Careers at Nolo


Nolo, a subsidiary of Internet Brands, Inc., offers a unique opportunity to work in a small, established and nationally respected company.

Current Openings

Editorial
Legal Authors
Editorial Database Assistant

Marketing
Director, Product Marketing
Online Business Operations Manager

Sales
Inside Sales – Legal Marketing

Engineering
UX/UI Designer
Product Manager
Senior Project Manager


Editorial

Freelance Legal Writers

Nolo, the oldest and foremost publisher of do-it-yourself legal books and software for consumers, and Internet Brands, a leader in online publishing for vertical markets, are seeking writers with a strong legal background to contribute well-written, informative articles to our portfolio of legal websites. Writers must be able to read statutes, understand legal issues, and put the law into plain English for a general audience. Demonstrated legal expertise is required.

For more than 40 years, Nolo has been dedicated to publishing the best, most accurate and up-to-date legal information available. We take our mission seriously. If you share our passion for making the legal system accessible to everyone--and can translate legalese into English—we’d love to hear from you.

This is a 100% freelance, telecommuting position. Assignments, writing, editing, and submissions are all handled through our online system. All you need is a computer, internet access, and the ability to deliver clean, concise copy on a variety of legal topics.

Requirements include:

    - Ability to write in an authoritative, neutral tone
    - Ability to translate legal concepts into articles and FAQs that can be easily understood by a consumer audience
    - Legal experience. (Please see below for specifications.)
    - Strong research and fact-checking skills
    - Attention to detail and the desire to provide accurate legal information to the online audience

We are currently looking for strong legal writers in the following areas, with these qualifications:

    - Bankruptcy Law - A law degree and experience in Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy
    - Debt & Credit Law - Experience with consumer issues surrounding debt, such as wage garnishments, student loan debt, repossessions, debt settlement and negotiation, and credit reporting. (Apply to Bankruptcy, but submit a writing sample on a debt topic.)
    - Criminal Defense Law - Lawyer with experience as a prosecutor or criminal defense attorney
    - Disability Law - Experience as a disability lawyer in the fields of Social Security, LTD, ADA access, or workers' compensation
    - Estate Planning - At least two years’ experience in estate planning or administration, either as a lawyer or a paralegal
    - Family/Divorce Law - Lawyer with at least three years’ experience in the field of family law
    - Foreclosure Law - Foreclosure law experience as a lawyer or paralegal
    - Immigration - Actively engaged in immigration law practice as a lawyer or paralegal and familiar with immigration-related codes, regulations, and current policies
    - Landlord/Tenant Law - Landlord/tenant law experience as a lawyer or paralegal
    - Personal Injury Law - Personal injury law experience as a lawyer or paralegal
    - Real Estate Law - Real estate law experience as a lawyer or paralegal
    - Small Business Law - Lawyer with significant small business law experience
    - Tax Law - Must be a lawyer with tax law experience

If you join the Nolo writing team, a legal editor who has expertise in your subject area will assign and edit your articles. Most articles we publish are from 600 to 1200 words long. Rates vary from $25 to $75; as you would expect, we pay more for longer and more complicated articles.

To apply, simply go to www.ibpublishing.com/, the Internet Brands application site for writers, and choose from the various law categories.

If you have any questions, feel free to send an e-mail to applications@nolo.com.


Editorial Database Assistant

Nolo is the nation’s leading provider of do-it-yourself law solutions for consumers and small businesses, covering everyday legal matters such as estate planning, patents, criminal law, landlord-tenant law, bankruptcy and debtor’s rights, family law, immigration, and employment. We produce websites, books, online apps, and software. Since Nolo was acquired by Internet Brands in 2011, the Nolo brand has expanded to include a collection of legal websites in many topic areas.

We are looking for a part-time legal database assistant to join the editors and researchers in our hard-working, friendly editorial department in Berkeley, California. This person will support in-house legal editors and freelance writers by gathering information to support and update Nolo’s legal books and online articles.

Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
- Legal research experience
- Excellent writing skills
- Ability to work well with other people, juggle several projects at once, and always meet deadlines
- Careful attention to detail

Responsibilites:
- Update Nolo’s own database of statute-based information, using commercial legal databases
- Do general Internet research
- Do background legal research to support freelance legal writers

Click here to apply.


