I have one (perhaps two if I'm blessed to find two seriously stellar folks) product management opening(s) on my team at Healthline. If you, or someone you know, is a fit, please email me at moreinfo AT buzzhit DOT com. (Recruiters welcome, but please be sure to send sanitized resumes.)

I'll skip the formal job description and keep it simple:

- You've done the strategic research, business modeling and functional design for consumer facing web offerings used by millions of consumers (or hundreds of thousands of hard core users)
- You understand the balance between getting stuff done and building process in a fluid, competitive, start-up environment
- You understand the balance between user experience and business objectives in designing compelling offerings

Ideal (any one or combination of the following):
- Search experience (web or any vertical)
- Medical degree (RN, MD, etc)
- Informatics experience (i.e., working with taxonomies/ontologies)
- Content experience (licensing, producing, monetizing, optimizing)

I have the following opening available on my team at Healthline. Please email me at moreinfo AT buzzhit DOT com if you, or someone you know, is a fit. (Recruiters welcome, but please email me a sanitized resume.)

And yes... I will eventually start posting things other than job listings... ;-)

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Director, Content Strategy and Production

Reports to the Vice President, Product Management

Opportunity
The Director, Content Strategy and Production is responsible for developing and executing the company’s strategy for licensed and proprietary consumer health information, including: identification, acquisition, writing, reviewing, editing, search engine optimizing (SEO), online publishing and revenue generation. Further, the Director will oversee (and enhance) the company’s emerging blog network, from recruiting new bloggers, to maximizing revenue, to dealing with day-to-day operations and support issues. Finally, the Director will be a key member of the Product team, providing ideas and analysis in support of new product and service offerings.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a network of high-quality freelance medical editors, physician article authors and physician content reviewers
• Develop and manage the process of creating, reviewing, editing, search engine optimizing and publishing Web content
• Assume soft P&L responsibility for content creation, acquisition, licensing vs. monetization
• Analyze and understand search, traffic, advertising and medical trends in order to prioritize content for acquisition, creation, etc
• Identify, evaluate and negotiate with third-party sources of medical content
• Work closely with VP, Product and Product Manager’s to support the information needs of new products and services

Requirements

• Experience in a web production environment with HTML, XML and rich-media content systems.
• Significant web publishing (process and systems) experience
• Experience managing a large network of geographically-dispersed freelance writers or editors
• Comprehensive understanding of content classification and categorization (i.e., taxonomies and ontologies)
• Strong management skills and experience managing a team
• Skills and experience in evaluating content, traffic and advertising from a financial perspective required
• Experience with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a plus
• A medical credential (MD, RN, etc) or advance degree preferred
• Some business development exposure preferred

About Healthline (www.healthline.com)
Healthline offers an innovative approach to meeting the needs of health information seekers. Developed in collaboration with 1,100 medical specialists, Healthline’s powerful consumer healthcare taxonomy – the largest of its kind – drives its suite of medically guided search and navigation services. Healthline offers two primary routes to delivering its intelligent health information services to consumers and business partners: through its website, Healthline.com, or through a network of trusted destination sites that include publishers, employers and health plans. Headquartered in San Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK Investments, LLC.

What to do when you haven't blogged in so long that people introduce you with the caveat "yeah, he used to blog"? Post ANYTHING!

So, as a public service, here's a job opp that was presented to me the other day (it's feeling very 1999 again...) w/ permission to post from the recruiter. Enjoy. (And yes, this means free advertising for some start-up that I can't vouch for, so do your own homework!)

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I am with a company by the name of MyThings, Inc., we are a unique B2B and B2C proposition that has recently expanded operations into the US. We have already built a successful, revenue generating business in Europe, and we now want to tackle the consumer market in the US and abroad. MyThings recently received funding from Accel Partners, a top-tier Silicon Valley VC firm, and we are now in the process of building up our core management team within the US. Currently we are looking to fill the role of Director of Product Management. This is a very strategic role within the organization and will report directly to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

I am working side-by-side with Robin Reed at Reed Shay, the most prestigious executive search firm in the Silicon Valley (www.reedshay.com ), and our goal is to network with senior executives so we can find the highest caliber candidate possible. The Director of Product Management role will be filled by an entrepreneurial-minded individual, with considerable consumer Internet experience. If you would like to hear more about this company, I would love to talk with you. Whether you are interested in the position, have someone you want to refer, or you just want to learn more about the company, let's talk. I have added more detail below for your review, I look forward to speaking with you.

Take care,
Christy Reddy
HR Coordinator and Recruiting Czar
MyThings, Inc.
(650) 248-1174
cr AT mythings DOT com