Jobs at Zorpia
Zorpia Company Limited is based in Hong Kong, China. It is aimed to provide online services in sharing photos and journals, making friends and creating discussions in forums through social networks from all over the world. The company started in 2003, but now we are one of the world's top 5 social networking websites. Although the company is relatively small, it has incredible potential and offers great opportunities for anyone who becomes a part of the Zorpia Team.
Everyone learns and shares excellent experience in Zorpia. We have the brightest individuals from different regions and countries. Our goal is to create the best experience for our valuable users and the best work experience for anyone who joins us.
We look for people with a great passion and excellent qualification in working with us. Feel free to check out the opportunities we have below and email us if you are interested.
- Project Manager
- Community Manager
- Software Engineer
- User Interface Engineer
- Visual Designer
- Software Test Engineer
- Technical Writer
- Customer Support Specialist
- Website Administrator
- Customer Support Specialist ME Site
- Website Administrator ME Site
Product Manager(Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Researching markets and competitors.
- Planning and constructing strategies and directions for products.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Experience with managing technical, dynamic and comprehensive projects.
- Strong leadership, organizational, analytical, communicational, strategic and problem-solving skills.
- Ability of working under pressure and inspiring a team to produce exceptional results.
- Experience with project management. Strong sense of responsibility throughout each task.
- Experience with launching Internet software or services a plus.
Requirements:
- B.A. / B.S. in a technical or quantitative or related field, Computer science, and mathematics preferred.
- Solid science or engineering background.
- Gumption in product creation and analysis.
- Excellent written and communication skills; good command of English.
Community Manager(Apply Now | Back to top)
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Act as a go-between for users and internal teams for customer and technical support and keep communication up to date with users during the problem resolution process.
- Work closely with Marketing and Communications Manager to create and action user engagement and participation initiatives, press, marketing and other brand related campaigns.
- Coordinate and administer user feedback with effective reporting to the Project Management Team.
- Provide site content overview and report on trend and ranking user information on a regular basis, also for brand/product research and development.
- Proactively stay up to date with all the latest features concerning Zorpia & share this knowledge with key stakeholders.
- Test Zorpia features, providing constructive analysis and feedback.
- Announce product/ site feature introduction, updates, general news, and user general interest information.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Fluent written and spoken professional English.
- Proven customer service and support experience, particularly in a multicultural environment & troubleshooting skills, with great interpersonal skills.
- Able to communicate effectively and efficiently following strict guidelines via email and telephone in a concise & clear manner.
- Able to work in a fast-changing, stressful environment where flexibility & multitasking are important.
- Highly self-motivated, independent and ability to develop creative solutions & think of "out-of-the box" ideas.
- Works accurately, intuitively & with eye for detail.
- Any additional language skills will be considered an advantage.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
Requirements:
- Knowledge in Microsoft Office.
- This is a home-based job, successful candidate should own a personal computer with fast Internet connection.
- Can commit to full time job (8 hours/day, 5 days a week) on a Flexible time basis.
Software Engineer (Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Implementing Zorpia.com's new or existing features under Perl environment.
- Working closely with product managers and UI designers to define and design user-centered website experience.
Skills & Knowledge:
- 3+ years software development experience.
- Experience with mod_perl application development, Apache on UNIX, UNIX based development, Relational Database (MySQL preferred), and Scalable architecture for internet systems.
- Familiar with Object Oriented development techniques for high-traffic websites (e.g. one million+ daily hits).
- Experience with MemCached is a plus.
- Familiar with template based web application development (Template Toolkit 2) is a plus.
Requirements:
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science/Mathematics preferred.
- Strong written and verbal skills; good command of English.
User Interface Engineer (Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Defining the user model and user interface for Zorpia's new and existing products and features.
- Developing detailed, high quality mockups, prototypes and storyboards and being able to communicate ideas effectively.
- Assessing the usability of new and existing products and being able to communicate changes or suggestions effectively.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Experience with designing usable web-based interfaces, JavaScript, rapid prototyping.
- Expert in HTML, CSS and XHTML.
- Strong visual design sense.
- Strong leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
- Knowledge of Perl and MySQL preferred.
Requirements:
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
- Strong written and verbal skills; good command of English.
Visual Designer (Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Designing Zorpia's consumer-facing products in all stages.
- Working closely with product managers and engineers to design the most effective, creative, user-friendly consumer-oriented products.
Skills & Knowledge:
- 3+ years of experience in designing outstanding websites that is highly consumer-oriented.
- Expert in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, familiar with HTML and CSS.
- Knowledge of HCI principles and web design practices.
Requirements:
- B.A. / B.S. or above in design related field; strong technical background preferred.
- Strong written and verbal skills; good command of English.
Software Test Engineer (Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Work with the testing team to examine, report and track errors.
- Create test plans, set up test environments.
- Develop automated tests, execute and maintain automated test suites.
- Analyze results of tests.
Skills & Knowledge:
- 1 year of software testing experience.
- Exceptional communication and analytical skills, inclination to learn new testing technologies and ability to assess software quality.
