Location: South Bay / Torrance & Sometimes Remote / From Home, BUT MUST BE LOCAL

Hours: +/- 10 hours a week, flexible

Wages: $30/h

You: Grad student, research student (with an Engineering type mind), semi-retired but computer / internet power user, stay-at-home parent who has had a career but now needs time for their family

+hopefully, someone who will be around in this position for a few years rather than months.

Job content:

Boutique Internet Marketing Agency executive needs a part-time Research Assistant / Executive Assistant who will:

Assist non-native English speaking executive with business emails, I.T. vendor management & contact, quote procurement (from I.T. vendors, marketing / advertising outlets etc.) market research for use in RFPs, client contact, research on marketing / online advertising methods, various project management assistance, contract technical / creative worker procurement & management, + many other day-to-day operational details assistance.

Who we need:

An ABSOLUTELY detail oriented, responsible, organized, efficient computer (+ internet) power user with the ability to work from results-in, with a sense of humor, who is professional.

Who won't like this job:

• If you prefer to sit back and wait to have a task explained, you will hate this position.
• If you aren’t an experienced researcher and writer, you will hate this position.
• If you don’t absolutely love using and learning new things on your own, and new software, you will hate this position.
• If you couldn’t care less about grammar or precise effective writing in English, ditto.

BUT

• If you’re studious, curious, precise, driven and positive, and always take notes when someone’s explaining something new to you, (and then go off and fill in the blanks on your own with your own research), we think you’ll love it.

Also, if you happen to speak Japanese, even better, but we’re looking for a person with absolute native English fluency and professional writing skills.

If you’d like to apply, please send your resume through Indeed, give us your available hours and please answer the following questions in the “cover letter” section.

1. What, to date, has been your most demanding work situation?

2. Give us some examples of why you think you’re more thorough & detail oriented than other people you’ve worked with.

3. Who is the person you’ve worked with that impressed you the most (we don’t need an actual name, just a title) and why are you so impressed with them? (What about them was so respectable / amazing / or was cool about them?)

4. and last, Why does this position appeal to you?

Thank you!

Job Type: Part-time

Salary: $30.00 /hour

Job Location:

• Torrance, CA 90501

Required education:

• Bachelor's

Required experience:

• professional: 3 years

-- How to Apply --
Please add "[ACE] RESEARCH-ASSISTANT-(last name)" to the subject line of your email.
Please include your rates (hour, project etc.)
Your availability
Your favorite (as a designer / developer) website online, and why you think it rocks.
We prioritize local candidates.
NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE. Seriously, we mean it, ok?

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Location: Los Angeles - Department: Internet Marketing

Are you certified in Google Analytics, Google AdWords and can analyze the monkey out of marketing statistics?

We have openings for account managers / optimizers.

Please add "[ACE] INTERNET-MARKETER-(last name)" to the subject line of your email.

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Location: Torrance, Los Angeles - Department: Web Content Creation

This job / position / career is one of our core positions, and requires a stable, professional and passionate person. Your skills can make or break this position, and either really help us grow, or set us back a great deal so we take it extremely seriously and we need you to as well.

Interested? Let us explain.

None of our positions are "sales", everyone here needs to be in production. We don't, however, just have "coders". We have contents creators that can do HTML / CSS, or Photoshop and Illustrator.

Who you are:
1. A person with skills than lend themselves to being an online contents creator including strong creative and research writing skills, a superior ability to parse information and rewrite it in an informative and creative way for end-users, and HTML & CSS.
2. A funny person. Clever works too. A meme lover. A giggler.
3. The person who wants this job the most.
4. Maybe a beginner, but you are able to answer questions about the HTML / CSS source code on a responsive website that you've coded by hand either as a hobby or on the job and you understand that we'll ask you to do exactly that at the interview; pull up source code you've written and answer basic HTML questions.
5. A person who understands that saying "Sure, I'm interested in HTML", but who has never actually done any HTML on their own probably doesn't actually know if they're interested in HTML or not. You don't have to be an expert, but if you've never, of your own volition tried writing or HTML / CSS, chances are, you're not passionate enough about it to have a career in it here.

Let us put this in a different, and rather blunt way; We're a boutique company and every single day and every single person counts. If you're just "trying on" careers at this point, and think "Internet Content Creator / HTML Developer" sounds like a cool title but haven't taken the actual work for a spin even if it's just on your own, we can't risk the time / training it takes for you to figure out if more than the title appeals to you. We're glad to take a risk on unproven talent, but you'll have to have gotten yourself into the race already for us to know you're on a course that matches. In other words, we don't invest in people who haven't invested in themselves.

How to apply: This is the first round interview!

