Answers.com®, the leading Q&A site which includes ReferenceAnswers and WikiAnswers®, is looking to hire a Director of Community for its New York City office, reporting to the company’s Chief Strategic Officer.

• Provide leadership and management to a distributed team of over 20 employees, over 600 volunteer supervisors, over 3,000,000 registered users and 10’s of millions of unregistered users.
• Building the best community team: first in the US and then internationally
• Give the community team a clear strong voice when interacting with product management, marketing and senior management.
• Manage a senior experienced team, responsible for various WikiAnswers® efforts: mentoring, content quality initiatives, content abuse, expanding and growing our volunteer community etc..
• Set the priorities to build and manage the community roadmap of WikiAnswers® as it grows to become the number one Q&A site on the web.
• Identify success metrics for community contribution, quality, and growth.
• Set goals for improving WikiAnswers® metrics and coordinate with the rest of the company to deliver against those goals.

• 5+ years of community management related experience for a web company or online game company in a senior management role
• Ability to get along with everybody
• Demonstrated ability to manage a metric-driven community support team
• Intimate familiarity with volunteer moderator issues
• Bachelors degree or extensive experience in quantitative discipline
• Direct experience managing an internationally distributed team
• Extensive experience with social media, especially administrating a widely used wiki- a plus.

We're looking for a brilliant, energetic, creative, and analytical person who is fun to work with and will help us make Answers.com® the world's best answer provider.

• Define new features, see them through to completion, analyze their success, and continually improve them
• Prioritize features that most advance the company's goals
• Satisfy the needs of community, marketing, content, R&D and others to maximize traffic, revenue, and user satisfaction.
• Analyze traffic and usage patterns to make appropriate recommendations for product improvement
• Position may also include Project Management tasks of writing project plans, working with engineers & QA, coordinating, etc.

• At least 2 years experience as Product Manager responsible for a high traffic Web Site focused on User Generated Content
• Friendly and inspiring when directing feature development, flexible and receptive when soliciting feedback
• Strong analytical skills: must be able to determine how to quantify the success of features, to live in the resulting statistics, and to know what changes to suggest
• Strong leadership skills: must earn and maintain the respect and excitement of teammates and partners
• Strong design skills
• Strong strategic thinking skills
• Solid technical understanding
• Fluent in English and Hebrew
• Preferred: Knowledge of French, Italian, German, Spanish or Portuguese a plus, to help our internationalization efforts
• Full-time job based on Israeli hours, but must include flexibility for frequent phone calls during US business hours

• Answers.com® seeks a Software Engineer to join our team of developers in our Jerusalem office, responsible for developing and integrating tools and practices leading to improved engineering team productivity. Candidate must love working with, evaluating, and developing software productivity tools and champion their adoption within the engineering team.

• BSc. degree in Computer Science
• Experience working with open source tools
• Excellent UNIX scripting abilities - Perl, Shell, Awk, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of ‘LAMP’ (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web platform
• Experience developing in Java
• Experience working with Subversion or other source control systems a plus
• Experience with Agile development methods, practices and tools a plus
• Strong verbal and written English required
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Team player

• Answers Corporation seeks a database software engineer for its Jerusalem office in the Malcha Technology Park, to join the team of developers responsible for database design, backend feature development, scalability, website performance and reliability of our very large and growing web 2.0 community Q&A website.

• BSc. degree in Computer Science
• At least 2-3 years experience working with MySQL
• Strong understanding of database architecture concepts
• Knowledge of PHP
• Hands-on experience developing for large high-performance web sites
• Proficiency with Linux system administration/internals an advantage
• Strong verbal and written English required
• Strong communication skills
• Team player

• Answers.com® seeks an engineer for our Jerusalem office, to join the Quality Assurance Automation team in developing automated test scripts for its community website, http://wiki.answers.com.

• 1-2 years experience in QA automation testing an advantage
• Experience writing Perl, Python, or any other common scripting language
• Experience with web development (HTML, CSS, Javascript) — a plus
• Excellent communication skills and a Team Player
• Good command of written and verbal English

• Answers.com® seeks a Student of Computer Science (part time, 20-25 hours per week) for its Jerusalem office, to join the Quality Assurance Automation team in developing automated test scripts for its community website, http://wiki.answers.com.

• Excellent communication skills and a Team Player
• Programming Knowledge in C / C++ / Java
• Experience writing Perl, Python, or any other common scripting language — a plus
• Experience with web applications (HTML, JS) — a plus
• Good command of written and verbal English