We need to find a great new employee, so we’re offering $1,000 worth of books to the person who finds us one.
Rules! You get a $1,000 gift certificate to the Maine or local bookseller of your choice. To qualify, you need to connect us to someone. Either you introduce them to us—and they follow up by applying themselves—or they mention your name in their email (“So-and-so told me about this”). You can recommend yourself, but if you found out about it from someone else, we hope you’ll do the right thing and make them the beneficiary.
Small print: Our decision is final, incontestable, irreversible, and completely dictatorial. It only applies when an employee is hired. If we don’t hire someone for the job, we don’t pay. If we’ve already been in touch with the candidate, it doesn’t count. Void where prohibited. You pay taxes, and the insidious hidden tax of shelving. Employees and their families are not eligible to win.
Maine Job: Member Specialist
LibraryThing is hiring a full-time member specialist. Although LibraryThing is mostly remote, this job is only available to people who can come into our Portland, Maine HQ at least some of the time.
Requirements
- Love books and readers
- Be energetic, capable, organized and conscientious
- Write well, clearly and quickly
- Be highly proficient with computers
- Work well both independently and under direction
- Get What Makes LibraryThing LibraryThing
- Be detail-oriented. Start by following the directions in this ad!
Extra Credit
- Book-world experience (bookstore, library, etc.)
- Professional social media experience
- Project-management or QA experience
- Strong technical skills (e.g., Excel, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Canva, databases, SQL, ChatGPT)
- Strong intellectual interests, demonstrating passion and a capacity for deep thinking
The Job
The core of the job is set: Talking to LibraryThing, TinyCat and Litsy members by email and on the LibraryThing site, troubleshooting bugs that they find and working with LibraryThing staff to get them fixed.
You need to be able to come into the LibraryThing office, but how often is negotiable. You will need to fulfill orders from the LibraryThing Store, from product in the office.
As a small company, we aim to hire great employees and have no “siloes.” If you have specific skills or experience, we’ll use them. And other duties calling on communication, organization, adaptability, diligence, intelligence, and creativity will pop up, and you must play an engaged and constructive role in company meetings on any topic.
Compensation
Because we’re willing to consider a wide variety of applicants, we can’t set a salary. We anticipate applicants will be looking for $40–65k.
LibraryThing has gold-plated health insurance. We require hard work and are only looking for full-time applicants, but are unusually flexible about hours.
How to Apply
Send a resume in PDF format to tim@librarything.com. Your email should be your cover letter. It should show your ability to be persuasive but succinct.
Fine Print
LibraryThing is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of religion, race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, parental status, marital status, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Remember that part about diligence? Your subject line should be “Cheddar Cheese: [Your name]” so we know you are diligent.
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