Marketing


Director, Product Marketing

Description

We are looking to expand our team with the addition of a Director of Product Marketing. This role will report directly to the General Manager of Nolo and will be responsible for identifying new product opportunities, and driving the positioning, messaging, pricing, online sales, and direct sales tools development for Nolo’s offering as well as leading strategic online direct response. In this role you will utilize your product marketing expertise across multiple platforms including web, books, SaaS and more.

Responsibilities:

- Excellent communications skills
- Highly detail oriented with a strong sense of ownership over work product
- Experience working within internet and/or publishing ideal
- Planning and execution of product marketing activities
- Creating product marketing plans, including market segmentation, positioning, packaging and pricing alternatives
- Designing and executing direct marketing tests, creating test matrices, determining segmentation and targeting strategies, writing copy, determining offers
- Developing market requirements and ensuring they are represented in product roadmaps and releases
- Creating product collateral to support outbound communication, demand generation, and sales efforts
- Driving outbound email and advertising strategies for awareness, acquisition, retention, and upgrading existing customers to new products
- Planning and executing detailed product launch plans
- Performing on-going forecasting, tracking, and results analysis – delivering ROI metrics to internal stakeholders
- Effectively partnering with cross-functional teams (product/project management, engineering and sales) to drive successful end to end campaign generation and execution
- Achieving online sales goals

Requirements:

- 5-10 years of related product marketing with a track record of implementing effective programs; experience with online legal is a plus
- Expertise and a proven track record successfully marketing internet products and applications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field; MBA a plus
- Demonstrated leadership ability
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Positive attitude; contributor to a positive team spirit

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package and casual work environment.

Click here to apply.


Online Business Operations Manager

We are currently seeking a motivated web-savvy professional to join our Pleasanton office and be responsible for driving the strategic direction and day-to-day business operations associated with a portfolio of web properties. In the role, the individual will be accountable for improving traffic to the site, setting product and feature requirements and ultimately growing revenue from the associated business models. Our ideal candidate is someone with passion, energy, intellect and drive that can bring fresh ideas, an analytical mind and a dedication to growing the portfolio of sites. This is a great opportunity for a strong web business professional with experience prioritizing activities, leading both internal and external partners, and a passion for consumer facing web properties.

Responsibilities:
- Learn as much as possible about the industry associated with your sites and utilize this information to drive decision making
- Understand and develop strategies and activities to grow website traffic in a profitable manner
- Develop key business requirements for feature development on the sites and work closely with designers and developers to implement
- Identify relevant business models and work to build partnerships and relationships to grow revenues associated with the models
- Track, analyze and understand the implications of all the sites’ associated metrics
Requirements:
- Excellent communications – able to take complex information and succinctly and effectively communicate both in verbal and written formats
- Organized – able to keep multiple balls in the air and to deconstruct complex activities into their component parts, track those parts, and manage the activities to completion
- Strong Business Sense - an excellent understanding of costs and benefits and an ability to use that understanding to prioritize activities. Understanding of web monetization is a very strong plus
- Practical – you value getting stuff done more than the big idea
- Team Player – a sincere willingness to place the team above yourself
- Able to work cross-functionally, build partnerships and share knowledge
- Webby - a natural inquisitiveness to what is happening online and how that may be incorporated into your own portfolio of sites. In addition, a familiarity with web technologies and how to manage feature development is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree; MBA a plus

Click here to apply.


Sales

Inside Sales – Legal Marketing

Looking for that one really great sales role with that one really great company?  
Looking to apply your innovative approach to sales in a fun, professional, non-traditional sales environment?
Looking for a career opportunity with an organization where both clients and employees appreciate the company?

Then sell yourself to Nolo. Nolo’s continual growth has resulted in the need to add additional Sales Representatives to our team in our Pleasanton, CA office.

Main Responsibilities:  

    - Contacting potential prospects using the telephone and email
    - Track activities in the CRM system (Salesforce)
    - Maintain a positive, professional attitude while being a team player and cooperating with all departments
    - Learn, understand and communicate the applications, features, added value and benefits of using Nolo
    - Conducting online demos
    - Sending sales collateral and additional communications to prospects
    - Closing deals


Required Skills/Qualifications:  

    - Articulate and professional communicative skills
    - Passion for making telephone calls and strong hunter instinct
    - Basic computer skills (Office, Internet)
    - Ability to learn basic Nolo functionality and explain our programs to potential customers
    - High school Diploma (2 years of Higher Education preferred)
    - 2 years of Sales or Telemarketing experience (phone experience preferred)
    - Knowledge of Salesforce and online marketing/advertising a plus
    - Must be self-motivated
    - Excellent organization skills
    - Desire to learn and continually develop sales skills

 
Great Benefits and Compensation Plan!

