If you love football, then you’ll fit right in at OleOle.  We’d keep trying to move a football pitch right into our offices, but the landlord keeps saying, “No!” 

If you enjoy the chaos and excitement that comes with working at an up-start company and can get things done in a fast-paced environment where everything is due yesterday, you’ll have fun here. We reward our team with competitive salaries and of course the opportunity to take part in shaping an online football revolution. We are a globally operating company, and some of our staff have the pleasure of working from home in their jammies.

Regardless of where you are, we have an energetic, positive environment that rewards achievement and success.  We hire talented, local people who share our passion to build the world’s biggest and best place for football online.

OleOle is an equal opportunity employer - and we won’t discriminate based on the team you support. 
Really.

We're always looking for great bloggers, sports writers and photographers.  Some positions are paid, some aren't.  If you think you've got something special, send us your resume: jobs @ oleole.com

Job Description:

Create a marketing campaign to market soccer tickets and packages through advertisement on TV, Online, print and radio. Using OleOle's match sponsorship rights, develop an activation plan to capitalize on these rights and build brand and product (tickets and travel for soccer events) awareness.

Duties:

• Utilize the assets negotiated in the deal to achieve objectives and maximize the value of each sponsorship.
• Allocate resources to communicate the sponsorships as to why fans should purchase match tickets and packages.
• Plan and develop a strategy to get the most out of sponsorship deliverables and activation opportunities (newspaper and radio in match cities and surrounding areas)
• Manage on-site event marketing - pre-match hospitality, promotional items to be handed, in stadium announcements and press credentials for bloggers
• Manage pay-per-click campaigns

Skills/Qualifications:

• Sponsorship activation experience, Brand marketing, Online marketing, Direct marketing, Event marketing, Coordination, Project Management, Negotiating skills, Initiative, Planning

OleOle is seeking an experienced PHP Web Developer for a contract position.

As a PHP Web Developer at OleOle, you will be part of the team responsible for a major PHP-based social media site involving blogs, social networking, e-commerce, multimedia, and content management. This role will involve lots of heads-down programming within a LAMP-stack environment. The successful candidate will need a proven track record of success working on a large scale 24/7 high traffic global website in a complex technical framework.

Required skills and experience:

• Bachelors degree, preferably in a related field (comp science, IT, etc.)

• Minimum 5 years experience with PHP web application development

• Expert in PHP (4 and 5)

• Very strong experience working with PHP MVC frameworks (experience with Symfony specifically would be a huge plus)

• Object oriented design experience - you need to have very strong OO programming knowledge and be able to apply OO programming principles within PHP

• Knowledge of common design patterns

• Advanced database design skills and expert knowledge of SQL

• Experienced navigating around a *nix command line interface

• Experience using version control systems (either SVN or CVS required)

• Good understanding of blogging software and content management systems

• Very strong JavaScript

• Very strong HTML, XHTML

• Good with CSS

• Strong team player and ability to “hit the ground running”

• Knowledge of soccer a big added plus

All shortlisted candidates may be required to complete one or more technical tests during the interview process.

To apply, please submit your resume with a cover letter to employment@oleole.com

This contract role is split between heavy-duty HTML/CSS development within the context of PHP templates and design work in Photoshop. The successful candidate will need a proven track record of success working on a large scale 24/7 high traffic global website in a complex technical framework.

Required skills and experience: 

• Expert-level ability with CSS and HTML/XHTML. Candidates must be able to show examples of complex, table-less layouts implemented using CSS and semantically correct mark-up

• In depth understanding of cross-browser, front-end development issues
  

• Very good design sensibilities and experience with Web 2.0 design styles

• Ability to cut up Photoshop mocks for implementation into frontend mark-up code
  

• Strong ability to translate technical requirements into solutions

• Familiarity with PHP (you won’t be doing hard core PHP coding, but you need to understand things like IF/ELSE statements and loops so you know where to weave in your CSS and HTML)
  

• Experience with developing Search Engine Optimized pages (e.g. you know when to use an H1 tag and when not to, the proper SEO way to create links, alt and title tags, etc.)

• Knowledge of Javascript
  

• Experience with Flash and Actionscript

• Experience using version control systems (either SVN or CVS required)
  

• Basic familiarity using a command line interface

• Knowledge of football
  

• A “can-do, get the job done whatever it takes” attitude is a must: this is not your average 9-to-5 position. Deadlines will be demanding and you must be willing to go the extra mile!

All shortlisted candidates will be required to provide examples of their portfolio of work - demonstrating web design and HTML/CSS skills.

To apply, please submit your resume with a cover letter to employment@oleole.com

Want to quit your job and write about football full-time?
OleOle needs passionate and articulate football supporters to write about their favourite teams, player transfers, matches (pre- and post-), competitions and cups, and of course, WAGS. And whatever else is important to you in the world of professional football.

