Wednesday, January 13, 2010

A call for resumes (in the bay area)

Over the past months I’ve been telling you about my take on risk management, automated decisions, digital goods and various other areas. I am now starting to look for candidates for my team to deal with these exact areas within Paypal – so if you’re one or think you know one, please let me know. This is not a formal job description, just a call for resumes so that I know you’re out there once I can hire you.

What I’m looking for is results driven, quick thinking do-it-alls who want to be involved with new products, markets and risk challenges within Paypal. You should have the passion for consuming a lot of data and information, be able to learn quickly and identify and define trends in concise terms. You should be analytical but not a data cruncher without any understanding of the big picture – we are playing at all fronts. Know or be able to learn how to drive processes through other people and organizations; working in ambiguous situations and coping with change is a must, as well as an ever changing operating rhythm. This is not your classic 9 to 5 and I’m not your classic 9 to 5 manager.

Experience is not a must (=graduates are also encouraged to apply), definitely not previous experience in risk management. However, please be an avid internet user, preferably a gamer in your past or present. Some security experience or tech savvy is a big plus – don’t get intimidated by developers, architects and tech talk. Impress me by having interesting hobbies out of work that you maintain although you are an aggressive achiever, and by having vast general knowledge (as in: you shout answers at “who wants to be a millionaire” while watching it on TV).

Read the blog. Process. Understand. Talk to me.

Email me at osamet67@gmail.com for more details and a nice chat :)

3 comments:

Safe ePayments Motivator said...

Best of Luck in your Search

Unknown said...

Wow. this is one of the best job descriptions I've read. with you're permission, I'm going to reuse some parts of it.

Unknown said...

Thanks, I really need some good old fashioned luck.
Eran - you're most welcome to reuse, don't forget to reference back ;)