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Product Photographer

We need someone to make us look good by making our products look good. The Woot Photographer uses a digital camera, lighting equipment, our in-house photo studio, and his or her mad skillz to turn crap into gold. You'll work with multiple groups including Purchasing, Product Management, Operations and Creative to produce photos that are complete, accurate and on-time. You'll edit the photos to predetermined resolutions and post them to the server. You'll adhere to format, content and style guidelines, giving consideration to usability and ensuring accuracy, consistency and quality of each photo. If you're a professional product photographer who's comfortable with Photoshop and using a Mac, that's good. If you're also able to multi-task, manage multiple requests, and work within tight deadlines and on a tight schedule, that's great. If you can also show great attention to detail and a strong work ethic, and are able to do good work under pressure at times, please apply for this job right now.

In this job, you'll learn: that no matter how well you think you've hidden it in the photo, someone will always notice your naked reflection.
Intangible benefits: having an excuse to talk to attractive products and invite them back to the studio.
Potential hazards: thinking too hard about what it means to be taking a picture of a camera. That way lies madness.
If Woot were a superhero team, you'd be: the Illusionizator, able to disguise mundane products as slightly less mundane products.
Degrees of separation from CEO: 35mm.
Worst part of the job: when some product goes on a diva trip and locks herself in her shipping crate.
It'll go better if: you understand that there's a place for Photoshop filters. And that place is the trash can.
Make sure you bring: the bokeh.

Job duties:

• Work closely with Woot Channel Manager and Woot Merchandising Assistants to make sure that all photos are posted properly and in a timely fashion to each Online sale. This includes using the Basecamp and e-mail to understand the upcoming needs and order of photos that need to be shot, along with proper images and layouts.  
• Work with Purchasing Merchandising Assistant to coordinate the receipt and order of both scheduled and incoming samples to be photographed.
• Take between 5 and 20 photos of each product. Number of photos will be determined by type of product and type of sale.
• Use Photoshop to edit Raw photos into several different resolutions.
• Edited photos are to be posted to a shared drive on the network, using specific file names.
• Specific edited files will be uploaded to the Basecamp for use with daily sales on Woot.com, Sellout.com, Kids.com and at times, Shirt.com and Wine.com.
• Work with Woot Fulfillment Team to make sure all photos that are needed for Woot Fulfillment Partners are accurate and available in a timely fashion.
• Work with Woot Wholesale Team to make sure all photos for Woot Wholesale sales offerings are accurate and available in a timely fashion.
• Communicate comments and questions about photos, layouts, types of sales, etc. by using Basecamp and/or e-mail
• Make sure all deadlines for posting photos to shared folder and sales in Basecamp are met, without exception
• Track and report on-time completion of posted photos
• Perform other duties as assigned by management, including market research, cross-training with other team members and other duties to be determined.

 

The candidate must:

• Have, at least, two-year experience in photographing products, such as consumer electronics, housewares, sporting goods, jewelry, soft goods, hardware items, etc. .
• Have previous experience and the ability to use a digital SLR camera in manual mode, including shutter speeds, exposure times, and understand depth of field. 
• Be able to use a Macintosh Computer
• Have extensive previous experience and a full understanding of how to use Photoshop to edit photos from a RAW image. 
• Have previous experience and an understanding of how to use Microsoft Outlook to send and receive e-mails.
• Be able to read and understand technical specifications for computers, consumer electronics and home appliances.
• Be able to read and understand written instructions 
• Be creative and professional in order to derive photographs of the highest quality. 
• Be able to multi-task, manage multiple requests from managers and assistants and work within tight deadlines.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Work well with other people
• Be detail oriented, organized and very accurate in the performance of tasks
• Be able to work early and/or late hours to meet deadlines including Woot-Offs and on-call time for sale launches at 12am
• Have a high school education, College degree preferred
• * Portfolio of previous work required.

