Work with Vidcaster

Vidcaster is always on the lookout for experienced and talented people.

We're currently hiring for the following positions:

  • Sales Associate (Entry Level)
  • Contract Sales Reps (Experienced)
  • Interns (See Below)

We're always looking to meet folks interested in working with Vidcaster and the quickly changing world of online video. Learn about working with Vidcaster and send us a note, even if you don't see a role listed specific to your background.

Vidcaster Internship Program

Program Background: Vidcaster hosts interns on a seasonal basis for qualified students. The Vidcaster founders strongly believe that a core component of higher education is real-world, on the job experience. Our team dedicates significant time and energy toward fostering a developmental environment for students to earn real-world experience with a funded, quickly growing web startup in Silicon Valley.

Eligibility and Compensation: We prioritize students who are eligible to receive course credit through a full-time, accredited higher education program. Modest stipends are available to assist defraying costs of living in the Bay Area, but students will need to have resources available to cover the majority of their day-to-day living expenses. Students from all backgrounds and geographies are welcome to apply, however students are solely responsible for establishing legal right to intern in the US.

Location: All interns work on site at Vidcaster HQ in San Francisco. We’re located in SoMA near the AT&T ballpark with convenient access to BART, Muni, CalTrain and the 280 Interstate.

Timeline: Internships are 3 to 4 months in duration and focused around three seasons: Spring (January - April), Summer (May - August) and Fall (September - December). Actual intern work schedules are very flexible owing to varied academic calendars.

Internship Roles:

  • Developer - Mobile, Social and Devices
  • Developer - Back-End and Server Operations
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Video Production
  • Designer

Skills and Expectations for all Roles:

  • Proven ability to be self-driven, define objectives on your own for given challenges, and offer proactive reporting of progress to management.
  • High proficiency in core Office applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint or equivalents) and modern productivity tools on one or more of PC, Mac or web-based platforms. Basic grasp of modern creative tools such as Photoshop or iMovie.
  • We expect all candidates to be excellent communicators in all mediums and expect proactive communication with colleagues and team leaders.
  • Clear understanding of what is a SaaS web application, what is online video (from YouTube to Netflix) and how modern social networks function (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

To Apply: Simply send an email to jobs@vidcaster.com and be sure to include all of the following: which role(s) interest you, a brief cover letter (in the email body text is fine), a resume / CV, and examples of previous work or projects that demonstrate your ability to rock it. Examples of previous work are required for roles of all types -- show us what excites you.

Internship

Designer

Position Summary

The goal of the Designer internship is to directly contribute to the core Vidcaster product through user-oriented product design and creative theme creation in a real-world, high-volume startup environment.

This intern's responsibility is to create elegant solutions to user challenges defined by key product stakeholders ranging from senior developers to sales and product management. The intern will work with design and front-end team to create new and iterate on existing application features. In addition, the intern will create custom and complete Vidcaster CMS themes for general usage or specific projects as defined by team.

This intern will benefit by learning best-practices for modern user-oriented design using standards-compliant tools in a high-volume, goal-oriented startup environment. The intern will work with design mentors who are some of the most accomplished in Silicon Valley to continually iterate on his or her design processes and creations.

In addition to skills expected of all interns, we look for the following:

  • Mastery of modern creative production tools such as Photoshop, vector-based image editors, and wireframe creation tools to name a few.
  • Proven ability to take diverse user and stakeholder input and synthesize into simple, cohesive and effective design output.
  • An understanding and acceptance of agile design and development techniques where getting things done is a higher priority than perfection.

Ready to apply?

Learn a bit more about us, first.

Then send us an email with a bit about yourself, links to previous work and/or a resume and we'll go from there: jobs@vidcaster.com. Or use our Contact Form for more general inquiries.

Internship

Developer - Back-End & Server Operations

Position Summary

The goal of the Developer - Back-End and Server Operations internship is to directly contribute toward application development and operations of the back-end Vidcaster web application while exposing the intern to real-world development in a high volume production environment.

