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.

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

Manager or Director of Strategic Business Development (Seattle, Washington)

Sales

Direct and Retail Sales Director, Located in Seattle, Washington

Marketing

VP of Marketing, Located in Seattle, Washington

Administrative

No open positions

Engineering & Product Management

Software Engineer, Located in Seattle, Washington

Technical Product Manager - Back-end Services, Located in Beaverton, Oregon

Technical Product Manager - Front-end Services, Located in Seattle, Washington

Operations

No open positions

Legal

No open positions


Manager or Director of Strategic Business Development (Seattle, Washington)

Job Responsibilities:
In this role, you will help to implement the corporation's strategic goals by sourcing, closing, and cultivating partnerships and relationships with both brick-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 and 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:

  • Four-year degree (Manager); MBA or JD or sufficient additional management-related education or experience is a plus for the Director position
  • Minimum 3-5 (Manager) 5-7 (Director) 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 useful for Manager, necessary for Director. Significant familiarity with common deal terms and basic contract-negotiation strategies. A Director is 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


Direct and Retail Sales Director, 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


VP of Marketing, Located in Seattle, Washington

The VP of Marketing at Earth Class Mail will be responsible for revenue creation through the development of integrated online and offline marketing activities to drive monthly sales results within our various consumer and small/midsize business markets, as well as support sales efforts in attracting enterprise and national post accounts. A successful candidate will be highly self-motivated and accomplishment-driven, and will have excellent planning, time-management, written communication, presentation and organization skills. Responsibilities include the following:

  • Design, implement, and manage online and direct marketing programs with a strong focus on customer acquisition and retention while maintaining a target ROI on overall marketing spend.
  • Manage partner relationships that will drive customer-acquisition growth.
  • Work closely with VP of Sales to develop high-quality lead-generation programs.
  • Strive for continuous improvement of website conversion capabilities through SEO, PPC, affiliate and other online programs.
  • Relentlessly measure, evaluate and optimize campaigns.
  • Manage tracking and reporting of marketing programs and provide management reports and insights as needed.
  • Guide the identification, planning and execution of trade shows.
  • Effectively leverage public relations to build sales traction and market credibility.

Requirements:

  • A minimum of eight years of progressive career experience within marketing, with BS/BA Degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
  • Background in conducting formalized pricing and promotion testing.
  • Established track record of testing and executing direct-mail campaigns that have achieved robust ROI.
  • Strong consumer and small and mid-sized business web e-marketing/e-commerce background.
  • Experience evaluating creative messages, analyzing results and optimizing campaigns.
  • Experience in successfully executing campaigns through partners to achieve sales objectives.
  • Solid planning, analytical and reporting skills.
  • Demonstrated track record of innovative campaign development.
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally within a small organization and work independently in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic work environment.
  • Previous success in building a highly effective work team.


Software Engineer, Located in Seattle, Washington

Enjoy working with the latest in web technologies? Do you like to work on user-facing projects as part of a cross-discipline team? If you’re a motivated self-starter looking to raise your skills to the next level, then this may be the position for you.

Earth Class Mail takes the final form of non-digital information in people's lives — postal mail — and allows them to see and manage it online. We provide this service for individuals, giving them a postal address for life. We provide it for enterprises, replacing their mail center with an Internet experience. And our service scales to enabling virtual postal mail for an entire country's population.

We’re looking for passionate and creative engineers to join our web development team in Seattle. As part of a dynamic and energetic team, you’ll get an opportunity to turn around projects quickly and have an immediate impact on customers. You will be responsible for design and implementation of our next-generation user interface built on .Net 3.5 and JQuery, so attention to detail and expertise in client-side browser technologies is critical. Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to collaborate with designers and product management are also important for this role.

This is a full-time, equity position.

Requirements:

  • BS or MS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Minimum 3 years of development work experience
  • Solid OO design and programming skills in at least one of these languages: C#, Java, C++
  • Proficient in modern client-side web technologies, including OO JavaScript, CSS, X/HTML, and AJAX
  • Able to work in a web-standards based environment with unobtrusive JavaScript
  • Comfortable working with SOA –based server architectures (preferably WCF and Net 3.5)
  • Experience with client side frameworks like JQuery, Prototype, Dojo or Moo Tools preferred

Technical Product Manager - Back-end Services, Located in Beaverton, Oregon

Earth Class Mail takes the final form of non-digital information in people's lives -- postal mail -- and allows them to see and manage it online. We provide this service for individuals, giving them a postal address for life. We provide it for enterprises, replacing their mail center with an Internet experience. And we will soon be providing it for postal services, enabling virtual postal mail for an entire country's population.

How big can you think?

Do you like complex hardware/software systems with lots of moving parts? Do you have a passion for designing world-class operations solutions? The Earth Class Mail Back-end Services Technical Product Manager is responsible for the full product lifecycle of our operations and inventory-management software, our operations user interface, and integration with systems such as sorters, scanners, and inventory robotics.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Lead the back-end services portion of our product, including concept, specification, design, launch and maintenance phases.
  • Understand the entire software stack, and work with other teams to understand, rationalize and prioritize requests for new functionality across the entire product.
  • Create functional specifications and make tradeoff decisions between functionality and resources/timeframes.
  • Coordinate presales, third-party product integration, documentation and training activities relating to back-end services.
  • Communicate new product features to internal teams and customers.
  • Identify and analyze new product opportunities.
  • Travel: Moderate -- monthly trips to Seattle, some domestic and international travel.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 3-6 years of software product management or lead software/hardware development experience
  • Strong project management and organizational skills; able to juggle several projects at the same time while staying focused on the highest priority.
  • Demonstrated ability to focus on deliverables and complete rigorous follow-through in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Able to work independently and on teams.
  • Exhibit grace under pressure; creative, motivated and enthusiastic.
  • Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, or Engineering.


Technical Product Manager - Front-end Services, Located in Seattle, Washington

Earth Class Mail takes the final form of non-digital information in people's lives -- postal mail -- and allows them to see and manage it online. We provide this service for individuals, giving them a postal address for life. We provide it for enterprises, replacing their mail center with an Internet experience. And we will soon be providing it for postal services, enabling virtual postal mail for an entire country's population.

Is this the kind of challenge you have been waiting for?

Can you design products that significantly improve customers' lives and have a lasting impact? Are you eager to constantly make things work better? The Earth Class Mail Front-end Services Technical Product Manager is responsible for the full product lifecycle of customer-facing software, including billing, shipping, third-party product integration, web and mobile interfaces, and integration with back-end services.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Lead the front-end services portion of our product, including concept, specification, design, launch and maintenance phases.
  • Understand the entire software stack, and work with other teams to understand, rationalize and prioritize requests for new functionality across the entire product.
  • Create functional specifications and make tradeoff decisions between functionality and resources/timeframes.
  • Coordinate presales, integration, documentation and training activities relating to frontend services.
  • Communicate new product features to internal teams and customers.
  • Identify and analyze new opportunities.
  • 3-6 years of software product management or lead software development experience.
  • Travel: Moderate - monthly trips to Portland, Oregon; some domestic and international travel.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Strong project management and organizational skills; able to juggle several projects at the same time while staying focused on the highest priority.
  • Demonstrated ability to focus on deliverables and complete rigorous follow-through in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Able to work independently and on teams.
  • Exhibit grace under pressure; creative, motivated and enthusiastic.
  • Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Send your resume to careers@earthclassmail.com