Job Description

If you have a passion for tech, and are looking for an 'in' to the industry, look no further! By joining our team you’ll have the opportunity to revolutionize the act of gifting, and get hands on marketing, promotion and branding experience, while developing your personal and professional skills. We are looking for a motivated, well connected, outgoing and organized university/college student to promote Kiiah’s amazing values! This is a 4-month position (Winter Term, 2019).

Your role as a BA:

  • Work as a representative for Kiiah at your university/college

  • Help foster strong, loyal relationships between potential users and the Kiiah brand, while communicating and promoting Kiiah to teams and clubs on campus

  • Work with the Kiiah team to develop and host a special event on campus

  • Continually seek out new marketing opportunities

  • Promote Kiiah through social media (personal & business)

  • Embody the Kiiah brand, help create awareness and leads

Qualifications:  

  • You’re a current student, enrolled in a undergraduate program  

  • You’re great at networking and involved in the university/college community

  • Competency with social media and interested in KW’s tech ecosystem

  • Effective communicator, friendly, outgoing and energetic personality

  • Willing to volunteer up to 35 hours a term

What's in it for you!

  • You will receive a stipend at the end of the completed term  

  • You will gain exclusive access to networking events within the Communitech ecosystem

  • Take advantage of special events hosted by Kiiah!

  • Gain valuable marketing, communication and leadership skills while building your resume

  • We will provide you with a stellar recommendation letter

STATUS

CLOSED

 
 

Job Description

If you have a love for the tech industry and are interested in promoting more meaningful gifting, look no further! By joining our team you’ll have the opportunity to revolutionize the act of gifting, and work with a diverse group of people who are passionate about meaningful gifting. In addition, you’ll gain access to amazing networking and event opportunities within the Communitech ecosystem. We are looking for a passionate team player who is devoted to engaging with current and new users and helping them be successful. The incumbent will deliver the highest quality of service to our users and help to build a genuine relationships with them.

So what will you do in your day to day?

  • Provide users with an exceptional first impression of Kiiah

  • Lead the onboarding process of new users

  • Reach out and engage with stakeholders to cultivate partnerships and improve the overall processes  

  • Help foster two-way communication between users and provide them with great customer assistance

  • Become an expert in answering and anticipating questions about the Kiiah platform and other general requests

  • Assess user needs through engagement, collect and analyze data and share with relevant parties to implement improvements   

  • Seek opportunities for potential leads, collaboration and brand awareness  

  • Provide general administrative support  

Qualifications:  

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Effective communicator, friendly, outgoing and energetic personality--with a drive to create the best customer interactions

  • Comfortable interacting with a wide variety of people

  • Excellent interpersonal, time management and organization skills

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Gmail

  • Works well in both a team setting and alone

  • Strong attention to detail skills and ability to use data softwares to keep accurate customer engagement records

  • Ability to work on multiple fast paced tasks simultaneously

DETAILS

Employment Type Full Time

Location Communitech, 151 Charles St W. Kitchener ON N2G 1H6

If this sounds like you and an opportunity that interests you, please send a cover letter and resume, here.

 
 

Job Description

If you have a passion for the tech industry and are interested in promoting more meaningful gifting, look no further! By joining our team you’ll have the opportunity to revolutionize the act of gifting, and work with a diverse group of people who are passionate about meaningful gifting. In addition, you’ll gain access to amazing networking and event opportunities within the Communitech ecosystem. We are looking for a passionate team player who has experience developing API queries, building databases and  is up-to-date with new technologies and trends.

So what will you do in your day to day?

  • Create features on Ruby on Rails platform

  • Build extensions and web services for our different systems

  • Help to automate main areas of our business

  • Work with our development team to solve complex business problems through technology

  • Assist in driving our DevOps tools and processes forward

  • Help to maintain an efficient platform and integrate unique algorithms & scientific data

  • Collaborate with and assist the development team with technical set-up & tooling

Qualifications:

  • Experience with support and administrative tasks within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud infrastructure technologies

  • Skilled in scripting and programming languages, such as Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, Bash

  • Experience with infrastructure provisioning and container tools such as Docker, Jenkins and in deploying/coding micro services

  • Proficient in monitoring and logging tools like Splunk, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana

  • Experience with databases like SQL Server, MySQL, Postgresql and with working with big data distribution systems such as AWS S3 and Hadoop

  • Experience designing and developing concurrent distributed applications, operating on large clusters of machines.

  • Familiarity setting up caching layers and task queue such as Redis, memcached, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS.

  • Profcient at designing and building production APIs.

Technologies we use:

  • JQuery

  • Ruby on Rails

  • PostgreSQL

  • Amazon Web Services

  • Docker

  • Jbuilder

DETAILS

Employment Type Full Time

Location Communitech, 151 Charles St W. Kitchener ON N2G 1H6

If this sounds like you and an opportunity that interests you, please send a cover letter and resume, here.

