We’re Hiring a Staff Writer
CallFire is looking for a Staff Writer.
Here’s the deal, we’re working on our next big platform code named Tesla and are quickly realizing that in our drive to become code monsters, we’ve kinda skimped on the documentation part. We need someone who can communicate in the English language, all the amazing things our platform does. This is where you come in.
What you bring to the table:
A passion for writing for diverse audiences and a love for modern prose but more specifically:
- Ability to author articles for the company blog as well as provide editorial oversight to company blogs.
- Participate in sales & support meetings studying the major reasons for support calls and authoring online content.
- Participate in dev team scrum sessions understanding our products and writing and updating online product documentation.
- Provide editorial oversight to employee authored content.
- Be an online community manager on our CMS site, moderating comments, forums, and providing the human oversight to the content feedback loop.
What we bring to the table:
- Full-time work three blocks from the Ocean in sunny Santa Monica
- Working at a fast paced, fast growing startup that’s never seen a quarter of negative growth.
- Work with a team that loves to work hard and play hard.
How to Apply:
Find us online via Facebook, Twitter, or Email, send us actual writing samples. This can be blog posts, case studies, long polemics in forums–anything. We want to see how you write! So, drop us a line, send us a tweet, or friend us on Facebook, we would love to hear from you.
Today we sent out an email to our most-active customers from the last 3 years asking them for their feedback. (If you didn’t receive the email, you can always access the form 
Last night, about 30 startup entrepreneurs visited CallFire HQ for 
There were three games of no-limit Texas Hold’Em with blinds increasing every ten minutes. Only two members of team CallFire sat in on the games, and it just so happens they were both girls: Lezlie, our superstar accountant, and yours truly. In fact, Lezlie and I were the only two girls at the whole event, which just means we need more female tech entrepreneurs to step up to the tables!
Last night, CallFire hosted a networking mixer called Wine++ at a wine bar down the street called 
But the week isn’t over yet. Tomorrow night, we’re headed to Caltech in support of 
There’s something about a face-to-face interaction that no marketing campaign, cold call, or landing page can ever match. When you meet a person, you can see their passion, you can ask them questions, and you can put a face to an idea. Your conversation, though it may sometimes feel forced, can more often lead you down new paths. For example, we met someone last night developing an iPhone application. When he told us about it, it seemed like the same application could be marketed two ways… once towards serious business people, and again towards serial daters (PlayaApp was the name we suggested, watch out for it). Would this developer have ever arrived there without meeting us? Perhaps. But… perhaps not. Each interaction is a new possibility.
Lezlie just joined us as what she’s termed our “Financial Janitor.” She’s basically helping us with all that financial and accounting stuff none of the rest of us know anything about. She’s originally from Buffalo, NY (I wonder if the world seems to move slower for her here in Santa Monica), with a BS in Accounting from Fordham University. Among her previous experiences, she’s worked for Do Something, a national not-for-profit organization that empowered young people to change the world. When she was little, though, she wanted to be president of the USA — “obviously” (I don’t know, sounds like a hard job to me). Lezlie is an avid texas hold ‘em player, and she loves traveling and biking. She says the most amazing trip she’s taken (so far) is throughout Morocco from the Atlas Mountains to the Sahara. And if she could be a dog, she says she would be a Jack Russel Terrier, because they have a ton of energy. (I don’t know… our boss’s JRT is pretty crazy… this might not bode well.)
Shannon just joined us as a part-time sales account associate. She is currently a student at UCLA, majoring in Linguistics and French, and minoring in Language Teaching. She was born right here in Santa Monica, just a few blocks from our CallFire offices, and went to Santa Monica High. I think she gets the prize for being the true local here at the office. Shannon owns an American Eskimo dog named Mama, and we can’t wait to see her fluffy little face at the office. Shannon went to Paris two years ago, where she met her husband (whom she married just this past March), so she also probably wins for “cutest story” — or “sickeningly sweet,” depending on how you want to look at it.
Adam joined us as what is officially an “API developer,” but he will also function as a consultant to our API customers. Before CallFire, Adam has professionally written software in the fields of non-contact metrology (measuring stuff with cameras and lasers) and investment research. Adam is a Massachusetts native who has spent most of his life in the San Fernando Valley (LA) and who is full of surprises. For example, until now I didn’t know that at one time he studied music and composition at CalArts, that he spent six months in Bali studying traditional Indonesian music, and that he loves the music of J.S. Bach so much that after college he started a rock band called “The J.S. Bach Experience” that performed only Johann’s music. Adam also knows how to ride a unicycle, which I am sure is an invaluable skill. If he could be a dog, he says he would be a Kintamani: they are short, have bad tempers, and are very loyal. And when he was little, he wanted to be a construction worker, but clearly that didn’t work out for him.
