Careers at Ander
We’re moving fast and growing rapidly. Ander is on the hunt for the best and brightest, those motivated to create experiences that drive healthy outcomes for people at every stage of their personal quest.
Become part of the Ander experience—join the team that’s reimagining the digital experience.
As we continue to grow, we have a number of roles to fill–user experience, community management, technology, data, design, and more. While our main office is in downtown Seattle, we prioritize talent over geography. Our team is distributed around the globe.
Community
Community Manager
As Community Manager, you will be the face and voice of Ander to millions of members. The Community Manager will be a product and audience champion, an Ander evangelist, and can develop big ideas from concept to execution to delight Ander members. You will inspire, excite and lead community and impact millions of members; Ander community platforms will need your thoughtful moderation leadership. By building, engaging and maintaining relationships with our members and customers/clients, you will inform and guide production by providing clear and actionable qualitative feedback from the community. You will bring Ander members together and thereby improve public perception, overall retention and energize our brand advocates.
Responsibilities
Ensure the Ander member community is engaged, feels listened to and has expectations well managed.
Integrate, collaborate and grow cross-functional partnerships through becoming a subject matter expert in core features, mechanics, “metagame,” in-app promotions, target KPIs, and fan sentiment.
Manage day-to-day communication activities. Duties include launch plan, editorial calendar, and other community-oriented activities development and planning, then the community engagement efforts, forum moderation, streaming or webinars, etc.
Collaborate and ideate with cross-functional teams to develop annual, quarterly and customer-specific community initiatives.
Meet KPIs for community engagement initiatives with an emphasis on meaningful measurement and actionable key learning, while helping define and evolve KPIs in response to growing business and community.
Data
Data Engineer
The Data Engineer uses data to oversee, nurture, and drive Ander’s community, product, and business strategy. Identify opportunities, synthesize data, and communicate to and empower the Ander team through timely, validated, actionable data, visualization, and analysis. The Data Engineer will strive to ensure Ander meets the highest data quality standards and demonstrates uncompromising adherence to data privacy regulations.
Effectively engage internal and external stakeholders in the process of understanding and actioning Ander’s data.
Turn problems into projects, information into intelligence, and insight into business decisions that drive engagement.
Engineer, deploy, integrate, document, maintain, and scale cloud-based data science systems.
Research, recommend, and implement new systems and infrastructures.
Increase efficiency through automation and configuration optimizations.
Collaborate on a team, including outsourced engineers, to develop ETL processes on a variety of structured and unstructured sources.
Contribute to a future-ready, high quality, durable, and performant code base and analytics toolset.
Proficient enough in DevOps to configure and maintain your own dev and test environments—don’t mind getting your hands dirty with system admin.
Stay current with best practices in data quality management, including adherence to data privacy laws and regulations.
Engineering
Full Stack Engineer
You are looking to get in on the ground floor of a well-funded startup with a proven leadership team. You have 5-7 or more years of experience, including ...
ETL Development for Data Warehousing/BI
Building responsive, beautiful mobile and web applications
Building and leading lean teams, including outsource partners
A degree in Computer Science or Information Systems.
Leading a lean team, including outsourced engineers, in ETL Development for data warehousing/BI and in building responsive, mobile friendly and beautiful web applications.
Creating REST based web services and APIs for consumption by mobile and web platforms.
Product
Head of Product
As Head of Product you understand how to lead a team to deliver an overall experience that is fun, rewarding and valuable to its users, using entertainment to influence behavior.
You lead your world-class cross functional team of designers, artists, developers, data analysts and more in a fast-growing company, helping to define and execute the Ander’s vision. You take responsibility for team management and mentoring, as well as being a key member of the project leadership group. You are familiar with all aspects of development, recognizing and respecting the value of each contribution — whether creative or analytic. Demonstrate an efficient and cohesive management track record with the ability to support, develop and inspire your team. We expect highly collaborative, flexible, motivated and approachable candidates who depend on their excellent communication skills honed through delivery of public-pleasing, highly engaging experiences.
Responsibilities
Champion a user-centered engagement culture, define the product roadmap, and lead collaborative execution against it.
Communicate product vision and priorities to internal and external stakeholders.
Work closely with internal and external development teams to direct the focus of the project with an eye towards compelling engagement through modern digital experience design, game design and community management techniques.
Continuously gather insights from data, community feedback, research, experiments to understand user interest and intent. Synthesize these learnings into design conversations, craft the roadmap and feature requirements, lead a multidisciplinary team in delivering results on time, and quickly iterate to drive greater user engagement.
Oversee the development of visionary demos and prototypes, creating engaging, innovative, emotional and transformative experiences, both through digital and real-world touchpoints.
PRODUCT
Executive Producer
As Executive Producer, you understand how to drive business excellence — bringing in business requirements, planning progress, identifying risks and aligning expectations and development to resources, ultimately delivering excellent products, services and experiences for customers, partners and users. A diplomatic communicator, you’ve mastered negotiating competing interests and viewpoints, aligning everyone involved towards common objectives and product releases. You’re entirely familiar with Agile methodologies, having led cross-functional development teams of Design, Art, UX, Data, Engineering, and QA — both internally and externally — through all scrum artifacts, keeping a high standard of clarity through open communication.
You have 5 or more years’ experience as Producer, Project Manager or ScrumMaster preferably in games, apps, websites, branding or similar creative software development and…
Passion for creating engaging, innovative, emotional and transformative experiences, both through digital and real-world touchpoints.
Proven track record for delivering highly aligned teams in on-time releases to delighted customers and users.
Clarity of development roadmaps, including risk identification and mitigation, organized into reliable backlog
Proven track record of highly reliable, high-quality software releases
Experience working with external development and manufacturing partners.
Demonstrable project management experience in Agile scrum environment using Atlassian tools
Experience delivering across multiple platforms, whether digital (e.g. iOS, Android, web), traditional (e.g. printed materials, merchandise, hard goods) and events.
Experience in data driven development, working collaboratively with data scientists.
PRODUCT
Creative Director
As a Creative Director you understand how to lead a team to deliver an overall experience that is fun, rewarding and valuable to its customers, using entertainment to influence behavior. You lead your world-class cross functional team of designers and artists in a fast-growing company, helping to define and execute the project’s vision. You take responsibility for team management and mentoring, as well as being a key member of the project leadership group. You are familiar with all aspects of development, recognizing and respecting the value of each contribution -whether creative or analytic. You’ll demonstrate an efficient and cohesive management track record with the ability to support, develop and inspire your team. We expect highly collaborative, flexible, motivated and approachable candidates who depend on their excellent communication skills honed through delivery of public-pleasing entertainment.
You have 7 or more years' experience as Lead Artist, Art Director, Lead Designer or Creative Director, preferably in games, apps, websites, branding or similar creative software development and …
Passion for creating engaging, innovative, emotional and transformative experiences, both through digital and real-world touchpoints.
Proven ability as thought leader, engaging a cross-functional team of artists, designers, engineers, sales people and marketers to establish and realize a vision.
Experience in data driven development, working collaboratively with data scientists.
Proven track record for delivering both quality and innovation.
Experience working with external development and manufacturing partners.
Demonstrable background in hands-on evaluation and feedback of funnel analysis, onboarding, (game) mechanics and user input.
Experience delivering across multiple platforms, whether digital (e.g. iOS, Android, web), traditional (e.g. printed materials, merchandise, hard goods) and events.
Experience building a high-performance team of creatives through collaboration and mentorship.