Reports to: Woot Channel Manager
Salary: Based on experience
Local candidates only please (Dallas, Texas) - NO RELOCATION REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION

Accounts Receivable Analyst

Are you way into invoicing and reconciling and diligence and timeliness? Well, check this out: a candidate for this position is expected to be able to complete the AR flow from invoicing to cash or credit application, reconciling any discrepancies along the way. An emphasis is placed on collections and the diligence needed to ensure timely payment. So that pretty much covers all of your interests right there.

In this job, you'll learn: that collecting payments might not be as relaxing as collecting stamps, but it's a lot more rewarding.
Intangible benefits: submerging yourself in the eternal, ethereal AR flow. It's a trip, man.
Potential hazards: developing an Ahab-like obsession with hunting down discrepancies.
If Woot were a superhero team, you'd be: Repo Man or Woman.
Degrees of separation from CEO: depends on whether he owes the company money.
Worst part of the job: having to jump into people's cars and drive them away while they run after you with a baseball bat. But you'll pretty much never have to do that, so it's no big deal.
It'll go better if: you're hip to the whole “send an open envelope so Woot thinks my check fell out in the mail” trick.
Make sure you bring: your own baseball bat. You know, in case things get heavy.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
This position performs functions that fall into four main categories:

• Customer Relations
• Invoicing / Issuing Credit Memos
• Posting / Applying Cash / Reconciliation
• Collections

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft office, expert proficiency in Excel
• Four-year degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Accounting / Finance or a related field
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical ability
• Customer Service, Collections or AR experience preferred

Reports to: Accounts Receivable Manager
Salary: Based on experience
Local candidates only please (Dallas, Texas) - NO RELOCATION REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION

Returned Product Processor / Tech

Put your interest in consumer electronics, gadgets, and computers to work for someone other than your clueless maiden aunt. We need a full-time employee to test returned products. The right candidate will be generally familiar with computer hardware and operating systems, able to work on a computer “test bench”, be able to lift up to 90 pounds, and live in the Dallas area. If you like to bake brownies and bring them into the office to share, that won’t hurt your prospects, either.

In this job, you’ll learn: quantum theory. By which we mean you’ll never be able to determine when the next packet is arriving. Ha! If only physics was done in front of a brick wall we’d have a Nobel Prize.
Intangible benefits: All the ghosts of Woot Manor will obey you. There’s the spirit of a broken blender, the soul of a washer/dryer, a smashed bottle of wine writing a song about his girlfriend who died when a train hit their car, we think we’ve even got a zombie iPod feeding on the Zunes at night. You’ll be lead lord/lady of the night.
Potential hazards: Poison bees. With hammers. Made of knives. Dipped in poison. But a different poison than the first poison so you can’t ever be immune.
If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: an immortal veteran of a thousand wars that shared a mind with an alien general with a robot hand that bound itself to a magical sword which opened a portal to a far off dimension in which you were in charge of testing returned products. Plus you’d shoot lasers from your fingertips. When you wanted to.
Degrees of separation from CEO: 0. A tragic accident means that his head will be fused to your body for the next six months. But you will get to drive his car!
Worst part of the job: Those bees we mentioned have their main hive above the CEO’s parking space. And they’re not giving it up, even if their run as Employee of the Month was over three weeks ago.
It’ll go better if: you get lots of rest and eat your vegetables. We want our employees healthy!
Make sure you bring: brownies! You didn’t really buy that vegetable crap, did you?

Initial Responsibilities:

• Testing/repairing hard drives
• Testing/repairing desktop and notebook computers
• Evaluate, troubleshoot, test, and repair customer returned product to component level
• Processing returned products
• Building pallets to return product to our vendors
• Moving equipment weighing up to 90 lbs.
• Full-time position, 40 hours Monday through Friday

Qualifications:

• Associates Degree or equivalent experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent customer service skills
• Basic knowledge of electronics equipment, computer hardware and operating systems required including Windows, Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Able to multitask and stay focused in distractive situations
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills

Requirements:

• Must live in Dallas area
• Must be able to type at least 50 wpm
• Must be versatile and willing to cross-train for Customer Service
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills as well as the ability to work independently and manage your time wisely
• Must be more intelligent, adaptable, and motivated than a typical bucket of gravel
• Must treat people as you would wish to be treated, unless you’re some kind of weirdo
who wishes to be treated badly

Salary: Based on experience

Local candidates only please (Dallas, Texas) - NO RELOCATION REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION

Amazing company to work for with an open management style, fast growth, a productive work environment catering to the self-motivated individual, and an existing team of winners. We offer full medical benefits, 401K option, Paid Time Off as well as 8 paid Holidays throughout the year.