1. We need your resume as text in the body of an email or as a link online; no attachment files will be accepted.

2. Put "[ACE] HTML-WRITER-(last name)" in the subject line of your email.

3. Next, Link the BEST of your HTML, CSS, Responsive web, written contents, and tell us why it was effective, or not.

4. Tell us how many hours you're looking for, from when, and your current and desired hourly salary.

5. Tell us a skill you've spent a great deal of time attaining, (it doesn't have to be job related, it can be a sport, artistic skill, language), let us know what walls and obstacles you've faced attaining the skill, what your current level of that skill is, and how you got better at it, or why you gave up.

6. Tell us what you think a small to mid-sized business is looking for in an employee. Tell us what you think the differences are between a boutique business and large corporations.

7. Please tell us how you've invested in yourself to make you be more likely to get the job you want.

8. Tell us what your passion is, and what drives you in life.

9. Pretend we're a band.
9a. What is your role in our band?
9b. Now pretend you've injured whatever part of your body you need to play that role in our band. What do you do?

10. Please tell us what you think we're trying to learn about you with these questions. ("We" can be any small or mid-sized business.) To explain a little, we're asking you to be us, the company hiring, investing in a person to help make sure we all have jobs and salaries that fulfill us as human beings. We're looking for introspection here. Are you able to analyze and understand what is most needed from you in this environment? Do you offer it?

Who will hate this job?
1. People who hate / aren't interested in HTML, the internet, humor, and how information is spread on the internet.
2. People who think work should be like school except that now they get paid to learn.
3. People who like a job because it's easy and they can coast.
4. People more interested in being a tiny part of a adequately done big thing rather than being a huge part of a new thing.
5. People who think there is / people who are more comfortable with one "right" answer to a great yawning abyss of potential.
6. People who don't want a huge amount of responsibility for the success of the end-product.
7. People who applied for this job but couldn't be bothered to read all the way here to #7.
8. People who applied for this job but couldn't be bothered to read all the way here to #8.

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Location: Torrance, Los Angeles - Department: Marketing

Part-time / 1099 unless paired with other skill-set / position

Interested? Let us explain.

We are a company that is never interested in doing things everybody else can do and does. There's no real point and it's no fun for us. Right now, we're focusing on viral marketing because it's fun, effective, fresh and can be absolutely creative as well as be an incredible value to our clients. Are you interested? Want to try?

We are currently looking for someone to join / head up our viral marketing department who wants a real chance to do exactly what they want to do online for our clients. We don't mean a person who has made videos and uploaded them to Youtube and gotten no views and left it at that or a person who will studiously submit spammy links of stuff we've done to Reddit, we mean a full package real deal amazingly creative but needs work / clients for whom to do that work person. We need a person who wants the platform on which to perform and the audience for which to perform but who is ready for their performance.

We don't give you the script, just the stage and stagehands to an extent; it's your show, and you'll also need to care about bringing in an audience.

Who you are:
1. A person with skills than lend themselves to being a viral marketer but that also make a company like ours hire them: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Visual Editing, filming, comedy writing or any other professional skill that earns a living in our industry
2. A funny person. Clever works too. A meme lover perhaps.
3. The person who wants this job the most.

How to apply: This is both easy and amazingly hard.

1. We need your resume as text in the body of an email or as a link online; no attachment files will be accepted. Please put "[ACE] VIRAL-CONTENTS-CREATOR-(last name)" in the subject line of your email to us.

2. Next, wow us with your talent / humor / viral potential. In other words, show us anything at all that says "Hi, I'm interested in creating content that gets seen, and this is what I've done" instead of coming in and saying "I've done nothing on my own to figure out if I'm really interested in it, but if you give me money, I'll sit here 8 hours a day and see if I actually enjoy it or not"

---Will you make a Facebook page that gets 10,000 "likes" telling us to hire you?

---Will you make an application video that gets 100,000 views on Youtube?

---We guess you could do something twitter (but we might not notice it), or imgur, or Reddit or really just about anything as long as you make us notice you in a good way and it's interesting or fun / funny for everyone involved.

---If you're strapped for ideas you could come up with a viral idea for one of our in-house shops and testing grounds such as the not-naturally viral: www.massager-machines-and-more.com

---Or if you're into really low hanging fruit you could do something for the naturally viral www.artisansocks.com that had an image catch fire online thanks to bloggers, a great in-house photographer and a pretty girl's legs. (2011's viral shark socks)

Here's the thing though, while some of our clients' products will be fun or funny like the socks, for the most part they aren't and you're going to need to be comfortable coming up with original fun ideas to market some fairly serious products. You'll be valued as a partner, get the fame you deserve personally rather than having others take credit for it and make your share of the profits. That's the job, if you really want it, it's yours.

Who will hate this job?
1. People who hate / aren't interested in the internet, humor, and how information is spread on the internet.
2. People who think work should be like school except that you now get paid to learn.
3. People who like a job because it's easy and they can coast.
4. People more interested in being a tiny part of a adequately done big thing rather than being a huge part of a new thing. (How many campaigns for big companies do you see online that DON'T make you cringe? That Whole Foods viral rap and the Sears zombie thing maybe, but not many more..)
5. People who think there is / people who are more comfortable with one "right" answer to a great yawning abyss of potential.
6. People who don't want a huge amount of responsibility for the success of the end-product.

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Location: Torrance, Los Angeles - Department: Web Marketing

Part-time / 1099 unless paired with other skill-set / position

We'd love to see your portfolio!

Instead of just sending us the link to your portfolio, please pick your best three and let us know why they were successful and why you picked them to represent you as Web Designer / Web Developer / HTML5 Developer.

Your skills
Illustrator, Design for web, Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Mac & Windows OS, MS Office etc. You should be proficient in more than one of the above skills and learn new ones quickly. If you're the type who will only learn new skills on the job on company time, this isn't the job for you. We need a person who's passionate enough about this already to have picked a lot up on there own and not just someone who wants to try this on as a career is someone else takes makes the effort to educate you.

-- How to Apply --
Please add "[ACE] WEB-DEVELOPER-CREATOR-(last name)" to the subject line of your email.
Please include your rates (hour, project etc.)
Your availability
Your favorite (as a designer / developer) website online, and why you think it rocks.
We prioritize local candidates.
NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE. Seriously, we mean it, ok?

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Location: Torrance, Los Angeles - Department: Software Development

Job Description: • Client /S erver system development for various business sectors / Web system development / System testing / App development
• Network development and related tasks
Qualifications:
• Has at least a BS. (Preferably in Computer Science or related field)
• Has mastered (or at least has a strong grasp of) at least 2 of the following: C, VB, VBC, VBA, Access, Java, SQL, DHTML etc.
• Is well versed in, familiar with and interested in at least one of the following databases: Oracle, Access, SQLServer, MySQL, any other type of database
• Self-starting outgoing person who likes to tackle new things aggressively, Has a strong sense of responsibility and takes pride in their work
1. NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE. WE ABSOLUTELY DON'T FARM OUT OUR WORK TO OTHER COUNTRIES
2. NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE. WE ABSOLUTELY DON'T FARM OUT OUR WORK TO OTHER COUNTRIES
3. NO OFF-SHORE or AGENCIES PLEASE. WE ABSOLUTELY DON'T FARM OUT OUR WORK TO OTHER COUNTRIES
Please add "[ACE] SOFTWARE-DEV-(last name)" to the subject line of your email.
Remuneration:
• To be decided on after your training period has ended; 100% proficiency based.

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Location: Torrance, Los Angeles - Department: Web Marketing

Part-time / 1099 unless paired with other skill-set / position

We'd love to see your portfolio!

Instead of just sending us the link to your reel on Vimeo or YouTube, please pick your best three and let us know why they were successful and why you picked them to represent you as a content creator.

-- How to Apply --
Please add "[ACE] VIDEO-CONTENT-CREATOR-(last name)" to the subject line of your email.
Please include your rates (hour, project etc.)
Your availability
Your favorite video online.

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Location: Torrance, Los Angeles - Department: Marketing

Part-time / 1099 unless paired with other skill-set / position

Must have mad writing skills. In English or Japanese. With some kind of quantifiable results. You wrote blog entries for a year for a company in town? Great!

Instead of just sending us the link to the blog, please pick your best three articles / entries, and let us know why they were successful and why you picked them to represent you as a content creator.

-- How to Apply --
Please add "[ACE] WRITTEN-CONTENT-CREATOR-(last name)" to the subject line of your email.
Please include your rates (hour, project etc.)
Your availability
Your favorite G rated joke.

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Location: Remote, but So. California Based, must be able to come to office occasionally - Department: Online Shop / Ecommerce

A: For our online shops (a combination of the following tasks)
• Communicating with customers by phone / e-mail / fax / Sales support (taking phone orders, explaining shop policies, explaining product lineups etc.)
• Communicating with Merchants, making purchase orders, inventory management
• Probably: Writing web page contents for products, sourcing new items, photographing new items, editing photographs for web.
• Hopefully: Handling the Social Media communications via Zendesk etc.(Facebook, Twitter)
B. For our main Development / Online Marketing / Advertising Business
• Communicating with clients and business related contacts by phone / e-mail / fax / Office administration / Sales support
• Hopefully: Handling the Social Media communications via Zendesk etc.(Facebook, Twitter)
• Software instruction
Qualifications: Native English speaker, would be nice if you spoke Japanese as well, or some other language
• Proficient in Windows environments, Can use Word, Excel and other basic Office tools / Has a strong interest in the IT field, ok with using a computer / the internet / software all day, every day.
• Self-starting outgoing person who likes to tackle new things aggressively
• Can work legally in the US
*We especially want you if you
• Get positively, assertively involved in your work / Can't now, but would like to learn programming / HTML / Photoshop, SNS marketing
Remuneration:
• Skill / Experience based, from $12 an hour and up.

