Engage at the three month mark (we’re hiring)

William Grosso @ January 12, 2007

For those who weren’t paying attention, or those who were just paying attention to this blog, the story goes something like:

• Last March, I left Echopass.
• For the next six months, I stayed at home, playing with my newly born son Andrew (well, I also did some consulting; I’m fond of being cash-flow positive).
• In late October, I took the VP of Engineering position at Engage.

It’s a great company, in a great market place. And it’s incredibly different from anyplace I’ve ever been before.

Echopass was all about call centers. Hipbone, where I cut my management teeth, was also about call centers. Before that was Stanford (research) and before that was PDH (consulting group).

Engage is an internet consumer site.

In the words of the man from Cabaret (loosely paraphrased): The design focus is different. The operational focus is different. Even the scalability requirements are different.

(If you don’t know the Cabaret reference, or hate Joel Grey, ignore the italics)

I’m learning a lot, having a great time, and building a scalable and reliable service that helps people out.

The only fly in the ointment? It’s hard to recruit good people. I’ve hired some great developers. But, for some reason, great QA and DHTML people are scarce. As in very few and even farther between.

So if you, or someone you know, meets the criteria, send them my way. It’s that rare “win, win, win” opportunity:

• It’s good for the people we hire (great company in good space).
• It’s good for Engage (we get good people to help us build out our service).
• It’s good for you (we pay referral fees).

Filed under: Career | Share on Facebook