Woot Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Buyer

You're at Woot, so you probably think you know a deal when you see one. But we're not looking for any old discount-chaser here. We need a true bargain wrangler, somebody who won't be satisfied until they've sniffed out the cheapest needle in a warehouse full of haystacks. We need somebody who can buy the shoes off of a horse and make the horse think he's the one getting a good deal. Most of all, we need a fearless, intrepid explorer, who'd always rather be moving than standing still.

In this job, you'll learn: exactly where LeakFrogs come from.
Intangible benefits: first shot at the LeakFrogs, for your personal stash.
Potential hazards: watching your painstakingly crafted deal get ruthlessly mocked in public by our writers.
If Woot were a superhero team, you'd be: Acquisitor, who uses the power of the mind to manipulate reluctant sellers.
Degrees of separation from CEO: 3, unless you make a really awesome deal.
Worst part of the job: realizing the XV-208531 video cards you just bought are inferior to the XV-208531-A video cards you could've bought.
It'll go better if: you know where to find new iPods for, like, two bucks apiece.
Make sure you bring: your own bottle. In this job, you'll need it. Uh, bottle of water, we mean. Yeah, water. It's thirsty work.

Job Responsibilities:

• New vendor introduction to our business
• Deal research / analysis
• Deal negotiation / close
• Account maintenance / relationship building
• Internal sales - selling product/story/energy/ideas to our sales and product management teams
• Inventory management - monitoring for problem items in stock, creating awareness and discount programs to address

Prerequisites:

• Creative persistence
• Knowledge of where you're not going
• Convergent thinking
• No fear of asking dumb questions
• Dot-connecting abilities (written test may be required)
• Ability to work with people who might not be able to return the favor some day
• Possess solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Ability to learn technical information quickly
• Great Internet navigation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Detail-oriented with organizational skills
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ever-changing, very demanding environment

No-Nos:

• Mediocrity
• Any level of comfort in stagnant cultures
• Stubbornness
• Fast talkers/slow typists (one or the other might be ok, but not both, unless able to actually do both at the same time)

Even though we're all about equal opportunity, xenophobes need not apply.

Local candidates only please (Dallas, Texas) – NO RELOCATION REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION.

General Warehouse Staff

Believe it or not, all those Woot orders don't pack and ship themselves. Until we find a colony of elves who want the job, we need human warehouse staff to get woots to wooters. That's where you might come in. In your dreams you run barefoot through a field of 32 megabyte memory cards. You look out over the city and wonder about the story of each and every Mustek camera. You stay in shape by lifting refurbished vacuums and tape a picture of an MP3 player to the inside of your locker. You’ve got what it takes.

In this job, you’ll learn: the lyrics to the Woota Loota song. Don’t worry, we won’t make you sing it all the time. Just when the tour groups come through.
Intangible benefits: Sometimes you’ll get to spend all day testing one of those little remote control helicopters while the copywriters sit at their desks steeped in jealousy. Or so we’ve heard.
Potential hazards: Warehouse sharks. No, really, it’s a big industry secret. I shouldn’t even be telling you this much.
If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: the best friend with the signal watch. But hey, they always get powers eventually. Be patient, you gotta work your way up!
Degrees of separation from CEO: Who do you think hears the signal watch?
Worst part of the job: Once a year you have to stick your hand in that tree stump from Flash Gordon and try not to get stung by the scorpion beast. Strangely, this breaks no current OSHA regulations.
It’ll go better if: you marry into money.
Make sure you bring: your lucky abdominal belt.

