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Company Description

Founded in 1997, Luxury Link (www.luxurylink.com) is the world’s leading luxury travel website.  The site features exclusive hotel packages for sale at auction and fixed price, from thousands of extraordinary hotels, resorts, villas and cruise lines in more than 60 countries.  In addition, the site has an avid Community of affluent travel consumers and has become one of the leading online venues for luxury advertisers.  The Company’s goal is to become a Top 10 online travel destination with a full suite of products designed to meet the needs of sophisticated travelers and to provide an unparalleled marketing channel for its hotel partners and advertisers.

Open Positions

Product: Sr. Product Manager - General Manager of new business unit

Summary of Position

Reports to Chief Operating Officer.  Luxury Link is launching a new website to compliment its core site and offering, and is looking for a talented Internet executive to lead the launch and management of this new site.  This would be a great role for an individual with a track record of success as a product manager at a consumer internet company who is looking to expand their general management skills.  The role involves launching a new web site, managing multiple team members, collaborating with senior management, and P&L responsibility.

Primary Responsibilies

  • Create goals and requirements documentation for the new site offering
  • Lead cross-functional teams to translate business requirements and customer needs into a best-in-class consumer experiences
  • Work closely with marketing team on product positioning for product rollouts
  • Work closely with production, operation and technology teams to plan and launch projects as specified on time and on budget
  • Work with Senior Management to set goals for the business
  • Analyze and monitor product effectiveness and financial performance

Experience and Qualifications

  • Leader – Experience to step in and lead a team and have an impact.  Must effectively manage teams, aspire to create world-class products and businesses, influence senior leadership, gain respect of business line managers and be accountable for results.
  • Proven Winner – Someone with a demonstrated track record at a consumer-facing Internet company, who has successfully introduced new products that impacted the Company’s performance on a consistent basis.
  • Strategic – Experience creating strategic plans
  • Knowledge of:
    • Internet business models
    • Product development lifecycle
    • Information and interaction design
    • Customer segmentation
    • Web analytics
    • SEO
    • HTML
  • Desired Knowledge of:
    • Web 2.0
    • MySQL
    • PHP Programming
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage and develop various products at different stages
  • Excellent communication skills; able to discuss, listen, defend and persuade

Personal Qualities and Skills

  • At least 3 years product management experience at an Internet company
  • Goal-oriented/Results-driven - competitive drive to reach and exceed business objectives
  • Team player that works well with others and is willing to do whatever it takes for the Company to be successful
  • Self starter and can-do attitude; entrepreneurial spirit
  • Detail-oriented person with high sense of accountability and integrity
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Outside-the-box thinking and imagination
  • Demonstrated ability to work with broad range of internal and external constituents
  • Ambitious, interested in joining a team working in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment
  • B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent experience; M.B.A. preferred

Compensation and Benefits

 Salary compensation is competitive based on experience, plus bonus, plus equity, plus benefits including medical and dental insurance (HSA, HMO and PPO), Short Term Disability, educational assistance, personal time off and a 401(K) plan.

Send resumes for Sr. Product Manager - General Manager of new business unit to rfujiu [at] luxurylink [dot] com


Travel: Sales Executive - NYC

Summary of Position

Luxury Link the leading Luxury Travel website is looking for a dynamic, savvy Media Sales Professional to join our New York team.  This role reports to the SVP of Travel Partnerships and will be responsible for the selling of online contextual advertising direct to the luxury hospitality industry. 

The ideal candidate has a proven track record in online, traditional media sales and/or concept sales.  Responsibilities include meeting target revenue goals in the defined region.  We're looking for an energetic self-starter with a consultative sales approach who is pro-active in driving revenue. You must be results-driven, have strong analytical skills and be committed to creating new business opportunities. You will be accountable for sales of 1year online marketing solution involving integrated sponsorships, referral traffic and incremental sales for new partners through customer prospecting and building strong relationships. The Sales Professional is expected to understand and be able to articulate the overall business objectives of the Luxury Link sales organization and the Luxury Link value proposition to the hospitality community.

Responsibilities

  • Prospect and penetrate hotel, resort, cruise and tour organizations to obtain branded advertising dollars.
  • Successfully close accounts in excess of 75 annually.
  • Manage a business exceeding $750,000 dollars yearly-recognized revenue.
  • Actively manage a defined territor.
  • Create persuasive sales presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel detailing market trends and case studie.

Requirements

  • 2-4 years sales experience is strongly preferred.
  • Consultative sales professional who can produce in a dynamic, highly visible environment.
  • Online and/or traditional media sales.
  • Results oriented, accountable, strong work ethic, team player.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills.
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Additional Skills

Languages; preferably French or Italian

Compensation & Benefits

Salary compensation is competitive based on experience, plus bonus, plus benefits including medical and dental insurance (HSA, HMO and PPO), Short Term Disability, educational assistance, personal time off and a 401(K) plan

Send resumes for Sales Executive - NYC to sfitzpatrick [at] luxurylink [dot] com

 

Front End Web Developer

The Position

Luxury Link is seeking a fulltime or contract to hire Web Developer possessing a strong working knowledge of AJAX/Web 2.0 technologies with PHP experience.  The candidate must be up to date with latest web 2.0 technologies adhering to W3C standards compliant HTML and CSS best practices for browser compatibility.  The candidate must be capable of translating wireframes, product requirement documents and creative briefs into robust front end presentation layer user interfaces.  The ideal candidate collaborates well with others and thrives in a fast pace, deadline driven environment and is willing to be held accountable.

Primary Responsibilities

  • 75% Presentation layer / Front End, HTML/CSS, Javascript/AJAX and 25% PHP/Smarty.
  • Understanding of browser capabilities and design constraints, with expertise in developing and testing across multiple browsers & platforms i.e. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari.
  • Strong familiarity with web standards and accessibility.
  • Optimize pages for both SEO and load time.
  • Solid understanding of email best-practices (ensure compliance with web-mail and all desktop applications).
  • Develop user interfaces for Luxury Link’s Internet/Intranet Web Application.
  • Work on day to day bug fixes/enhancements in addition to working on long term projects.
  • Work with project manager and other team members.
  • Ensure coding is modular, thoroughly tested, and provides reliable operation.

Required Skills

  • Minimum 3-5+ years paid work experience with JavaScript, Ajax and browser issues.
  • Ajax Web 2.0 expertise.
  • Should have strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, DHTML, XML, etc.
  • 2+ years of professional experience developing PHP and database driven applications.
  • Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills.
  • Knowledge of SEO best practices.
  • Excellent documentation and organizational skills.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in a team environment.
  • Must possess the ability to meet deadlines and manage tasks in an efficient manner.
  • Attention to detail.

Desired Skills

  • Smarty template engine
  • PHP Cake
  • Experience with SOAP
  • Working knowledge and experience with CVS or other version control systems
  • Regular expressions a huge plus
  • Apache Mod Rewrite a huge plus
  • Object oriented PHP programming
  • Ability to create/modify stored procedures
  • Experience with SQL Server 2000
  • Web application and SOA ( service oriented architecture ) architect experience
  • Experience with open-source AJAX toolkits

Compensation & Benefits

Luxury Link offers a competitive base salary commensurate with experience.

Send resume, salary requirements, links to sites you’ve worked on and a short cover letter to ddavis [at] luxurylink [dot] com with “Web Developer” in subject line.