients)
• First name Jen or Dave a plus

ThinkGeek is a small, close-knit group of fun, weird, and enthusiastic people who run one of the most successful niche e-commerce sites on the Internets. As part of SourceForge, Inc, a publicly held company, ThinkGeek employees receive an excellent benefits package while enjoying the benefits of working in an exciting start-up environment in our Fairfax, Virginia office. This posting is for a permanent, full time position in our Fairfax, Virginia office. Only local applicants or those willing to relocate at their own expense will be considered.

Please submit your resume and salary requirements in PDF, HTML or plain text format to coder-jobs@thinkgeek.com.