Reporting to the warehouse manager, you will be responsible for:

• Pulling and staging orders in appropriate locations
• Loading and unloading trucks
• Maintaining inventory accuracy
• Maintaining neat, safe and organized working environment
• Performing other responsibilities as assigned

Requirements:

• Must live in Dallas area
• Pass background checks and drug screening
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Ability to pass a basic math skills assessment test
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions with minimal supervision
• Ability to physically lift 75 pounds
• Forklift certified or have ability to become certified within three months
• Experience in working in adverse conditions (i.e. office, warehouse, temperatures)

Local candidates only please (Dallas, Texas) - NO RELOCATION REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION

Merchandising Assistant

What’s the best job in the company? That’s Lead Cheesecake Eater. Man, that guy has it made. But close behind is the person who creates the list of product features. They’re dead center in between all the departments, taking crap from Purchasing, Product Management, Operations and those jokers who do the writeups. For a job like this, you gotta be comfortable with worsd. See? If you were here now, we wouldn’t have made that mistake.

In this job, you’ll learn: that Woot.com is just a front for a government project that turned five teens into magical super heroes dedicated to protecting the planet from the evil Emperor OMTACTOR and his LEGION OF PAIN.

Intangible benefits: Protection from the LEGION OF PAIN.

Potential Hazards: Sometimes the Lead Cheesecake Eater gets an upset stomach and he needs to sit down and talk about when he was thin and played baseball and the only open chair will be right next to your desk. That’s gonna be kind of boring. We’re warning you in advance.

If Woot were a superhero team, you’d be: in the satellite, co-ordinating the database that everybody uses to keep track of which villain is immune to getting hit with a monkey and where the LEGION OF PAIN just finished attacking. Don’t knock it, the satellite is a pretty safe place to be. And it’s air conditioned.

Degrees of separation from the CEO: Six. Guess that movie was right on the money, huh?

Worst part of the job: Every now and then the cows next door get scared and you have to go sing to them. They only like Frank Zappa solos so you really need to be practicing constantly.

It’ll go better if: you’re able to do six things at once while someone is asking when you’ll be free to sing to the cows.

Make sure you bring: a little drawing of a stick figure saying “Yay, Darold!” If it’s good enough, maybe he’ll even put it on his office door!

Job Responsibilities

• Working to help everyone get the product information in one place so that the customers are distracted and don’t start asking the difficult questions about our in-house death panels
• Coordinating with the image guy (no, not Todd McFarlane, the guy who takes the product pictures) to make sure our Sansas are well lit
• Helping the Channel Manager identify key product selling features by annoying the cows that live next door
• Actually assembling all the parts that make up a Woot.com sale and slapping them together like the world’s largest Burrito Grande
• Getting the guy who writes the job descriptions a Burrito Grande (aka “other duties to be determined”)
• Tracking and reporting on-time completion of product builds and ensuring that product scheduling is prepared and locked seven days in advance. And those seven days have to be consecutive. You can’t just pick any seven days at random.

Requirements

• Must be able to read and understand technical specifications for computers, consumer electronics and home appliances. And if you can stop our VCR from flashing “12:00” that’ll really help too.
• Must be able to research products in order to derive specifications, features and other product information from vendors, purchasers, online resources, product catalogs and data sheets.
• Absolutely must be able to multi-task, manage multiple requests from vendors and sales teams and work within tight deadlines that would even make Batman give up all hope.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, the ability to work well with other people, and a love for detail oriented, organized accuracy in the performance of tasks.
• Must have a high school education, College degree preferred, and experience with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, and Word, typing 35-40 wpm. HTML experience is a plus, as is the ability to repair a nuclear reactor after an attack from the LEGION OF PAIN.
• Must be able to work early and/or late hours to meet deadlines including on-call time for sale launches at 12am. Vampires are acceptable, but if you devour or enthrall any member of the staff you will be forced to watch a thirty minute HR video about workplace harassment.

Local candidates only please (Dallas, Texas) – NO RELOCATION REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION