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Crocodoc (YC W10)

San Francisco, CA | Full time | Director of Product

## Description

Crocodoc’s HTML5 document collaboration platform reaches tens of millions of users, and our business is profitable and growing fast. Our customers include Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Yammer, and we're funded by investors including YC, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and top angels from Silicon Valley.

Right now we're inundated with sales inquiries from SMB customers who want to embed documents within their web and mobile applications. We’re looking for a multifaceted candidate to take charge of our SMB product and blow it out of the water. This is a key leadership role with enormous growth potential.

## Responsibilities

- Talk to LOTS of prospective customers (both product managers and developers)

- Develop our SMB product offering

- Optimize our pricing plans and product tiers

- Develop a scalable sales process and design a self-service experience

- Develop user acquisition strategy (everything from inbound marketing to direct sales)

- Qualify leads, own our sales pipeline, and close lots of deals

TL;DR: you must be capable of growing our SMB product like crazy while wearing many hats in the process.

## Qualifications

- World-class ability to communicate with clients and develop customer relationships

- Experience with SaaS and/or B2B technology solutions

- Basic technical experience (you’ve written a web app) required

- Sales experience (you’ve closed deals before) strongly preferred

- Startup experience (you can set own agenda and thrive in a fast-paced environment) a plus

- Product experience (you understand principles of UI and UX) a plus

- Product marketing experience (you’ve been responsible for user acquisition) a plus

This is a tremendous opportunity to own an entire product from soup to nuts. If you think you'd be a great fit, please contact us at jobs@crocodoc.com or visit https://crocodoc.com/jobs/.


I haven't yet gotten it to work on mobile devices. Do try it again from Firefox or Chrome!


The focus of this experiment isn't so much proposing new UX that we think should be adopted. More so, this experiment is to showcase what is now possible using the newest HTML5 features - to provide inspiration for those trying to implement novel HTML5 animations. A page flip allowed us to show off some of my favorite new HTML5 effects.


Crocodoc - San Francisco, CA | Web Developer, Biz Dev, Growth Hacker

Crocodoc converts documents to HTML5 for some of the largest web companies you use everyday: Dropbox, LinkedIn, Yammer. We have a small team, and yet business is growing fast (5x this year). We're looking for amazing early startup employees to help us grow the company even faster.

More info available here: https://crocodoc.com/jobs/


I'm flattered the author mentions Crocodoc. Crocodoc is hiring by the way if anyone wants to hack on stuff like this full time: https://crocodoc.com/jobs/


IE7 - IE9, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari


So why hasn't Google bought them?


You could help people discover good comments by allowing them to collapse comment threads. A simple [-] button by each comment should do the trick.


I like this idea-- you might even start with comments collapsed so users can quickly identify threads of interest. Here is a simple mock-up of what I'm envisioning:

http://imgur.com/SGbyG


I'm a dev at Crocodoc. For document assets, we're doing tremendously obscure things to our CSS and Javascript in order to optimize our document loading experience. The unconventional use of Javascript to embed resources relates our needing to work around a few browser quirks in order to load resources faster when fetching assets from our server.

But yes, we really could do a better job of merging the other browser resources mentioned.


I hope to see these changes incorporated within Google's official implementation.

As of right now, deserialization of json and xml are way faster in Python: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499593/whats-the-best-ser...


How about homepagehotness.com?

Even though it's a bit long, the name makes me smile, and it seems like it may be memorable.


That's shit. No-one says homepage, and hotness is not something I associate with a webpage.


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