This intern's responsibility is to iterate on existing components of the back-end Vidcaster Python and Django application in coordination with the in-house Vidcaster development team. The intern will be responsible for identifying back-end development challenges to be addressed and then working with internal and external stakeholders to create solutions to these challenges.

This intern will benefit from working on-site on a modern, high-volume web application. The intern will experience and participate in nearly all aspects of the development and operations processes, from feature planning to app development, coordinating with front-end development team and resources, QA, creating test suites, and much more. This intern will gain significant working experience interacting with key platform partners while also learning modern development practices from a seasoned and diverse team of developers.

In addition to skills expected of all interns, we look for the following:

  • Proven ability to develop applications on at least one of Python, Ruby, php or another back-end web development language preferably with an MVC orientation. Proven capability to learn new languages and tools as needed to accomplish goals.
  • Present functioning examples of course or non-course related applications or completed projects relating to computer science and programming languages that you have written.
  • Ability to manage development environment ranging from setting up IDE to using ssh tools such as command line git as appropriate.

Ready to apply?

Learn a bit more about us, first.

Then send us an email with a bit about yourself, links to previous work and/or a resume and we'll go from there: jobs@vidcaster.com. Or use our Contact Form for more general inquiries.

Internship

Developer - Mobile, Social & Devices

Position Summary

The goal of the Developer - Mobile, Social and Devices internship is to directly contribute toward application development on mobile, social and connected TV platforms while exposing the intern to real-world development related to widely varying platforms and devices.

This intern's responsibility includes creating new and/or iterating on existing Vidcaster applications on platforms including but not limited to Facebook, Android mobile, Android connected TV, iOS and standards-based HTML5 embeddable widgets.

This intern will benefit from daily professional opportunities for growth that present themselves in this role. Thanks to our Silicon Valley location we have close, direct working relationships with these platform partners. This intern will gain significant working experience interacting with key platform partners, practically impossible to do anywhere else in the world, while also learning modern development practices from a seasoned and diverse team of developers here at Vidcaster.

In addition to skills expected of all interns, we look for the following:

  • Proven ability to develop applications on at least one of Android, iOS or Facebook and proven capability to learn new languages and tools as needed to accomplish goals.
  • Present functioning examples of course or non-course related applications or completed projects relating to computer science and programming languages that you have written.

Ready to apply?

Learn a bit more about us, first.

Then send us an email with a bit about yourself, links to previous work and/or a resume and we'll go from there: jobs@vidcaster.com. Or use our Contact Form for more general inquiries.

Internship

Sales And Marketing

Position Summary

The goal of the Sales and Marketing internship is to directly and positively impact the sales pipeline and to assist in rapid client acquisition at Vidcaster, while exposing the intern to real-world experience in modern sales and marketing processes.

The intern's responsibility is to plan, implement, manage and evaluate effectiveness of projects that improve bottom-line lead generation and the effectiveness of call, email, and marketing initiatives through demand generation either directly or in tandem with colleagues from Vidcaster's sales and marketing team.

The intern benefits by gaining hands-on experience on the sales process and methodology that drives the organization. The intern will have the ability to create and manage self-driven projects that have the capacity to positively impact the business.

In addition to skills expected of all interns, we look for the following:

  • Proven understanding of concepts surrounding design and execution of strategic marketing campaigns.
  • Basic familiarity with sales and marketing web-based tools such as Google Analytics, Salesforce.com, social networks, ad platforms, or CMS platforms.
  • Ability and desire to assist with the coordination and execution of projects of wide ranging types, ranging from webcasts and live events, including the handling of invites and management of invite lists, to identifying new sales leads by researching industry databases, trade websites, and other sources to be entered in our data store.

Ready to apply?

Learn a bit more about us, first.

Then send us an email with a bit about yourself, links to previous work and/or a resume and we'll go from there: jobs@vidcaster.com. Or use our Contact Form for more general inquiries.

