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Slate is looking for:

Technology and Business Editor

Intern, Business Development

Systems Administrator

TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS EDITOR
Slate is looking for an editor to marshal our technology and business coverage. Ideal candidates will be smart, funny, and energetic; have excellent news sense and good judgment; write sparkling copy and headlines; and be deft, sensitive editors. Experience on the tech and business beats is preferred but not required—Slate is a place for omnivores. Experience working online strongly preferred. Good humor and menschiness also a big plus. The position is full time, on staff, with benefits, and can be located in New York or Washington, D.C.

Applicants should send a résumé and cover letter to slateeditorjob@gmail.com by Jan. 28.

INTERN, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Do you LOVE using the latest technology?  Do you spend an unusual amount of time on the web, your mobile device or your tablet?  How about media?  Do you love blogs, digital magazines or newspapers? Are you interested in business and understanding how companies generate revenue? What about numbers ... do you like them? This might be the perfect internship for you, keep reading.

The business development team at Slate is charged with finding new businesses and ways of generating additional revenue for the company. The main focus of this job is to help Slate build out our metrics and analytics for existing or soon to be launched digital businesses.  At Slate, we’re small, nimble and constantly seeking new ideas.Therefore, we need someone who’s both creative and analytical to join our team. 

Essential duties include:

• You’ll apply your ability to analyze data and translate that data into meaningful findings.  This could be looking at our mobile audience to determine what products/content generate the most revenue or it could be helping us identify new products and services for our most frequent users
• You’ll be working with senior members of the organization to identify what’s working, what isn’t and how we can grow our business
• You’ll present findings, analyze trends and identify opportunities for growth and change
• You will have direction and support but the freedom to come up with your own ideas and propose them internally
• You’ll get the opportunity to identify, research and propose new business ventures for Slate to pursue.

Additional Info: This is an unpaid internship for students who will receive academic credit. A great opportunity for those seeking to experience and understand our business in order to make better-informed career decisions. You must be able to provide proof that this will count towardacademic credit from an accredited university. This is a 10-12 week summer internship (May-August).

Please send your résumés to resumes@slate.com.

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
We’re looking for an experienced Unix/Linux systems administrator to manage our systems. The best systems administrators are those that know that if they’re in the spotlight, they’re not doing their job correctly. We want somebody with the ability to identify and implement improvements to our process and infrastructure so that our editorial team and our readers never know that Slate has a top notch systems administrator. We want a systems administrator who doesn’t get called in the middle of the night because he or she has worked with the development team to ensure that systems run smoothly, are monitored properly, and have built-in redundancy. We also want somebody who will gladly take the occasional overnight phone call due to pride of work.

Essential duties include:

• Analyzing existing infrastructure and identifying weak links and areas for improvement
• Managing backups and restore tests
• Developing standard virtual machine images
• Deploying and taking down instances and storage on Amazon Web Services as needed
• Working with development teams to develop policies which accommodate needs for both system stability and development flexibility
• Documenting systems and processes

Education

Bachelor’s degree or related work experience in systems administration, programming, or a related field.

Required Skills:

• Solid experience administering Linux systems
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with high-traffic web sites
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail
• Strong organizational and analytical skills

Preferred Skills:

•  Experience with java-based web applications
•  Experience with Apache and MySQL

Please send your résumés to resumes@slate.com.