OleOle Blogger - Unpaid Position

As a blogger on OleOle (unpaid), you’ll be eligible for tons of perks you’ll never see as an independent blogger:

• First is traffic – once you’re blogging on the OleOle Football Platform, it’s super-easy to find people who are interested in the same things you are, and you’ll see much more traffic than you can gather as a stand-alone blog.
• OleOle also offers bloggers unique opportunities at competitions – we will assign local bloggers to cover matches and provide press / photo journalist credentials. For the past 2 years OleOle has sent a select few writers to the FIFA Club World Cup in Tokyo, Japan.
• Winning a blog contest can hook you up with cools stuff – jerseys, merchandise and the like – and even score you a chance to go to an international competition like the UEFA Euro, including travel and match tickets / press credentials.
• Support – don’t maintain your own HTML, scores, groups, team roster, or any of that stuff – we’ve already got it. Focus on writing, not running a website.
• But, just like an independent blogger, we won’t edit any of your content. Ever.

To Apply - Unpaid
Not everyone has what it takes to be a paid blogger, but that shouldn’t stop you for writing about your passion on OleOle. We’re looking for proof that you can generate traffic to your blog. 

1. So, first, setup a blog on OleOle. If you already have a blog, we have tools to make it easy to transfer your old blog posts from WordPress and other blog tools directly to OleOle.
2. Then, start writing great content and assign the right Topics to it. Your posts will show up on all the relevant sections of the site.
3. Most importantly, start promoting your blog. Get it noticed on OleOle and elsewhere by getting people to link to your blog and your posts. Attract a solid reader base. 
4.  As your traffic increases and OleOle fans add your blog to their “Favourite Blogs” widget, you’ll prove you have what it takes to be a paid blogger at OleOle.
5. That's it!  Super easy.
6. Later this year, we plan on introducing a revenue sharing program so you can benefit directly from traffic on your blog.

OleOle Writer – Paid Position
We have very few paid positions at OleOle - you must have at least 30,000 unique visitors a month for consideration (on OleOle, or on a blog somewhere else).

Minimum Requirements:

• Must have blog traffic equivalent to at least 5,000 unique visitors per day / 30,000 unique visitors a month
• Solid understanding of all sections related to the anatomy of a blog; solid foundation in search engine optimization (SEO)
• Ability to utilize reporting tools for analysis of traffic, referral links and reader demographics
• Ability to leverage syndication and pinging tools, social bookmarking, sharing features
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
• Maturity and poise to act as ambassador and liaison for the company in your local market
• Ability to develop collaborative partnerships on-line and off-line

Think you have what it takes to be a full time blogger with us?  
Email a CV, your blog(s) URL(s), and the last 3 months of blog metrics. We’re looking for great blogs and bloggers in 10 languages and 30+ countries. jobs @ oleole.com

OleOle is looking for an editor to coordinate content and assingments of our fan journalists.  This is a unique opportunity to drive the next trend in sports media – user driven content – around a subject that many would kill for.So what sets you apart?If you're the right person, you'll either be frustrated that your current publication won’t embrace online media, or you’re already managing content online and you’re looking for a step up the career ladder.  You thrive on change, a fast pace, and implementing new ideas before anyone else.You know that a World Cup mind for all things football is not the most important thing here. The skill we’re looking for is your creative editorial vision, and ability to reach out through a multi-lingual web platform into the minds of football-mad supporters to provide compelling content that begets more supporters.You will come with the confidence that comes from experience at senior editor level on a major consumer magazine, newspaper or website.The challenge will be to create a compelling, integrated editorial product and find ways of engaging with as many football supporters as possible through content generated by in-house reporters and bloggers but most importantly through the fans themselves.  The world’s biggest editorial pool all discussing, posting and interacting around their favorite topic.Experience with user generated content, blogs and the social networking is required – you have to jump in headfirst.  This right person in this position will have a lot of fun.

Responsibilities:

• Daily content management of football news and media (photos, videos, blogs, etc)
• Analyzing site traffic, identifying trends, and improving site performance
• Manage assigment of multi-lingual bloggers, reporters, photographers and videographers
• Manage translation of editorial content
• Coordinate between editorial and ecommerce staff, advertising sales and a team of freelancers to integrate compelling content into the site
• This is a hands-on position and you will be required to writing site content and report on breaking news

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience at least to deputy editor level on a major consumer magazine, newspaper or website
• Familiarity with web 2.0 including blogs, podcasts, social networking, social media and other user-generated content
• Solid understanding of advertising-driven revenue, especially online
• Must be deadline driven and have a sense of urgency
• Strong leadership and team management skills, excellent verbal and oral communication skills
• Multilingual and previous experience with football publications a huge plus