Available Positions

Earth Class Mail™ represents a dramatic change in how postal mail is delivered. Online, available anytime, anywhere, and managed as easily as your email. No matter where you are, you simply log on, see all your postal mail, read what you want, and decide whether to keep or dispose of each piece with a click. Our customers -- which consist of college students all the way to retirees, small businesses to the Fortune 500 -- get constant access to their mail without having it pile up at home or work.

Our online postal service is “Earth Class” because it is global and delivers mail to you electronically no matter where you are on earth. It is also “Earth Class” because it benefits the environment by lowering energy costs and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions associated with mail delivery, and it significantly increases the recycling of paper.

Earth Class Mail has positions available in both our Seattle and Portland locations.

Please submit resume/compensation requirements to careers@earthclassmail.com with the job reference number in the subject line.

Earth Class Mail provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or other legally protected status.

We do not accept or respond to inquiries from Employment Agencies or Executive Search Firms or any other employment service provider.

Business Development

Director of Strategic Business Development, Located in Seattle, Washington

Sales

VP, Direct and Retail Sales, Located in Seattle, Washington

Store Manager, Located in San Francisco (Financial District)

Marketing

Interactive Marketing Manager, Located in Seattle, Washington

Administrative

No open positions

Engineering & Product Management

C#/.NET - ASP.NET Developers (two positions), Located in Beaverton, Oregon

Operations

No open positions

Legal

No open positions


Director of Strategic Business Development, Located in Seattle, Washington

In this role, you will help to implement the corporation's strategic goals by sourcing, closing, and cultivating partnerships and relationships with bricks-and-mortar organizations and targeted online partners. You will also help to identify, evaluate, and negotiate product, intellectual property, and technology licenses as well as other strategic transactions.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES:

Sourcing

  • Investigate and define business and financial opportunities presented by bricks-and-mortar partners and online partners
  • Identify and analyze technologies, products, and services forming a strategic fit
  • Attend industry conferences and trade shows

Analyzing and Targeting

  • Perform and synthesize competition and market research
  • Assess value of and prioritize partnership opportunities; perform opportunity analysis and financial valuation of deals (business case analysis); recommend transactions, with details concerning projected scope, cost & timelines required for planned due diligence, appropriate action plans
  • Work with marketing to create partnerships for customer acquisition outside normal acquisition channels
  • Create revenue opportunities through the introduction of new services, usually through partnering

Negotiating, Closing, Cultivating and Training

  • Develop term sheet proposals with prospective partners and actively participate in (and sometimes lead) the negotiation and contract revision process
  • Contribute to development of partner sales support toolkits; train partners in how to sell our services to their own customers
  • Cultivate existing partner relationships through frequent calls or face-to-face strategy sessions

Additional Activities Specific to Online Partners

  • Work with marketing to develop content, collateral, links, and email campaigns for online partners
  • Source partners with close strategic fit for offering services to our own customers both on our public website and within the secure Earth Class Mail application

REQUIREMENTS:

  • 4-year degree, MBA or JD or sufficient additional management-related education or experience is a plus
  • Minimum 7 years continuous experience and increasing responsibility in sales, business development, or strategic development
  • Able to work independently to identify and pursue new opportunities
  • Extensive deal negotiation experience. Significant familiarity with common deal terms and basic contract negotiation strategies. Able, without supervision, to conduct early-stage contract revisions and exercise judgment on feasible compromises
  • Significant client, prospect, or partner management experience
  • Exceptional written and oral communications skills. Must be able to prepare content for outside consumption with minimal need of editing or oversight by superiors with very high standards. Strong presentation design skills. Facility with copywriting is a major plus
  • Must have demonstrated experience in developing internal business cases (strategic, tactical and economic analyses) for pursuit of program opportunities and in synthesizing the results into concise recommendations or plans of action
  • Strong background in managing online partner campaigns, including selecting viable affiliates, forming partnerships, evaluating data and metrics, and acting on same


VP, Direct and Retail Sales, Located in Seattle, Washington

Job Summary and Mission: This position contributes to the continued success of Earth Class Mail by overseeing our consumer/direct sales as well as our customer-service team. In this role you will manage, train, lead, motivate and inspire to push our sales to the highest level. This role also entails managing sales in our unique retail stores to be located nationwide. You will also promote and ensure delivery of our legendary customer service.

