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About Total Beauty Media

Founded in 2007 and venture-backed, Total Beauty Media, Inc. is a new media company that reaches 5 million women monthly. We publish TotalBeauty.com, a beauty tips and expert advice site that's like Yelp.com for beauty products, with 300,000 user-generated beauty product reviews spanning more than 46,000 beauty products. And we recently launched BeautyRiot.com, a beauty inspiration site for women in their 20s.

To apply for the following positions please send your resume and cover letter to with the position title in the subject line.

Senior Editor or Associate Editor -- Online

Salary: Very Competitive

Benefits: 401K/403B, Dental, Health, Stock/Options

Job type: Full-time

Company/Publication Name: TotalBeauty.com

Location: Santa Monica, CA

About the Job:

TotalBeauty.com, a beauty, health, and fitness site that reaches 3 million women monthly, is looking for a senior editor or associate editor (depending on experience) to write, edit, and help manage the site. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, creative, and eager to join a smart, collaborative staff of seasoned journalists. This is a full-time position in our Santa Monica office. Sorry, no telecommuting.

Responsibilities include:

  • Writing feature-length articles
  • Editing junior staffers' articles (1 to 2 a week)
  • Writing daily blog entries for Yahoo! Shine
  • Tracking content metrics
  • Researching and pitching beauty, health, fitness, and nutrition articles
  • Hiring and managing one full-time intern and two part-time interns

Requirements:

  • Proven ability to write intelligent, well-researched, feature-length articles in a writing style that is conversational and engaging
  • Inspired ideas for high quality content and an ability to brainstorm imaginative ideas with little to no lead time
  • Very strong headline-writing skills, including teaser copy and compelling, must-click hyperlinks
  • Strong editing skills, with experience editing content for a major consumer print or online publication
  • Basic HTML and experience working with a CMS or blog publishing platform a plus
  • SEO knowledge a plus
  • On-camera experience and clips a plus
  • Fact-checking and copy editing experience helpful

Please send a cover letter, resume, salary requirements, and links to five published clips to the Executive Editor, Meghan Rabbitt, at .

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Front End Developer

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Reports to: Director of Product Development

About the Job:

Total Beauty Media, one of the fastest-growing media publishers for women, is seeking a talented full-time Front-end Developer to join our dedicated team.

The Front-end developer will help our engineering and development group realize and execute complex UI challenges utilizing the most up-to-date open standards and practices in use on the Web today. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining site-wide HTML and CSS coding standards, functional integration of design concepts into a PHP-based content management system, and recommending new processes for improving overall user-friendliness of site components.

Reporting to the Director of Product Development, the ideal candidate must be an extremely self-motivated individual who has worked on enterprise-level applications and who is an ardent evangelizer of progressive Web standards and techniques (the more cutting-edge the better!). The candidate will also be extremely adept in UI conceptualization and be able to work on multiple projects concurrently in a fast-paced media environment with limited supervision.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with site engineers and art directors to combine functional and creative assets.
  • Develop and optimize site pages utilizing XHTML, CSS, and Javascript, establishing best practices, keeping in mind site load and cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility
  • Work with art directors and project managers to conceive innovative front-end solutions to UI challenges
  • Work with other departments to develop concept and advertorial sites for promotional and presentation use
  • Spearhead front-end development for mobile and social media applications
  • Maintain all analytics and ad trafficking tags (Google, DART), and manage reporting systems
  • Experiment with new technology, and get paid to do it!

Candidate Requirements:

  • Expert-level coder in XHTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML
  • Experience working in a LAMP-oriented development environment
  • Full knowledge of browser types and browser quirks
  • Advanced knowledge of AJAX (knowledge of XML and PHP a plus)
  • Familiarity with SVN and/or CVS
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Experience juggling multiple concurrent development projects
  • Ability to work full-time from our Santa Monica location
  • Familiarity with content management systems

Benefits & Perks:

  • Fantastic health, dental and vision benefits
  • Paid vacation
  • Company equity plan
  • Employee referral plan
  • Great startup atmosphere
  • Entrepreneurial team
  • Free beauty products (guy stuff too)

Compensation: Commensurate with experience and skill level

Send your resume and cover letter to:

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Assistant Online Beauty Editor

Salary: Very Competitive

Benefits: 401K/403B, Dental, Health, Stock/Options

Job type: Full-time

Company/Publication Name: BeautyRiot.com/Total Beauty Media

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Description:

BeautyRiot.com is beauty and fashion site that reaches more than 1 million trend-forward young women monthly. We are looking for an assistant editor that is highly organized, creative, and eager to join a smart, collaborative staff of seasoned journalists. This is a full-time position in our Santa Monica office. Sorry, no telecommuting.

