Jobs @ Nolo!

A job at Nolo in Berkeley, CA offers a unique opportunity to work in a small, established and nationally respected publishing company. Nolo is the oldest and foremost publisher of self-help legal books and software for consumers and is dedicated to providing non-lawyers with accessible, valuable and reliable legal information they can use to take charge of their own legal affairs. Need a little more information? Read about Nolo.

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Current Opportunities

Library Sales & Marketing Assistant

Overall responsibilities for this position: Provide administrative support to Director of National Accounts. Contribute to the smooth and efficient operation of the library and trade key accounts overall, and assist Director of National Accounts in efforts to increase sales and market share. Interact with trade marketing to disseminate product information to library market. Act as primary contact for direct library communications, including library trade conferences. This is a full-time position working M-F in our Berkeley, CA office. Salary range is thirty-thousand dollars to forty-thousand dollars annually (DOE) with health insurance, 3 weeks paid vacation, paid holidays, and a convivial work atmosphere.

Duties for this position include, but are not limited to:

• Create buy sheets, product setup spreadsheets, sales support materials, and sales kits for key library and trade accounts
• Manage wholesaler cooperative ad processing with Director of National Accounts
• Coordinate Library and Academic mailings and outreach
• Assist with trade show arrangements for library conferences. As needed, travel to library conferences and represent Nolo to the library market
• Respond to product and service queries from librarians and academics. Provide product information and make recommendations for Nolo books, e-content, and e-newsletters to academics and librarians
• Increase library sales by promoting Nolo’s Standing Order Plan, and other sales programs, directly to library systems
• Monitor library feedback to inform Sales, Editorial and Marketing departments. Use and communicate this intelligence to better position Nolo and more effectively sell product

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years experience in library or book business
• Minimum 4-year college degree
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Proficiency with basic editorial test, administered during interview
• Ability to manage several projects at one time and change focus as necessary
• Proficiency with email, online searches, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and familiarity with MS Access
• Hold a valid driver’s license
• Ability to travel

Does it sound like a fit? Let us know by emailing a cover letter and resume to jobs@nolo.com with "Library Sales & Marketing Assistant" in the subject line. Please send attachments in .doc or .pdf formats. Responses will be accepted through the last week of July 2009.

Web Applications Developer - Java (Temporary)

Are you an independent contractor on the verge of burning out? Are you working odd hours? Too many hours? Too few hours? Would you like to work a 6 month gig and take a rest from the stress of drumming up new business?

Come check out Nolo, a great Berkeley company with a mission to provide legal information to consumers. We're looking for some temporary hires (not independent contractors) to help us with a major project. That means you'll work full-time on site with us for about 6 months.

Our friendly, hard-working web development team has just begun a complete redesign of our web site. We're starting from the ground up with new software, new programming languages and new information architecture and we'd like a Java developer who can hit the ground running with good ideas, creativity, and solid experience building web applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement website features and maintain existing applications within J2EE, content management system (CMS) and ecommerce applications.
• Troubleshoot site and web application issues.
• Execute bug fixes as needed for ecommerce & content management systems.
• Perform database projects as needed.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned.

Required Skills and Attributes:

• Java with Spring and Hibernate - prefer 2+ years
• Test-Driven development using JUnit and/or TestNG
• SQL - complex queries, joins, data imports and exports, etc. (MS SQL Server, MySQL)
• Creativity, the desire to work on a large-scale project from start to finish.
• Good organizational and communication skills
• Ability to solve medium to complex technical problems with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• A cooperative, collaborative spirit.

Familiarity with:

• JSP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS

Plusses:

• XML
• ColdFusion, PHP, Eclipse, Tomcat, AJAX, RSS, and/or SVN
• Selenium
• Familiarity with Percussion Rhythmyx and/or Open For Business (OFBiz)
• Experience working on ecommerce web sites
• Good knowledge of browser compatibility issues and web accessibility standards

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years experience working on complex, consumer-facing, database-driven websites.
• 1-2 years J2EE
• 3-5 years SQL experience
• Thorough knowledge and proven ability with HTML, JavaScript & CSS

Does it sound like a fit? Let us know by sending a cover letter and resume to jobs@nolo.com with "Web Applications Developer" in the subject line. Please send attachments in .doc or .pdf formats. And please don't call. Thanks for your interest.

How to apply:

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Nolo is the nation's leading provider of self-help solutions for consumers and small businesses. Our books and software cover everyday legal and business matters such as estate planning, patents and other intellectual property concerns, landlord-tenant law, bankruptcy and debtor's rights, family law, immigration and employment. We produce an award-winning website (http://www.nolo.com/) books and software products.