Please add "[ACE] CUSTOMER-CARE-(last name)" to the subject line of your email.

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Location: Torrance, Los Angeles - Department: Marketing

This job / position / career is one of our core positions, and requires a stable, professional and passionate person. Your skills can make or break this position, and either really help us grow, or set us back a great deal so we take it extremely seriously and we need you to as well.

The application is absolutely our first round interview, if you're interested, please read the process carefully.

IMPORTANT: LONG HELP-WANTED POSTING

How you respond to this ad is the first round of our interview process. It counts, it helps us get to know you. If you are interested in this position, please follow the process in the "How to apply" section. We're not going to make you waste gas and time coming in if it's not a good fit, and this helps us, and you, decide.

We're looking for a special head customer service / shop management / office manager who will help take our businesses to the next level, wants to stay in one place for a while, and has the ability to be a big fish in a big pond. This is a career; we don't use the word "associate", it's not that kind of "career", we mean a real career if you put your heart into it. And we need heart. Showing up isn't the job, being here and passively answering a phone call when it comes in isn't the job, doing the job creatively and to the best of your abilities, with an eye on improvement is.

You will be entirely responsible for:

Flawless shop customer service. You need to make people happy without giving away the farm.

Communicating with merchants and vendors, making purchase orders, & inventory management

Using Microsoft Word / Excel / Outlook and custom system software daily; if you aren't confident in your computer skills, this might not be the job for you!

Business communications by phone, fax and email: Grammar, spelling, and attention to details counts!

Error-free picking, packing and shipping of products. We sell products for pets (dog or cat lovers extra welcome!), and hosiery.

www.cushzilla.com and www.artisansocks.com
Both sites are being renewed now and you'll help us with the renewal aspect as well. (You'll be part of helping us make our new site, if this doesn't excite you a little, this job's probably not for you.)

Effectively communicating with customers by phone / e-mail / fax / Sales support (taking phone orders, explaining shop policies, explaining product lineups etc. honestly and as an honest and competent professional; this isn't a hard-sell slick sales position.)

Handling billing / invoicing / finances related to the shop business

Some element of shop content creation; finding new products before they've gone viral, photographing / editing images / writing catch for the pages, or any number of creatives as well.

*People interested in the following are more likely to find this job rewarding / fun:*

Purchasing (Searching for new items to carry on our shops)

eCommerce / online shopping

Cultural trends / fashions

Business Strategy

Internet

Marketing

Any one or more of the following:

Photography, Writing, HTML, Video Production, Modeling, Styling, Humor

*Qualifications:*

Native English Writing / Speaking level. This is a non-negotiable!

Candidates with at least a 4 year degree, or equal relevant office experience

Mad skills in Microsoft Office and the Internet are necessary to do this job well, so if you don't have them coming into the job, you'll have to get them as quickly as possible.

You must be the type of person who is humble but driven, takes pride in the quality of their work, and understands that avoidable mistakes can REALLY cost a business. Accountability is key; You are not a cog here, you're an irreplaceable part of our team. In return, we need to to understand that too. What you do truly affects our business and you along with it.

*How to Apply:*
Respond by email with your resume as text in the body of the email as we do not open attachment files.
Your cover letter is the first round of the interview, and what will lead us to calling you in for the next step, the interview.

1. Write the subject of the application email as: CSSTAR-6-2015-SITE-(Your Last Name)
2. Tell us how many hours you're looking for, from when and your current and desired hourly salary.
3. Tell us a skill you've spent a great deal of time attaining, (it doesn't have to be job related, it can be a sport, artistic skill, language), let us know what walls and obstacles you've faced attaining the skill, what your current level of that skill is, and how you got better at it, or why you gave up.
4. Tell us what you think a small to mid-sized business is looking for in an employee. Tell us what you think the differences between a boutique business and large corporations are.
5. Please tell us how you've invested in yourself to make you be more likely to get the job you want.
6. Tell us what your passion is, and what drives you in life.
7. Pretend we're a band.
7a. What is your role in our band?
7b. Now pretend you've injured whatever part of your body you need to play that role in our band. What do you do?
8. Please tell us what you think we're trying to learn about you with these questions. ("We" can be any small or mid-sized business.) To explain a little, we're asking you to be us, the company hiring, investing in a person to help make sure we all have jobs and salaries that fulfill us as human beings. We're looking for introspection here. Are you able to analyze and understand what is most needed from you in this environment? Do you offer it?

Apply Now