- Proficiency in working on Unix/Linux.
- Experience in working with Perl or PHP.
- Experience in working with Java or C/C++.
Requirements:
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
- Strong written and verbal skills; good command of English.
Technical Writer (Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Organize Zorpia's documentation and make it accessible and useful to Zorpia's engineers and 3rd party developers.
- Identify documentation holes in the existing documents and repair them with great efforts.
- Edit and provide revision to the documents written by engineers.
- Facilitate engineers to improve their writing skills.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Ability and tendency to write sample code independently.
- Experience writing scripts or establishing tools to enhance the process of generating documentation.
- Experience working as a Programmer or QA Engineer.
- Proficiency of HTML, researching and writing very excellent software and/or QA-related documentation.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to read source code in various languages (e.g. Perl, Javascript, C++, etc).
Requirements:
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
- Strong written and verbal skills; good command of English.
Customer Support Specialist (Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Provide customer service and problem resolution in Support Email & Support Forum promptly, following Support procedures & policies.
- Recognize & escalate difficult technical problems to the Software Engineer Team. Convey concise problem information using available tools.
- Act as liaison between users and internal teams for faster fix. Maintain communication with users during problem resolution process.
- Collect suggestions and feedbacks from users and convey it to Project Management Team.
- Make suggestions for Zorpia.
- Proactively stay up to date with all the latest features concerning Zorpia & share this knowledge to the rest of the team.
- Test Zorpia's features, sharing feedbacks and suggestions to the team.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Excellent customer support & troubleshooting skills, with great interpersonal skills.
- Able to communicate effectively thru emails in a concise & clear manner.
- Excellent spoken & written English.
- Able to work in a fast-changing, stressful environment where flexibility & multitasking are important.
- Highly self-motivated, independent and ability to develop creative solutions & think of "out-of-the box" ideas.
- Works accurately & with eye for details.
Requirements:
- Knowledge in Microsoft Office.
- This is a home-based job, successful candidate should own a personal computer with fast internet connection.
- Flexible time
- Can commit to full time job (8 hours/day, 5 days a week)
- Preferably living in Manila, Philippines.
Website Administrator(Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Monitor & ban inappropriate contents that violate Zorpia's Terms of Service.
- Has the ability to develop strategies that will maximize performance & think of "out-of-the box" ideas.
- Highly self-motivated, and well organized with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Desire & aptitude for learning new admin tool information, function and processes.
- Ability to translate Manager's advice into action promptly.
- Activeness and familiarity in the site is highly desirable.
- Knowledge in Microsoft Office, particulary Excel
- This is a home-based job, successful candidate should own a personal computer with fast internet connection.
- Flexible time
- Can commit to full time job (8 hours/day, 5 days a week)
- Preferably living in Manila, Philippines.
Skills & Knowledge:
Requirements:
Customer Support Specialist ME Site(Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Provide customer service and problem resolution in Support Email & Support Forum promptly, following Support procedures & policies.
- Recognize & escalate difficult technical problems to the Software Engineer Team. Convey concise problem information using available tools.
- Act as liaison between users and internal teams for faster fix. Maintain communication with users during problem resolution process.
- Collect suggestions and feedbacks from users and convey it to Project Management Team.
- Make suggestions for Zorpia.
- Proactively stay up to date with all the latest features concerning Zorpia & share this knowledge to the rest of the team.
- Test Zorpia's features, sharing feedbacks and suggestions to the team.
- Excellent customer support & troubleshooting skills, with great interpersonal skills.
- Able to communicate effectively thru emails in a concise & clear manner.
- Fluency in both written and spoken Arabic and English.
- Able to work in a fast-changing, stressful environment where flexibility & multitasking are important.
- Highly self-motivated, independent and ability to develop creative solutions & think of "out-of-the box" ideas.
- Works accurately & with eye for details.
- Knowledge in Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel.
- This is a home-based job, successful candidate should own a personal computer with fast internet connection.
- Flexible time.
- Can commit to full time job (8 hours/day, 5 days a week) and willing to work some nights or weekends (except Fridays).
- Preferably living in the Middle East.
Skills & Knowledge:
Requirements:
Website Administrator ME Site(Apply Now | Back to top)
Responsibilities:
- Monitor & ban inappropriate contents that violate Zorpia's Terms of Service.
- Fluency in both written and spoken Arabic and English.
- Has the ability to develop strategies that will maximize performance & think of "out-of-the box" ideas.
- Highly self-motivated, and well organized with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Desire & aptitude for learning new admin tool information, function and processes.
- Ability to translate Manager's advice into action promptly.
- Activeness and familiarity in the site is highly desirable.
- Understanding of Middle Eastern Cutlure.
- Knowledge in Microsoft Office, particulary Excel.
- This is a home-based job, successful candidate should own a personal computer with fast, reliable internet connection.
- Flexible time.
- Can commit to full time job (8 hours/day, 5 days a week) and willing to work some nights or weekends (except Fridays).
- Preferably residing in the Middle East region.