Job Openings

Web Content Admin

Sounds True, a multi-media publishing company specializing in spirituality and holistic living, seeks a full-time contractor to support our web team onsite.

We are looking for:

• Smart, friendly, problem solver
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proven experience managing multiple deadlines
• Experience with HTML and CSS
• Ability to add and update web content for our websites and marketing campaigns

Please submit salary range requirements, cover letter and resume to webjobs@soundstrue.com. You can learn more about our company at www.soundstrue.com.

Consumer and Online Marketing Director

Sounds True, a multi-media publisher in Louisville, CO specializing in spirituality and holistic living seeks a Consumer and Online Marketing Director. Applicant must have strong communication and organizational skills, a friendly and helpful personality, the ability to learn new technologies, and be a self-starter. Must include a cover letter describing your connection with our audience and interest in spiritual discovery/personal transformation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Direct the marketing of our ecommerce website, microsites, email campaigns and all digital projects
• Direct the marketing of our direct to consumer mail promotions and catalogs
• Develop, implement and manage strategic marketing plans for direct mail and digital direct-to-consumer segments
• Keep abreast of online marketing trends and competitor offerings
• Develop key strategic relationships with marketing partners to aggressively grow the email house list
• Generate creative marketing initiatives, new promotional ideas and groundbreaking approaches to communicating with our consumer audience
• Manage marketing team and projects

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in marketing or similar discipline
• 5+ years direct mail and internet marketing experience at management level
• Excellent analytical skills. Must be able to understand and work with marketing performance data and economics, identify trends and react quickly
• Experience in developing customer retention and acquisition strategies through online marketing approaches
• Proven success in developing and delivering direct mail and digital marketing campaigns
• Strong oral and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to speak to the unique needs of a spiritual audience
• Experience to lead, motivate, coach and develop a team

We offer a positive work environment and excellent benefits. To learn more about us visit www.soundstrue.com and if interested send cover letter and resume to hr@soundstrue.com.

Java Developer

Sounds True, a multi-media publisher in Louisville, CO seeks a Java Developer.
Applicant must have J2EE development experience, strong communication and
organizational skills, a pleasant and helpful personality, the ability to learn new
technologies, and be a self-starter.

Primary Responsibilities

Analyze, design and implement enterprise software and leverage open source technology to solve challenging problems. Take responsibility for both server-side and client-side components. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the website by knowing how all of the various pieces fit together to create the company's voice to the world.

Must Have

• Java 1.6 / J2EE programming proficiency – 3 years experience
• JavaScript, JSP and AJAX experience
• Knowledge of Servlet Containers (e.g. Tomcat)
• SQL, XML
• Spring, MVC, Hibernate
• In depth knowledge of Object Oriented concepts
• Good understanding of SEO concepts and implementation experience
• Analytical skills, reliability in meeting deadlines, resourcefulness
• Attitude for overcoming challenges
• College degree (any major)
• Dedication to unit testing

Nice to Have

• Ecommerce experience (Cart management, security, fulfillment)
• Cloud server environments (Amazon EC2 and various cloud features)
• Maven and experience with continuous build environments
• Subversion and experience with release management
• Cassandra
• Apache configuration and website management
• Multi-server website management and experience solving website scalability challenges
• Freemarker, PHP or other scripting languages
• JPA, Spring Roo, Surf
• Interest in Sounds True products

We offer a positive work environment, excellent benefits, profit sharing, and more. To learn more about us visit www.soundstrue.com and if interested send cover letter and resume to hr@soundstrue.com.

Web Application Designer

Do you have a passion for user interface design and development? We're looking for someone to help our amazing web team. Please let us know if you are a good fit for the below skill set and job duties.

Skills

• Demonstrated experience and expert skills with user interface design and development
• Expert user of common design and prototyping methods and tools
• Minimum of three (3-5) years of experience defining and delivering consumer ecommerce products
• Expert wireframe and requirements writing skills
• Expert level skills in HTML/XHTML and CSS
• Deep understanding of PHP
• Ecommerce experience (cart management, security, fulfillment)
• Web 2.0 technologies experience
• Ability to cultivate and maintain supportive relationships within the team and entire company
• Proven ability to exceed expectations and consistently meet deadlines
• Ambition to learn, share ideas openly, and provide direction to others
• Nice to have: JSP, jQuery, AJAX, usability testing experience, SEO
• Friendly, problem-solving personality

Job Duties

• Work closely with product management, visual designers, and the engineering team to define new features and enhancements
• Drive the design of product scenarios from initial concept through final implementation
• Build respect and credibility with stakeholders, fellow designers, product managers, and developers
• Clearly and persuasively communicate and present design concepts and solutions
• Wireframe and write specifications for new features and enhancements
• Develop front-end web pages and web interfaces
• Proactively review the product and recommend improvements both large and small
• Review and help test new functionality after features are built

Please provide a cover letter, resume, online portfolio, and relevant work samples along with inquiries.

Sounds True is a multi-media publisher in Louisville, CO specializing in spirituality and holistic living. To learn more about us visit www.soundstrue.com and if interested send cover letter and resume to webjobs@soundstrue.com.

Web System Administrator

Sounds True, a multi-media publisher in Louisville, CO specializing in spirituality and holistic living seeks a Web System Administrator. Applicant must have strong communication and organizational skills, a pleasant and helpful personality, the ability to learn new technologies, a self-starter able to take charge of projects, and adept at prioritizing and reporting status of projects to Executives. Interest in our products a plus.

Primary Responsibilities

Administrator will be responsible for daily systems administration, systems health, managing ticket requests from web development groups, environment build outs, and systems monitoring. The position will also be tasked with assisting in web server related projects, which are evolving. Specific duties include:

• Design, Install & Maintain Web applications
• Respond to monitoring alerts, triage and troubleshoot as appropriate
• Configure Load Balancing and SSL on firewall
• Administer Apache Web Server, Tomcat, and VM technologies
• Implement application/database failover and replication
• Install, load, & backup web application code, data and MySQL databases
• Responsible for systems performance and tuning
• Transform & load data
• Support Software Development Environment
• Manage software team integration and staging servers
• Provide support for software development tools: DB, SVN
• Document environment setups and changes

Technical Skills

Candidate must possess the following skills plus have excellent trouble shooting and support capabilities with the following technologies:

• Linux/Unix, Virtualization
• AWS including EC2,S3,CloudFront, ELB & CDN
• Advanced Apache Server Configuration, including strong knowledge of RewriteRules, Proxy Configuration and Virtual Hosts
• Web application servers (e.g. Tomcat Administration)
• Basic MySQL Administration
• Firm understanding of DNS
• Systems monitoring, including Nagios
• Open source tools in production environment
• Understanding of file sharing including NFS and Samba
• Basic Networking
• Windows Active Directory

Nice to have

• Shell scripting (Bash
• Perl

Other Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as web system administrator
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• Proven ability to work on multiple simultaneous projects
• Flexible with and adaptive to the rapid and constant change within the organization

We offer a positive work environment and excellent benefits. To learn more about us visit soundstrue.com, and if interested send cover letter and resume to hr@soundstrue.com. No calls please!