Wetpaint, the leader in social publishing, is a Web 2.0 startup developing a social publishing platform that lets anyone build a rich, online community around the whatever-it-is that they’re really into. Utilizing the best features of wikis, blogs, message boards and social networks, Wetpaint mixes everything one would need so they and their friends can create, collect, and organize content on their own social website. Since the company’s June 2006 debut, close to 1,000,000 user-created community sites have been created. Wetpaint has also partnered with prominent consumer brands within the key categories of entertainment (Discovery Channel, FOX, Showtime, and Warner Bros.), technology (Dell, T-Mobile, HP, Oracle, and HTC), and lifestyle (Food & Wine, Executive Travel, Better Homes & Garden) to launch social website communities around their brands and products.

Located in a funky loft space in the historic Pioneer Square district of Seattle, we are a small company where collaboration and innovation are championed. Funded by the same venture capital firms backing Facebook and Photobucket, Wetpaint is well positioned to change the way people interact on the internet.

The right junior Project Manager is passionate about shaping the future of user experience in online collaboration. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative and highly motivated individual who wants to build his/her skills and work with technical, business, and creative teams on a rapidly evolving set of products.

You will work directly with senior Program Managers, developers, business sponsors, and the appropriate VPs to refine the project strategy and goals into implementation requirements for various site features and applications in the Wetpaint portfolio. From there, you will work with the Product Development team (developers, User Interface Designers, QA, etc) to collaboratively establish the development tasks, establish UI designs, and manage the team during the implementation of the feature.

Primary responsibilities include requirements definition, project tracking and management, scheduling, assisting with release planning, and conducting competitive reviews. You will also be responsible for end-to-end management of select programs to support business development partners. Must be a self-starter, highly organized, an effective user advocate, and be able to successfully drive implementation of feature-sets that provide an excellent customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Working collaboratively with all team members to ensure Wetpaint’s user experience and architecture is best of breed.
• Manage project tasks including, but not limited to:
- helping to define project scope and conducting project kickoff meetings
- facilitating the creation of technical, functional and business requirements as needed
- collaborating on the definition and design of site features
- tracking/managing projects from initiation to successful completion, communicating project status, resolving project issues, and leading projects to overall success
- contributing to continuous improvement in Wetpaint’s project management processes


• coordinating Development and QA schedules and communicating with all impacted parties
• tracking competitive sites and technologies
• participate in developing use cases and feature requirements
• managing the people (indirectly), work and resources involved

Qualifications & Experience

• 1-3 years of experience as project manager launching online consumer applications and features.
• Basic understanding and experience with end-to-end web development procedures.
• Talent and experience in managing projects and cross-functional teams in a highly collaborative development environment
• Experience writing requirements documents for online products and services
• Basic understanding of capabilities and limitations of web technologies.
• Experience tracking the success criteria for projects and doing analysis based on those results
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• B.A./B.S. degree required.

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