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Last year in early May, I gave up everything I knew to embark on a new adventure. The blog post I made about it kind of set the scene.

One year later…

1. Youths and their communities across Malaysia helped our team make YouthSays a real vehicle of influence: 150,000+ members voicing out on thoughts, issues, and helping brands with market research.
2. The same youths got together to make YOUTH’09 the largest youth festival in history with 3 day, 36,730 youths and 100+ activities.
3. We’re now profitable, well funded, have the right business partnerships to invest in long-term growth.

And most of all, we are equipped to focus on what we do best…
Build youth communities.

Now, what’s next?

1. We’re rebranding our company to Youth Asia to better reflect our business direction.
2. We start work on Monday a new office space to cope with upcoming growth, and work closer with strategic partners.
3. Immediately, we’re investing in building and enhancing 3 more youth communities in Malaysia.

As you can guess I want to get moving NOW. And I’m not going to wait for the new corporate identity, website, or blabla to come up, all we know is we need to get the right people on board, and make it happen together, so I’m just gonna type some stuff out right here while the world turns:

(If you’re curious about the roles, for yourself or friends, read on and spread the word. Leave a comment on this blog post if you want updates on upcoming job opportunities, or just to keep updated.)

Community Managers

Your primary role is to grow membership, activity, and happiness of online communities, being the face of these communities, bring them on-ground, then online, hearing them out, being with them, and working with them. If you’re passionate about a particular youth community, now get paid to do what you love, and become damn good at it.

We need a few different people for

• YouthSays: Malay-speaking female preferred
• A Young Women’s community: A female who feels for issues facing young women
• A High-School focused community: SPM leavers, If you think you don’t need to go college to get full-time pay, here’s the 1 year internship of your dreams
• A College/ University focused community: Fresh grads who were active in extra-curricular activities preferred
• If you already have visions of building and growing a specific community in Malaysia, talk to us as well!

You must have experience in moderating online forums, blogs, managing social networks, online groups, mailing lists, or online customers. And you LOVE it!

Even better if you currently own/ run online communities of your own, or have organized communities for different project online / on-ground.

Market Research – Analyst

• Your primary role involves servicing existing brands on their market research needs, carrying out research projects and delivering powerful insights and reports.
• You must have at least 1-2 years of research experience with any of the big research companies.
• Even better if you particularly enjoy youth research, analysis, and becoming an EXPERT in youth research.

Market Research – Client Services Manager

• Your primary role involves spearheading our entire online research business. You’ll be given an active, proven youth online panel of over 150,000+ youths, and community managers to support any youth-related research project you can bring in. Take it as spearheading your own youth research arm, powered by a support team and panel of your dreams.
• You must have proven track record in selling research projects for any of the big research companies
• Even better if you see the potential to carve a space for us in the research industry, and take it regionally.

Web Designer – XHTML/CSS

• Your primary role is making us look good. You ensure all our online communities, client project, youth projects and brand properties look great, feels great, is a pleasure to use, and validates with clean and tight XHTML/CSS.
• You must have a portfolio of work which demonstrates an eye for design and table-less XHTML/CSS work.
• Even better if you work well with Drupal or Wordpress

Ruby on Rails Programmer

• You primary role is building and expanding on YouthSays and other community platforms. Ensuring our entire business rests on code which works, scales, and makes you proud.
• You must have an advanced handle on Ruby on Rails
• Even better if you have additional web developer superpowers, and experience in managing development teams.

Interns / Community assistants

• You primary role is assisting any of the roles above.
• You must have a ‘work-horse’, ‘get-things-done’, work ethic, and 3 months of free time.
• Even better if you have some superpowers or exceptional skills to boot.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I need to travel to?

Kelana Square, in Kelana Jaya. Google it for directions.

How much will I be paid?

For questions on salary, work arrangement and details details details, let’s just say, for the right candidate, we’re open minded to find the work arrangement which WORKS.

Who is behind Youth Asia? What’s the company background?

I’ve uploaded the not-yet-updated company background here. But it’ll show you who are the founders, what the projects are etc. Download it now and know more. Will release the Youth Asia one soon.

I have more questions for you!

I’ve experienced being attacked by hundreds of resumes and hiring related emails, and believe me, things get difficult.

If you want have more questions, include them with

1. Your professional CV
2. Links to your blog, twitter, social network profile if any
3. In your cover letter, tell us why you how and why you fit the primary role, and what else rocks about you which may be relevant to us.

Email them to careers@youthsays.com only ;p

Only eligible candidates will receive a reply.

How to apply?

You guessed it! Give careers@youthsays.com the following:

1. Your professional CV
2. Links to your blog, twitter, social network profile if any
3. In your cover letter, tell us why you how and why you fit the primary role, and what else rocks about you which may be relevant to us.

Only eligible candidates will receive a reply.

If you feel some of these positions suit a friend, email this to them as well.

Or want to work with us but not sure how? Leave a comment on this blog post if you want updates on upcoming job opportunities, or just to keep updated.

I’ll be writing more soon. Keep in touch yea.