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Founded in 2008, Academia.edu is the leading online platform for academics worldwide. Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in medicine, science, transportation and communications by allowing researchers to publish and share their own work. Not only do these scholars and researchers share their own research, they can use our complex platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. We have more than 35 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.

Academia is turning cash flow positive; our revenue run rate is growing rapidly.

* Bachelor's Degree

Founded in 2008, Academia.edu is the leading online platform for academics worldwide. Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in medicine, science, transportation and communications by allowing researchers to publish and share their own work. Not only do these scholars and researchers share their own research, they can use our complex platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. We have 36 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.

Academia is turning cash flow positive; our revenue run rate is growing rapidly.

Academia is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team!

Our ideal candidates are not only great at what they do, but they also make a meaningful impact on our mission. You should have experience working with the full stack of a web application. You are excited about and understand front end and robust app server architecture, and scalable backend design.

Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base or having the ambition to put your scaling ideas into practice. Familiarity with our current tools is a plus, but it's much more important that you be a fast learner who can pick up new technologies quickly.

Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.

* communications and messaging tools to facilitate collaboration and feedback

* an engaging and scalable peer review system to facilitate the identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research

* A scalable newsfeed, highlighting the latest research in every field

* tools and platforms that enable academics to publish directly on the Academia social network

* advanced search products and personalized analytics

Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.

In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our 25-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 10 federal holidays, and unrestricted sick-leave), stock options, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.

At Academia, we believe in strong computer science fundamentals. If you're unfamiliar with parts of our stack, that's not a problem as long as you're hungry to learn. We're more interested in your abilities as a software engineer. You will be given the opportunity to meet most of the engineers on our team, plus the CTO and the CEO. Conversations will range from personal interests, to your resume background. We want to understand your problem-solving skills and your ability to write structured, scalable, production level code. During the interview process, you'll be given a logic problem and you'll be asked to write code to solve the problem. We view this as a discussion, and we're more interested in the way you think rather than that you got the right answer.

Founded in 2008, Academia.edu is the leading online platform for academics worldwide. Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in medicine, science, transportation and communications by allowing researchers to publish and share their own work. Not only do these scholars and researchers share their own research, they can use our complex platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. We have more than 35 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.

Academia is turning cash flow positive; our revenue run rate is growing rapidly.

Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.

Academia is turning cash flow positive; our revenue run rate is growing rapidly.

Academia is looking for a Senior Manager of Marketing and Public Relations to join our team!

Your primary role is to tell our story, in a fresh, clear, and consistent way.

The most important skills for a public relations and marketing manager at Academia are:

* Must have a track record of getting a lot of coverage for Silicon Valley startups.

* cultivating news coverage: leverage your press relationships and story telling and writing skills to place stories about Academia and its members

Additional work to be considered,

* defining Academia's brand: work with our design and executive teams to define, document, and reinforce our brand and product marketing

* communicating with customers: define a strategy for social media engagement, and manage our communications

You will be Academia's first marketing team hire, so we're looking for people with diverse skills, an ability to prioritize well, and a startup orientation.

They say if you don't define your own narrative, then others will do that for you. Academia's grown to a point where we feel the need to own our own narrative.

In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our 36-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a commuter benefit, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation + 10 paid holidays), a foosball table, musical instruments, a book stipend, stock options, and we’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.

Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free. In today's world, most academic papers are behind a paywall, making access to the world's research difficult, if not impossible, for most people.

Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in medicine, science, transportation and communications by allowing researchers to publish and share their own work. Not only do these scholars and researchers share their own research, they can use our platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.

Over 60 million academics are Academia.edu members and have added 19 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month and has attracted the investment of more than $34 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American and Forbes.

Academia is turning cash flow positive and revenue growth is rapid. We have 36 employees at our San Francisco Office.

Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Academia.edu's mission is to make every academic publication available for free.  We do this through the use of innovative technologies, products and services.

Founded in 2008, Academia.edu is the leading online platform for academics worldwide. Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in medicine, science, transportation and communications by allowing researchers to publish and share their own work. Not only do these scholars and researchers share their own research, they can use our complex platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. We have 35 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.

Academia is turning cash flow positive; our revenue run rate is growing rapidly.

Academia is looking for an Editor and Researcher to join our team and build our database of Grants and other research funding opportunities!

Your role is to make sure Academia has the most comprehensive database of research funding opportunities (Grants, Fellowships, Research Awards, etc) in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You will own the grants database, meaning you are responsible for finding new grants, making sure they are well-described and categorized, and that our information is always accurate. As part of our Product organization, you will also be the person with the deepest understanding of Grants and Funding opportunities, and will help guide our Product Managers and engineers in developing the best possible Grants product experience.

The most important skills for a Grants Editor and Researcher are:

* Research: you will be intimately familiar with the best ways to find U.S. and international grants through online research

* Editing: you will have strong copywriting and organizational skills to make sure users can quickly find grants relevant to them

* Hustle: you have strong work ethic, are able to independently manage your own workflow, and creatively overcome problems that you face

* Ownership: you feel responsible for the quality of the product you are building, and always have ideas for how to improve our processes, strategy, and product experience

You will be Academia's first full-time Grants hire. An ideal candidate would have a background in scholarly or scientific research, with some existing familiarity with different forms of academic research funding.

In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our 36-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a commuter benefit, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation + 10 paid holidays), a foosball table, musical instruments, a book stipend, stock options, and we’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.

Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.

Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in medicine, science, transportation and communications by allowing researchers to publish and share their own work. Not only do these scholars and researchers share their own research, they can use our platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.

Over 60 million academics are Academia.edu members have added 19 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month and has attracted the investment of more than $34 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American and Forbes.

Academia is turning cash flow positive and revenue growth is rapid. We have 36 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.

Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The most important skills for a product manager at Academia are:

* Funnel Optimization

* Growth

* Reg Path Conversion

* Free to Premium conversion

* Monetization

* user research: uncover unmet user needs

* data analysis: analyze user behavior (SQL strongly preferred) 

* creative problem solving: lead brainstorms and nurture embryonic ideas

* agile process: collect product ideas, prioritize them, document requirements, and work with engineers to build them.

Academia is a creative place, and many people start conversations like 'Here is a crazy idea, what do you think?' It's important to be able to think through your ideas and assess them fairly and unemotionally. You must develop and execute a rigorous system for figuring out 'does this idea have legs?' We have 36 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.

Academia is turning cash flow positive and revenue growth is rapid.