Employment at Digital Gaslight, Inc.
Sorry. The PM position has now been filled (1 October 2008). Around the first of the year, we will probably be interested in hiring one or two more senior software developers. Senior means experience at the ten year level, not two years of experience five times in a row. If you are interested in doing something different in 2009, please get in touch with George Flanagin by email: george@digitalgaslight.com.
We are currently looking for a junior-level project manager. In a consulting organization, that cannot be your only skill, but it is where we need to add a person at the moment. There are several projects going on at once, and they need to be coordinated, scheduled, and delivered.
Although we sell and resell products, most of what we provide to our customers is material support in form of direct labor; a.k.a., consulting. This means a lot of customer contact, reading and writing documents that help the customer understand exactly what we are doing for them, and anything else that makes it worthwhile for the customer to do business with us.
Digital Gaslight has been a "pure virtual" company since it began as Bright Crayon in 2001. Bright Crayon had an office in downtown Richmond for a couple of years, but we have found that most people are happiest with the situation of working from home. We provide the necessary equipment to make this practical.
Regardless of position, the following are requirements:
- Because some of our customers are overseas, you must have or be able to obtain a passport.
- At this time, it would be best if you are a citizen of either Australia or the United States.
- You must be able to write English at a level that will convince the reader that you are university educated. Our customers expect it, and the employees expect it of each other.
- You must be comfortable with most of the common end-user software. Spreadsheets, presentation software (Powerpoint, Keynote, etc.), and web browsers are examples.
- We do not use Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or NeoOffice for documents. We use LaTeX, and if you do not know it, you will need to learn it.
- You must care about industry standards, and you must apply them to your work.
- Because our income is derived from sending invoices to people who frequently pay us by the hour worked, the keeping of accurate, auditable records of your time is required.
Salaries are paid on the first of each month. As a part of the compensation, we offer SEP, which is a type of individually owned IRA funded by company contributions, and immediately vested.
Health insurance will not be offered until July 2009, at which time we will offer 100% employer paid health insurance to all salaried employees regardless of whether you are the CEO or the most recent hire.
Quite frankly, one of the least valuable investment choices you could make is to become a small minority shareholder in a privately held corporation. For shares to be valuable, you must be able to sell them, so giving you a small number of shares with no put-option would do nothing except create business for our attorney and our accountant.