 

Job Description

If you have a passion for the tech industry and are interested in promoting more meaningful gifting, look no further! By joining our team you’ll have the opportunity to revolutionize the act of gifting, and work with a diverse group of people who are passionate about meaningful gifting. In addition, you’ll gain access to amazing networking and event opportunities within the Communitech ecosystem. We are looking for a passionate team player who is up to date with the latest evolutions of IOS, has experience working with apps and is always willing to learn more.  

So what will you do in your day to day?

  • Work with our team of developers to design, build and develop a high performance mobile code for our app

  • Optimize mobile application for performance, quality and overall responsiveness

  • Create interfaces that produce exceptional user experience

  • Assist in the development of new features and functions

  • Pinpoint and correct bottlenecks and bugs

  • Preserve code quality and ensure code is well organized

Qualifications:  

  • Skilled in Objective-C or Swift and Cocoa Touch

  • Experience with IOS frameworks, like Core Animation or Core Data etc., and with offline storage threading, and performance tuning

  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

  • Comprehension of other web technologies, UI/UX standards and Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

  • Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries preferred

  • Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments and Shark

  • Familiarity with cloud message APIs, push notifications and continuous integration

  • Capability for benchmarking and optimization

  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN

DETAILS

Employment Type Full Time

Location Communitech, 151 Charles St W. Kitchener ON N2G 1H6

If this sounds like you and an opportunity that interests you, please send a cover letter and resume, here.

 
 

Job Description

If you have a passion for the tech industry and are interested in promoting more meaningful gifting, look no further! By joining our team you’ll have the opportunity to revolutionize the act of gifting, and work with a diverse group of people who are passionate about meaningful gifting. In addition, you’ll gain access to amazing networking and event opportunities within the Communitech ecosystem. We are looking for a passionate team player who is up to date with the latest evolutions of Android, has experience working with apps and is always looking to learn more.

So what will do day to day:

  • Work with our team of developers to design, build and develop a high performance mobile code for our platform

  • Optimize mobile application for performance, quality and overall responsiveness

  • Create interfaces that produce an exceptional user experience

  • Assist in the development of new features

  • Pinpoint and correct bottlenecks and bugs

  • Preserve code quality, and ensure code is well organized

Qualifications:

  • Strong comprehension of Android SDK and how to deal with multiple screen sizes

  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services

  • Knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, best practices, open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

  • Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

  • Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”

  • Skill with the use of additional sensors, like gyroscopes and accelerometers

  • Familiarity with cloud message APIs, push notifications and continuous integration

  • Capability for benchmarking and optimization

  • Understanding of Google’s mobile design principles and interface guidelines

  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

DETAILS

Employment Type Full Time

Location Communitech, 151 Charles St W. Kitchener ON N2G 1H6

If this sounds like you and an opportunity that interests you, please send a cover letter and resume, here.

 

Job Description

If you have a passion for the tech industry and are interested in promoting more meaningful gifting, look no further! By joining our team you’ll have the opportunity to revolutionize the act of gifting, and work with a diverse group of people who are passionate about meaningful gifting. In addition, you’ll gain access to amazing networking and event opportunities within the Communitech ecosystem. We are looking for a dynamic communicator, who can provide support creating media materials, help drive engagement and promote corporate messaging. The incumbent will create communication content, help maintain and update various social media channels and develop marketing material and online ads.  

What you’ll do

  • Develop exciting and informative communication content

  • Oversee the production of online marking content and other promotional material

  • Lead the co-op and brand ambassador hiring and recruitment process

  • Provide leadership and supervision of co-op students, along with editing material and providing last minute fixes  

  • Provide leadership for special events and outreach opportunities

  • Provide general administrative support, ensuring that information is well kept and  organized

  • Identify areas for improvement, based on user feedback and marketing analytics  

  • Seek out and completes funding and award applications

  • Research marketing trends and best practices, to make evidence-based decisions

Qualifications:  

  • Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Comfortable interacting with a wide variety of people

  • Excellent interpersonal, time management and attention to detail skills

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, & Gmail

  • Strong knowledge and understanding of a variety of social media tools

  • Proficient in creating and managing online digital ads (Google, Facebook, etc.)

  • Works well in both a team setting and alone

  • Ability to work on multiple fast paced tasks simultaneously

  • Basic knowledge of Adobe programs: Photoshop, Primer & Illustrator  

  • Growth hacking experience

  • Experience using marketing programs, such as MailChimp, Canva, & Sprout Social

DETAILS

Employment Type Full Time

Location Communitech, 151 Charles St W. Kitchener ON N2G 1H6

If this sounds like you and an opportunity that interests you, please send a cover letter and resume, here.