Requirements:
Eight-plus years extensive management experience in the following areas:

  • Online sales
  • Direct sales
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Team-building brilliance
  • Natural leadership
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
  • Knowledge of Best Practices
  • Natural customer-focused nature
  • Must have impeccable references and pass background check
  • Ability for 30% travel required (as needed)

Knowledge of shipping and mail delivery a plus.

Education:
Bachelor's degree or commensurate


Store Manager, Located in San Francisco (Financial District

Earth Class Mail is searching for a self-motivated individual looking for a long-term career opportunity! We are searching for an intelligent, responsible Store Manager to be able to grow with an innovative company that is pioneering new solutions in postal delivery. This is a full-time opportunity for someone who is willing to commit to the long-term success of the team. We offer a friendly and professional environment, where focus on sales, customer service, professionalism, dependability, and process is very important.

This job contributes to Earth Class Mail's success by executing full store operations and managing all activities related to the day-to-day operations of a storefront, including supervision of staff, sales and customer service, and the security and processing of parcels (packages). It also provides a significant opportunity for advancement.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

  • Communicates clearly, concisely and accurately in order to ensure effective store operations.
  • Demonstrates integrity, honesty, and knowledge that promote the culture, values and goals of Earth Class Mail.
  • Develops positive relationships with the store team by understanding and addressing individuals' motivation, needs and concerns.
  • Engages in conversation with customers to understand their needs.
  • Maintains regular and consistent attendance and punctuality.
  • Models the “customer comes first” attitude, delivers legendary customer service, and supervises employees to ensure they are delivering legendary customer service. Implements company programs by working directly with team to execute action plans that meet operational and organization objectives.
  • Supports store operations by recognizing and reinforcing individual and team accomplishments and makes recommendations to Executive Team on new, creative, and impactful methods of recognition.
  • Responsible for security and integrity of site
  • Acts as a coach and mentor to employees by using discretion in assessing performance, providing feedback and coaching to improve performance, and effectively recommending employment decisions to Executive team.
  • Onsite sign-ups of new customers
  • Develop, implement, and review storefront operations as well as documentation, labor hours, cycle, production costs, personnel requirements, material needs, and facility needs.
  • Improve quality of customer interactions and consistency by implementing company performance and service procedures, workflows, processes, goals, and commitments.
  • Ensure all established cost, quality, and Service Level Agreement commitments are met.
  • Ensure all employees are aware of and comply with company, government, and customer policies, procedures, and regulations.
  • Review production and operating reports and direct the resolution of operational and maintenance issues to ensure minimum costs and to avoid operational delays.
  • Develop and nourish a relationship with local business and residential community members to nurture a healthy neighborhood environment.
  • Develop policies and practices to keep the storefront in line with an environmentally sound philosophy.
  • Research and identify account information for correct mail processing
  • Use web-based software to perform tasks
  • Pick-up and delivery of mail from local U.S. Post Office, DHL, UPS, FedEx as required.

Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated leadership and integrity with 3 years' experience supervising a staff
  • Progressively responsible retail leadership experience (3 years)
  • Customer-service experience in a retail environment (3 years)
  • Exceptional customer-service skills; proven leadership and organizational/clerical skills
  • Strong level of competency using the Microsoft Office suite, Internet applications and other computer programs.
  • Flexibility, adaptability and able to work some overtime as needed
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Background/Credit Check
  • Ability to use discretion in providing direction to others
  • Knowledge of the retail environment
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Team-building skills
  • Ability to work in a changing environment
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Role involves a lot of responsibility – manages all aspects of site including hiring, scheduling, retail sales, operations, customer service, training.
  • Daily coverage Mon.-Fri. , ~7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Cross-trained in CS, Sales, and Quality Assurance tasks.
  • Receives parcels, letters, and flats for site
  • Natural sales skills and ability
  • Customer-focused nature
  • Must have impeccable references and pass background check
  • Ability for 5% travel required (as needed)

Education:

  • High school or GED required
  • College degree OR substitute 4 years of retail leadership experience

Physical Requirements:

  • Occasional (up to 25% of time) - up to 40 lbs.
  • Standing/Walking: Remaining on one's feet in an upright position at a workstation or moving about a work area. Constant (50% or more of time)

We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, vacation, accrued personal days, transportation allowance.


