Company Culture
We're a small, but energetic group that truly values work/life balance. We offer competitive salaries and above average medical and dental benefits, an on-site fitness center and learning opportunities that come with being part of a small, fast-growing organization. We have offices in Austin, TX and New York City.
Current Openings
Listed below are the current positions open at CreditCards.com. Please send resumes to 
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- Operations: Business Information
- Content editor
- Staff reporter, CreditCards.com
- SEO Linkbuilder
Operations: Business Information
General Description:
Reporting Analyst will serve as day-to-day owner of many of the company's operations and marketing reports, data and analysis; create efficiencies within data processes and over time expand the reporting set to help drive business decisions. This is a largely tactical role focused on accuracy, efficiency and overall execution.
Reporting Analyst will be responsible for daily, weekly and monthly reporting as well as ad hoc data and analysis requests which may require database query development and/or third-party research. This person will become familiar with all aspects of the CreditCards.com business and will interact with all departments, including but not limited to Operations, Client Account Management, Sales, Business Development, Marketing and Accounting.
While this is more of a business-focused position than a technical one, comfort and experience with database concepts and operations is critical.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage daily, weekly, monthly business management reports and processes in Excel, Access and PowerPoint
- Run ad hoc database queries(MySQL database)
- Create efficiencies in reporting processes
- Manage requirements for new reporting needs, develop processes and reports
Essential Requirements
Experience:
- 3-5 years business experience
- 2-3 years of database analytics experience required
- Research experience preferred
- Excellent Excel and Access skills required
- Word and PowerPoint skills preferred
- Knowledge of SQL strongly preferred
Education
- Bachelor's degree strongly preferred
Other Considerations
- Must be extremely detail-oriented, thorough and analytical
- Strong quantitative skills are a must
- Outstanding organizational and project management skills required
Content editor
General Description:
CreditCards.com needs an extraordinary story assignment editor who, using freelance and staff writers, dreams up and then executes online stories about credit cards and credit-related issues. The editor is expected to have all the writing, judgment and ethical skills of traditional journalists, plus the ability to use the Web's interactive story telling abilities to the fullest.
This is a newly created positions and will report to the editor in chief. The job is full-time, with full benefits, and located in Austin, Texas. Pay is at a competitive level and will be based on experience and skill set.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Brainstorm, assign, edit, load and quality-check feature articles.
- Collaborate with multimedia producer to pick and then execute the most-effective combination of online story telling techniques for each story.
- Develop an effective stable of freelance writers to perform routine assignments.
- Coach staff writers and develop them into high achievers.
- Manage presentation of and perform quality checks on assigned landing, index and archive pages.
- Oversee and project manage special editorial projects.
- Develop expertise within credit and debt issues, and then share that expertise with others.
- Write compelling blurbs and headlines, adhering to AP style.
- Communicate effectively, to editorial staff and other departments.
Essential Requirements
Experience:
- 3+ years editing experience at a quality publication.
- Project management experience.
- Extraordinarily high writing skills.
- A coaching attitude toward dealing with staff and freelancers. You’re here to upgrade the work of the people who work with you, not to fix copy.
- The more online experience the better. HTML experience and working knowledge of HTML programs such as DreamWeaver and HomeSite, and familiarity with capabilities of multimedia highly desirable. Willing to consider otherwise strong candidates with print-only backgrounds, but only those willing to hurl themselves into learning online storytelling methods and unlearning print habits and attitudes.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university. Master’s preferred.
Other Considerations
- Professional certifications, awards and affiliations are highly valued.
- An entrepreneurial spirit and an initiative-taking attitude are most welcome. There are no set ways of doing things here; expect to create some.
Staff reporter, CreditCards.com
General Description:
Staff reporters will write in stories, some short, some in depth, about consumer credit, debt and related issues for a mass audience of consumers. Successful candidates will blend the traditional reporting, writing and interpreting job of a traditional journalist with the modern online storytelling techniques of the Web.
This is a newly created position who would report to an assistant managing editor. The job is full time, located in Austin, Texas, and carries full benefits. Salaries are competitive and negotiable based on an applicant’s experience and level of skill.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Staff reporters will be expected to regularly find and contribute consumer-oriented pieces on a defined aspect of credit and debt management, including credit cards products, issuer practices , credit scoring, credit reporting, the economy’s impact on credit practices, etc. There are likely to be multiple versions of these pieces as the site evolves into one that delivers news and information to the public when they want it, where they want it, on the platform they want, in the depth they want.
The reporters over time will be expected to develop such expertise that other reporters will seek them out for comment. So CreditCard.com reporters will be expected to be able to perform as sources for print, TV and radio interviews.
Essential Requirements
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- 3 years+ reporting experience, including online experience.
- Strong reporting and writing skills, including speed, accuracy, the ability to spot trends, develop high-level sources, write engaging, jargon-free and copy sprinkled with compelling anecdotes and quotes.
- An understanding of personal finance issues, interest rates and the ability to translate them into everyday language for a consumer audience.
- Online experience at a site that uses the Web’s interactivity and multimedia presentation to the fullest. Candidates with print-only experience will be considered, but only those who commit to quickly master new media techniques, such as blogging, animation, interactive quizzes, slideshows, live chats, etc.
- A grasp of the basics of writing search engine-friendly copy.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year university.
Other Considerations
- Professional certifications, awards and affiliations are highly valued.
- An entrepreneurial spirit and an initiative-taking attitude are most welcome. There are no set ways of doing things here; expect to create some.
SEO Linkbuilder
About the Opportunity:
Organic search is a critical source of traffic and revenue for CreditCards.com. Maintaining and increasing our SERP rankings and developing other sources of natural traffic one of our key objectives. This individual in this role will have an enormous impact on the success of our organization.
The initial term of this contract position is 3 mos. At the end of the term, depending on the success of efforts, we may extend the contract month-to-month or convert this to a full time position.
General Description:
The SEO Link builder Specialist is responsible for developing quality back-links to pages at CreditCards.com and it's related sites..
This is a newly created role and will report to the SEO Manager.
This role and all related functions must be performed in our offices, during regular business hours, under supervision of our staff.
Hourly rate to be determined based on experience. Paid bi-monthly.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Based on a list of targeted keywords, cultivate relationships and links from relevant and credible websites to targeted web pages in our website,
- Identify websites that are both relevant of high reputation.
- Employ other link-building strategies, such as:
- Posting thoughtful, well written comments at relevant blogs
- Promoting CreditCards.com content using social media, such as Digg and del.ico.us.
- Ensure cultivated links use desired anchor text.
- Work with sites to correct mal-formed links.
- Maintain logs of successful and unsuccessful link building activities.
- All cultivated links must be UNPAID, NON-RENTED and NON-CLOAKED
- Link quality will be valued over quantity.
Essential Requirements
Experience:
- This is an entry-level position, but if you're not familiar with terms like "anchor text,' and "page rank," this isn't the job for you.
- Basic knowledge of social media.
- Basic understanding of how search engines rank pages.
- Basic understanding of credit and credit cards.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are essential.
- Attention to detail, curiosity and sense of humor required.
- The ideal candidate will possess confidence and a level of salesmanship.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university preferred.