Internship

Video Production

Position Summary

The goal of the Video Production internship is to produce video content relating to driving awareness, understanding and usage of the Vidcaster web application while exposing the intern to real-world video production in a goal-driven corporate environment.

This intern's responsibility is to produce web friendly videos profiling the diverse use cases of Vidcaster, highlighting how clients use Vidcaster to drive their businesses or organization forward, use video screen recording software to produce instructional video tutorials including voice-over commentary to assist end-users to use Vidcaster and create written material such as blog posts on video production techniques, online video distribution strategies and other topics as directed.

This intern will benefit from by learning best-practices for modern video marketing on-site at a goal-driven, funded startup including production, distribution, reporting and performance analysis. The intern will be empowered with a professional and proven background in "online video strategy", one of the quickest growing roles employing production professionals.

In addition to skills expected of all interns, we look for the following:

  • Prior demonstrated experience in modern video production and post-production techniques including mastery of production tools such as Final Cut Pro.
  • Proven ability to collaborate with diverse teams to synthesize varied input into cohesive and effective video pieces.
  • Ability and eagerness to teach others how to use desktop, mobile and web-based video production tools both in-person or remotely.
  • An understanding and acceptance of agile production techniques where getting things done is a higher priority than perfection.

Ready to apply?

Learn a bit more about us, first.

Then send us an email with a bit about yourself, links to previous work and/or a resume and we'll go from there: jobs@vidcaster.com. Or use our Contact Form for more general inquiries.

Working with Us!

A bit of background:

  • Our technical co-founders developed Vidcaster while producing local TV with the San Francisco Chronicle and other partners here in the Bay Area. We were fed up with the numerous web tools for video that didn't "talk" to each other and took a huge amount of time to setup and integrate. Meanwhile, we were fed up with legacy TV distribution as a whole and see the "unbundling" of content to be the future of video.
  • Last year we pivoted to focus solely on Vidcaster and no longer do video production, but it's still in our blood. Now Vidcaster is the foundation of our company - it's an end-to-end video platform that not only hosts video content but also designs and hosts a fully customizable and interactive video website complete with video SEO. It allows non-technical users to quickly do all this on a self-service basis.
  • Our popular consumer-oriented product allows users to instantly create auto-syncing video websites on their own domain from their YouTube channel.
  • In addition to hosting thousands of consumer sites, the Vidcaster platform also powers video sites and video SEO for top-tier enterprise clients such as Zendesk, Microsoft and Airbnb.
  • We're serious about the company, we've hustled to make this reality, but we love celebrating these accomplishments as well. We're a 500 Startups backed company and recently closed a healthy seed round with a sweet office in SoMa near South Park, CalTrain and the AT&T Ballpark.
  • The company is revenue generating and growing quickly. This is the perfect time to join the project if you are looking to grow with a driven, efficient team with a solid foundation and significant growth potential.
  • Vidcaster is a modern web application built and running on open-source tools hosted on leading cloud providers. Our entire team, including sales and support, is savvy on product and technical development. You'll be joining a technically competent crew with deep experience in online video, video streaming and encoding, HTML5 standards and more APIs than you can name.

What you get working with us:

  • Work with an awesome, driven and motivated team on an awesome, elegant software product in the quickly evolving online media space.
  • Competitive salary, benefits, stock options.
  • A healthy mix of on-site and work-from-home ability. We spend most of our days at our office in SoMa near AT&T Park, CalTrain, Muni and BART, but we also telecommute as needed.
  • Fun field trips including 500 Startups HQ, robot hackathons and more.
  • A new set of awesome, driven, if a bit crazy, friends.
  • An amazing set of industry contacts from our deep working relationships with our broad range of API, development and business partners.

Ready to apply?

Send us an email with a bit about yourself, links to previous work and/or a resume and we'll go from there: jobs@vidcaster.com. Or use our Contact Form for more general inquiries.

Vidcaster is located in downtown San Francisco's SoMa district and is an equal-opportunity employer.

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