Interactive Marketing Manager, Located in Seattle, Washington

This position is responsible for developing the strategic direction and tactical implementation for Earth Class Mail’s web marketing.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

  • Develop and maintain the corporate website to support awareness and aggressive sales outreach
  • Determine and implement an efficient and consistent search marketing strategy that complements and reinforces company objectives and maintains appropriate branding
  • Provide management with statistical tracking of web marketing performance
  • Utilize social networking techniques to further awareness and establish credibility
  • Provide web marketing support (search, webinars, content, third-party link strategy) for partnerships
  • Develop and produce a program of web seminars and podcasts to support both enterprise and consumer sales
  • Devise and document content organization and presentation criteria that maximize relevance to our target audiences
  • Propose and implement revisions to textual content and file structure organization where appropriate
  • Recommend a standard model of optimal anchor link anatomy and come up with a system of normalization
  • Schedule periodic revision of search marketing strategy and perform maintenance as necessary
  • Maintain ongoing traffic and performance metrics and categorize and distribute data to appropriate divisions
  • Follow established design and coding standards and collaborate with web design team to maximize cohesion with all web properties.
  • Review and post new content as it is created
  • Demonstrate thought leadership and innovation through all corporate web marketing initiatives

Candidate must possess excellent communication skills and be able to contribute within a deadline-oriented team environment.

Candidate must have the following:

  • A strong familiarity with current SEO strategic trends, W3C web standards, and W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
  • Competence in analysis of term relevance and proposal of content revision.
  • A strong familiarity with Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN AdCenter marketing platforms.

Experience producing, promoting and delivering webcasts and podcasts is required.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education
BA/BS or commensurate experience

Skills and Abilities

Technical

Strong proficiency with the following:

  • XHTML Strict 1.0
  • CSS 2.0
  • W3C Standards for XHTML Strict 1.0 and CSS 2.0
  • File Transfer Protocol
  • Search term popularity and relevance
  • Inbound link generation, outbound link maintenance

Strong familiarity with the following:

  • W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • Section 508
  • Long tail marketing

Strong proficiency with the following:

  • Adobe Dreamweaver (TextPad, Quanta, or Screem)
  • Google Adwords search marketing platform
  • Yahoo Search Marketing platform
  • MSN AdCenter platform

Working familiarity with the following:

  • FTP software
  • Business productivity software (Microsoft Office or OpenOffice)

Social/Networking

  • Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to assemble and collaborate with a wide range of constituencies
  • Ability and determination to forge new collaborative partnerships with established corporations and independent blogs


C#/.NET - ASP.NET Developers, Located in Beaverton, Oregon (two positions) [Ref: ENG-2]

Last updated 01/18/2008

Are you a Microsoft technology ninja? Or a ninja in training? Do you want to work on exciting, demanding and challenging software projects? Would you like to be part of a team and company that wants to make a global difference?

Earth Class Mail is seeking talented software developers with C#/.Net development skills, ASP.NET, and MS SQLServer skills at either mid-to-senior levels.

Experience with developing web applications in a hosted applications model is desirable.
Skilled in web application scaling, high availability, and redundancy.

If you have the attitude and enthusiasm for a fast growth team, we have the opportunity for you to show what you can do, and make a major contribution to the development of new core products supporting Earth Class Mail services.

Excellent salaries, health, medical and dental, and a stock option stake in our future!

Job based in Beaverton, OR.

Send your resume to careers@earthclassmail.com