    - Base salary plus Commission (base salary amount dependent of experience)
    - Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k) after 180 Days


Please submit resumes to http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CARSDIRECT&cws=...


Engineering


UX/UI Designer

Internet Brands, Inc. is currently seeking a UI/UX Designer for both web and desktop applications who can do hands-on design and production while juggling multiple projects in our fast-paced, engineering department. This is a great opportunity to design the web experience for a variety of our leading websites in our legal vertical (ie. Nolo.com, LawFirms.com, AllLaw.com, etc.).

Requirements:
- Experience creating web designs/landing pages for lead generation and/or ecommerce websites
- Strong online portfolio demonstrating experience with purpose-driven, direct response design (UI/UX, ecommerce website design, display ads, email marketing, landing page or micro-site design)
- Experience driving business conversion through rapid UI/UX enhancements and A/B testing
- Experience designing UI/UX for consumer facing desktop applications is a strong plus
- Detailed knowledge of fundamental design principles that affect typography, color use, composition, use of space and presentation of information
- High levels of competence with Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop and Illustrator
- Ability to write standards-compliant HTML/CSS, with familiarity in HTML5/CSS3 a plus
- Strong understanding of browser strengths and limitations
- Experience in prototyping tools (eg. Axure, Balsamiq, invisionapp)
- Experience in javascript and javascript libraries is a strong plus
- Positive attitude and desire to push the boundaries in user interface design
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented and strong communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Web Design, Fine Arts, HCI, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

We offer a comprehensive compensation & benefits package including a casual work environment.

Click here to apply.


Product Manager

Description

As a part of our independent and innovative Product Management team, you will have the opportunity to own the product strategy and user experience for your line of business. You will be expected to utilize your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills and be part of a team that’s creating the next generation of web and mobile products using some of the latest technologies.

Responsibilities:

- Conceive, manage, and lead project design from start to finish for your line of business or web property
- Create design deliverables such as specifications, process flows, wireframes, and mock-ups
- Work with content and engineering teams to prioritize features and define a product roadmap
- Interact with other team members to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
- Continuously monitor site performance and data to recognize trends, model data and forecasts, and drive improvements in the site designs and experience

Requirements:

- Academic background in human-computer interaction or Computer Science related field
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field a plus
- Excellent command of user experience methods, design principles, and problem-framing skills
- Impeccable verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain your design decisions
- Unmistakable passion for designing compelling user experiences
- Ability to prototype your work in HTML/CSS/JS a strong plus
- Strong online portfolio including self-started projects

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package and casual work environment.

Click here to apply.


Senior Project Manager

Internet Brands, Inc. is currently seeking a web-savvy Sr. Project Manager to join our team for NOLO.com and work out of our office in Pleasanton, CA. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills in software project management and web technologies while working on high traffic, consumer-facing websites and consumer software.

Responsibilities:
- General management of web projects
- Work with product, business and development to effectively drive projects from concept to launch
- Work with internal development team to execute against requirements
- Ensure projects are launched according to published schedules
- Keep business owners up to date on project status and potential issues
- Resolve project, design, or resource issues before they cause schedule delays
- Enhance project management process to accommodate rapidly changing software needs
- Help mentor junior project managers in terms of SDLC, agile processes, and technical skills
Requirements:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in a web project coordinator or manager role, or equivalent experience leading development teams
- Understanding of project processes (scheduling, documentation, risk analysis, and contingency planning)
- Strong understanding of development process, including development, testing, and deployment, as well as work breakdown, dependencies, responsibilities (full SDLC)
- Working experience with highly customizable/configurable CMS highly preferred (eg. Drupal)
- Proficiency in AGILE/SCRUM methodologies
- Understanding and experience in UI/UX best practices
- Strong working knowledge of web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
- Strong understanding of Search Engine Optimization/Marketing principles and best practices
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong ability to use/manage project management tracking/reporting tools (eg. JIRA/Greenhopper)
- Ability to wireframe/mock up solutions (eg. Axure, Balsamiq, invisionapp)
- Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and organizational skills
- Highly analytical, logical, and good problem solving skills
- Ability to interact professionally with all levels of staff
- Consumer facing web company experience is a plus
- Consumer facing windows desktop application experience is a plus
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, Adobe creative suite a plus

We offer a comprehensive compensation & benefits package including a casual work environment. Please send resumes to: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH05/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CARSDIRECT&...

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