To be considered for Assistant Editor, candidates must possess:

  • Exemplary writing style that is intelligent yet conversational
  • Fact checking experience a plus
  • Copy editing experience a plus
  • BA degree
  • 1-3 years' journalism experience
  • Enthusiasm for beauty and fashion is a must. We're looking for someone who will bring fresh, creative ideas and the energy to execute them

Duties will include:

  • Expert-level coder in XHTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML
  • Experience working in a LAMP-oriented development environment
  • Full knowledge of browser types and browser quirks
  • Advanced knowledge of AJAX (knowledge of XML and PHP a plus)
  • Familiarity with SVN and/or CVS
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Experience juggling multiple concurrent development projects
  • Ability to work full-time from our Santa Monica location
  • Familiarity with content management systems

Benefits & Perks:

  • Writing daily blog entries
  • Tracking content metrics
  • Pitching, researching beauty trends for coverage
  • Writing service-oriented beauty and fashion articles with lots of personality
  • Other editorial duties as assigned by Senior Editor

Please send a cover letter, resume, and links to published clips to the Senior Editor, Sarah Carrillo, at .

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Marketing Communications Coordinator - Paid Summer 2012 Internship

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Total Beauty Media digital publishing group is looking for a talented and highly skilled Interactive Marketing Intern to assist in growing the company's strategic interactive marketing program across multiple online properties. This is a paid summer internship opportunity.

The Marketing Communications Coordinator intern will work with the Marketing Communications Associate and the Social Interactive Marketing Manager on projects related to the business-to-business and consumer outreach communication strategies for Total Beauty Media Group (www.totalbeautymedia.com)

Primarily Responsibilities:

  • Identify opportunities for Total Beauty to elevate its presence in the industry through conference speaking engagements, industry awards programs and sponsorships
  • Determine and create new marketing materials to promote Total Beauty Media Group among the industry (i.e. video, pamphlets, speaker profiles, etc)
  • Assist in summer consumer engagement event
  • Drive online conversation and encourage participation of members within social media channels
  • Drive growth among Total Beauty Media Group's online community membership (i.e. LinkedIn Group and Twitter)
  • Assist in day-to-day community management across Total Beauty Media Group's consumer facing social media channels
  • Update TotalBeautyMedia.com with new and relevant information
  • Stay up to date on emerging social media and interactive marketing channels and make recommendations as they align with Total Beauty Media Group's marketing goals

Qualifications:

  • Required: Must be a college graduate or currently enrolled in a college/university
  • Required: Strong knowledge of social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc.)
  • Strong written communication
  • Outstanding creative and strategic thinking abilities
  • Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
  • Self-motivated; able and willing to perform and deliver with very little supervision
  • Exceptional attention to detail and ability to effectively multi-task

Benefits/Compensation:

  • Paid internship

To apply, please submit your resume, cover letter and links to social media channels to Mandy Hjellming at .

Submission Deadline: April 2, 2012

Interactive Marketing Coordinator - Paid Summer 2012 Internship

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Total Beauty Media digital publishing group is looking for a talented and highly skilled Interactive Marketing Intern to assist in growing the company's strategic interactive marketing program across multiple online properties. This is a paid summer semester internship opportunity.

The Interactive Marketing intern will aid in developing new products and strategies for driving new email subscribers, improving key email metrics & deliverability (including delivered, open and click-through rates), and working with cross-functional teams to optimize the ROI of our email products, database, and mobile engagement through best practices.

Prior direct experience with email-specific marketing development is helpful but not required. In addition to managing design and email delivery, strong candidates should have some experience list building via on-site components as well as via social media channels and strategic co-registration partnerships.

Primarily Responsibilities:

  • Basic understanding of html coding (Dreamweaver)
  • Assist direct/email team in management of the planning, development, testing and execution of daily emails for assigned sites under Total Beauty Media Inc.
  • Help build, test and launch simple to highly advanced email campaigns using an enterprise-level email management platform
  • Offer creative ideas for email & mobile optimization to increase engagement and grow platforms (newsletters, opt-ins, mobile app, mobile sites/landing pages)
  • Learn how to use multiple analytics & deliverability platforms to help generate detailed weekly & monthly reporting
  • Moderate knowledge of Excel required

Qualifications:

  • Required: Must be a college graduate or currently enrolled in a college/university
  • Required: Familiarity with very basic HTML coding
  • Required: Excel & Photoshop familiarity
  • Prior work in online consumer marketing space
  • Exceptional analytical, planning and project management skills
  • Prior experience working across departments & in teams
  • Outstanding creative and strategic thinking abilities
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
  • Self-motivated; able and willing to perform and deliver with very little supervision
  • Exceptional attention to detail and ability to effectively multi-task

Benefits/Compensation:

  • Paid internship

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to .

Submission Deadline: April 2, 2012

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